Category: Startup company
After 25 years of evaluating tech startups and watching more pitches than almost anyone else on earth, Guidewire Group's Chris Shipley says we are definitely in a bubble right now. Specifically, we're in a lean startup bubble: an inflated economy of startups serving startups, filled with dangerous myths and sure to come crashing down, just like previous bubbles have. Continue
Omniar, a soon-to-launch startup company that offers computer vision as a service to mobile app creators, has hired serial startup leader Scott Rafer as its new CEO. A member of the Techstars family of startups, Omniar provides mobile application developers with technology that lets them identify real-world objects from mobile photographs.Continue
A group of Australian tech investors and entrepreneur have formed a new seed fund that will offer a Y Combinator-style incubator model, with small early stage investment and up-close mentoring to Australian startups.Continue
Net neutrality has been in a the news recently due to rumors, speculation and interpretation surrounding Google and Verizon's newly proposed legislative framework for the enforcement of net neutrality. The key principal behind net neutrality is ensuring service providers (like Verizon) cannot forge agreements with companies (like Google) to exclusively provide an unfair advantage by means of, say, increased bandwidth - thus maintaining neutrality.Continue
What constitutes a "startup"? Is it the age of a company? Its size? Its funding? Its profitability? Its position in the industry?
Steve Jobs often speaks of Apple's "startup" culture. Last week, an article in the New York Times referred to the seven-year-old airline Virgin America as a startup.
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Does your startup company culture really matter? It sure mattered to Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, as we noted last week, who describes in an article in Inc, the battles he waged with investors who dismissed his efforts to cultivate a supportive, worker-friendly environment at the company. The importance of preserving that company culture, Hsieh suggests, led in part to his decision to sell his company to Amazon.Continue
Forget MTV's "The Real World" - if you're considering getting into the startup game but want to get a glimpse of what's in store, then The Founders 2010 is for you. The weekly video series is in its second incarnation and follows three startup companies - content crowdsourcing service Grogger, mobile augmented reality platform creator Omniar and property management software RentMonitor - in their adventures through Techstars.Continue
There is a thing and there are ways to describe a thing. But why stop there?Continue
