‘Snap’ to It: 5 Tips to Improve Your Snapchat Marketing
Author: Tony Tie / Source: Entrepreneur When Snapchat first took the mobile world by storm, most people assumed it was just another teenage fad. Six years and a $16 billion valuation later, one of the most talked-about IPOs to date has since made it clear...
Minibrew raises $2.8 million to help you make your own beer
Author: John Biggs / Source: TechCrunch Netherlands-based Minibrew has raised $2.8 million in seed funding after completing a successful $350,000 crowdfunding campaign to bring some smarts to the home-brew process. The Minibrew is a little keg with a big...
20 Money Tips to Help You Save More
Author: Patrick Bet-David / Source: Entrepreneur Add every dollar up from the very first check you ever got. How much money has passed through your hands? How much have you made in your working life? Now, how much have you saved? Are you happy with that...
The Answer to Crushing Stress Is Seek Grace, Not Perfection
Author: William Bauer / Source: Entrepreneur Amidst piles of pizza boxes and empty Molson bottles, I started running ROYCE from my McGill University dorm room in 2010. Empowered with a veteran staff coupled with our monogramming niche, I thought I was going...
6 Tips for Making Social Impact Essential to Your Business from Day One
Author: Erin Reilly / Source: Entrepreneur These days, it seems like every startup is trying to figure out how to launch a social impact or ".org" arm. They see it helps build the brand, boost loyalty and even drive revenue. But, many aren't sure how to...
When It Comes to Innovation, Go Big or Go Home
Author: Ivy Cohen / Source: Entrepreneur Innovation is sought after by most businesses. It is an aspiration of companies seeking to be leaders and brands of choice. But, the sad truth is that much of what is touted as innovation is often simply a desire to...
3 Major T’s to Cross Before Starting Your Online Store
Author: Toby Nwazor / Source: Entrepreneur According to United Nations trade and development statistics, ecommerce is worth more than $22 trillion, and it’s still growing. That's why we're seeing a good number of online stores springing up. Consumers have...
Somebody Turned Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ Into a TED Talk, for Some Reason
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur At this rate, the iconic 1999 smash hit will never leave our heads. Eighteen years later, Smash Mouth’s “All Star” is making its way back to screens again -- and this time not as the background music for Pixar’s...
Quora tests video answers to steal Q&A from YouTube
Author: Josh Constine / Source: TechCrunch Newly-minted unicorn Quora has even bigger ambitions than text questions-and-answers. And it’s not going to let video giants or startups disrupt its future. This week Quora began testing video answers, because...
This NYC Startup Raised $1.7M to Fuel R&D for IoT Applications
Author: AlleyWatch / Source: AlleyWatch When you are in the research and development phase you need to figure out what works and more importantly, what doesn’t work. Reality AI allows you to track and detect specific events while building connected devices...
Someone in 2010 Bought 2 Pizzas With 10,000 Bitcoins — Which Today Would Be Worth $20 Million
Author: Rob Price / Source: Entrepreneur Today, 10,000 bitcoins are worth more than $20 million. Bitcoin is going nuclear. Its price is tearing upward, with each bitcoin worth $2,128 -- a little shy of its all-time-high of $2,185 reached earlier Monday...
Feast It lets you book ‘street food’-styled catering for your next corporate or social event
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch London-based Feast It, an online marketplace that lets you book ‘street food’-styled catering for your work or social event, has picked up $440,000 in seed funding. Backing the young company is Jeremy Mogford...
50 Marketing Tools to Help Your Business Crush the Competition
Author: Drew Hendricks / Source: Entrepreneur Knowledge is power in today’s marketing efforts. It is crucial that businesses have the latest solutions to track, analyze and personalize their marketing efforts. For those that need some help determing the best...
Decoding Venture Capital In Indonesia: In Conversation With Sebastian Togelang Of Kejora Ventures
Author: Ambika Chopra / Source: Inc42 Media Prestige 40 under 40, 2015. A serial entrepreneur with more than 25 investments across Asia. Founder and Managing Director of a VC firm. Many accolades, one man: Sebastian Togelang. In 2014, when Sebastian Togelang...
Plum bets on Facebook Messenger as the place to manage your finances
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Plum is one of a number of fintech startups reimagining how we manage our finances online, in the form of an AI-driven or ‘smart’ chatbot. However, unlike competitors that exist primarily as standalone apps, the...
ExtraTorrent shuts down permanently
Author: Emil Protalinski / Source: VentureBeat ExtraTorrent shut itself down this week. It was the second-largest torrent site after The Pirate Bay, known best for its massive index of entertainment content downloadable using the BitTorrent protocol. Despite...
Changing the World, One Story at a Time
Author: Ryan McMunn / Source: Entrepreneur Image credit: Photo provided by Ryan McMunn It was December 3rd, 2014, Molly Korte had just given birth to her and husband Brian’s third child. A beautiful baby boy that they named Jacob. They couldn’t be happier,...
Why I quit whiteboard-style tech interviews
Author: David Parmenter / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: Ekaphon maneechot/Shutterstock Phred needed a job, and we were hiring, woohoo! Because we knew him through a mutual friend, the interview process began casually, with a “get to know you” cup of...