Submitted by competent
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← Presenting Founder Collective Pitch yourself, not your idea November 14th, 2009 | startups, venture capital There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great compa (Read More)
Hacker News:
When Americans think of the Indian technology sector, they still perceive a nation of call center workers and low-level computer programmers administering databases and updating websites. But while the West was sleeping, Indi (Read More)
Submitted by hjvanderklis
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Friday again, incredible how fast time flies by. Startup stage of 2nd project, life + pensions plans at Capgemini Utrecht today. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Capitalizing on consumer interest in home security, startup iControl has launched an energy management platform for the mass market that ties smart appliances, thermostats and plugs to motion-activated lights, security camera (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Netherlands-based Startup Tom's Planner is launching their dead-simple web-based project management and planning system lets users create and visualize an online planning schedule. The application is meant to be used by a bro (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Netherlands-based Startup Tom’s Planner is launching their dead-simple web-based project management and planning system lets users create and visualize an online planning schedule. The application is meant to be used by a b (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
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You have to wonder at these folks who blog so confidently about how to run little companies.I mean, on the one hand Joel teaches us everything we need to know about customer service while being funny and telling stories. But (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A couple of weeks ago, we put DotBlu (formerly known as BluBet) in the deadpool. The San Francisco startup, which ran an online betting play at launch which later morphed to some sort of social gaming service, discontinued it (Read More)
Xconomy:
IT, startups, energy Wade Roush wrote: Any company that owns or manages a data center, even a small one, knows how power-hungry they can be. It’s not unusual for operators of large data centers—say, 50,000 square feet—to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games.In the meantime, EA continues to expand into social games on its own. Today, it launched (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey has a new startup called the Square iPhone Payment System, to be located at SquareUp.com.The business will be selling consumers on an attachment for their iPhones they can use to pay (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Let's all stop and take a minute to appreciate how good Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey has it.He's the guy who came up with the idea for Twitter way back in 2000 and then dusted it off again back in 2006, when he (Read More)
TechCrunch:
What started off life as a couple of blog posts and a few tweets and then escalated to a full 140 character-driven fund raising campaign, Outvesting.org has begun inviting applications from Irish entrepreneurs and startups wh (Read More)
TechCrunch:
[Croatia] Croatian startup Trillenium is to launched their web-based 3D shopping mall and social network with financial backing from a local angel investor and partnerships with a dozen local and international brands that wil (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
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Do you read business blogs where the author has failed three times without success?No, because you want to learn from success, not hear about “lessons learned” from a guy who hasn’t yet learned those lessons himself.However, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Marc Benioff has been the reliably outspoken chief executive of Salesforce.com for 10 years. Salesforce was one of the pioneers of the software-as-a-service business model, where traditional software is replaced by a web-base (Read More)
Xconomy:
Biotech, startups, people Luke Timmerman wrote: Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ISIS) likes to talk about how its gene-silencing technology known as antisense creates so many innovative ideas for new drugs that it can’t co (Read More)
HarvardBusiness.org:
In my recent trip to Silicon Valley, I had the privilege to meet with Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay, a mobile payment startup that is fueling a social revolution worldwide by enabling scores of unbanked people to avail of fina (Read More)