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The Most Interesting Startup in the World They have no employees, only customers. Strangers ride the elevator up and down, just to hear their pitch. When they meet with Angels, they take equity… in their investors. Their seed round was an IPO. They once pivoted all the way around, just to see how it feels. […]
Marcus Taylor, founder of Venture Harbour, has compiled words of advice from 30 entrepreneurial leaders in the music industry. Here are some of our favorites. Focus on what works now “We are no longer subject to what was, only to what works. We can honor what came before us, but at the same time we […]
Here’s a list of the ed-tech startups who have received the most funding in recent years – according to Crunchbase. Leading the pack are 2U, Kno, and Desire2Learn with close to $100 million. See the full story at HackEducation.com 1. 2U (total raised: $90,800,000) 2. Kno (total raised: $89,000,000) 3. Desire2Learn (total raised: $80,000,000) 4. Kaltura (total raised: $69,100,000) 5. Rafter […]
Technology investor and managing director of The Foundry Group, Seth Levine, shares his thoughts about the changing trends in entrepreneurship over the past few years. He points to several factors that have recently contributed to shifts in the way people consider and approach entrepreneurship including the breaking down of geographical barriers and a decreasing emphasis […]
Spotlight on ed tech at SXSW 2013. LAUNCHedu organized a competition for ed tech startups during this year’s SXSWedu. On March 6th, two companies won cash and consulting services from the LAUNCHedu advisory board. BloomBoard won in the K-12 category while LearningJar took home the prize in higher education. Community Impact News reported the details: […]
Here is a fantastic compilation of posts and articles from 2012 about managing startups from Tom Eisenmann Professor at Harvard Business School who studies lean startups, entrepreneurship, platforms, and network effects (Twitter: @teisenmann). This is so much information and wisdom here for anyone starting a new venture or trying to make their startup successful. As Tom says […]
I will be judging a startup competition at Billboard’s FutureSound conference this Thursday and Friday. Sign up here and use this code SPCOL12 for a discount! bit.ly/WvqcRg. These are the five finalists that will be competing. http://www.getmixxd.com http://www.playground.fm http://swarm.fm http://www.tixie.com http://www.tunezy.com This looks like it could be a pretty exciting conference with keynote speakers including VC […]
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