Rasing Money For Your Startup? Check Out The Northern Virginia Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast
If you are a startup founder with a team and you have both feet in the fire (e.g. your day job is a thing of the past and you are all working on it full time and generating some revenue) and are currently or about to be pitching your startup company to investors then you [...]
State of Maryland Launches Health Plan Shopping Portal for Startups
As a startup founder I have found that one of biggest costs associated with hiring full time employees is health insurance. This is especially true for the first few employees. To make matters worse, there are not too many options and not a very good option for comparing them. Maryland’s Virtual Compare tool helps with [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘The Baltimore region has everything it needs to be an entrepreneurial powerhouse. Here’s why it isn’t—and what we can do about it.’
Urbante Baltimore’s Christianna McCausland just wrote a piece titled ‘The Baltimore region has everything it needs to be an entrepreneurial powerhouse. Here’s why it isn’t—and what we can do about it.‘ Her article mentions Advertising.com and Baltimore Angels which are known commodities to the Baltimore startup company crowd. If you are a Baltimore area startup [...]
Maryland Startup Companies Compete To Win $75k in Prize Money At The University of Maryland on Friday
This Friday, May 6, 2011 from 1-4pm the $75k University of Maryland Business Plan Competition Finalists will present to the public and judges will decide who gets the $75k in prize money and awards to go around. This is a great opportunity for startup founders to see a well polished business pitch from a series [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘In the End, a Lack of Tech May Have Helped Bring Bin Laden Down’
All Things D’s Arik Hesseldahl does a nice job of wrapping up some of the more tech focused details of the Bin Laden story that is still unfolding. Read his post, titled ‘In the End, a Lack of Tech May Have Helped Bring Bin Laden Down’, here. The National Journal’s piece titled ‘The Secret Team [...]
Amazon EC2 Outages Prompt Concerns
On the evening of April 21, 2011, Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) cloud computing service began to experience outages which brought a number of local and otherwise well known startup companies including Hotpads, Quora, Reddit and Foursquare down. According to a report from CNET, there were two incidents leading up to the outage including a [...]
Centrifuge Systems Raises $2 million As Part of Larger Series A Round
Centrifuge Systems, Inc., a McLean, VA based startup that provides interactive data visualization technology and a link analysis software announced that it has raised an additional $2 million in Series A financing by Novak Biddle The company also named an existing board member, Rene Lorton, as the company’s new CEO. In addition [...]
