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Funding - I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success. Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample or simply his gut feeling. Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time.
In that context, I came...
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AlleyTalk - Thanks to Donald Trump and the extraordinary spectacle played out at Trump Tower recently, we just got a glimpse of crowdfunding as a nightmare: people crammed against each other as they clawed the air for MONEY.
As Trump put it, he...
Strategic - Finally, New York City offers an all-day ‘hackathon’ for marketing and product development. StrategyHack, organized by The Inventure Co., brings together marketers and early-stage startups for a day of hacking together marketing...
Advice - Today we speak with Women Innovate Mobile mentor, Adaora Udoji.
Adaora is the founder and marketing director of The Boshia Group, a network of content creators, developers and strategists. The network provides media...
Advertising - Today, we speak with Are Traasdahl, Founder and CEO of Tapad, a cross platform ad technology company.
What does...
The Watch -
Each week we bring you a handy guide to just a few of the events we think should not be missed. On any given night, there are too many events. You can’t attend all of them and neither should you, unless you’re a career...
Techs and the City - Since the Census Bureau started keeping track in 1997, women-owned businesses have gone up 50 percent. As of 2011, these 8.1 million businesses have generated nearly $13 trillion in revenues, employing nearly 7.7 million people as of...
Funding - Whether experienced entrepreneurs, successful executives from a previous start-up, rock star developers from a technology bellwether or hungry, scrappy, determined newcomers looking to change the world, we want to talk to you. With that...
Fashion - Fashion is a $3 trillion dollar industry. Combine that number with the lucrative e-retail market and when you come across a panel like this, you pay attention. The funders were men. The founders, women. The content, lively and...
Mobile - Mobile websites have the challenge of cramming a lot of content into a small space, while presenting it in a way that’s intuitive for a user to navigate.
An emerging trend on mobile commerce sites is to use a three-bar icon to...
Op-ED - The JOBS Act has the potential to help entrepreneurs finance their small and emerging growth businesses through crowdfunding, but only if we get the costs right. In the year since the measure was signed into law, online technology...
Funding -
I have had hundreds of startups reach out to me at Red Rocket looking for fundraising assistance. Most with hungry, passionate entrepreneurs trying to build a great company in their space. But, it is typically the technology...
Strategic - In many companies strategy is akin to a waterfall. Senior leaders spend considerable time in each others company formulating and calculating the best way forward for their company. Once inspiration has struck, they then look to...
