Internet Startups

This week’s poll was possibly our most controversial to date. We saw extensive and heated discussions cross the VC4Africa community, Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook. It is not easy to make generalizations…

It’s not quite as easy as the title makes it sound, but bear with me, this article will explain the three steps that are the foundation of every Internet business, why so many people go wrong…

Whether all you have is an idea or you’re actively into the early stages of your company’s development, you’ve probably anticipated the need for startup or venture capital. Money makes things…

Most entrepreneurs assume they’ll have to move to Silicon Valley to make it big. Let’s face it, some regions are more abundant with investors, resources and talent than others. But if you’re…

Internet Startups: Web 2.0 Success And Failure Rates. VCs: What s Your Failure Rate? This morning, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures discloses to the world his failure rate as a venture capitalist…

Last week we attended a very special workshop in Barcelona. As you might already know, starting this September, the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership is going to distribute 80 million…

Venture capital firms are increasingly betting on Chinese Internet startups, making China the second largest recipient of venture capital financing behind the U.S. in terms of deal volume last…

European startup relayr, founded in January last year and currently based at the StartupBootcamp accelerator, has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign for a hardware kit for developers aimed at…

UPDATE: Check out the 2012 Startup Accelerators and Incubator Rankings released on August 22, 2012. There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are…

Bjoern Lasse Herrmann is a co-founder of Blackbox, which runs a startup accelerator program and Startup Genome, a research and development project for uncovering the mechanics of startups. Two…

There is hardly any doubt that 2014 is the year when connected devices – particularly wearables – will go mainstream. Technology tradeshows and media alike are practically bursting at the seams…

By Play Video Jordan Nickerson (background) is making these prosthetic hands with a 3-D printer. It’s dubbed Pitchlandia, but it’s more like a local version of Shark Tank than Portlandia. Portlanders…

As a new year begins, here comes the time to refresh our list of the most promising Latin American startups. It’s worth noting that this isn’t about who is going to IPO next, as we decided to…

10. Duolingo In an age of free online education for everything from microeconomics to computer coding, Duolingo is a welcome addition for those trying to learn a foreign language. The site offers…

Like this article? Recommend it to friends and colleagues! Layer, the Slovenian-American startup that we’ve already written about, has won Techcrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield in San Francisco…

(Business 2.0 Magazine) - Wayne s World, it s not. The Web TV series Diggnation draws hundreds of thousands of viewers. It has Fortune 500 corporate sponsors, and its two young stars are among…

Every month we compile all of the deals at Washington tech and biotech companies into one story where we watch up and coming trends in local financing. Unlike our regular investment coverage…

Ser extraordinrio | Requisito nico para entrar no Level39, uma incubadora de empresas. No 39 andar daquele que era at 2010 o arranha-cus mais alto de Londres, o One Canada Square, esto a ser…