VentureBeat:
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As you search for your niche and your company evolves, serial entrepreneur Scott Olson offers advice on th (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As a web generation, when we’re looking for a dentist, plumber, or other small business, our first instinct is to go online when we need these services. Sure, there’s Yellow Pages that can find a name, number and address, but as consumers we are used to more and these small businesses usually lack a formal online presence. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy’s new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers. A few weeks ago, we reported that Murthy was turning to “the dark side” after selling a large amount of company shares in order to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch! Yes folks it’s our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we’re taking a different tack – basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We’ve seen the eme (Read More)
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How to Create a Budget Network Effects And Scale Economies (aka Spolsky vs. Heinemeier) Who’s Your Who’s Who? Getting the right people involved in your startup It's not even 80/20 - 8% of Internet users account for 85% of clicks... (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search engine that just came out of beta today, called Leapfish, and he says the company will already report $10 million in revenue this year despite having barely launched to the pub (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Venture capital (VC) funds like to invest in disruptive change, but what they really love is the stable, change-resistant nature of their own business. That is about to change. "Bits of destruction" spare no one. (The term bits of destruction was coined by Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, a top-tier venture capitalist (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Over the past few weeks, it’s definitely been crunchtime as we’ve been putting together the panels and demos for our Realtime CrunchUp on November 20 in San Francisco. After much back and forth, and with the help of our Realtime Board, we finally have an agenda we are very excited to present (see below). Get your tickets (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.In August, Kevin Halpern filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Shukla. He alleges that he helped start the company in 2006 with Shukla but was cut out of promised stock owne (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[France] Wozaik, a Paris-based startup which is developing a dynamic bookmarking system, is giving away 200 invites for an exclusive preview of their platform to Techcrunch Europe readers. You can grab one here on a first-come-first-serve basis.Despite still being in private alpha (a beta should launch soon), Wozaik has ga (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Among the 800 or so employees laid off by Microsoft today: Don Dodge, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, reporting to VP Dan’l Lewin. Don writes about the change on his personal blog.All layoffs suck, but letting Don go is a huge mistake for Microsoft. He nearly singlehandedly defe (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Bulgaria] One of the biggest problems Internet users face everyday is how difficult it has become to follow news streams from many different sources without getting lost in the noise — from the online sites of mainstream media, to the millions of blogs, YouTube and other social media such as Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitte (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table.There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still though, a few problems appear over and over again. If you’ve ever had to sort through resumes and cove (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Real-time startup Topsy launched its own variation on the retweet button today to compete with Tweetmeme’s leading version.It’s important because the retweet button was one of the distinguishing features that allowed Tweetmeme to break out from the pack of real-time startups that launched earlier this year. It gave the U.K. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Many of us spend hours a day on our browsers surfing the web both at home and from the office, but we don’t really do much with our web history, which could really serve as a goldmine of information. Nebul.us, a startup launching today in private beta, is looking to tap into this data, leveraging it to offer a cloud-based (Read More)