Kara Swisher in News on January 27 at 3:40 pm PT
Earlier today, Harvard University and New Enterprise Associates announced the Experiment Fund, aimed at making sure that future entrepreneurs can stay on campus and innovate without having to head West.
Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up.
What cash crunch?
Drake Martinet in Commerce on September 30, 2011 at 9:01 am PT
A new start-up called Kitchit is launching a service that allows even the ketchup class to book a high-end chef for private in-home dining. (I wonder if they’ll let you order PB&J.)
Drake Martinet in News on August 16, 2011 at 4:24 pm PT
Dave McClure’s start-up accelerator has now invested in more than 175 companies, and on Tuesday launched another 27 into the world. We’ve got photos and the full list.
Liz Gannes in Social on August 1, 2011 at 11:31 am PT
AngelPad,a San Francisco-based start-up incubator led by former Googlers, will now offer all participating start-ups its usual $20,000, plus a convertible note for a hundred grand from two unnamed but well-known Silicon Valley VC firms.
Drake Martinet in Mobile on July 12, 2011 at 10:46 am PT
Mini-VC firm Tandem Entrepreneurs is looking for eight mobile companies to make up its next incubator class. It thinks big investments and tiny class sizes are the perfect mix. It works for fancy private schools, after all.
Drake Martinet in News on July 1, 2011 at 3:06 pm PT
What does an entrepreneur need to build a disruptive businesses in the midst of revolution?
In Egypt these days, it takes a reliable Internet connection and a culturally uncommon aversion to risk.
Kara Swisher in News on May 23, 2011 at 6:01 am PT
Instead of heading to another company or starting one, longtime Silicon Valley Geoff Ralston is about to welcome a new crop of start-ups to
Imagine K12, a new education incubator.
Ralston explains it all in the video after the jump.
Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT
UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners.
The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 11, 2011 at 8:02 pm PT
UberMedia, the holding company that specializes in Twitter-based start-ups, has added its highest-profile company to date: Tweetdeck, the biggest Twitter application not owned by Twitter itself.
