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Mike Del Ponte co-founded Soma, which raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter using virtual assistants and free apps. I first met Mike Del Ponte two years ago when he was running marketing at Bran…
We are living in the age of the entrepreneur — more people are starting up, and it’s ever important to stand out in the crowd.
Crowd funding is widely seen as a revolutionary idea.
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Hsieh is the top motivator and chief architect for the transformation of downtown Vegas. He has tons of talented people working for him, and as much power as he gives them, he’s still at the center of what’s going on. This is all amplified by the fact that it’s downtown Vegas, not New York City.
Great feature on Tony Hsieh’s project of turning Las Vegas into an ultimate startup hub. His secret? Get guests to stay for a few nights, then hook them into staying awhile…
Great write-up on accelerators and how they help grow startups. What is your experience with accelerators?
“App developers have turned cellphones and tablets into powerful tools, spawning a multibillion-dollar industry but making huge sacrifices in the process.”
The story of App developers goes mainstream with this NY Times article that describes well what the average App creators can expect. It’s a story of entrepreneurship in a large scale: for one Instagram and a few lucky iShoots, there are hundred of thousands of Grimses, that couple which the NY Times interviewed who invested $200,000 to barely make $10k from their Apps over two years. Yet, as Stephanie Grimse puts it: “We either succeed and it’s awesome, or we fail and it was awesome while it lasted”, summarizing the authentic spirit of entrepreneurs who enjoy the journey regardless of the destination.
Interesting article on Maluuba, a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist, that just released their API for natural language processing. Now any startup can have Siri-like features.
Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner, who are married, talk about how they started and scaled—and everything in between—Sittercity, their babysitter matching site.
Editor’s Pick Venture capital’s gut-call days are over.
Airbnb is a great example of a disruptive startup. It’s built a new economic model for travel and tourism — bringing dollars to renters and homeowners and to cities like San Francisco. Other startups that have done this are Uber and TaskRabbit.
