Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

GameOn Technology has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors that include football legend Joe Montana. The startup hopes its GameOn app will change the  way sports fans watch and talk about big games. The investors include Quest Venture Partners, XG Ventures, SkyStar Ventures, and Montana’s new venture fund, Liquid 2. Another investor is the […]... →

Philip Kaplan’s startup, the DistroKid, has had it’s first major success story. The hip hop group Jack & Jack have hit #12 on the Billboard Top 200, a first for an indie group. I asked Kaplan about how to make a band successful in the Internet age and what it means for indie musicians. TechCrunch: So what happened exactly? What does this mean? Kaplan: For the first time in… Read More... →

A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-pop shops would have to set up their own online stores using a platform like Shopify, for example, or perhaps market their items via social media… Read More... →

Руководители стартапов разглагольствовали о проектах и нахваливали свои долгосрочные перспективы... →

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