Posts tagged Start Ups
How the EU lets startups slip through its fingers
Jan 6th
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(Editor’s note: Jon Bradford is CEO of The Difference Engine, a mentor-led acceleration program in the U.K. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The closing â??Europe Gangâ? discussion at LeWeb 2009 last year focused on how Europe could attract more digital businesses back to the continent. I believe the folks in that seminar may have [...]
DEMO & VentureBeat head to Atlanta, a city that punches above its weight
Dec 15th
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I’m traveling to Atlanta tomorrow, in just the lastest trip I’m making to major cities to meet with local start-ups and entrepreneurs.
Atlanta gets overlooked as a technology and business center. While it’s a small city — at only the 33rd largest in the nation — it has the third largest concentration of Fortune [...]
DEMO and VentureBeat arrive in Austin for a reason — great tech companies
Dec 14th
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I’ve just arrived in Austin, Texas, and look forward to meeting local entrepreneurs.
I was here just five months ago (see pics of that event), and there’s a good reason why I’m returning. Austin may be merely the 16th-largest city in the U.S., but after Silicon Valley there are almost no other high-tech regions that [...]
Business before health and what to do if you’re hacked (via postie)
Nov 28th
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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner.
Sacrifice your health for your startup â?? You’ve heard about the importance of a work/life balance, but if you’re an entrepreneur, those rules often don’t apply. Start-ups are demanding beasts, notes angel investor Jason Cohen, and if you’re not completely obsessed with your company in its early [...]
You’ve been hacked. Now what?
Nov 25th
(Editor’s note: Chris Drake is CEO and founder of FireHost, Inc., a secure Web hosting company. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The holiday season is critical to any customer-focused business â?? this year, more than ever. For start-ups, it can literally be a matter of life and death. Online shopping is expected to grow notably [...]
