How Stock Photo Company Shutterstock Is Turning An Industry Threat Into An...
As smartphone cameras improve, more and more people are able to take quality photos that could, in effect, threaten a service like Shutterstock.However, Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer doesn't...
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TechStars Says This Is Why Hardly Any Of Its Companies Fail
Startups that go through TechStars seem to be bound for success.TechStars is a three-month accelerator program that gives entrepreneurs access to mentors, and invests $118,000 in each company: $18,000...
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STARTUP CEO: My Biggest Competitor Just Told Me 'Sell To Us Or We'll Crush You'
A startup CEO recently asked for some advice on Quora. The anonymous CEO runs "a small successful" software startup that has recently seen "explosive growth" thanks to its new scalable solution.Now,...
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It Only Took 10 Months For These Guys To Make More Than $10 Million (FFIV)
A mere ten months after releasing a product into the market, LineRate was acquired by F5 Networks.Business Insider has just learned that the tiny startup, with less than a dozen employees, walked away...
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Why This $100 Million Student Information Database Is 'A Godsend' For...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently led a $100 million investment into a controversial project that will collect and sell student information.Startups and educators are excited. Parents,...
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Early Facebook And LinkedIn Investor David Sze Writes His Biggest Startup...
Greylock Partners' David Sze has made some very good investment decisions. He wrote early checks to Facebook, Pandora and LinkedIn.But he just wrote his biggest startup check yet. Sze gave Nextdoor, a...
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Sometimes You Have To Fire The Star Executive That Made Your Company A Success
Andreessen Horowitz partner Ben Horowitz is always coming out with useful blog posts about how to operate a company.(His bona fides: He was the CEO of Opsware when it sold to HP for $1.7 billion.) His...
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Bleacher Report Co-Founder: I'm Starting Another Company, And It's Going To...
Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg isn't done with startups, even though he just sold his sports company to Turner for ~ $200 million.Goldberg says he's going to get back into the content game...
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So Many Startups Are Failing, A VC Created A Startup To Help Them Die A...
Jacob Mullins is a Senior Associate at Shasta Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in startups like Nest and Path.Lately, he's had a lot of tough conversations with entrepreneurs....
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Colorado Wants Tech So Bad, It's Setting Up Its Own $100+ Million VC Fund
Boulder, Colorado, home of startup incubator TechStars, is known as a great place to live and establish a tech company.But the state has one big problem: There aren't enough venture funds...
View ArticleHere's Why Shutterstock Generates Tons Of Revenue And Instagram Doesn't
Instagram has over 100 million users, but it doesn't generate any revenue for Facebook. On the flip side, Shutterstock has over 22 million photos in its database and is a publicly traded company...
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VC Reveals The 'Most Sought After Startup Deals Right Now'
Many startups are having a difficult time convincing investors to give them money right now.But as any investor will tell you, the best startups are having no problem getting funding.So, which new...
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These Are The 6 Hottest Startups In Colorado Right Now
Venture capitalists and Colorado startups swarmed the mountain ski resort of Beaver Creek this week looking for a hook up at the Venture Capital in the Rockies conference.We were on hand to help judge...
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Startup Giiidget Has Figured Out How Phones Can Use 30X Less Data
Smartphones have become so popular, they are overloading carrier networks with too much data.Carriers are trying to fix it in all sorts of ways: making their networks faster, spending $53 billion on...
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Here Are 3 Of The Most Exciting Startups Out Of TechStars Boston
After sorting through thousands of applicants for its three-month accelerator program, TechStars Boston recently announced the 14 startups in its spring 2013 class. Now in its sixth class, TechStars...
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Startups Are Getting Sick Of NYC's Dirty, Overcrowded Coworking Spaces
Last year, I wrote an article in Business Insider about how the NYU Poly Incubator was one of the best coworking options in the city.Since that time, several startups in NYU Poly have had sizeable...
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Yuri Milner's Advice To Founders: 'Think About All the [Crap] You Will Have...
If Yuri Milner, a notable tech investor, could give aspiring entrepreneurs one piece of advice, he'd tell them this:Be prepared to deal with a lot of BS for your startup.At annual tech conference South...
View ArticleHow To Make 40,000 People Use Your App In One Weekend
Two years ago, GroupMe gained significant traction at one of the world's most popular tech conferences, South by Southwest.South by Southwest (SXSW) is a gathering of technology, music, and film...
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Here's A New Reason To Yell At Your Smartphone: A Bunch Of New Fantasy Sports...
The company that brought the world one of the most popular March Madness games on Facebook last year wants to expand into a whole new set of fantasy sports games.The startup, Prediculous, is not trying...
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RIM's First Employee: Mike Lazaridis Was The Most Intense Boss I Ever Had
No matter what else he does in his career, Terry West will always be known as RIM/BlackBerry's first employee.He's long since been gone from the company, leaving after five years in 1993, when RIM was...
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