Chasing dreams may be the next sleeper hit for venture capitalists
Author: Joanna Glasner / Source: TechCrunch A lot of startups are pitching ways to put us to sleep lately. In response, investors are perking up and writing big checks. Call it Big Sleep. After decades spent funding technologies tailored to deprive us of...
Inside the Mind of New York Angel Investor: Jason E. Klein
Author: Bart Clareman / Source: AlleyWatch Welcome back to Inside the Mind of a NYC Angel Investor, a new series at AlleyWatch in which we speak with New York City-based Angel Investors. In the hot seat this time is Jason E. Klein, Founder & CEO of On Grid...
The emerging legal battle over video game streaming rights
Author: Aaron Swerdlow / Source: VentureBeat Esports advertisers, consumers, brands, investors, and athletes are congregating around streaming game content, competing for the revenue it generates. Juniper Research reports that esports and streaming video...
The Marketing Collateral You Need to Start a Business
Author: Julie Chomiak / Source: Business 2 Community Marketing collateral is traditionally associated with print products such as business cards, flyers, sales presentation materials, and the like. In today’s business world, though, marketing collateral...
Antilatency lands $2.1 million for mobile VR positional tracking tech
Author: Ian Hamilton / Source: VentureBeat A startup named Antilatency with a positional tracking solution that recently impressed Upload has raised $2.1 million and is opening an office in the United States next month. According to the company, the seed...
The Future of Sales, 29 SaaS Marketing Lessons, and More – Raise The Bar
Author: Nick Frost / Source: Mattermark Why The Future of Sales Looks A Lot Less Salesy (read) Even with something as formal as enterprise B2B sales, businesses don’t buy things, people do. So what does this mean for the shifting future of sales? There are...
Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Sam Altman invest $30 million in Change.org
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman announced today that he’s making a big bet on Change.org, the site for social justice petitions. Hoffman is leading a $30 million round, with other investors including big names like...
Amazon Books Should Open Where They’re Most Needed
Author: Chandra Steele / Source: Entrepreneur When ecommerce was new and people were still afraid to give out their credit card information online, Amazon lured shoppers with the slogan "Earth's biggest bookstore" and the promise of cheap books delivered to...
3 Businesses Helping Overworked People That Have High Potential Margins
Author: Andrew Medal / Source: Entrepreneur It’s amazing what other people will pay you to do. If you’re an entrepreneur just getting started, you may think you have to come up with something “disruptive” or at least somewhat creative to start making the...
Hackers Can Use Subtitles to Infect Your Devices
Author: Angela Moscaritolo / Source: Entrepreneur Enjoy watching foreign films? We have some bad news. Security researchers have discovered a new attack vector that could allow online miscreants to gain access to your PC, mobile device and smart TV:...
Riley raises $3.1M to help real estate agents rate and respond to their leads
Author: Anthony Ha / Source: TechCrunch Businesses usually spend lots of time and money trying of attract potential customers. Now a startup called Riley aims to help them prioritize those sales leads. Riley was part of the winter class at Y Combinator. (In...
KidPass raises $5.1 million for its children’s activity subscription service
Author: Sarah Perez / Source: TechCrunch KidPass, a monthly membership program that gives parents access to a variety of kid-friendly activities across their city, has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding, the startup reported this week. Currently live in...
Healthtech startups face uncertain future
Author: Peter Newman / Source: Business Insider BI Intelligence See Also Ford looks to the IoT for its next CEO THE IoT PLATFORMS REPORT: How software is helping the Internet of Things evolve There will be 24 billion IoT devices installed on Earth by 2020...
How Older Entrepreneurs Can Turn Age to Their Advantage
Author: Roger St. Pierre / Source: Entrepreneur The youthful, vibrant faces of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are representative of widely known entrepreneurial icons. But few people would conjure the more etched faces of Sam Walton (who founded Walmart at...
Snap said to leverage discounts to drive growth
Author: Alex Wilhelm / Source: TechCrunch After a painful first-quarter miss, Snap, the parent company of the popular social app Snapchat, is looking to avoid the same fate in the second. According to Digiday, Snap is working to drive new and increased...
A Venture Capital Playbook Over Time
Author: George Deeb / Source: AlleyWatch I read two terrific articles this month that summarized venture capital trends over the last several years. The first was Pitchbook’s 2016 VC Valuations Report and the second was CB Insights’s Venture Capital Funnel....
Why Would We Expect Wearables to Get Calories Right When We Usually Don’t?
Author: Stephen J. Bronner / Source: Entrepreneur Maintaining a healthy body weight is more than a matter of calories in, calories out. Genetics play a role, and they could determine your predisposition to obesity. Scientists are only now scratching the...
iPhone 8 Will Be Good for Selfie Lovers
Author: Venturer / Source: Entrepreneur This week on Venturer News, Brittany Lehman reports on how we're supposedly seven months away from the debut of the iPhone 8. Selfie lovers should be excited with an additional second lens on the front camera. The...