When the young (and we mean young) team for music-focused startup The Next Big Sound was accepted for the TechStars acceleration program, they had a good product.
But a just one week into the tech/business mentorship process, they realized they had a few ideas that were much better. The founders were nervous about presenting an entirely different product to their advisors, but they learned a valuable lesson about making big changes early in the startup game. Watch this video interview with co-founder David Hoffman and see how changing horses midstream might not be such a bad thing, after all. Full story...
These days, the words "social media campaign" are on the lips of everyone around, from media professionals to small business owners to college students in coffee shops.
From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies.
A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.
Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.
If you've been a geek your whole life then you understand the term "Canadian girlfriend." The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status.
Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account.
Between Y Combinator's Startup School, the influx of seed fund incubators, the list of legendary mentor / investors and the dotcom bust's school of hard knocks, is there really any reason to go to grad school? At ReadWriteWeb we're supportive of lifelong learning and universities that coach entrepreneurs, but a recent post by Venture Hacks founder Naval Ravikant has us wondering, "What is the value in grad school?"
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Ravikant suggests that incubators and accelerators like YCombinator and Techstars are the new grad school.
Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing.
If you're releasing products integrated into the VMware ecosystem, you're likely enjoying enjoying the Las Vegas Strip this week.
We are all told to never judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, when we find ourselves at an ugly website, we automatically make assumptions about the quality of the services that site provides.
RIM's BlackBerry platform is still the most popular mobile smartphone platform in the U.S., but Google's Android was the big winner in the last quarter of 2009.