New Startups

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Camila Souza for the Chicago Edition Ben Huh may be best known as the cat meme magnate who is actually allergic to cats. The founder and CEO of the social humor network, Cheezburger Network…

In October 2013, the City of Philadelphia and First Round Capital announced the first investment in their matching Startup PHL seed fund. Seen here celebrating with kale smoothies are, from left…

The corporate real estate veteran picked to lead a groundbreaking state program says START-UP NY will do exactly that for the state’s economy. An important provision of the STARTUP-NY program…

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. Lately, the pressure of continuous disruption has forced them to step up the pace. More often than not the results…

With $2.6 billion in venture capital invested in 2013, New York’s technology startup ecosystem is currently 87 percent larger than that of Massachusetts and 28 percent the size of Silicon Valley…

On Sunday, 15 teams presented and the following three teams took the prize: 1st Place: Linesnapp – a mobile app that you can use to pay other people to wait in line for you; they wait in line…

Here are highlights of a survey I conducted in spring and summer of 2013. Publishers of 53 independent local online news startups in the United States responded to the survey, which is designed…

In 2010, New York City took the world by surprise, unleashing a flood of start-ups and funding power, giving Silicon Valley a run for its money, literally. There are several big startups to watch…

April 24 (Bloomberg) - David Marcus, president of EBay Inc. s PayPal unit, talks about mobile payment security and the prospects for virtual currency bitcoin. He speaks with Guy Johnson on Bloomberg…

Wade Roush McLuhan said that the medium is the message. Here at Xconomy, we agree, and we think it even goes for the venues we pick for our events. When we hold a big conference in a university…

On Monday, we all learned that you can drop out of high school and in less than a decade become a multimillionaire. If you’re a tech genius with a product teenagers and college students can’t…

StartUp Health is honored to work with TEDMED again this year on The Hive, a dynamic showcase of entrepreneurs and innovators in digital health. This year’s curation team includes industry leaders…

The site, known for its focus on local government, was financially stable. But as with many indie local news sites, it only worked with a heavy workload for its founders. The amount of revenue…

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There are some companies so deeply entrenched in the American psyche that, even though they’re not perfect, we just can’t quit them. Perhaps the best example is Craigslist, that black hole of…

We analyzed over 2 angel investors on factors such as network strength, rate of follow-on investment, # of exits, brand and more. Here s how angel investors stack up. We previously looked at…

It hasn t turned out that way. So far their investment company, Abstraction Ventures, has invested in 13 young companies - 11 of them in or around New Orleans. Typical investments range from…