Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… Read More... →

Создатель сайта для будущих студентов College Inside View Адам Зернер опубликовал в своём блоге за Medium заметку о том, почему ему не удалось превратить свою задумку в полноценный проект. В материале автор разбирает свои ошибки и размышляет, как их можно было бы избежать.... →

Y Combinator, one of the most prestigious and well-known startup accelerators in Silicon Valley, is piloting a new program called “Open Office Hours.” The aim is to connect with founders from underserved communities and give them direct access to YC partners either in-person or via Skype, depending on where the founders are based. YC’s office hours effort is led Michael… Read More... →

There are plenty of subscription services out there that will hit you with a box of various wine bottles, but none offer subscription tastings by the glass. Until Vinebox. The new startup has just launched to offer subscription wine by the glass for $35/month, with each box containing three separate tasting vials of wine that are measured to the standard 100ml cup. These wines come from… Read More... →

Инвестиционный менеджер ФРИИ Илья Королев написал для Firrma колонку о том, почему венчурному инвестированию нужно учится. В мире растёт популяция бизнес-ангелов. Тенденция вложений частного капитала в технологические стартапы на ранних стадиях понемногу дошла и до России. Особенно это ощущается в кризис, когда люди находятся в поисках активов с высокой динамикой роста.  Красивые истории о 1000-кратных мультипликаторах в этих условиях немного туманят разум. Попробую коротко описать несколько ключевых тезисо... →

Startups fail. In fact, startups often fail. Anyone who has spent any time in the startup and venture capital ecosystem will tell you that failure is the most pervasive characteristic of the ecosystem. There is no shame in that. If building a great business from a startup was easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur. If identifying a startup that would return 10x on capital was easy, everyone… Read More... →

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Some big moves ahead for Hyperloop, the LA-based futuristic tubular transportation startup backed by Elon Musk, with high ambitions to rethink high-speed transportation services. The company has appointed a new CEO — Rob Lloyd, who had been president at Cisco — and also added another familiar name to its list of advisors. Emily While, formerly COO of Snapchat and an ex-Facebook… Read More... →

Mobile video startup Vungle is launching a new private, programmatic marketplace for ads, which it’s calling Vungle Premium. CEO Zain Jaffer said that the company has already addressed a number of the issues facing brand advertisers on mobile, but it hasn’t tackled “the fact that app charts change on a daily basis, which is a huge problem if you have to make buying decisions… Read More... →

Spanish restaurant booking startup Restalo, which is very similar to the much larger Open Table, has acquired local competitor Restaurantes.com to consolidate its leading position in Spain. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, though I’m hearing from sources that the acquisition price sits in the “mid single million euro” range, so up to €5 million. If that it… Read More... →

A new music startup has launched with one key raison d’être at its core: to help you learn to play piano. A product of Microsoft Ventures’ Berlin accelerator, Skoove is a personalised music tuition platform that promises “the world’s first truly interactive online piano lessons.” Launching this week in public beta, Skoove is geared towards […]... →

As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding. Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Canada that provides apps and other services for managing and selling inventory across both online and offline shopfronts, has picked up $61 million, money… Read More... →

Iron.io, a startup with “task processing” software that can automatically do computational work in parallel or according to a specific schedule, is announcing today an $8 million round of funding. The startup was founded back in 2010, but things have become more interesting in the past year with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services […]... →

Генеральный директор облачного сервиса для управления торговлей «МойСклад» Аскар Рахимбердиев написал для vc.ru колонку, в которой выделил пять причин запустить собственный стартап в кризис — подкрепив их примерами из собственной практики и историями других проектов, открывшихся во времена экономического спада.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис облачной телефонии Sipuni. Передаём микрофон.... →

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Каждый день редакция vc.ru выбирает один свежий стартап,вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — «первый в мире» персональный настольный кондиционер Evapolar.... →

Uber is appealing U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s recent ruling that a case against the car-hailing startup can proceed as a class action lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reports. This comes as no surprise, given that Uber said it would likely appeal the judge’s decision. When the ruling came out earlier this month, Uber lawyer Ted Boutrous said the case is based on… Read More... →

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Box chief executive and cofounder Aaron Levie says that startups shouldn’t necessarily pay attention to their customers but instead remain dedicated to their vision. Kicking off the first-ever Startup Summit that’s part of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Levie participated in a fireside chat with Salesforce IQ CEO Steve Loughlin where he spoke about […]... →

Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I’ve learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined the founding team of Kogi BBQ with Chef Roy Choi in 2008, all we had was a food truck and “seed funding” from a maxed-out credit card. We had no idea that it would change the entire food… Read More... →