2011 Social Matchbox Startup Launch Event Announcement
The Social Matchbox Startup Launch Event is our annual grand event held by Washington area Startup Founders, Investors, and Community Leaders that provides a launch platform for new web and software product companies to gain exposure to early adopters, major media, bloggers, investors, and to compete for a chance to win the Community Choice and [...]
DC’s Blackboard Acquired for $1.64 Billion
Washington, DC based Blackboard, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) announced today that the company has entered into an agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by affiliates of Providence Equity Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.64 billion, plus the assumption of approximately $130 million in net debt. The transaction is subject [...]
Editor’s Notes and Thoughts On Washington’s Startup Community’s Continued Evolution and Growth
As a Washington area startup founder if they are thinking about making a move to the bay area and they will probably tell you that they are or have in recent months. This is natural. This is not, however, the point that we need to be focused in on as a community in in 2011. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mining Twitter’s Treasures
With revolutions springing up across the Middle East, young activists are increasingly turning to Twitter to voice their opinions and rally support. But searching Twitter only calls up tweets from the past week. Valuable pieces of history are being lost in the digital ether.
But not for long, if Ted Stein has anything to do with [...]
Mid-County Maryland vs. Baltimore As The Next Brooklyn
While Washington, DC wrestles with corruption issues, rising costs of doing business, and the question of whether or not web agencies and government contractors are startups are not, the Washington area suburban and regional tech community has been gaining a lot of momentum. Today someone forwarded me this video titled ‘Baltimore is The Next Brooklyn‘ [...]
