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The new startup ecosystem [Infographic]
Even if we are experiencing another bubble, is that so bad for startups trying to get funding? This infographic, which Column Five Media did for Udemy , examines some of the evidence.Leigh Buchanan | Inc. magazine From the April 2011 issue of Inc. magazine
The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011
Top Young Entrepreneurs | Inc.com's 2011 30 Under 30
99designs | Matt Mickiewicz, 27 San Francisco and Melbourne Provides crowdsourced design services. AdParlor | Hussein Fazal, 29; Kristaps Ronka, 24 Toronto Creates and manages ad campaigns on Facebook.
Facebook adds Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to board
Netflix just added a very important friend to its network.Why the NY Post is an iPad hit
The New York Post hasn’t made any real money in years. That’s why it’s an unlikely frontrunner in the publishing industry’s uneasy turf war with Apple and the IPad.
UPDATE: Check out the 2012 Startup Accelerators and Incubator Rankings released on August 22, 2012. There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a single idea. Through the accelerator or incubator they receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small stake in the company. With all the startup accelerator programs popping up across the country we were curious to find out which programs would offer the biggest bang for the time, money and effort spent in the program.
Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators and Incubators Ranked; TechStars and Y Combinator Top The Rankings
The DCU Ryan Academy’s Propeller Fund has been ranked 7th in Europe in a recent independent study of accelerator programmes. The study was put together by Italy-based venture capitalist Gianluca Dettori and Marco Ciccolini in conjunction with Aziz Gilani from DFJ Mercury . It was commissioned by the Kauffman Fellows Program, working in partnership with Tech Cocktail and the Kellogg School of Management.
Ryan Academy Propeller Fund ranked 7th in Europe « DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship
Should you invest in the Grouponzi IPO?
On the heels of filing its $750 million initial public offering , online coupon startup Groupon is under heavy scrutiny from critics. Until recently, most people praised Groupon for its simplistic business model and its incredible growth, which some have called the fastest of any company to date.RIM, You’re Done Here
Research In Motion is done. They’ll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them – Microsoft, most probably – and they’ll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countless other mobile platforms. They’ll exist independently for a while and then be subsumed.
On Bubbles … And Why it Will All be Fine
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners . Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog , BothSidesoftheTable. I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi.
Will solar power overtake fossil fuels in 10 years?
The amount of energy produced by photovoltaic panels could overtake that produced by fossil fuels like coal and natural gas in 10 years, according to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The amount of solar energy hitting the earth is around 100 petawatts, or 100 million gigawatts, according to the IEEE.Zynga Planning To File For IPO As Early As Tomorrow, Will Raise $1.5 To $2B At $15 To $20B Valuation
Zynga according to CNBC reporter Kate Kelly , Zynga will file its S-1 for an IPO with the SEC as early as tomorrow with a valuation between $15 billion and $20 billion.iFund™ Initiative
The iFund™ is a US$200 million investment initiative created by KPCB to back entrepreneurs and build companies that focus on developing compelling applications, services and components for revolutionary mobile Internet devices, such as Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Established in 2008 in partnership with Apple, our iFund invests in mobile Internet innovators with high-impact ideas and the vision to create intriguing, market-changing applications and services.Gillmor Gang 6.25.11
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Phil Windley, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — celebrated the news that apps are moving past web sites as the default architecture of the planet.Research firm IDC forecasts the number of annual mobile app downloads to increase from 10.7 billion in 2010 to nearly 183 billion by 2015, notably more than the 44 billion mobile app downloads by 2016 forecasted by its competitor ABI Research .