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 [...]
LaunchBox Demo Day – Pitch Videos
If you read the original coverage of the recent graduates from Launchbox Digital, but wanted to check out their pitches on video this is for you.
HEALTHeME – HEALTHeME’s digital therapeutics platform delivers treatments outside the clinic walls, empowering people to participate in their own health care with their mobile phones.
Video Presentation
Leaguescape – Full fantasy sports [...]
Does LinkedIn Plan To Provide Vendor Ratings Next?
LinkedIn has just announced the acquisition of San Francisco, CA based ChoiceVendor, a web company that provided real-world ratings and reviews of B2B service providers in more than 70 categories.
LinkedIn more or less pioneered online reviews of people by peers, customers, and others so this makes total sense from a product feature standpoint. The [...]
More Than Meets The Eye: DC Startup Founders
When people compare startups in the DC area to startups in the bay area I think it is a common thing for people to skip right over the question of scale. A little under two months ago one of our favorite poster boys for get rich startup founder success stories sold yet another startup company [...]
Is This Why Some Startup Founders Are So Intense?
The New York Time’s David Segal wrote a very thought provoking article just a few days ago titled ‘Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs’. Segal’s article addresses one of the often contemplated, but rarely discussed aspects of the startup community: the fact that many startup founders are out of their minds. Well, just enough to be [...]
Don’t Play The Customer Shell Game
If you have ever been to a startup pitch event or investor conference where startups talk about their accomplishments you are no stranger to the Logo slide. You know, the one with a bunch of logos representing everyone who signed up for a free account one, but neve even bothered to log into the product.
Just [...]
Building An A+ Advisory Board
As a startup founder one of the biggest challenges is building an advisory board that will help you get through the challenges that you can predict and the many that you can’t. Many of the startup founders that we talk to take a very casual approach to building their advisory board. We belive this is [...]
