Tag: Startups

Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Launches Obvious Ventures
Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, is back with his third version of Obvious, the previous versions of which spawned Twitter, Medium, and Twitter co-founder Biz Ston...
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Facebook Adds Stripe Benefits To FbStart
Facebook announced that it's adding benefits provided by Stripe to FbStart, as well as launching a new site where members can manage their benefits and learn more about the program...
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Facebook Kicks Off FbStart Tour, Offers More To Startups
At its f8 developer conference in April, Facebook launched FbStart, a...
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AOL Launches BBG Fund Focused On Women-Led Tech Start-Ups
AOL announced a new venture fund focused on early stage investments in women-led consumer internet start-ups, and appointed Susan Lyne to run it. It's called the BBG Fund. The...
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Google Ventures Goes To Europe With $100 Million
Google announced the launch of a new European branch of Google Ventures, its startup investment arm. It's starting (based in London) with a fund of $100 million. It says the goal i...
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Tech Startups Get Help From Disney
The Walt Disney Company has a startup accelerator program called Disney Accelerator, and today announced the startups it has chosen to help. The lucky startups are: Buzzstarter...
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Facebook Gives Startups Access To More Partner Tools In FbStart
Facebook announced on Tuesday that it has added Braintree, Appmethod, and Get Satisfaction as partners on its FbStart program. That brings the total number to 17. Facebook...
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Facebook Opens FbStart Startup Help Program To Everyone
At f8 a couple weeks ago, Facebook announced FbStart, a new program...
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Facebook Reveals FbStart Program To Help Startups Take Off
Facebook product partnerships director Ime Archibong revealed FbStart at the company's f8 conference. This is a program, which gives developers tools (for free) and services from...
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How To Get The Media To Notice You
Today, I would argue PR is more important than ever before. In addition to helping companies increase profiles and attract new clients, PR can be considered the secret weapon for S...
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Faking a School Shooting Alert Is an Awfully Dumb Way to Get People to Use Your New Social Network
Today, we all gather to nominate Bevii and this terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea into the Dumb Idea Hall-of-Fame. In order to prom...
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Google Helps UP Global Expand Startup Weekend For Entrepreneurs
Google announced a new partnership with UP Global, which will see the organization expanded to twice as many cities, going from 500 to 1,000. As part of this,...
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Amazon Launches AWS Activate Packages For Startups
Amazon announced on Thursday that AWS Activate, a package which includes AWS credits, training, developer support, a startup community...
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Local Ruckus Makes Some Ruckus With Google Fiber And KCSV
It’s no secret that Google Fiber is inspiring other ISPs to lessen the broadband gap in this country. Or, according to...
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Biz Stone’s Jelly Hires Another Ex-Apple Engineer
Biz Stone's mysterious startup Jelly has just made another interesting hire. This time it's Brian Kadar,...
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