As the Rawporter Roadshow continues we got a few minutes to sit down with serial entrepreneur Ric Fleisher about his latest startup urgent.ly. Fleisher has had several successful exits and is proudly working on his current startup that came about out of necessity. Fleisher found that as more and more location based service startups came
I’ve been attending networking mixers for all of my adult life. In a previous life as a radio personality and then programmer I attended many conventions that had their own networking mixers as shoulder events. When I started founding my own businesses as “SMBs” before “Startups” were chic, I attended every chamber of commerce business
We’re in the midst of the Rawporter Roadshow visiting with startups and checking out tech everywhere. While in DC we stopped at the Fort accelerator where we met with Next Game. NextGame thrives off the fact that nothing is more social than pick up sports. With Spring in full swing millions of people will be
Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray has announced some tax changes that are designed to keep the districts budding tech scene building to scale. The changes he outlined recently will be formally announced to the city council on April 17th. The first tax change is that District residents who invest in technology companies or take on
Venga is a Washington DC start up that is part of The Fort accelerator based in the nation’s capital. When they came onto the scene they wanted to offer an app that was a little more upscale than Urban Spoon or Open Table. They were able to get their product launched and actually launched it
Carla Valdes is changing the way we record childhood memories with the new Handpressions iPad app
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
Check out the startup Edward Norton and Sophia Bush have been talking about, and check out the new partnership they have with Dell.
New York’s General Assembly shutting down coworking in 2014, but this isn’t a bad thing, more here.
Everywhere Else Cincinnati kicks off Sunday evening at 8pm at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Downtown Cincinnati, highlights, speakers and agenda posted here. There are a handful of tickets that were released on Friday.
Startup Maryland’s second annual “Pitch Across Maryland” bus tour is in full swing. On Wednesday they squared off against Texas Governor Rick Perry.
1776 DC announces the first members of their Global Startup Federation allowing members from 1776 and like minded, member facilities, access to work in other cities. More here.
Washington DC’s 1776 attracts partnership with General Assembly.
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