Digg Sells Humans In Deal With Elite Media!!!
Yeah, sounds like a headline straight out of the Onion. Digg.com, a company that was built by Owen Byrne, a past Social Matchbox panelist, who was hired via Elance.com and scaled up by him and others including Eli White who is a Washington area guy as well, has literally sold humans to the elite media. [...]
TroopSwap.com Raises $100k via CIT
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) today announced a $100,000 investment in TroopSwap.com, an e-commerce platform built exclusively for members of the military community.
Veterans, service members and their dependents are eligible for TroopSwap membership. TroopSwap validates the military affiliation of registered users to provide local and national business a verified channel to offer military and [...]
My Garage Or Yours
When the startup exit climate starts to heat up it isn’t a stretch to say that Monopoly rules are in effect. Everyone wants to cash in, founders, founders seeking to be landlords while being founders, VC’s starting startups that compete with the startups they are soliciting pitches from, VC’s starting job boards, bloggers starting VC [...]
Millennial Media IPO
Earlier today, Baltimore’s Millennial Media, Inc. began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MM”. More details about the offering can be found in the company’s SEC Filing. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. are the joint bookrunners for the offering. Allen & [...]
When Industries Collide
There was a time in my life when things were changing really fast in the technology space. Things like Photo and Laser Tag were popping up at the same time as next generation gaming consoles like the Atari 600, 800, 9600 and 1040 ST were popping out alongside of the Commodore 64 and other various [...]
Assorted Startup Reading
Last week someone asked me who they should be reading so that they can get ahead of the curve in the startup community. I recently asked someone the same question, but in the context of a search that I’m currently engaged in for a few different members of a mobile product management team. I like [...]
The Heart of The Start
Warning: This may be unsettling for some and inspiring for others. The point of this post is not to turn it into some kind of wild rant about what is wrong with the startup scene. I am making an analogy about sharks in the water and pointing out the sudden fluctuation of wage fluctuation [...]
