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Posted by Thomas Oppong on February 3, 2012 · 0 Comment
Another week is almost over. Some startups as usual were busy making presentations and meeting investors for funding. Believe it or not many startups received millions of funds to start [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on January 26, 2012 · 0 Comment
HelloWallet, a personal financial startup that launched last year has just secured another $12 million to take on Mint. HelloWallet plans to use its Series B funding to expand its [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on January 10, 2012 · 0 Comment
Have you made your new year career resolutions yet? Its a new year with new beginnings. You may be doing the same job, but you could do it with a [...]
Posted by Amanda DiSilvestro on December 16, 2011 · 0 Comment
The first year is always the hardest. This saying always seems to come up when talking about marriage, having kids, going back to school, and moving out of your parents’ [...]
Posted by Guest Author on December 9, 2011 · 0 Comment
For many entrepreneurs, creativity and drive is the easiest part; however, this is only half the battle. Being financially literate is a must if you’re going to start your own [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on December 8, 2011 · 0 Comment
Every year over 500 million people use Excel spreadsheets and financial models (Microsoft, 2010) to understand complex problems and make better decisions for the future. Vumero wants to provide you [...]
Posted by Guest Author on October 5, 2011 · 0 Comment
If you a startup building a product getting into the right startup accelerator would be one of the smartest moves you make simply because it helps you jump across the [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on September 11, 2011 · 0 Comment
Menlo Park-based Clean power Finance, a provider of financing and services for the solar industry, raised $25M in an investment round, from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures. [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on June 30, 2011 · 0 Comment
On how many boards do you sit? Do you really have enough time to impact the outcome of this investment through your involvement and engagement? Is there a culture of [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on May 20, 2011 · 0 Comment
Posted by Thomas Oppong on May 18, 2011 · 0 Comment
LearnVest officially launched to the public on November 16th 2009 and closed its second round of funding in February 2010 with $4.5 million from Accel Partners. Today, LearnVest enjoys a [...]
Posted by Guest Author on April 9, 2011 · 0 Comment
In business, as in life, the things that often matter most are the most difficult to do. That’s why so many people put off drawing up Wills and Living Trusts, [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on March 30, 2011 · 0 Comment
Mint together with Scholastic have launched a new online “Quest for Money” game. The online game provides free tools to help middle school students learn essential and long-lasting personal finance [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on March 23, 2011 · 0 Comment
When you think of banks, you mostly turn to the brick-and-mortar financial institutions to keep your money safe and secured. Banksimple, a startup still in stealth mode hopes to change [...]
Posted by Thomas Oppong on February 15, 2011 · 0 Comment