Amid the wreckage of fallen startups, Longreads is increasing the original reporting it funds
Author: Laura Hazard Owen / Source: Nieman Lab At eight, Longreads is a bit of a wizened survivor. RELATED ARTICLE During its lifetime, startups trying to do similar things to it have come and gone. Byliner collapsed, Atavist shrunk, and Medium — a much...
Silicon Valley is no longer #1 for talent says huge global startup report
Author: Már Másson Maack / Source: The Next Web There’s no cooler biz on the planet than startups, and there’s no denying Silicon Valley is the startups capital of the world… for now. Cities all over the world are vying to knock the crown off this tech king....
Walmart Makes Cash Cheap, Banks Balk At Bitcoin And Startups Struggle To Profit
Author: PYMNTS / Source: PYMNTS.com Last week, earnings managed to steal the front and center show. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and MoneyGram all dropped their latest round of performance data on the markets — and investors and analysts were...
Build Your Personal Brand by Conducting Business Like Best-in-Class Entrepreneurs
Author: Michael Mamas / Source: Entrepreneur In my life, I've had the honor and privilege of working with best-in-class, wealthy businessmen who function in a realm untainted by pettiness, greed, anger or negativity. It's almost as if they exist within some...
Airwallex raises $13M led by Tencent to bring its cross-border payment service to Europe
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Australia-based cross-border payments startup Airwallex has closed a $13 million Series A round to expand its reach across Asia Pacific and into Europe. The deal was led by Chinese internet giant Tencent — marking its...
It’s another enterprise initial public offering, as Appian files to raise $86M
Author: DUNCAN RILEY / Source: SiliconANGLE Business process management firm Appian Corp. is joining the rush to the stock market by enterprise software companies, announcing Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering. According to the S-1...
How to Build Employee Brand Advocacy For Your Startup
Author: Oren Greenberg / Source: Business 2 Community Your employees are your best brand advocates, hands down. Startups need to create a unified approach to win over clients and prospects, and spark an enthusiasm in employees that becomes infectious from...
Startups: Should you incorporate as a Public Benefit Corporation?
Author: Charlie Kannel / Source: VentureBeat Incorporating your business as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) means you can include public good as part of your company charter in addition to maximizing shareholder profit. Today, there are almost 4,000...
Moonfrog taps FarmVille creator to build epic Baahubali mobile game
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, a major film from Indian director S.S. Rajamouli, debuted this week. And it is accompanied by a new mobile game from Moonfrog Labs, dubbed S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Game. The...
What I learned about building serverless apps
Author: Jake Bennett / Source: VentureBeat The term “serverless architecture” is a recent addition to the technology lexicon, coming into common use following the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda in 2014. The term is both paradoxical and...
Corporate CEOs have failed to engage with startups
Author: Paul Cuatrecasas / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: canadastock/Shutterstock It’s time for corporate boards to add “startup engagement” to their CEOs’ job descriptions. CEOs know it’s important to engage with startups, but startlingly few seem to do...
HTC Vive will get a $220 plug-and-play eye-tracking aGlass device in May
Author: Joe Durbin / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: HTC Eye tracking is one feature that could could benefit the performance and affordability of high-end virtual reality headsets. The HTC Vive should become the first mainstream headset to put that theory...
Growing panes: The rise of smart glass and how it could kill off your curtains
Author: Paul Sawers / Source: VentureBeat Smart ovens are now a thing, as are intelligent beds, connected doorbells, and internet-enabled fridges. Everything, it seems, is now “smart” and “connected” — and soon the windows in your home or office could be hit...
Karnataka pushes for agritech startups, sets up Rs 10cr fund
Author: Anil Budur Lulla / Source: YourStory.com The state government believes there is a huge opportunity for startups in organics and that these startups may eventually get acquired by larger behemoths once they see value. Startups, take note. The...
A Manager’s Guide to Delivering Bad News (Infographic)
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur From giving someone negative feedback to letting an employee go -- whether you like it or not, as a business manager, you’re going to be the bearer of bad news at some point. Luckily, if you teach yourself the...
Environmental protesters swarm outside White House
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat Above: Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue past the White House during a People's Climate March, to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's stance on the environment, in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2017....
Tesla to complete Model S brake fix before regaining top safety rating
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat (Reuters) — Tesla Inc needs to complete fixing its Model S sedan emergency braking system to regain Consumer Reports’ top safety rating, the magazine said on Friday, noting that a recent update by the luxury electric car...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey snaps up shares worth about $9.5 million
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat (Reuters) – Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey snapped up more than half a million of the company’s shares for about $9.5 million, a regulatory filing on Friday showed. Dorsey bought 574,002 Twitter shares in multiple...