CrunchBase Announces New Startup Calendar To Compete With Startup Digest

CrunchBase is the industry directory for all things startup and investor. In fact we think every startup should have a CrunchBase profile, and we often promote it as one of the three free things every startup should do. CrunchBase serves as a database to track information like who’s involved in your startup, what milestones you’ve hit, and other company news. It’s just as important to have a CrunchBase profile as it is to have an Angel List profile.

On Tuesday CrunchBase announced a new product offering. The startup calendar is a new weekly email calendar that will provide subscribers with information on startup events from across the country. It’s similar to Startup Digest, but Startup Digest has a weekly email blast for each area, curated by a local startup community leader and brought to you by the folks at UpGlobal/Startup Weekend.

CrunchBase plans on one weekly email and anyone can submit an event for consideration. They have these few requirements:

You should contact them at least a week in advance of your event
Your event should feature a minimum of 5 startups
You must provide themwith a list of and information about the startups participating in the event

If you want to submit your startup event to the Startup Calendar you can email events@crunchbase.com

Here’s a huge event for startups everywhere else.

Nibletz Has News X3 Jobs, Interns, And Data Base

We’ve got some big huge news for Nibletz that we will be announcing shortly. In the meantime we’ve got these three BIG news items for you today.

Jobs

We are going to start a jobs section for nibletz.com as soon as we have enough jobs submitted (knowing how our community works that should be this week). Any startup “everywhere else” can send their job posting to jobs@nibletz.com and we will post it for you.

Please be sure to include contact information in the form of an email address, and or a direct applicant page. The listing can be as long as you would like. Each listing will get it’s own “page” on our site. We will list your job for FREE, however if you want to be part of our social media broadcast including our huge Twitter presence, Facebook, Google+ and AOL Radio (yes we own the AOL/Slacker radio station TDGN) then we ask for a $25 donation here to help with our outreach and road trip expenses. We will allow any jobs from any startup and YOU will be responsible for letting us know when the job is filled and to strike that page. Again you can email the listing here and submit the donation here. The posting is free and will live on our site until the job is filled. We will promote it heavily for the $25 donation, and we know you love what we do so help the cause.

Interns

We are looking for a few good writing interns. Perhaps you would like to highlight entrepreneurship and startups in your area. We want interns who can commit to a few stories (or as many stories as they would like) per week.

Interns will learn the ins and outs of writing and working on a daily startup and tech website (blog). They will also learn best practices, how to create, edit and append Word Press posts and more. Interns will also be invited to attend regional startup and entrepreneurial events to cover the events for the site.

In exchange we will complete all your paperwork for college credit. We will also get you cleared into regional events that you can cover for the site and add as resume items.

You don’t need to be in college to do this if you feel like contributing to the site please send us an email at interns@nibletz.com

There may be an opportunity for those that excel quickly to either start earning money or equity into the business. Together we can grow the voice of startups everywhere else.

DataBase

We are going to introduce a new database of startups and startup resources “everywhere else” we aren’t looking to clone crunchbase or angel.co we are still staunch believers in the power of both. We are looking to create a database and community of startups outside of the valley to help and grow together. If you would like to submit your startup to the database, for now it can be done as an email to database@nibletz.com.

If you’re one of the nearly 1000 startups we’ve covered since the beginning of the year, we have an intern working on compiling that data now. We will launch the database in the coming weeks.

AOL, TechCrunch, Crunchbase Et Al, Ignore Android Developer’s Intellectual Property

The one time internet giant AOL, which has been declining over the past few years, has been trying desperately to bring readers from other sites to their media properties like TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Patch and other blogs and online content. With some of the more notable websites in the tech community, AOL has always seemed to be very supportive of intellectual property.

In fact, as recent as last week, we published a story about AOL considering licensing patents rather than suing over them. A move to not further clog the arteries of our already busy patent court system.

You would think that AOL, TechCrunch and Crunchbase would be very protective of not just their intellectual property but also the intellectual property of those businesses and members of the community that they serve. You would also think that TechCrunch, Crunchbase and AOL would be protective and supportive of Android developer’s, especially those who have premium apps in the Google Play Store.

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