- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Raising funding from formal investors isn’t always an option for every startup. Particularly for young or unproven entrepreneurs, informal investors can seem like much more attractive options. And these more informal options can ce...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Franchise Times NewsFast-casual seafood chain, Captain D’s, in the middle of a reinvention centered around beachy restaurant redesigns, a retooled, healthier menu and increasing its share of franchised locations.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderWith less than two weeks until its Kickstarter campaign comes to end, Tiko3D’s self-titled 3D printer has successfully raised more than $2 million thanks to nearly 11,600 backers. The creators of the Tiko Unibody 3D Printer designe...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, made headlines this week by officially launching its IPO. This means that the website will have to work hard to keep both its stockholders and its sellers happy. But Etsy isn&#... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comA semitruck carrying millions of honeybees overturned on a highway north of Seattle early Friday, scattering hives and sending white-suited beekeepers scrambling to save as many insects as they could.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
A number of prominent tech CEOs and startup founders graced the annual list. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from VC News Daily feedBOSTON, MA, haystagg today announced the addition of several prominent investors - Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners and Kima Ventures.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The Crowdfund Network
From Victoria Global Victoria Global Supports EBAN’s Swiss Private Equity Conference to be held on 10th April 2015 in Zurich The 5th Annual Swiss Private ... The post Blackstone Group, Bloomberg, SIX Swiss Exchange and EY at EBAN’s... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
Dave Kerpen shares his favorite articles from this week. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsIf you spend entirely too much time creating, searching for and sharing the best GIFs and Vines with your friends, then you might get a kick out of a new mobile application called Trio. The app allows you to mash up media in order ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
A campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill is getting a boost from the first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator. - Saturday, April 18, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsDespite all the mobile video apps out there, Gary Krieg said there’s still something missing — a need he’s trying to fill with his new app Hykoo. See, Vine has created its own set of stars, and Meerkat and Perisco...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comDisaster struck when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, leaving Craig Ceccanti jobless and looking for work. A few years later, he would co-found a paint-and-sip business that has now grown to 100 locations.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsMeet Quickie, a nifty little iOS app to make 1-on-1 video calls that automatically end after a few seconds. You might use Quickie to tell a joke to a friend or say good morning to your partner for example. Sending a text message wo...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comNew Yorkers may soon be able to count calories burned and miles traveled while pedaling Citi Bikes, the popular bicycle-sharing program with a troubled history that is undergoing a major overhaul under new leadership.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsWe hear more and more about the big stars of YouTube, but what about the creators who haven’t quite reached superstar status? Well, if they’re looking to connect with advertisers, startup FameBit aims to help. Co-founde...
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from StartUp Beat
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trendsetters
Brian Livesay, the “Retirement Guardian” in San Diego says, “One often over looked area of retirement planning is taxation of Social Security income.” One of the most critical things to understand is the taxability of social ... - Saturday, April 18, 2015 from BizSugar Hot Topics4 years ago, Instagram was just another social site where people could share beautiful pictures. The site has since grown into one of the most popular and most powerful social media sites today. When Facebook purchased Instagram, it gain...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
Your homepage is not "YourCompanyName.com". Your homepage is how you show up in a Google search result (like it or not). - Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Kickstarter Blog
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from StartUp Beat
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Crowdfund NetworkMichael Ibberson CrowdClan – Crowdfunding Your Future How Explicit Crowdfunding Warranties Enhance Campaign Legitimacy and Trust Warranties act as conventions: if a particular product or ... The post Should You Sell Crowdfunding Wa...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from VC News Daily feedSAN FRANCISCO, CA, Slack has raised a Series E round of $160 million.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from BizSugar Hot TopicsIn an effort to accommodate the growing number of mobile users, Google is going to start weighing how mobile-friendly a site is when calculating search engine rank. So what does this all mean for small businesses? 16 Vote(s)
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
An index designed to predict the future health of the economy slowly crept upward for the third straight month, a sign that the pace of growth has been weakening since the start of 2015. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Inc.com
Leila Janah, founder of Sama Group, describes the character traits that qualified leaders possess. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comSpain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos is criticizing Greece's left-wing government for its "not very coherent" approach to negotiations over its finances and economy.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderProsper President Ron Suber delivered an extremely well received keynote address at the LendIt conference held in Manhattan this past week. Over 2400 attendees converged from around the globe to discuss the future of finance, one...
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderReady to join the newly defined “Crypto Revolution,” comedian and political activist Russell Brand recently declared his support for the cryptocurrency, bitcoin. According to Newsbtc, Brand, who has joined forced with StartJOIN so that h...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from eWeek - Small Business - RSS FeedThrough Nudge+Coach, users select a health coach based on individual needs, such as losing weight, eating better or reducing stress levels.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Social media can be invaluable to a variety of online businesses. But Twitter and Facebook aren’t the only online platforms for promoting your business. More traditional methods like blogs and email marketing can still be effective. And ... - Officials of European Union, European Investment Fund & National Bank of Austria at Danube’s MeetingSaturday, April 18, 2015 from The Crowdfund Network
Image from Can Stock Photo The Soho Loft Media Group with Victoria Global covers EBAN’s Danube Region Strategy Meeting on April 23-24, 2015 in Zagreb, ... The post Officials of European Union, European Investment Fund & Nationa... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from StartUp Beat
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from VC News Daily feedNEW YORK, NY, Peloton has raised $30M in Series C.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from YFS Magazine - Startups, Small Business News and Entrepreneurial CultureHere’s a look at five apps that can give even the busiest entrepreneur a productive and empowering boost during the day.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsOne of the stranger things that Y Combinator has supported — among the many more interesting things they’ve started to back like prosthetic legs, macrobiotic research and Uber-for-marijuana startups — is a non-pro...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Every small business — with dreams of growth and expansion — realizes technology enhances business productivity. Of course, not every small business can allocate funds to staff an IT department — or in some cases even h... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
When you finally decide that the warning signs are there and it’s time to invest in SEO, you have to actually make sure you work with a quality SEO agency. Believe it or not, this isn’t always the easiest thing to do. In many cases you a... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Guardian Small Business Network | The GuardianTen small UK firms were given a foothold in the US on the Guardian Small Business Trade Mission to Atlanta, says Claire Burke • Find out more about the Guardian Trade Mission to Atlanta Launching a business in the US can be difficult; ov...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from BizSugar Hot TopicsUser-generated content is something more and more brands are considering for marketing. Here's how some big brands are using it to their advantage. 16 Vote(s)
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderReady to save California from a potential drought, 84-year-old actor William Shatner has announced plans to launch a $30 million crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for a pipeline that will bring water to the in danger state. During an ...
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from The Crowdfund Network
From The Soho Loft More than 500 business leaders, representatives of government, media and academic institutions will converge in New York for the 25th Anniversary ... The post Dr. Henry Kissinger, Stephen Girsky & Ambassador Cui Ti... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Venture Capital SurveyBig money continues to flow to Silicon Valley tech startups at levels not seen since the dot-com boom, but investors pulled back slightly in the first quarter this year, suggesting that cooler heads may be prevailing in the white-hot mar...
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderPeer to peer lender Lufax raised equity late last month. Crowdfund Insider reported the China based direct lender raised approximately $483 million or 3 billion yuan. Now a report in WSJ.com places a valuation of the P2P lender at nearly...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsThe iPhone has offered the ability to take photos at the same time as you record video, but capturing photos from video that has already been captured isn’t quite so straightforward. Taplet aims to solve that. The company, wi...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Technology: Technology startups | theguardian.comSilicon Valley heavyweight IVP joins US startup’s investors, and predicts it could be as successful as Netflix and Twitter Online video firm Vessel has raised a new funding round of $57.5m, as it continues trying to lure popular YouTube ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
I normally run ideas past my wife before drawing them up, but this has been a crazy busy year for both of us and lately I don’t always get her opinion. So after work one night I showed her the cartoons I’d done that day and s... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
How are your customers accessing your small business website? And more importantly, what does it look like when they do? The simple fact is that mobile device usage is on the rise. Last year marked the first when mobile Internet traffic ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsThe Coin card (promising to let you combine all your credit/debit/loyalty cards into a single piece of tech) has delayed for so long that you might have forgotten that you ordered one. In November of 2013, the YC-backed company ble...
