Startup News
Crowdfunding Is More Than Just The Money It Helps You Raise
Forbes - 7 May 2014 17:17
Build credibility for investors by giving perks away. How crowdfunding can help you start your business and keep on growing.
China's mobile games market doubling this year to $3B, will surpass U.S. in 2015 (report)
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 00:30
You can't monetize in China, right? Wrong, apparently.
How To Build An Uncool Startup...On Purpose
Forbes - 7 May 2014 00:05
Social media startups have been vacuuming up the world?s venture capital and media mindshare. But what about all the other startups? You know, the ?uncool? ones?
Yahoo tops list of 10 most active tech acquirers in 2013
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 23:30
Yahoo’s 2013 shopping spree earned the company a surprising title: most active buyer of private U.S. tech companies. With 22 acquisitions of private U.S. companies last year, Yahoo proved more acquisitive than companie...
Funding Daily: Drunk on data
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 23:24
Wine and data storage go together like peanut butter and ladies.
ClearStory, Ayasdi, & Databricks join DataBeat lineup to talk data discovery
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 22:38
VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference is coming up on May 19-20! Today, we’re excited to announce a new session with three data companies that are rewriting the rules on how much data business users can summon and how fa...
Data storage software provider Maxta pulls in $25 million
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 22:27
Maxta, a Silicon Valley situated provider of data center software, hauled in $25 million Wednesday.
Tech is making us more sexually confident. Now please get your smartphone camera away from your junk
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 22:05
Get ready for Sex 3.0.
Doing Everything Is Not a Startup Strategy
Forbes - 7 May 2014 22:01
Many entrepreneurs have a favorite slide to show during their pitches. It compares their company to the competitive set and highlights all of the great things they can do that others can’t. This is often the death knel...
Chart of the day: Apple is No. 2 after Amazon in online retail
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 21:46
When it comes to online sales, Amazon is the undisputed king. The race for second place, however, just got a lot more interesting. Apple now holds the number two spot, according to data from trade publication Internet Re...
Hey, winos! VCs are on your side: Wine app Delectable raises $3M
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 21:36
"There's something magical about being at a restaurant and saying 'I want a case of this [wine] delivered to my house next week,'" Delectable founder and chief executive Alex Fishman said to VentureBeat in an interview.
Proto.io: Prototyping Your Mobile App The Easy Way
Forbes - 7 May 2014 21:35
For his former company, Alexis Piperides realized that traditional prototyping tools — which rely on wireframes — were terrible for mobile development.
Avoid Leadership Amnesia
Forbes - 7 May 2014 21:15
About two months ago, the founders of one of the companies in our portfolio told us of their grand plan of attack. The original thinking of “plan A” was thoughtful, well-articulated, and most importantly, agreed upon...
This is the end: Why millions of gamers love to play in the apocalypse
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 21:00
Even though they're unfinished, DayZ and its post-apocalyptic competitors have racked up millions of sales. How did they get so popular?
Google's bold cloud move: Buying Amazon cloud monitor Stackdriver
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 20:36
As Google gets more serious about the public cloud business, it needs an awesome ecosystem of tools for customers to use. Today, the tech giant made a surprising move that could help that cause: It bought Stackdriver, a ...
Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer says Tumblr is still behind on mobile
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 20:35
What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! “Last year was the year we really invested in mobile. We�...
The high school gender gap between math & computer science is huge (in 2 graphs)
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 20:22
With this data, it's difficult to make the case that the reason girls are underrepresented in computer science is because they just don't have the same logical prowess as boys.
Congrats to the winners of our 30-second video pitch contest at SxSW!
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 20:00
Another year, another set of South by Southwest Win30s champions. In case you’ve been living under a rock that hasn’t been receiving any SxSW signal (is that even possible?!) startups pitched our official Win30s team...
Four ways to modernize your APM strategy (white waper)
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 20:00
Sponsored Post: As businesses become increasingly reliant on online channels for customer interactions, the need for faster, more functional websites becomes increasingly evident.
New Relic has a solution to the Great Data Scientist Shortage of 2014
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 19:51
Sponsored Post: There's a dire shortage of data scientists in an entrepreneurial landscape drowning in big data. New Relic's Insights platform is here to help solve that problem.
Citrix gets cloud management tech with the acquisition of ScaleXtreme
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 19:46
You don't need one cloud to run your applications anymore. It's increasingly a multi-cloud world. And Citrix gets that.
Electronic Arts' share price up 16 percent: Market digging Titanfall and new game info
Venture Beat - 7 May 2014 19:30
EA announced plans for more "Titanfall experiences" and a new game coming this fall.