The Habitat for Humanity credo is "Give a hand up, not a hand-out." The international program helps build housing for the working poor with a combination of sweat-equity, volunteer work, community goodwill, and affordable mortgages. The same concept should be applied to technology startups. Washington DC-based Amplifier Ventures have ...
Instead of bemoaning the lack of angel funding for startups, a group in Halifax, Nova Scotia, started their own "angel fund". Maritime Angels has 76 members who have so far invested $2.8 million into 8 startups who have consequently raised an additional $10 million in funding. The project was created in ...
Forget everything you learned on Dragon's Den and come hear the truth about VC financing. EventBrite is hosting a VC Roundtable event in Ottawa on April 16th. Featured speaker is Rick Segal - VC with JL Albright, SuperBlogger, and the man who brought us Chapters Online! The event is free, located in ...
The Dow's VentureSource released this report yesterday stating that US investment in web 2.0 companies grew 88% in 2007 over 2006 to $1.43 billion. It warns investors that investment in this sector may have peaked because the total number of deals only increased by 25%. DJ also expresses a concern that Facebook ...
So today is Blog Action Day for the environment. Over 10,000 blogs around the world have signed up to write about environmental issues. Coincidently, next week the Dow Jones hosts the Alternative Energy Innovations conference in San Francisco. It's a showcase for emerging companies to show their wares to potential investors. ...
Jobe and I founded a company called anbiun in 1999. We got VC funding - grew it to 50 people. When the investors pulled out we let anbiun free... The name spells "unique" upside down (assuming you're using the right font). We let the domain go too. Up until now, ...
Life is rosy for San Francisco-based startup Aliph. They're a company that has been struggling to develop a successful noise cancelling headset. Finally they've got the Jawbone blue tooth headset. It's striking industrial design is matched with the best noise cancellation technology according to CNET. Yesterday, Om Malik wrote about ...
MeshWalk organizer and SM friend Shannon Clark tells us about the latest Barcamp variant. Following on the success of the first Walk, this day long event has two parts. In the morning, entrepreneurs are matched with angel investors to walk from the Stanford campus to downtown Palo Alto. If you survive ...
When I first read the press release announcing yesterday that EveryZing got $10m in new financing for their media search tool, I got queezy. Surely, Bubble 2.0(tm) is about to burst, right? I mean who needs another search tool? But then I tried it. It looked familiar - that's because they just changed ...
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