Posted on July 3, 2010, 11:36 am, by Thomas Oppong.
Every startup begins with a new startup opportunity that can be translated into a product or service. Entrepreneurs identify new opportunities and when it is worth the time and resource you being the journey to make a solution out it for an identified market. But the top questions to answer are:
How do you [...]
Posted on July 1, 2010, 9:38 am, by Thomas Oppong.
In the month of May, a total of $101M was raised in funding by 9 startups. Funding has always been crucial at some point in any startup’s development process. Angel investors and venture capitalists have been involved in most startups they believe can bring the most return on investment. The month [...]
Posted on June 30, 2010, 2:28 pm, by Thomas Oppong.
Startup Weekend is a non-profit organization based out of Seattle, WA. Startup Weekend was founded in 2007, holding its first event in Boulder, Colorado. Over time, the event has expanded to over 100 cities in 25 countries. startup weekend Chicago was held on June 25 through to June 27th.
The program started [...]
Posted on June 28, 2010, 5:02 pm, by Thomas Oppong.
Google has been thinking about starting a new social network. According to a tweet from Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is preparing to launch a rival social networking service called “Google Me.” As stated in his tweet:
Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon “Google Me”, very credible source
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Posted on June 25, 2010, 2:16 pm, by Thomas Oppong.
Converted Organics™ Inc. (Nasdaq:COIN), announced on June 24th that it has been named the winner of The Ad Club’s 2010 The Idea Award, in the start-up brand category. The award was presented by representatives from The Boston Globe to David A. Flannery, Converted Organics’ Vice President of Marketing, during The Ad [...]
Posted on June 22, 2010, 12:23 pm, by Thomas Oppong.
D.light Design enable households without reliable electricity to attain the same quality of life as those with electricity. They begun by replacing every kerosene lantern with clean, safe and bright light. They hope to improve the quality of life of 10 million people by the end of 2010,50 million people by 2015 and [...]
Posted on June 22, 2010, 7:28 am, by Thomas Oppong.
The Gettie Awards is the premier event designed to showcase the world’s most successful and innovative mobile applications. It seeks to spotlight top developers across all major platforms in a gala evening attended by the developer elite, industry luminaries, investors and technology press. A panel of industry players will select 18 [...]
Posted on June 21, 2010, 9:43 am, by Thomas Oppong.
Structure 2010 is a two day event organised by GigaOm. The event will take place on June 23–24, 2010 / Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA. The focus of the conference this year will be cloud computing. Cloud computing has caught the technology world’s imagination. Join Structure 2010, as [...]
Posted on June 20, 2010, 1:48 pm, by Thomas Oppong.
Venturebeat has selected 18 companies to present at the MobileBeat 2010 conference in SF on July 12-13. Two slots are available to complete the list of 20 startups needed to present ideas and startups at the conference.
You are encouraged vote for the two companies that you think have [...]
Posted on June 18, 2010, 12:30 am, by Thomas Oppong.
Twelve media innovation projects have been named the 2010 winners of the Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds ideas that use digital technology to inform specific geographic communities.The winners will receive $2.74 million as part of the fourth round of the five-year international contest.
Nearly half of this year’s winners are private [...]