Tag: entrepreneur

March 6, 2018

new-cornerShared work space giant WeWork has acquired Conductor, an online marketing services company that analyzes online search data and helps companies create content based on what people are looking for. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded out of […]

December 7, 2017

Creating your own business is one of my most fulfilling things you can do in life. If you know you don’t want to spend your career working for someone else and making their dreams come true, it’s safe to say […]

July 27, 2017

Does your city suffer from Silicon Valley envy? If you want to do something about it, experts from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT agree on one thing you should not do — try to become the next Silicon Valley. Their research […]

July 20, 2017

Qualcomm’s epic licensing dispute with Apple continued to play out as the iPhone-chip supplier said revenue from its licensing business fell 42 percent last quarter. Corporate legal disputes can make for boring news. They may drag on for years and frequently hang […]

July 18, 2017

VC activity has trended higher for the second consecutive quarter. According to Pitchbook’s latest analysis, Limited Partners (LPs) remain committed to the asset class with 87 percent of VC funds hitting their targets, tracking 2017 as the ninth consecutive year […]

July 14, 2017

State-funded startup growth program Invest Georgia has made its third commitment, investing $1 million in early-stage fund TechSquare Labs. The program, an initiative intended to encourage seed and early-stage companies in Georgia, has previously made investments in TTV Capital and Mosley Ventures totaling […]

July 12, 2017

U.K.-based fintech startup Curve has raised $10 million in a series A round from Santander InnoVentures, Investec, Connect Ventures, Oxford Capital, and a host of individual investors. Founded out of London in 2015, Curve offers a mobile app and bank card that aggregates all your existing bank cards into […]

July 7, 2017

The weather is heating up and so is Colorado tech funding. After a bit of fundraising slump in May, June numbers came in at more than double last month’s totals. In June, we saw over $64.5 million in fundraising for […]

June 26, 2017

Job-hunting takes time, and can be tough when you’re trying to stand out in a competitive field. Next time you see the perfect opportunity come along, try following these tips to get noticed: Don’t submit blindly If at all possible, […]

June 19, 2017

It’s been a hell of a roller coaster ride for digital media company Mode Media these past few years. From an IPO that never happened to the company abruptly shutting down last September, Mode keeps popping up on our radar. […]

June 15, 2017

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank made a splash last year by announcing plans to invest $50 billion in the U.S. as part of its massive $100 billion “vision fund.” According to company CEO Masayoshi Son, the company’s investments in U.S. firms […]

June 9, 2017

If you think launching a startup is tough, try building one into a legitimate company. Many of the challenges would-be entrepreneurs tend to encounter during the startup phase of a company’s life can be easily overcome with a mix of […]

June 8, 2017

Amazon has been ramping up its small loans business, with the company announcing today that it has loaned more than $1 billion to around 20,000 merchants on its platform in the past 12 months alone. This figure represents a third of the […]

May 23, 2017

Nine out of 10 chief information officers are investing more heavily in innovation, according to an annual survey by recruitment firm Harvey Nash Group and accounting firm KPMG. Two-thirds (64 percent) of organizations are adapting their technology strategies in the midst […]

May 23, 2017

Nokia and Apple have announced that they have settled an ongoing intellectual property (IP) spat, with the duo signing a “multi-year” patent license. Nokia and Apple settled a two-year legal battle back in 2011 over license fees for patents that Nokia […]

May 19, 2017

Salesforce.com Inc (CRM.N) allayed concerns about a slowing pace of growth after it reported quarterly deferred revenue that came above its estimate on Thursday. The company’s deferred revenue rose 26 percent to $5.04 billion in the first quarter ended April […]

May 1, 2017

Startup numbers have surged, and so have VC investments, according to data released earlier this month by Dow Jones VentureSource. But that’s not necessarily good news. I’ll get to the downside in a minute. First, let’s take a look at […]

May 1, 2017

Recent history alone should be enough to prove that enterprise tech is a far more stable, profitable category than consumer tech. Take for instance the dozens of successful exits (either through acquisition or IPO) in the U.S. enterprise tech space […]

April 17, 2017

In case you missed it, Howard University and Google recently announced that they were partnering to attract more African American students to study computer science, targeting a segment of the tech population that is notoriously underrepresented (along with women). The Google/Howard partnership […]

April 17, 2017

I have been an entrepreneur since I was a student at the University of Washington. I launched my first enterprise from my dorm room at age 20. After a decade of building multi-national companies, I decided I wanted to empower […]