PayByGroup Raises $50k, Gears Up for Angel Round
PayByGroup, San Francisco, CA has just informed us of their raise of a $50k in advance of a larger Angel round anticipated to kick off in January. Co-Founder & COO Frank Langston and Co-Founder & CEO Camilo Acosto are two Princeton alums who presented their last company as part of the Social Matchbox Startup Launch [...]
Revolution Growth Raises $450 Million To Fund East Coast Startups
Steve Case, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis have just announced investor commitments totaling $450 million in the new Revolution Growth fund. The team plans to use the money primarily to invest in East Coast companies with innovative and disruptive business models that come packed with potential for explosive growth. Given that Leonsis and Case invested [...]
Living Social To Be DC’s Next Big Startup IPO
As I was driving to get a cup of coffee in San Francisco this morning I had the radio on and heard yet another radio ad for LivingSocial. The offer they were talking up was 50% off something that sounded like fun. In hearing the ad I could not help but think that there is [...]
CityPockets: Relief for Compulsive Daily-Deal Buyers
Sometime in early 2010, self-described deal seeker Cheryl Yeoh had accumulated 40 vouchers from a handful of daily-deal sites. After a few forgotten vouchers almost expired, she began posting new ones on her food blog to keep track. Readers commiserated with her daily-deal inundation, and she began to see a market opportunity. “I saw this [...]
The Love App
Would-be entrepreneurs are often told to create a startup that “scratches their own itch,” and that’s just what BeCouply does. Founded by lovers-turned-business-partners Becky Cruze and Pius Uzamere, BeCouply is a free mobile and web app that allows couples to discover new date ideas, capture special moments, and connect with other couples. Cruze first felt [...]
A Different Kind of Bubble
People in the media really want there to be a startup bubble. People in the startup community are looking out for a bubble. So I thought about this and decided to put some thought into what to make of this media bubble patrol. Here it what I came up with. As far as all my [...]
Framing Your Startup’s Sandbox
This post is dedicated to Jerry Biehl, the founder of a stealth mode startup based here in the Washington, DC area code named Fubrub, who has really inspired a lot of people in the Baltimore startup community with his passion and tenacity. We need more people like him here in the Washington, DC area. He [...]
