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. [...]
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 [...]
Millennial Media Files for $75 Million IPO
Millennial Media, Inc., Baltimore, MD, has just announced that it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for a proposed initial public offering. The target offering is $75 Million. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. will serve as joint bookrunners for the [...]
Is Your Team’s Quest For The Best Killing Your Prospects For Recruiting The Best Programmers
I advise and help a lot of software engineering teams and software executive teams to recruit the best programmers and other team members. Not a week goes by that I’m not involved in this aspect of startup and software company operations. I’m writing this post because recently I have had conversations with some really amazing [...]
newBrandAnalytics Raises $26 Million in Series B Funding Round
newBrandAnalytics, a Washington, DC (near Gallery Place) based startup that is two years old has just announced their raise of $26 Million in Series B round funds. The company provides social media monitoring for companies that involves algorithms with the goal of distilling customer feedback across these sites into something useful to brand owners. The [...]
Upcoming Mtech Event
If you have not made the trip out to College Park to visit the University of Maryland Mtech Program or talked to the team from Mtech Venture Programs then you should. If you were looking for a reason to do so then look no further. On the morning of October 14th, from 10 am to [...]
Meet TempCart.com, The Priceline.com for Ecommerce
Meet TempCart.com, co-founded by Olivier Keumeni and Venkat Chivukula, is brand new online shopping place that launched at last week’s Social Matchbox Startup Launch event. The company is based in Laurel, MD just outside of Washington, DC and is bootstrapping.
TempCart stands for Temporary Cart, as in shopping cart. Olivier describes TempCart as the Priceline.com for [...]
