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Alliance of Angels Director: 2010 Is “A Great Time To Be Starting Something”
Angels have been in the air lately—especially around the Northwest. Last month, Atlas Accelerator hosted what might have been the largest-ever gathering of active angel investors in Seattle, at its first investor open house. Wings, a new angel group to invest in medical devices and software, has gotten started....
Great Expectations Along the Columbia River, as PNNL Reels In Big Energy Problems
There’s a billion-dollar-a-year research operation in the middle of Washington state, with 4,600 staff, working on some of the biggest energy challenges in the world. Yet very few of the locals know a thing about it. And while it hasn’t solved the world’s energy woes, people should start counting on...
Olympia: Don’t Crush Biotech With New Taxes
Washington’s economy is showing signs of recovery. But some major problems persist—unemployment is stuck at a historic high and healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. The biotechnology industry can help alleviate both these problems. Washington is already a major hub of new biotech research and products. Boosting this sector will deliver our...
ActiveTrak Funded by ProtectCell
Portland, OR-based ActiveTrak, a maker of software that helps consumers recover lost or stolen laptops and mobile phones, announced this week it has raised its first round of funding, led by strategic investor ProtectCell, a mobile security and insurance firm based in Michigan. The investment is $500,000, as reported by...
San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND) said today that its partner, GlaxoSmithKline, has won clearance to start marketing a new drug for a platelet deficiency in Europe. The treatment, eltrombopag (Revolade), is for patients for idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), a rare bleeding disorder in which the immune system attacks platelet...
Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader, Talks Healthcare Reform (but Not Health IT)
On Wednesday morning, I stopped by the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle to hear Tom Daschle, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota, give the keynote talk at the 10th annual “Breakfast with Champions” fundraiser, organized by the King County Bar Foundation. His main focus: healthcare reform. I don’t...
The Entrepreneurial MD
Physician business owners - find (or create!) happiness at work
I've long been a fan of Professor Srikumar Rao, the author of "Are You Ready for Success?" (reviewed here) and the soon to be released "Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What". I love the measured calm and reassurance of his written voice as he...
How to ensure your idea for an entrepreneurial physician business idea doesn't suck!
Doctors are full of ideas for businesses. It must be all that frustrated creativity manifesting in the shower! Not all of these ideas, however, will make for a sound entrepreneurial physician business. So how then do you know whether your idea is any good? The Harvard Business Review Newsletter has a few tips...
Apple customer service provides lessons for physician business owners
An email exchange last week with an Apple customer service staff member about an iTunes account problem provided me with enough fodder to acknowledge just how impressive a company Apple is when you dig behind the perfect design of their products (despite my Android phone!). This excerpt from the first reply...
5 steps to creating your first entrepreneurial physician information product
The Entrepreneurial MD Newsletter's article for March is about as pragmatic as one can get! It's devoted to answering a question I'm frequently asked by my physician (and non-physician) coaching clients: "If I want to create an information product to sell (or to use as a marketing tool), how do I...
Two tasty morsels for your physician business
Two emails came across my desk yesterday, each with part 1 of a 5-part series that I thought you'd find valuable as you look to ways to form, and succeed at, your entrepreneurial physician venture or medical practice. The first is article 1, "Forming a Sole Proprietorship" in a 5-weekly series...
Why your physician business website matters!
Since I am now maintaining two blogs, I thought I'd share an article from my Physician Website Secrets Blog today on the Top 10 reasons for a first class medical practice website. [By the way, you'll find a number of short educational videos on the site, teaching about ways to create...
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Feedback from Our Readers: NextBillion Readers' Survey
Authored by: Maria ZhengDear NextBillion Reader: Since 2005, NextBillion has strived to provide news, analysis and information on the "base of the pyramid" (BoP) sector. We are now the most-visited BoP site on the web, with more than 40,000 unique visitors per month- thanks to you. And we don't want to...
Weekly Roundup: Focus on Children, Early and Often
Authored by: Nathan Wyeth This week, we welcomed four new people to the NextBillion team: Maria Zheng, Andrew Eder, Bryan Farris, and Adeena Schlussel. Watch for their contributions and insights! This week, staff writers took new looks at how enterprises can intervene in education and early childhood to create new security and prosperity...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: KEJob Location: Western Kenya (English required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs,...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: RWJob Location: Southwest Rwanda (French required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing,...
Internships - Decision and Policy Analysis Program
Organization: Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)Location: Cali, CO Opportunity for internships and jobs for recent graduates to gain international experience The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is seeking English speaking recent graduates for 6-12 month internships. CIAT is an international research center, one...
Staff Update: New Additions to the NextBillion Team
Authored by: Francisco NogueraThe last few weeks have been unusually busy at NextBillion. You've seen several new names, topics discussed, and the diversity of perspectives represented in our pages continues to expand. Moreover, the site's managing partners (Acumen Fund, WDI and WRI) recently met for a planning session where we...
crowdSPRING Blog
Nice to see Chicago’s WGN talk about crowdSPRING in their news segment last night (at 0:55 of the video). Big thanks to @maltier for letting us know about WGN’s story about crowdSPRING....
Later today begins a new day at crowdSPRING and a new approach to our community. When we launched in May of 2008, we offered buyers a simple guarantee, and made an equally simple promise to creatives. We guaranteed “25 entries or your money back” and promised creatives that when a...
Twitter Link Roundup #31 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that...
U.S. Government Embraces Crowdsourcing
The White House has embraced crowdsourcing, urging federal agencies in a memo issued on March 8, 2010 to use challenges and prizes to crowdsource innovative approaches to governmental initiatives and programs. Within the next 120 days, the administration will release a web-based platform to manage the government’s crowdsourcing efforts. Some of...
12 Questions: Meet Bryan Blue S. Cuevas (Philippines)
In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that...
5 thoughts for startups and small business: numbers count
Photo: tifotter Einstein famously said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” while Count Von Count (pictured above) said “That’s TWO! Two worried frogs! Ha ha ha ha!” Einstein was right in so many ways, but I believe that in the context of...
KK Lifestream
Making Organic Structure Visible
Originally posted in The Technium Science is forever trying to model nature. By simplifying its complexity, or extracting its structures into new modes, science can begin to understand how living things work. One clever way to study biology...
And what could be more industrial-age...
Originally posted in New Rules ...than automobiles? Yet, chips and networks can take the industrial age out of cars, too. Most of the energy a car consumes is used to move the car itself, not the passenger. So...
Originally posted in The Technium One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code. That day is now here. Exhibit...
Bit by bit, the logic of the network...
Originally posted in New Rules ...will overtake every atom we deal with. The logic of the network will spread from its base in silicon chips, to infiltrate steel, plywood, chemical dyes, and potato chips. All manufacturing, whether seeded with...
The wholesale migration from mass to bits...
Originally posted in New Rules ...began with the arrival of computer chips. This subtle disembodiment was first viewed as a unique dynamic of the high-tech corridors of Silicon Valley. Software was so strange--part body, part spirit--that nobody was...
Originally posted in The Technium This clip of vocal cords singing a harmony will certainly make the rounds on the tubes. To film it required a fiber optic camera that goes up the nose and then down the...
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In bid for entrepreneurs, Dell introduces new Vostro 3000 laptops: Core i3, i5, i7; start $768
In a bid for small business entrepreneurs, Dell on Tuesday unveiled its Vostro 3000 series laptops with standard voltage Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and discrete graphics for less than $800. by Andrew Nusca...
Dell's new Vostro 3000 series laptops aims for entrepreneurs
Dell's new Vostro 3000 series laptops aims for small business entrepreneurs. Here's a look at the 13-inch 3300, 14-inch 3400, 15-inch 3500 and 17-inch 3700. by Andrew Nusca...
Home Business Magazine 1.3 (Mobile)
Home Business Magazines editorial content speaks to the entire home business market. Topics include: sales and marketing, e-commerce, money corner, management, lifestyles, business opportunities, business news, and more.Since 1994, Home Business Magazine has been the essential journal for home-based entrepreneurs....
HJFF - Hartford Jewish Film Festival 2010 1.2 (Mobile)
About the Hartford Jewish Film Festival:The Mandell JCCs Hartford Jewish Film Festival will be held March 13-23, 2010. We are proud to present a record 30 superb films most of them Connecticut or Hartford premieres - from 8 countries presented in 7 Greater Hartford venues over 10 days. Check out......
On behalf of the HBS Entrepreneurship Club, we are pleased to introduce our iPhone Application for the Entrepeneurship Conference on February 21, 2010. The application allows users to view an updated schedule accessible both on and offline of the conference and read speaker biographies on the go. In addition, attendees......
I Am Modern Magazine for Moms 1.0.3 (Mobile)
I AM Modern Magazine is the ultimate regional social media experience for moms and women living in the Washington DC and Northern VA Suburbs, offering reader generated content and a real time social club. I AM Modern offers its readers "live by" restaurant reviews, lifestyle guides and local resources for......
The Common Sense Web... An Entrepreneurs' Blog
2010 SXSW, Location based services, Austin Restaurants, etc.
A few quick thoughts this morning as we near the event of the year, Austin's SXSW Interactive. It just keeps getting better every year. Location-based is bound to dominate the landscape this year. Think back even......
Hal Varian on newspaper economics
Interesting blog post from Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist, on newspaper economics. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspaper-economics-online-and-offline.html Hal points out a few things that I 100% agree with: special interest local advertising was the bell cow for the newspaper business, people consume news and......
I caught up this past weekend with an old friend who is most certainly *not* an entrepreneur. This friend is a corporate guy through and through. He's so corporate, he just doesn't understand the life of a startup person or......
Looking to meet .NET startup-friendly folks in Austin
Howdy everyone -- quick departure from the norm here. We happen to be one of those rare Austin startups that run primarily on Microsoft technology. Most Austin startups are built on Rails or Open Source technology. It makes sense... the......
Once you advance beyond the point of being an individual contributor in business, you henceforth have to keep your eyes open to assess people who may be able to join/advance your team. You should always have a pretty good idea......
As we progress with our business in 2010, I find myself more and more drawn to doing business with people who are genuine, sincere, and as honest as they can be. Maybe I'm having a negative visceral reaction to all......
David Silverman
This is the first in a series of stories from CEOs of their most life-changing day in their careers. Sometimes......
That Written-By-Committee Flavor
One of the challenges of corporate writing is the endless rounds of editing. No document of import can be published......
Should All Employees Feel Like Owners?
Apparently, my post on the "lunch lesson" rubbed some people the wrong way. When I opined that I found that......
The Moment I Finally Felt Like an Executive
When I was little, I heard about "executives." "Executives at Mega Corp have denied rumors of misdeeds." "Executives at Giganta......
When Sensitive Messages Go Astray
There are two of me. There's the me who gets up, changes my son's diaper and puts on my 17-year-old......
How Successful CEOs Respond to Failure
Failure. We don't like to talk about it. But we all worry about it. We worry about it in the......
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
Obvious and Non-Obvious Reasons For and Against Casual Sex
1. Obvious reason to have casual sex: Feels good, instant gratification, etc. 2. Non-obvious reason to: The boost in self-confidence that comes from knowing that another person was attracted to you physically. Casual sex is about physicality. People need validation......
Chris G. wrote about how he reduces stress when traveling, and among all the good tips is this: I often get stressed out spending small amounts of money. Overall, this isn’t always bad -- it’s led to a healthy paranoia......
All Entrepreneurship is Social
There is a tremendous amount of fuzzy thinking around terms like "social entrepreneurship," "social business," and "socially responsible business." When people ask me what I think about social entrepreneurship, I first say I'm not sure what social entrepreneurship means. I'm......
The Torturous Inner Life of the Man Who Seems to Have it All
How many people whose lives we admire actually maintain a torturous inner life? How many ideal men and women -- and I don't mean perfect, I mean ideal, which is to say perfectly flawed -- actually are consumed by insecurity......
The Impact of the New Tech: Use, Then Judge
Alain de Botton recently blogged about "one of the challenges of our time": re-learning how to concentrate. To sit quietly and think without distraction. I agree, except I'm not sure if we've ever known how to do so. Technology broadly......
There are four articles of note in the latest Newsweek magazine. 1. I wrote a brief personal piece on Chile. I mention other natural disasters that preceded Chile and conclude: The anonymity then of death tolls, my lack of proximity,......
OPEN Forum Articles
Eating + Meeting ~ Finding the Balance
From Jean Aw: We've all had days where work was so crazy that eating didn't make it onto the to-do list. Sometimes we even spend a good chunk of that time around food, but it still doesn't change things. You know the situations: You're at a business lunch, and you're...
Read Your Financial Statements Like A Banker
From Kate Lister: Let’s face it — financial statements aren’t the most fascinating things to read. Unless, that is, you’re a banker. Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business than you may think. Whether you’re applying for a new loan, renewing a line of credit,...
7 Essential HR Resources for Your Small Business
From Sharlyn Lauby: As a business owner, you know your product, service, market and customers. But sometimes one of the most challenging aspects of operating a business is employees. Not because the employees themselves are a challenge but because there’s so much legislation and nuances to employee relations. Wouldn’t...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Interns (And Make Sure They Don't Destroy Your Company)
From Anne Field: At first glance, this seems like a great idea: Cut costs by hiring low-cost or unpaid interns. Why not? You’ll have yourself an inexpensive staffing solution, and your new employees will benefit by getting much-needed experience and (perhaps) a salary. Trouble is, bringing interns on board is a...
From Matthew E. May: I have been an active participant in social media — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn — for just a little over a year now. That qualifies me as little more than a rank amateur. Still, my network of friends, followers, and connections has grown rapidly during that time....
Treat Your Employees Like Customers
From Tukope Esisi, CEO of Tuopsy's Enterprises: Delivered by FedEx. From the time I started my first business, selling cakes while I attended university, I treated my customers like gold. Over time as I needed to employ staff, I realized it was important to treat my employees just as if they...
Twitter / sdentrepreneur
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sdentrepreneur: Ocean Beach, California on Sunday afternoon http://post.ly/SoOr
sdentrepreneur: Ocean Beach, California on Sunday afternoon http://post.ly/SoOr...
sdentrepreneur: Twitter Marketing – 5 Ways You and Your Business Can Benefit ... http://bit.ly/coceU8...
sdentrepreneur: I'm at O'bistro cafe (4934 voltaire st., San Diego). http://4sq.com/c5Ozv0
sdentrepreneur: I'm at O'bistro cafe (4934 voltaire st., San Diego). http://4sq.com/c5Ozv0...
sdentrepreneur: @eric_lanlard Sweet, its going to be in the upper 70's all week in SoCal
sdentrepreneur: @eric_lanlard Sweet, its going to be in the upper 70's all week in SoCal...
sdentrepreneur: @AdeliaReid Awesome, 2010 is going to be a great year !!!
sdentrepreneur: @AdeliaReid Awesome, 2010 is going to be a great year !!!...
Twitter / charleneli
charleneli: @timgrahl Heading back to SF Sunday AM so can't meet in Austin. Sorry!
charleneli: @timgrahl Heading back to SF Sunday AM so can't meet in Austin. Sorry!...
charleneli: @sthommes Hope we connect, crazy that we meet at #sxsw and not SV!
charleneli: @sthommes Hope we connect, crazy that we meet at #sxsw and not SV!...
charleneli: B'fast at Hilton coffee shop, finishing up SXSW preso on open leadership at 5pm Room 12AB http://bit.ly/chncMo...
charleneli: Heading to @jhagel book party Club DeVille 900 Red River Austin with @joi,http://bit.ly/bK1YTo. Come on over!...
charleneli: Bonding with my Altimeter peeps over great food and Penfold's Shiraz in Austin #sxsw.
charleneli: Bonding with my Altimeter peeps over great food and Penfold's Shiraz in Austin #sxsw....
charleneli: #sbs2010...
Caroline Middlebrook
Turning Attention to Marketing IMAutomator
Now that IMAutomator has officially been released to the public, it’s time to turn my attention to the marketing of it. So far all of my efforts have been focused on developing the software itself but that has gone much faster recently and with the first paid release now just...
Social Bookmarking Just Got Quicker – IMAutomator Is Live!
I have been discussing my software project on this blog for well over a year now and today the day has finally come to announce the software properly! Over the last few weeks I have had 100 members privately testing the software and now the kinks have been ironed out,...
Stats & Analysis for February 2010 – $1,188 Earned
Income Become a Blogger – $356.88 Bluehost – $270 Teaching Sells – $137 Market Samurari – $118.08 The Bloggers Bible – $114.06 Unique Article Wizard – $53.60 Traffic Rush – $44.87 Twitter Rockstar – $42.32 Niche Adsense Themes – $30.77 Mass Outsource Mastermind – $20.93 Total income earned during February 2010: $1,188.51 It’s interesting how the income is very close to last...
Self Disclipline When You Work From Home on the Internet
I have been self employed on three separate occasions, for a total of 10 years. When self employed I have always worked from home, and for 5 of them, I have worked from home on the Internet. I have written before about how I love the freedom that it gives...
Help Dr Mani Perform 47 Operations for Children with CHD in 2010
Dr Mani is a surgeon and an Internet Marketer. However his marketing efforts are used to fund his aims to perform life saving surgery on children with Congenital Heart Defects. He donates his own time to do this despite working as a full time surgeon and supporting his own family....
Keeping Customer Relationships Alive
Last week I implemented a major update to my software – one that drastically improves the way the submission engine works. This gave me an opportunity to talk to my members and thus strengthen the relationship with them. With my software, I’m busily working away behind the scenes and in these...
Gawker: valleywag
Blog Wunderkind Has an Adventure with the Word 'Nigga'
Tumblr founder and skinny white wunderkind David Karp posed a question to his followers today: "Can I use the word 'nigga' if I'm quoting a song?" Response-friendly Tumblr overfloweth with advice. Just make sure you say -a, not -er, advised A Person Of Creepy Tendencies. "When I was listening to the...
Twitterati at Breaking Point, Just in Time for SXSW
Alex Blagg is not going to improvise like some sort of monkey; Lily Allen is not going to stand for your "fat whore" condolences; and Nick Bilton is not particularly enjoying this week's pressure cooker. The Twitterati defied reality. The Daily Beast's Tina Brown joined Twitter and promptly got to promoting...
Was Apple Employee Choked By Law & Order Star?
An Apple Store staffer said she was choked by Richard Belzer. The Law & Order star, meanwhile, says he just touched the employee's shoulders to get her attention. Plus she's a crazy person who kept him waiting. According to the New York Post, Upper West Side store employee Milan Agnew said...
Did Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Break Electronic Privacy Laws?
Mark Zuckerberg's hacking of email accounts and user profiles in 2004 could be felonies under Federal and state law, according to privacy lawyers who spoke with Business Insider. As we described last week, Mark used login data of early Facebook members to break in to the private email accounts of two...
Airline Stops Video Chat Because You 'Could Communicate With a Terrorist'
United Airlines ordered tech writer John Battelle to stop video chatting with his daughters because "maybe I could communicate with a terrorist on the ground." Other in-flight wifi uses were OK, since terrorist don't tweet or email. (Pic)...
Facebook Vs. Britain's Most Fearsome Tabloid
On one side, a media outlet controversial for misleading readers, running sleazy ads and misappropriating private letters. On the other, a British tabloid. Facebook is in a big teen-sex-scandal feud with the Daily Mail — ironically, its old-media doppelgänger. The Daily Mail Wednesday reported that its correspondent posed as a 14-year-old...
Information Marketing, Info Marketing, Blog Marketing, Internet Marketing
Introducing My New Business Card
There is one thing that I have not done in my business in the last two years, i.e, pass my business card around at the seminars & events. The truth is, I never had one by choice. The last time around when I created a business card it was just...
Embrace Life: One Of The Best Marketing Videos Of All Times
I’m sure this video will put tears into your eyes, will make your heart heavy. This is one of the best marketing messages I have seen lately. Hats off to the marketing genius who created this This video has been viewed by over 2 million visitors on youtube. Bookmark it! Hide...
2004 marked the beginning of the creation of www.SriniSaripalli.com. My, how time flies. It wasn’t until March 2008, that the wordpress blog really made an impact on the site and delivers everything that you now see today. Communication and marketing skills go hand in hand in delivering...
Your Income Is A Direct Outcome Of The Value You Bring To The Marketplace.
You might have heard this saying “Income Reflects Value” in other words your income is a direction reflection of the value you bring to the marketplace. On this video today, I share a small idea that made a major shift in my business. I hope you will appreciate it...
Insider Secret To Delivering Back-To-Back Knock-Out Presentations
A while ago one of my seminar attendees asked, how I prepare myself leading into a presentation. I shared several techniques with him, but he liked this technique the most. I thought I would create a video and share it with all. On this video I show you how...
Three Must-Know Stops on the Road to Online Success- Where are You At?
Building a business is no easier than building anything else. There is saying “People Make Choices, Choices Make People”. Everyone chooses the paths that they take. If your path has led you to business ownership, there are some things that you need to consider. While you could read articles all...
TheFunded Founder Institute News
Last Weekend to Apply in Singapore
The Founder Institute in Singapore has accepted over 30 applicants, and there are just a half dozen spots remaining in the program. The final application deadline is Sunday, March 14th, so take a moment to apply here.The Singapore program has attracted top local and global mentors, including Adeo Ressi, CEO, TheFunded.comAdeo...
San Diego Special Open Community Session on Tuesday
New and experienced entrepreneurs, future founders and co-founders, and all those passionate about startups are invited to a special Open Community Session of the Founder Institute on Tuesday evening, March 16, 2010, in San Diego. At this free event you can meet some of our Mentors and Founders from the recently...
There is a great article in the San Diego Union-Tribune by Dean Calbreat discussing the Graduates, the Mentors and the startup ecosystem in Southern California. "After going through a four-month business boot camp, a dozen local entrepreneurs have become the first graduating class in San Diego of The Founders Institute -...
Founder Institute, San Diego - Spring Session
If you can benefit from training and mentorship to make your startup more successful, please apply to the second San Diego semester. The first semester in San Diego was the highest rated by participating Founders in the history of the Founder Institute. If you know a founder that needs help,...
As the Institute attracts candidates for semesters in San Diego, Paris, Singapore and Denver, a number of applicants asked about the benefits once the program is over. Graduating from the Founder Institute is challenging. A Founder needs to develop an engaging idea for a technology company, plan out the business, work...
The Founder Institute has extended the Founder application deadlines for Paris, Singapore and Denver based on multiple qualified applicant requests. The Los Angeles semester is now closed, since sessions are starting next week. If you have been accepted into any of the semesters, please complete the requirements to reserve your...
TechNation Australia
This is the end, my friends. It’s with great pleasure I announce that, as of today, TechNation Australia (TNA) will no longer be updated. Instead, I have joined The Next Web network of tech blogs as editor of The Next Web Australia (TNW AU). The Next Web is making a concerted effort to become one of the...
More Mainstream Media for the Crowd-Sourcing Movement
Good to see mainstream media catching up on the growth of Crowd-Sourcing and speaking with some of our favourite local tech guys, Ross “Mr Enterprise 2.0″ Dawson and Design Bay Founder and MD, Alec Lynch. The story is a good overview of the pros and cons of the crowd-sourcing space, including...
TeamStream Launches, Aims To Change The Way News Is Read Inside Companies
For a couple of years now, the team at WotNews (formerly Plugger) have been using semantic technology to change the way people access and use news. They’ve done it through the self-titled site Wotnews and it’s Austalian, UK and US sites, through the super-popular WeAreHunted and CelebrityHunted and through a...
ChipHacker Launches Knowledge Exchange For Electronics Hackers
ChipHacker has launched a knowledge sharing community with the aim of bringing electronics hackers from all over the world together to share their skills and experience. The site is another to use StackOverflow’s StackExchange as its platform (TheNextWeb recently ran a story on another site using it, Startups.com). I have to...
Shmotter Looking To Take Virtual Fashion Styling To The Next Level
Shmotter, a Melbourne-based start-up, is looking to take on the world of virtual fashion styling by helping wanna-be Rachel Zoe’s perfect their look for the day without having to put a single thing on. The site allows users to select clothes from their large catalogue, mix and match them with accessories,...
2009 Australian VC Industry Report Is In, And It’s Bad.
AVCAL, the peak industry body for the Australian VC and PE industries has released its 2009 Yearbook and things look grim, at best. Katherine Woodhope, AVCAL CEO , says that while the PE sector is powering along and now rivals that of Europe and North America, she’s hoping the yearbook: acts as...