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Daily Archives: May 28, 2011
What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome
Generally speaking, the odds are stacked heavily against the average startup. The rate of failure among entrepreneurs and startups is startlingly high — it comes with the territory. Otherwise, entrepreneurs wouldn’t be pirates. But, what if there were a way to reduce that failure rate by cracking the formula of startup success? No easy...
Hacker Poll: Do You Use Any of the APIs Google is Shutting Down?
As we reported earlier this week, several Google APIs are being deprecated or shut-down, including the Translate API, Code Search API, and Google Wave API. Do you use any of these APIs? Have you found alternatives yet?
Hacker Poll: Do You Use Any of the APIs Google is Shutting?
As we reported earlier this week, several Google APIs are being deprecated or shut-down, including the Translate API, Code Search API, and Google Wave API. Do you use any of these APIs? Have you found alternatives yet?
The Startup Genome Project Examines the Science of Startups
Through the survey, the Startup Genome Project hoped to be able to have some “hard data” to uncover why some succeed and why some don’t. And now the results are in with a 67-page report based on the responses and profiles of over 650 startups. The report examines what’s worked – and what hasn’t...
Hacking for Egypt
Egypt’s January revolution was not caused by tech but tech played a role, as a cursory glance at ReadWriteWeb’s stories on the country show. Internally and externally, geeks came to the fore. Now that the country has rid itself of its former rulers, there is still a lot of work to do. On May...
Cliqset Founder Takes On Personal Publishing And Social Conversations With Stealthy Startup Glow
As we heard last fall, Cliqset, a FriendFeed like social aggregation platform, was shut down by its founders, Darren Bounds and Charlie Cauthen. Cliqset, which launched in 2009, was a high-powered social syndication and aggregation service, with the ability to post and syndicate content on Cliqset, Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and 80 other sites...
(Founder Stories) Gilt’s Kevin Ryan—It Is All In The Presentation (TCTV)
Chris Dixon wraps his Founder Stories interview with Gilt Groupe’s CEO and Founder, Kevin Ryan by discussing the early sales strategy of Gilt – a strategy that was designed to build customer and brand loyalty, but not the bottom line, at least initially. Revisiting the launch period around four years ago, Ryan says, “we were going to make $4,000...
The story behind Google’s Map Maker editing app
Google has recently released its Map Maker tool for Google Maps in the US and the tool promises to further improve Google’s already impressive location-based services. Mapmaker gives users the ability to edit Google Maps location data, all the way from business phone numbers and other information to adding roads, streets and paths where...
Oren Jacob, CTO of Pixar, joins August Capital as EIR
August Capital recently announced that Oren Jacob, CTO of Pixar has joined as their newest entrepreneur in residence. After a few weeks on the job, I got a chance to interview Oren and ask him how his new gig was going. In short, he has new-found respect for venture capitalists and button down shirts....