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The University of Utah Continues to Crank Out More Startups Than Any Other American School,Why?
By Rile at July 13, 2011 | 11:02 am | 0 Comment
The University of Utah Continues to Crank Out More Startups Than Any Other American School. With the University of Utah producing more startups from its research than any other university in the U.S., its technology commercialization approach has become a major center of attention for universities throughout the U.S. and abroad. It stands to reason that the more...
A Q&A With Venture Capital Darling Nimble Storage
By Rile at July 13, 2011 | 10:26 am | 0 Comment
A Q&A With Venture Capital Darling Nimble Storage VC darling (www.nimblestorage.com) has earned the title “the most successful storage start-up in 10 years” (despite the economy) winning awards and recognition from the WSJ (#17 of top VC-backed companies-- story follows), CRN, Infoworld, Network World and more. On July 14, they will be announcing they have more...
Free Range Content Unveils New WordPress Plugin and Monetization Features for Repost.Us
By Rile at July 1, 2011 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
Free Range Content Unveils New WordPress Plugin and Monetization Features for Repost.Us Most online content publishers, from bloggers to large media outlets, want to make money and unfortunately, the wide-open Internet has made turning a profit and ensuring proper attribution hard to do. Since its launch in March 2011, Repost.Us has helped online content more...
Q&A with Sramana Mitra: Founder of One Million by One Million
By Rile at June 30, 2011 | 11:16 am | 0 Comment
One Million by One Million (1M/1M) is a global initiative to nurture a million entrepreneurs to each reach a million dollars in annual revenue. VisionWiz had a Q&A with its founder Sramana Mitra, Founder of One Million by One Million. 1. What was the impetus behind creating such a tool? sm: Since the fall of 2008, we have been hosting FREE online strategy more...
New Research by the University of Virginia Shows VCs Fleeing–But Why?
By Rile at June 28, 2011 | 10:10 am | 0 Comment
New Research by the University of Virginia Shows VCs Fleeing--But Why? A recent study done by Darden professor Susan Chaplinsky and Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee, an assistant professor at Loyola University, provided the first detailed account of VC returns from 1985 to 2008, supporting and expanding the current understanding of the industry’s worrisome trajectory. They more...
Interview with the CEO Steve Adams of VirtuOz
By Rile at June 15, 2011 | 10:35 am | 0 Comment
Interview with the CEO Steve Adams of VirtuOz about how and why intelligent virtual agents are increasingly important to the social media revolution currently at hand. Who cares about this and why? SA: The aggressive adoption of IVAs is a consumer led revolution in which an increasingly large generation of users, including but not limited to digital natives, are more...
Microsoft Corp Says:Working away from office could be more productive for small business
By Rile at June 9, 2011 | 10:08 am | 0 Comment
Working away from office could be more productive for small business Microsoft Corp conducted a research with the help Vanson Bourne, where they had interviewed 1,500 workers across 15 European countries on their attitudes towards flexible working hours. It shows that small businesses better meet employees’ demands to have greater flexibility in deciding when and more...
Is the Online Gaming Sector Driving the Next VC boom?
By Rile at June 8, 2011 | 10:17 am | 0 Comment
Is the Online Gaming Sector Driving the Next VC boom? Amidst all the talk of a bubble in Silicon Valley and sky-high, "irrational" valuations on many of today's hottest startups such as Facebook and Twitter, it may wind up that when venture capitalists are coming off the sidelines, they are putting their money where people are spending the most time online: playing more...
Q&A: The Tweet Worth $1 Million
By Rile at May 10, 2011 | 1:04 pm | 0 Comment
An interview with Ed Buchholz, CEO of 60mo, who tweeted VC Lightbank (the same VC that founded Groupon) – “Hey @Lightbank, we should chat sometime. Mid-westerners gotta stick together, yo.” Three months later, Lightbank responded and now, 60mo has received close to a million dollars. 1. What are your thoughts on there being a VC "bubble" forming, or already more...
Can “Angel Developers” Save New York From Losing Tech Talent?
By Rile at May 10, 2011 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
New York's engineering talent shortage crisis and “developer drain” could be stopped and even reversed if the venture capital community created more “angel developers” to provide a step between simple V/C investing and major angel infusions, Haig Kayserian, CEO of KAYWEB Angels, told us this week. To jumpstart that cooperation, Kayserian founded KAYWEB Angels, more...
