Startups

Startups 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, ambition, and hard work results in a new company.

Starting new companies has gotten easier with each passing year, especially since the arrival of the Internet. Historically it required a lot of money to start a new company because of inventory, infrastructure, employee, legal, and advertising costs. Today venture capital is less necessary to start a small business.

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, too.

Today 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 “Startups”

• Boston’s Mobile Startups React to Google’s $750M AdMob Purchase

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  IT , Mobile , deals Wade Roush wrote: I was at the offices of uLocate , a Boston startup with a suite of location-aware information services for mobile phones, when I heard today’s news about Google’s $750 million acquisition of San Mateo, CA-based AdMob , which runs one of the largest mobile ...
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• Electronic Arts Buys Playfish, a Social Games Start-Up

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Electronic Artss acquisition of Playfish is a vote of confidence for the social gaming industry, which has been involved in a controversy recently.
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• Electronic Arts Buys Playfish, a Social Games Start-Up

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  Electronic Arts, the video game company, announced Monday that it had acquired Playfish, one maker of the social-network-based games that have become so popular this year. The acquisition is more evidence that, as we wrote this weekend, online games that make money by selling virtual goods are turning into a ...
  2 hours ago

• Tagged.com Settles Suits Over Deceptive Invitations

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The social network Tagged.com agreed to change misleading e-mail invitations and will pay $750,000 in fines to settle litigation by New York and Texas.
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• Rdio: First Screenshots Leaked of Skype Founders New Music Service

  
  ReadWriteWeb — Authority: 830
  Weve been lucky enough to get our hands on leaked screenshots from one version of Rdio , the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis were the original financiers behind peer-to-peer file sharing site KaZaA , but Rdio wont be following a ...
  2 hours ago

• The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker Youve Never Heard Of

  
  Gawker: Valleywag — Authority: 633
  No one knows what Facebook and Twitter are really worth, sexy though the startups may be. But AdMob, an obscure company in Silicon Valleys hinterlands, has a very clear, solid value: $750 million in stock from acquirer Google. Yay boring! The AdMob deal announced today is the third largest acquisition in Googles ...
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• The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker Youve Never Heard Of [Field Guide]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 865
  No one knows what Facebook and Twitter are really worth, sexy though the startups may be. But AdMob, an obscure company in Silicon Valleys hinterlands, has a very clear, solid value: $750 million in...
  2 hours ago

• Tagged.com Settles Dispute Over Deceptive Invitations

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  Update | 5:38 p.m. Corrected post and headline to note that the state attorneys general had announced their intent to sue Tagged.com; they had not actually filed lawsuits. Tagged.com, the San Francisco-based social network that was criticized earlier this year for deceiving people into signing up for the service, has ...
  4 hours ago

• Another One Bites the Dust, AdMob Acquired By Google

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  This morning Mashable is reporting that Google has officially acquired mobile ad provider AdMob for $750 million.  It was only a matter of time before AdMob had to give up its independence and cash out.  The that Sequoia was the leading backer of the company as well as AdMob having several former Googlers on ...
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• Carleton Poster of Tech Companies

  
  Startup Ottawa — Authority: 122
  In early 2010, Carleton University is looking to publish an updated poster featuring ‘innovation-based companies’ founded or co-founded by Carleton alumni and faculty. ‘Innovation-based companies’ are defined as “companies founded to either develop new technology that forms the basis of new applications, ...
  5 hours ago

• EA Acquires Playfish

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 141
  EA acquires social games startup Playfish , #2 behind Zynga , for US$ 300M, plus a US$ 100M earnout ; http://j.mp/4gt4By
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• VC Funding Season Ends Next Week

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital . I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital.  It’s worth you knowing this so you don’t waste your time.  It’s also very important to understand so that ...
  8 hours ago

• Open Source Startup Developing Device to Link Home Appliances Over LAN

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 654
  People Power , a new open source-based green tech startup launches today with the goal of helping people reduce their carbon footprint and control energy consumption in their homes. More than just a cost-analysis Web site that lets you compare and contrast the cost of using various appliances, People Power is also ...
  9 hours ago

• Rise from the Grave DotBlu!.. Only if it you call it TownHog!

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 483
  I dislike it when companies change names every now and then. Why? Are they superstitious that a particular name is cursed or something? DotBlu made me ask all this, once again, as it has done so for the third time all the way from BlueBet to DotBlu and now to TownHog . What’s interesting here is that the service ...
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• QnAads.com - Earn Money By Answering Interactive Advertisements

  
  Tech Blog of Global and Indian Companies: Gajeebo — Authority: 437
  QnAads is an interactive way to advertise using mobile text messages. The advertisers can involve their users by asking questions and the readers can earn money simply by answering them correctly.It’s a win-win situation for both the advertisers as well as the readers of the advertisement. Only thing to look upon is ...
  10 hours ago

• Startups Aren’t Small Companies

  
  Instigator Blog — Authority: 460
  Everyone says that startups are fast-paced, innovative and able to take bigger risks more quickly than large companies. But the reality is that too many startups are not prepared for the risk-taking and innovation that has to take place. Just because a startup is small doesn’t guarantee that it’s agile or ...
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• Adgregate Markets launches Distributed Commerce Platform: ShopCloud

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 483
  Launching in last year, Adgregate Markets has done quite an i mpressive job at transforming online display ads into markets. The platform is launching is launching ShopCloud; which would help create useful e-commerce apps. The developers will be able to create variety of apps which will include surveys, polls, ...
  10 hours ago

• Litl Webbook Ships Today

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  IT , startups , Computing Wade Roush wrote: The Litl Webbook, a new home media computer unveiled by Boston-based Litl last week, officially ships to buyers starting today. The $699 device, which is available from Amazon and directly from Litl’s website , has already attracted a wide range of ...
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• Clean Energy Week Preview: Of Green Ties and 52 Startups

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  energy , cleantech , startups Robert Buderi wrote: We’ve noticed a slowing of venture investment in cleantech and other aspects of energy here in New England. But put any green investment pessimism on hold this week—as today marks the start off what’s being touted as the third annual Clean ...
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• San Diego’s PaxVax Developing Oral Tablet Vaccine, Looks to Raise More Cash With Support of Seattle’s Ignition Capital

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Life Sciences , VC , vaccines Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: PaxVax, a San Diego startup backed by Seattle’s Ignition Capita l, has raised $2 million of a planned $6 million investment round, according to a document filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The biotech was founded in early ...
  11 hours ago

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