Posts tagged: startups

Last year, Dom Leca received an unexpected message. The French software developer was contacted by an investor from San Francisco who was eager to share his cash and ideas to improve Leca’s e-mail application, Sparrow. “I didn’t know Dave at...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor lets gamers wield a light saber or slice falling fruit ninja-style, but Jintronix sees a more serious use — rehabilitating patients who have suffered a stroke or spinal cord injury. Jintronix is among 11 startups housed...

As Zynga uses part of its $1.8 billion to acquire popular mobile apps and the key talent behind them, one challenge it faces is keeping the entrepreneurs it brings aboard. “The most important component of a deal is the human...

Internet startups are notorious for calling themselves the (insert hot company here) for (insert sector of your startup here). For example: the Facebook for students, the Groupon for travel, or the Twitter for businesses. But the companies presenting at Y...

It’s a reversal of roles in Silicon Valley’s startup scene: Investors are clamoring for face time with entrepreneurs. Hundreds of tech’s most prominent backers packed into an auditorium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, today to hear two-minute...

After eight technology startups, several books and a decade of teaching, some would say that Steve Blank has turned the art of creating a tech company into a science. Still, he never thought his skills would be desired by actual...

Chris Sacca is the latest “super angel” investor to  discover the challenge of having a small venture capital fund: There’s not enough cash when you need it. With his second fund, Lowercase Spur, Sacca is following the footsteps of Mike Maples and Jeff Clavier, raising more...

  Angels are spreading their wings — and their dollars. So says new research from the Angel Resource Institute that shows the median size of angel-group rounds invested in startups rose 40 percent last year to $700,000. A key takeaway...