Last week, I wrote a little primer on content companies–what kinds are out there and how they’re making money. This week two media companies are announcing some big fundraising rounds. Vox Media, based in Washington DC, announced closing on $34 million of a $40 million round. New York’s Refinery29 will close a $20 million Series
Amazed at the quality of educational games startups coming out of Louisville. Check out our interview with SLIC Games the startup behind Gadzookery.
Mercury Fund’s Managing Director and Co-Founder Blair Garrou, and Softbank Capital’s Joe Medved set to speak to startups from Everywhere Else at Everywhere Else Cincinnati, more here.
The catchphrase “you only live once” or YOLO is the modern-day version of “carpe diem,” and it usually involves doing wild and risky recreational activities. But an increasing number of college students have taken YOLO to the next level by doing something their parents may find even more unsettling — turning down cushy corporate jobs
Monica takes a look at 11 awesome coworking spaces everywhere else.
MassChallenge finalist Zoomtilt announces new analytics product for A/B testing video.
You may think that today is all about accelerators and healthcare, well we didn’t intend it to be that way but there’s major startup news on the accelerator and healthcare front. DreamIt Ventures, the multi-city startup accelerator brand, announced late last year that they would be teaming up with Independence Blue Shield and Penn Medicine
Augmented reality has been a hot space for startups for the last three years. Now in 2013 it’s starting to expand outside of just cool games. One Boston startup, PAR Works, has done some amazing things with augmented reality and for that they’ve received two pre-show honors from SXSW. First off the company was selected
As the parent of a kindergartener her father and I are swimming in mountains of ideas of things for our daughter to do after school. There are a lot of programs out there but not one central website to go to where we can check out everything. We’re just getting started and have a good
These days there are a whole lot of people living in at least dual residencies. When thinking about dual residencies the most common thought is about snowbirds. This group of people is usually older and migrates south to Florida, for the winter, from their normal homes up north. We’re even in a dual residency scenario
A Pittsburgh startup with a funny name is engaging customers from brands across multiple touch points. SongWhale specializes in taking customer engagement to a new level using the web, text, pay and direct solutions. The unique company offers multiple products to drive engagement and even a pay product of their own called PayWhale which offers
Shark Tank season 4 kicked off two weeks ago with Indiana University, Kelley School Of Business graduate Derek Pacque’ turning down a $200,000 investment offer from Dallas Maverick’s owner and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Pacque’ turned down the investment because of the equity stake Cuban wanted in exchange. That wasn’t the case with Mention Mobile
We’ve reported on a handful of good Los Angeles area startups that are leveraging the celebrity power in Los Angeles for their companies. LA startup 12 Society is spearheaded by rapper Nas (Nasir Jones) and he’s called on many of his influential friends from the hip hop, music, sports and celebrity communities to launch a
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