Oculus will skip E3 2017: It’s not you, it’s me
Author: Joe Durbin / Source: VentureBeat Attendees at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles will notice that a familiar structure has faded from the show’s sweeping skyline of corporate booths. The familiar black monolith bearing the...
Here’s what Amazon’s new stores will look like
Author: Eric Feinberg / Source: VentureBeat Amazon is an undisputed leader in digital retail, but soon the online giant will venture into the realm of physical stores. This isn’t so much a choice for Amazon as it is a necessity if the company plans to remain...
Giant companies that won’t buy your startup
Author: Joanna Glasner / Source: TechCrunch Huge companies in fast-changing, technology-intensive businesses buy startups. After all, they have the money and need fresh entrepreneurial talent to tap new markets and stay abreast of disruption. That’s the...
Funding galore in the week that went by
Author: Sindhu Kashyap / Source: YourStory.com It was a blockbuster week for funding. All doubts and worries of the funding drought were dispelled. Over 11 startups received seed, pre-series A, Series A, Series B and tranche rounds of funding. Not only did...
Build Your Marketing Team in the Order that People Buy Things
Author: Daniel Rodriguez / Source: Entrepreneur In 2013, I made the decision to bring aboard a content creator as my first marketing hire. Since bringing that employee aboard, we’ve experienced four straight years of triple-digit growth while growing the...
104 Facts You Didn’t Know About Mobile Marketing (Infographic)
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur By providing consumers personalized information and promoting products and services directly to their phones, mobile marketing is a great resource for brands big and small. What makes mobile marketing stand out from...
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Funding Galore: Indian Startup Fundings Of The Week [24 April – 29 April]
Source: Inc42 Media Softbank Global gave its final nod to the Flipkart and Snapdeal merger via an in-principle, non-binding approval for the deal. It will hold 20% stake in the merged entity and has also approved a plan to buy out Snapdeal’s existing investors ahead...
4 Ways to Get Big Marketing Results on a Starter Budget
Author: Joseph Pigato / Source: Entrepreneur Marketing a startup is tough. You have a limited budget, and you don’t benefit from brand recognition. Even users who have heard of you may not know what you do, but they know your established competitors and...
For Real Impact, Entrepreneurs Must Do More Than Solve Big Problems
Author: Linda Lacina / Source: Entrepreneur Much has changed since 2008 when Ankur Jain founded the Kairos Society, a diverse community of power players brought together to connect young entrepreneurs with expertise and opportunity. Back then, the Great...
Smile at Harper Lee’s Wry Trick to Overcome Public Speaking Fears
Author: Entrepreneur Staff / Source: Entrepreneur Harper Lee was best known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. But the late author was also famous for her reclusiveness. The book's commercial and literary success -- it won a Pulitzer prize -- would...
The Answers to These 4 Questions Are the Keys to Maxing Your Productivity
Author: Paul Evans / Source: Entrepreneur Productivity appears illusive. Our calendars are filled. Our tasks compete for time. It just seems like we cannot get everything done that we need to get done. After talking with 100 entrepreneurs about how they plan...
Data management startup Rubrik confirms $180M round at a $1.3B valuation
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Druva, CommVault and EMCRubrik, a startup that provides data backup and recovery services for enterprises across both cloud and on-premises environments, has closed a $180 million round of funding that values the...
Auto site Carvana tumbles 26% in stock market debut
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch Carvana, the site for buying and selling cars, had a rough first day in the public markets. After pricing its IPO at $15 per share, it ended the day down 26% at $11.10. Bankers typically recommend a price that would...
Cloudera finishes up 20% in stock market debut
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch Cloudera, the enterprise big data company, closed the day up over 20% at $18.09, after pricing its IPO at $15 per share. This is also above the range of $12 to $14 that enterprise big data company was preparing for....
Deep Sentinel raises $7.4M to bring deep learning to home security
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Home security startup Deep Sentinel today announced that it has closed a $7.4 million Series A led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from Bezos Expeditions, Lux Capital and UP2398. Founded by serial entrepreneur...
When It Comes to Media Strategy, Startups Often Get Ahead of Themselves
Source: The Huffington Post By Andrew Zacharakis and Alisa Jno-Charles Entrepreneurs need to balance building the company and building the brand. In the early 1990s, entrepreneur Sheri Poe scored what seemed like the holy grail of media coverage for a fledgling...
Cloudera, Silicon Valley’s latest IPO, pops in first day trading
Author: Marisa Kendall / Source: The Mercury News FILE – In this Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, file photo, a pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange, in lower Manhattan. Palo Alto-based Cloudera made its public market debut on the exchange Friday. (AP...
Ask a VC: Do We Have Too Many Founders?
Author: Karis Hustad / Source: Chicago Inno twitter One of the many advantages of raising venture capital is that, as a portfolio company, you have access to the firm's network. In other words, you can now ask experienced founders and operators as many...