TechCrunch:
Tomorrow’s Real Time CrunchUp in San Francisco is going to be a blast. It’s an all day event absolutely filled with the thought and business leaders in the space, as well as a whole slew of newcomers launching new startups.And we’re starting off with a bang. Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on stage first for thirty minutes of c (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A year ago, KillerStartups bought the killer domain name Startups.com for a few hundred thousand dollars. The company didn’t do anything with it other than redirect to the KillerStartups blog. Today, it realunched as a Q&A site for business questions.Want to know “How to edit a business video before uploading it to YouTub (Read More)
New York Times:
Vince Vitti has some important, though perhaps unpopular, ideas about expense accounts and the way they are abused during business travel.
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TechCrunch:
Remember when Pizza Hut put out a job posting for a “Twintern,” a.k.a. someone who would Tweet for the company and assist with all things social media? Well, a lucky UNC-Chapel Hill student, Alexa Robinson, was brought on board to manage the @pizzahut Twitter account for the summer and did such a fantastic job that she’s be (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The following is an excerpt from Adam L. Penenberg’s new book, Viral Loop: From Facebook To Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves.Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build an insanely fast-growing business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Social productivity startup Spigit raised $10 million in Series B funding from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. This brings Spigit’s total funding up to $14 million. Spigit’s CEO and Founder, Paul Pluschkell says that the company will use the funds towards product development, and sales and marketing efforts.Spigit’s pro (Read More)
New York Times:
From Bits: Spigit, which makes business software to collect and rank ideas from employees, said Thursday that it has received $10 million in financing from Warburg Pincus. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Collaboration applications are becoming increasingly popular in the enterprise space. Startup Huddle.net has been steadily accumulating innovative features to its business-friendly collaboration platform and quickly adding big name companies, including Samsung and Panasonic, as clients. Huddle is a network of secure online (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.In my last post, I explained the motherlode of innovation hidden in t (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The following guest post is written by Larry Chiang, a co-founder of Duck9 who also regularly blogs for BusinessWeek. Today he is reporting from the Finovate startup conference.At the FinovateStartup conference in New York City today, it is clear that financial startups are pushing forward regardless of funding woes or a l (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.Everyone seems to be waiting for the next great discovery which will (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Employing an alarming stream of profanity (but endearing the audience along the way as a result), yesterday Sendit founder Hjalmar Winbladh talked the audience at Seedcamp Week through his entrepreneurial journey, compared by Saul Klein. Here are a few highlights.Saul Klein: “Being an entrepreneur is a lifelong journey.”Win (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In venture capital, Vinod Khosla likes to go his own way, which is why he’s been so successful. He was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and then moved to venture capital and became a star partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he backed Juniper Networks, Cerent (sold to Cisco for $7 billion) and NexGen (sold to AMD and for (Read More)