Boston VC Files To Run For Governor
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Boston Venture Capitalist Jeff McCormick, who’s been investing in startups since 1994, has filed to run for Governor in Massachusetts.
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Drive Capital Announces First Investments In OH Startups, RoadTrippers (Cincinnati) And CrossChx (Gallipolis)
Former Sequoia partners Mark Kvamme (pictured) and Chris Olsen go big with Drive Capital, announce $181 million dollar raise on first $300 million dollar fund, and announce first two investments in RoadTrippers and CrossChx. More here.
Tables Turn As Accelerators Pitch At National Accelerator Demo Day
1776 in Washington DC was host for last week’s National Accelerator Demo Day.
Top Cities For Women Entrepreneurs In A Pretty Infographic
What cities in the United States rank best for women entrepreneurs? Find out in this beautiful infographic.
Portland Startup AboutUs’ Founder Finds Greener Pastures In The TLD Space
Ray King, a life long technology nut and a prominent Portland entrepreneur is venturing out on his latest startup. King is the founder, and still a board member for AboutUs. When the site launched it was an editable encyclopedia of websites across the world, somewhat similar to Wikipedia. With a great domain name and a
10 Tax Tips For 1099 Startup Employees
GuestBy Kevin Sandlin, Founder at @deductmor It’s tax time. For tax accountants, it means filing extensions and sifting through piles of papers for clients. For W-2 employees, it means getting your stuff together to give to your tax guy. But for 1099ers, it means paying your taxes. Didn’t use to be that way. Before 1943,
Portland Opens Up Applications For Startup PDX: Challenge
Portland Oregon’s Portland Development Commission has kicked off a new initiative to lure startups to the Central Eastside part of town. The new program called the Startup PDX Challenge is a non-equity based grant program that will give up to six startups $10,000 grants and free office space for a year in what once served
R360UND Is The Ultimate Go-Pro Companion Video Interview At CES 2013
Adrenaline pumping, action sports videos have taken a new place in the active sportsmans life thanks to things like Go-Pro. You could spend months watching GoPro videos on YouTube. You’d see people climbing mountains, surfing big waves, ski-ing, ski jumping, sky diving and more. But even with the best technology, and all the best Go-Pro
Important Techstars Deadlines Approaching
Techstars, the globally recognized startup accelerator brand has some important deadlines coming up for startups interested in applying for their programs. The deadline for the next Techstars New York session is this Friday January 18th. Finalists will be notified by February 2nd. The program runs from April 2nd to June 28th. Interested startups can apply
Portland Startup: Househappy, Pinterest For Real Estate?
Real estate entrepreneur Kevin McCloskey thinks that shopping for houses online is still very clunky. The current online destinations for house hunters are still very agent driven and confusing for the general consumer who could find themselves on either end of the real estate transaction spectrum, the buyer or the seller. That’s why he created
Memphis Social Entrepreneur Sarah Petschonek Takes Volunteer Experience Nationwide
30 Year old Memphian, Sarah Petschonek left her Nashville job in September of this year to return home to Memphis, Tennessee. Petschonek who has a socially motivated work background and a PhD, wanted to find a more impactful and meaningful path for her life. Being a lifelong volunteer since childhood, and with the support of
Meet The 8 Startup Winners From Startup America’s DEMO Contest
The fall DEMO conference kicks off in Santa Clara California today. It’s one of the most popular startup events, and longest running startup events in the world. In fact, TechCrunch Disrupt was born just to compete with DEMO. Unlike “everywhereelse.co The Startup Conference” presenting at DEMO can be extremely expensive, especially for a bootstrapping startup
Portland Startup: CrowdCompass Acquired By Cvent for $10 Million
A Portland Oregon startup up that specializes in producing smartphone apps for conferences and events, has been acquired by event planning software company Cvent. CrowdCompass is Cvent’s second acquisition in just one week. Last week Cvent, who’s based in Virginia, acquired Austin startup Seed Labs. “Let’s be clear: We bought this for their people,” said
Tips For Pitching At A Hackathon Style Pitch Weekend
As the voice of Startups everywhere else we spend quite a lot of time at hackathon style startup competitions. You know the type,two or three day build a startup weekends. In fact there’s an international organization called Startup Weekend that hosts a lot of the events we really enjoy covering. Now let’s preface this and