Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Российский стартап Linguatrip, который представляет онлайн-сервис по бронированию языковых курсов за рубежом, получил $100 тысяч от американского акселератора 500 Startups. Об этом Firrma рассказала основательница проекта Марина Могилко. Сделка состоялась в апреле 2015 года, когда стартап начал программу акселерации. Размер доли, которую получил акселератор, не раскрывается. Обычно 500 Startups вкладывается в обмен на долю до 7%.  На сервисе Linguatrip аккредитованные школы иностранного языка могут размещат... →

I don’t know what kind of a situation one needs to be in to need a pack of condoms delivered in under an hour when there’s likely a fully-stocked convenience store within a 15 minute walk but one San Francisco-based startup has you covered here. L. Condoms is a startup in the current batch of Y Combinator that promises delivery of comfortable, paraben and glycerin free… Read More... →

Nearly a year after Foursquare’s relaunch, we caught up with chief executive Dennis Crowley to talk Foursquare’s future, its plan to cash in on ad tech, privacy, burrito-discovery, and why the six-year-old startup doesn’t have to kill Yelp. Here’s our Q&A, trimmed for clarity. Harrison Weber: How’s Foursquare? Dennis Crowley: How’s Foursquare the company? We’re doing great; we just came out of […]... →

“We’re deleting everything in a week because we got acquired/ran out of money”. This is a familiar scene when a startup shuts down. It’s why I’ve wondered if users deserve a “Data Portability Bill Of Rights”. Startups could sign it, pledging a way for users to access or export what they poured in if the company goes under. Those that signed it would get… Read More... →

When you’re a struggling team eating away at your meager savings and trying to get your startup profitable, venture capital funding seems like the holy grail. Raising money from investors gives you the resources to grow your team, buys you time to do things properly and gives you no small amount of credibility in the eyes of other entrepreneurs, prospective hires and even some clients… Read More... →

There is hardly a day that passes without a new major initiative, announcement or bold proclamation by the Gulf economies of United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to promote tech startups in the region. Be it incubators, investment funds or free zones, you name it and they have it. Read More... →

Silicon Valley startup Strivr Labs just keeps signing up football teams for its virtual reality training system that relies on the Oculus Rift headset. The New York Jets have started using it at training camp ahead of the 2015 NFL season, the New York Daily News reported today. Other professional teams that have used Strivr’s […]... →

On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama hosting the first-ever White House demo day, which placed an emphasis on diversity, Visa has announced the winners of its The Everywhere Initiative. And, wait for it, all of the winning startup founders are black. The Everywhere Initiative sought out to source innovative solutions from startups for Visa’s marketing issues around… Read More... →

C1X is announcing that it has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Founder and CEO Mukundu Kumaran spent seven years as an engineering director at Yahoo. He said that during that time, he saw the complexity of the ad-tech industry, and now his vision at C1X is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction works.” Read More... →

Amazon Web Services isn't the only contender for cloud gaming services, which are making mobile games much better.... →

More than 200,000 music lovers are about to don their spirit hoodies and flower crowns for San Francisco’s popular Outside Lands music festival this weekend. That means lots of traffic, congestion, and headaches for neighbors near Golden Gate Park. Ridesharing startup Lyft is helping to combat the problem by picking people up in several music-themed vans. Lyft partnered with Outside… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «Планадо», который позволяет компаниям организовать управление выездными сотрудниками компаний из разных сфер. Передаем им микрофон.... →

Как приехать на работу раньше босса и неожиданно открыть стартап... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — устройство Remix Mini, которое его создатели называют «первым настоящим ПК на базе Android».... →

С чего начать бизнес в IT? Как найти инвесторов и первых клиентов? Почему большинство стартапов так и остаются на уровне идей? Только на практике можно понять, что будет работать, а что принесет одни убытки. На онлайн-программе «Запуск стартапа: от поиска идеи до выхода на рынок» вы сделаете первый шаг к своей мечте. Участников ждут: 40 часов практики со своим проектом и 44 часа теории; личные рекомендации известных экспертов; готовый проект и встреча с инвестором. Вы познакомитесь с известными предп... →

Lemonade Lab, which develops sensors for athletes, has scored $5.8 million led by a Foxconn subsidiary. The Boston- and Tokyo-based startup will form a strategic partnership with FIH Mobile, which provides manufacturing services for mobile device makers. Read More... →

GUEST: In today’s competitive talent marketplace, it may seem impossible for a small tech startup to attract top notch engineers, especially with recent announcements like Netflix’s policy to allow unlimited maternity leave, but a little recruiting knowhow goes a long way. In today’s job market perks are the norm, with things like free food actually becoming […]... →

Tilt’s already expanded to the United Kingdom, its second international country, this year and plans to expand to five more countries in the next five months or so. That’s a challenge for any startup for a number of reasons. It has to build out a playbook for how to expand incrementally to each country, and, at the very least, it has to ensure that it preserves the… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Platfora, a startup with software for cleaning up, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in the Hadoop open-source big data software, is switching chief executives. Founder Ben Werther is stepping down after four years and becoming executive chairman. Jason Zintak, a SAP veteran who came on board in June as president and chief operating officer, is […]... →

Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at the company. Over the past few months, startups like Instacart, Shyp and Luxe have all switched their workers to W-2 employees rather than independent… Read More... →