Where did Carly Fiorina, the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, get her start? "I have a great soft spot in my heart for entrepreneurs, because it was an entrepreneur that gave me my first job," she says.
Starter Studio officially opened its doors last month in Orlando. The technology incubator is the brainchild of entrepreneur-developer Gregg Pollack, Founder of Envy Labs. Pollack’s company does a lot of Web development for clients, and is well-known…
Recently, one theme has attracted public attention and provoked heated discussion – copying of startups. Copy algorithm is incredibly simple: to find a successful company, to create a clone, then ramp up and sell the business for a lot of money. Nobody…
By Hayden Williams On September 1, 2013 There’s a basic question every startup founder should be prepared to answer on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter whether you’re speaking with a fellow entrepreneur, a potential investor, or a girlfriend weary…
Colombia is getting a new incubator called Socialatom Ventures, startup mentor and entrepreneur Alan Colmenares announced on his blog, Tropical Gringo. It will be one of the three ‘consolidation’ incubators to be supported by the Colombian government, he adds.
This support is actually part of Colombia’s Vive Digital initiative, itself promoted by Apps.co. As you may know, it was designed by Colombia’s Ministry of ICT (MinTIC) to promote digital entrepreneurship in the country.
In addition to seed capital, Socialatom Ventures will also offer its teams a shared office space in Bogotá. It is worth noting that the selection process is about to start, and will be open to applications from all over Colombia, or even from other countries.
According to its website, the incubator will base its choice on the following criteria:
A team able to execute must be comprised of at least two co-founders
At least one of the co-founders should be technical (enough to hack something together and get started)
Your team should have a product or prototyped finished
Your product or prototype should have (at least some) users.
The problem you are trying to solve should be your own
In Wilmington, North Carolina, CoWorx offers an office space for any entrepreneur. They have all the trappings of an office, but offer tiers of membership to make it affordable. Members can even rent private, furnished offices.
Coworx is a collaborative workspace created specifically for today’s entrepreneurs and mobile workforce. We provide a variety of affordable workspace solutions including part-time Flex Desks, dedicated Studio Desks and furnished Private Offices. Lease terms ranging from one month to one year!
A Kitchen Incubator Grows in Queens Learn how Yiorgos Samios perfected his product by toiling in a 5,000 square-foot-kitchen called the Entrepreneur Space, an incubator for food startups. IMMPRENEUR STATISTICS Name: Yiorgos Samios Country of Origin:…
By Kevin O’Connor On July 26, 2013 A few weeks ago, I got a letter from the scum of the earth: a patent troll. As an entrepreneur, I’m no stranger to having to deal with patent trolls, but it still gets me fired up every time. At FindTheBest, we…
Johnny Cupcakes, Inc. (known as Johnny Cupcakes) is a clothing brand founded in 2001 by Johnny Earle. The clothing line uses cupcakes as the prominent design motif of its merchandise, often replacing iconic symbols with cupcakes. The brand's insignia is a skull and crossbones, with a cupcake silhouette replacing the skull.
The Johnny Cupcakes line includes t-shirts, shorts, sweaters, jewelry, undergarments, and pins. Its flagship stores are located in Boston, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California, London's Carnaby Street, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts and Hull, Massachusetts, along with his online store, which ships worldwide. All Johnny Cupcakes retail shops are furnished extensively according to a bakery theme.
Here is a video about Johnny Earle of Johnny Cupcakes:
By Hayden Williams On July 7, 2013 This the first in a PandoDaily weekly series that chronicles the experiences of a young entrepreneur as he bootstraps his startup. Come back next Sunday to read the 2nd installment. I awake in the middle of the night…
On Friday, June 28th, 2013 at 9:00am at the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley held their Innovative Estonia & the Skype Phenomenon event. In truth I do not know much about Estonia, except it has an obscure language and unenviable weather that produces more startups per head of population than any other country in Europe.
There does appear to be an Estonian secret sauce that brought us Kazaa and Skype and continues to grow the next generation of startups going global.
If you are an entrepreneur, you will learn if the fledgling tech tiger Estonia is the best place to start your next start-up or out-source your development. If you are an investor, you might find the next Skype. You will see and hear from established players and young hot startups.
Here are some videos of the event. Opening Remarks: Andrus Viirg, Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley Keynote: Disruptive Innovation & Entrepreneurship Steve Jurvetson, General Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ):
Lori Cheek, Founder and CEO of Cheek’d. Lori focuses her efforts on product, marketing and public relations. Prior to launching Cheek’d, Lori worked in architecture, furniture and design for 15 years for companies such as Christian Dior, Vitra &…
MTreader is an app that increases the user’s reading speed, comprehension, and reading comfort. Their algorithm allows anyone to read twice as fast from screens without any extra effort and with better comprehension. Based on years of experience in brain improvement, MTreader developed an algorithm that makes reading from screens easier and more comfortable, which results in faster reading with better comprehension.
MTreader is a subsidiary of MTcompany B.V. MTcompany is the Dutch specialist in Speed Reading and has trained over 68,000 people, including fortune 500 companies, and several universities.
Mark Tigchelaar is founder and managing director of MTcompany. Mark is a brain expert and has written 3 books on speed reading. He has been an entrepreneur for over 9 years. Mark: “What would happen if every knowledge worker, from student to medical staff, can read twice the amount of articles in the same time, with a better comprehension? People can reach much more of their potential with this software. We expect this software to be the further of digital reading. It’s our ambition to be the #1 app in reading.”
By Hamish McKenzie On June 26, 2013 Rockpack has strong credentials and a good story to tell. Its founder, Sofia Fenichell, is a 45-year-old mother of two who works on the startup until 2am, after she has put her kids to bed. After a career in advertising…
Carly Fiorina on Getting Started in Startups (via Wall Street Journal Digital Network)
Incubator Starter Studio Opens Doors in Orlando (via Dice News in Tech)
Copying of Startups Ideas (via ALEKSANDR TSUKANOV Entrepreneur & Philanthropist)
Don’t ask me about money! I’m a startup founder. (via Pando Daily)
A Kitchen Incubator Grows in Queens (via Immpreneur)
How to slaughter a patent troll in 5 steps (via Pando Daily)
The less-than-glamorous life of a young entrepreneur (via Pando Daily)
“I’m an architect turned entrepreneur and I’m no longer building structures. I’m now building relationships.” (via http://www.mo.com)
New video app Rockpack is bold and beautiful — but does it deserve to live? (via Pando Daily)