Almost every day, I have another startup coming to me and asking for advice about how they should form the legal entity of their business. Almost every day, my answer is the same — Talk to your lawyer. I want to preface this piece by making it clear that I am not qualified to...
June was a hectic month for me. I attended no less than three “conference-type” events, that had me either in transit or altogether outside of my fair city for 18 days. I learned a lot about what I needed to have along with me for the ride, and I also learned that my iPad...
A cloud CRM tool, an online game, an e-health solution and an electronic detector… What could these projects have in common? These are some of the 10 winners of the first Wayra Week, which took place parallel to Campus Party Colombia last week. But what is Wayra? Wayra, Telefónica’s accelerator for Latin America and...
We are the connected generation. Thanks to our ever-present mobile devices we are always ‘on’ and connected. This allows us to capture a record of all the great things we do, and share our experiences, our recommendations and our memorable moments with friends, colleagues and the world at large, through the medium of popular...
When the news about Google Plus broke, I was as cur— Sorry, just a sec. I have to go reload the Google Plus page to see if they’re accepting new signups yet. Nuts. No luck. Where was I? Right: when the news about Google Plus broke, I was as curious as anyone about— Wait!...
So let’s talk a little bit about running this business. Right. This is your first startup. Yeah. You know, what I guess. Just generally what kind of what have you found to be the key challenges? Is it edging? You’re one of the few companies we talked to here that is a hardware start-up....
Editor’s note: This post was written by Alex Rampell, the CEO of TrialPay. Rampell is a regular contributor to TechCrunch – see his previous guest posts here. What makes email, Facebook, and Google so valuable? Answer: Visiting them is largely unprompted, notwithstanding the synapses that fire in your brain that make you check your...
Yikes. Users of fitness and calorie tracker Fitbit may need to be more careful when creating a profile on the site. The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results, meaning that these users’ profiles are public and searchable. You can...
Behind the nebulous idea of a cloud are thousands of servers, switches, appliances both physical and virtual and any number of complicating bits of machinery and software all just waiting to cause a problem. Managing massive infrastructure isn’t a fun job, especially if some of that infrastructure is virtual, which is why Real-Status, one...
If you are someone who is always on the move and spends a lot of time on the phone, then those phone bills stack up. In this age of mobile VoIP that shouldn’t be the case, but it does. This infographic from Essential Travel magazine will get you started. (hat tip, Andy Abramson.) Related...