Startup

Startup companies are entrepreneurial business ventures. Usually founded by an individual or small team of professionals, startups are generally based on an invention, innovation, or improvements to existing products or services. The combination of this business insight, plus ambition and hard work, can create a new company.

Starting a new company has become easier and cheaper since the arrival of the Internet. Historically, the expense of starting a new company was higher, due to inventory, infrastructure, employee, legal, and advertising costs. Today venture capital is often less necessary, as initial costs are lower.

The Internet’s rapid expansion has also opened startup opportunities for entrepreneurs worldwide. The interconnected nature of Internet communications enables the rapid spread of information, inexpensive collaboration between geographically distant parties, and low cost website software and tools that enable the sale of goods via e-commerce and online advertising.

Startup companies are more common than ever. This is a trend likely to continue as more people worldwide become connected to the Internet and invest in their own futures by working together to build new companies.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Startup”

• Business Startup Funding - Are You Ready?

  
  Business Ideas And Entrepreneurship — Authority: 131
  Business startup funding is always a worry. Do I have enough money to start? Can I quit my job to concentrate full time? Will I be able to cover my monthly expenses? When the time comes to actually launch your business you must have done your homework regarding your business startup funding needs. You need to be ...
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• Google Acquires Display Advertising Start-up Company Teracent

  
  Tech Blog of Global and Indian Companies: Gajeebo — Authority: 482
  Google has acquired Silicon Valley based Display Advertising Technology start-up Teracent. This will expand its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc.Teracent has developed technology to automatically serve computer-configured display ads in real-time from a library of different creative elements. Read More Tweet ...
  23 hours ago

• Google turns to algorithms to create better-looking ads

  
  The Blog Herald — Authority: 615
  The constant push to make ads more visually appealing — reducing the effects of ‘ad blindness’ and helping them to convert better for advertisers and pay more to publishers — continues, as Google announces a pending deal with the Californian startup company Teracent. Teracent specialises in machine-learning ...
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• Companies that add value to their ecosystems are more sustainable

  
  The Equity Kicker — Authority: 422
  I recently met with a company that got me thinking about the link between the value a company adds to its ecosystem and its long term share price potential.  This may sound trite but in a nutshell it seems to me that the best startups either create value by making something possible for the first time or by radically ...
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• Attentio Raises $786,000 For Advanced Social Media Monitoring Software Suite

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  Brussels-based Attentio , a startup that markets a robust software suite for brand monitoring and analysis of conversations that are happening in social media, has raised €525,000 (or $786,000) in financing from the citys regional investment firm SRIB/GIMB . The financing consisted of an equity investment of ...
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• MENA 100 Business Plan Competition Winners

  
  ArabCrunch — Authority: 451
  Ciapple a Jordanian startup artificial intelligence software for customer relationship management startup funded by the European Commission-SRTD program represented by its Founder and General Manager Eng. Hussein Al-Natsheh, has recently won the 3rd place award in a regional business plan competition “MENA 100” ...
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• First Farecast, now FlightCaster

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  Farecast made some waves in the online travel business a few years ago when founder and University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni came up with an algorithm to predict whether airfares on selected flights wouldFarecast made some waves in the online travel business a few years ago when founder and ...
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• Roundup: Qliance, Bruce Carter, Intelius, AdReady and more

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  Naverus, a Kent-based company that develops navigation systems, has been acquired by GE Aviation in a deal of undisclosed size. The 60-person company was founded in 2003 by Steve Fulton and Hal Anderson — pilots at Alaska Airlines — as well as high-tech entrepreneur and former Coinstar CNaverus, a Kent-based ...
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• Founder without experience, lonely founder

  
  Start-Up: the book — Authority: 104
  Two recent posts address the topic of the Founder. Kevin Vogelsand describes his experience as an entrepreneur without experience On Founding a Company Fresh Out of College . Olivier Ezratty is interested in the lonely founder in the cas difficile de l’entrepreneur isolé . Both topics are important and I submit ...
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• Presentation style matters when pitching to VCs.

  
  BZ Notes! — Authority: 104
  My colleague Adam Berrey has a great post on his blog about pitching to VCs. I see hundreds of pitches/year and it still amazes me that so many people don’t pay attention to their presentation skills even when they get the coveted opportunity to present to a VC partnership. Here are some  general ...
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• Google Buying Display Advertising Startup

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Web search leader Google said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology start up Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo.
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• How to price your software

  
  Bombay Quotient — Authority:
  Every so often, I come across some “free” e-books which have very less to offer because of their generic appeal. I think this book has a clear objective and provides good value for its length. Consider reading it if you are a internet start-up and it will go a long way in improving your pricing strategy. Here’s ...
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• Guest Post: Startup Weekend Bay Area

  
  Startups And Communities @ Sun — Authority: 428
  By Shanti Subramanyam I attended the  Bay Area Startup Weekend  in Mountain View this previous week-end. This was the first such event I attended and it was an amazing experience – so I thought I’d share it. The idea behind the event was that a bunch of folks would show up, some of them would ...
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• FlightCaster Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  It seems that flight delays could turn into a big business. FlightCaster , the startup that helps predict flight delays long before the airlines themselves usually do, has just landed a $1.3 million funding round led by Tandem Entrepreneurs and Sherpalo Ventures.
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• Microsoft, Murdoch vs. Google: Smart move, or sheer madness?

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  Steve Ballmer wants to beat Google. Rupert Murdoch wants his publications to make money. So they’ve been hatching a plan to remove the Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. properties from Google, with Microsoft paying Murdoch to give Bing exclusive access — setting a precedent for other onSteve Ballmer wants ...
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• Bezos’ secretive rocket project gives hint of future plans

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  A veil of secrecy has surrounded Blue Origin — Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’ project to build a rocket to take paying customers into space. Now the company is giving a hint of its plans. Blue Origin on its website is now giving a timeline for “flight opportunities,” saA veil of secrecy has surrounded Blue Origin ...
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• RE: Windows Update wont start

  
  Microsoft Patch Watch — Authority: 159
  Hello Rrahl, Start button > select RUN> type in SERVICES.MSC The following services are needed by the processes at Windows Update. In services management console ( services.msc) they must NOT be *Disabled* in the Startup type
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• Real Time Data Start-Ups Carve Out Niches As Revenue Question Looms

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  With Twitter exploding – and the focus on real time data exploding along with it – there are a number of new companies that are seeking to develop more specific applications of this technology.Several such companies presented at a conference in San Francisco last week organized by TechCruWith Twitter exploding – ...
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• Seven Ways to Get Your Startup Noticed by the Media

  
  Startups And Communities @ Sun — Authority: 428
  When you officially launch your startup and send out a flurry ofpress releases, the silence can be deafening while you wait for thephone to ring and reporters to call you. Here are some tips to improveyour chances of getting noticed by the media. 1) Make sureyour press release stands out, but dont overdo it. A ...
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• Tweetmeme rolls out more features and options - Twitter Advertising

  
  Startups And Communities @ Sun — Authority: 428
  This is a post from Tweetmemes Blog on Twitter Advertising by Nick Halstead It always amazes me how things converge onto a point in what seemsto be complete coincidence, but when it happens time and again you seethat it is just a natural convergence of multiple minds pushing forwardideas towards a natural ...
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