Startups Acquired By Google In 2010
Google has acquired a lot of startups in the past years, and 2010 is no exception. Google has acquired over 80 companies with its largest acquisition being the purchase of...
Category "TRENDS"
Facebook To Redefine Shopping With Social E-Commerce
As the online shopping experience becomes more social, many businesses and e-commerce store fronts are looking for new ways to engage consumers to rally them around their brands. The popular...
Top 9 Secrets To Internet Business Success
The Internet has changed the face of offline and online businesses in ways that many successful companies are still trying to come to terms with. It has challenged conventional marketing...
How Contentville Intends To Extend Your WordPress Platform
Contentville is the first ‘platform’ to extend the award-winning WordPress CMS with its customization, intelligent support and full-service options, created by Content City and Jiva InfoTech. Contentville’s panel seamlessly integrates...
Smartphone-The New Credit Card in 2011
Mobile payment was supposed to have taken the center stage in 2010, but for some reason we did not witness a lot of startups with unique mobile payment products or...
Film And TV Web Content Will Dorminate 2011 Startup Trends
Online TV is like cable, only with a much bigger selection of programs at your fingertips. It is tipped to be the next big thing with innovators signing deals with...
How 7 African Countries Use Mobile Technology To Improve Healthcare
With reported mobile subscriptions to be over 379 million, Africa is home to one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. This creates an enormous opportunity to leverage...
NuMobile Acquires Kenyan Startup To Enter Africa’s Mobile Banking Market
NuMobile, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Kruze Technologies Ltd, a mobile wallet operation headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. NuMobile has scheduled an on-demand Webcast to be released next Tuesday, December...
Springboard: The New Y-Combinator of UK
Springboard is a new startup incubator that will launch in the UK with a full time 13 week bootcamp programme for up to ten teams. But the programme does not...
What On-Demand Sofware Do You Really Need?
There are thousands if not millions of software services and products out there. And they are all literally shouting for your attention. Those with huge marketing may be getting the...
Top Startup Acquisitions In The Month Of October 2010
Earlier in the year I started writing about startup acquisitions, and I intend to write about them every month. Few lucky Startups are exiting with money in the bag, It...
17 Tips To Make Your Startup Investor Friendly
For starters, it’s expected that all founders are passionate. Experience and expertise in the business area you have choosen Bundles of energy and talent. The right blend of competency and...
The New Startup Founder’s Checklist
Clearly communicate the vision, mission, and values. Attract and retain the highly skilled and motivated people. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction Promise action but manage expectations....
2010 Startup School Lessons And Notes
Startup School 2010 was organized by YCombinator The speakers included Ron Conway, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham Andrew Mason, Tom Preston-Werner and Mark Zuckerberg. These lessons were shares by speakers at...
The Apps for Development Competition: Submit Your Idea
The Apps for Development Competition aims to bring together the best ideas from both the software developer and the development practitioner communities to create innovative apps using World Bank data....
Peerbackers: Crowdfund Your Startup Idea
Raising funds is always a difficult bridge to cross. You could bootstrap or seek angel funds. The new popular addition people have begun to explore is crowdfunding . If all...
A Startup’s Path to Profitability
The path to profitability varies from startup to startup. I believe there are basic Organisational structures that form the foundation of every successful and profitable startup. Once an entrepreneur gets...
Email To Merge With Social Inbox
Birth of a new Social Inbox is imminent. In the most radical future, content will start to appear on a new type of aggregation webpage that resembles email, blog posts,...
Current Startup Ideas In My journal
I received lots of comments when I posted Startup Worth Exploring In 2010 . Entrepreneurs are always looking for that new twist to their businesses or a new idea they...
A Business In Search of A Business Model
Too many startups are still figuring out how to make money. A revenue model needs to do the job whilst you do your best to keep your customers. Are you...