Startup Companies

It’s no surprise that Uber, Instagram and Buzzfeed are attracting big-name technology investors. The three upstart businesses are rattling the cages of established industries and possess an undeniable…

Six startup companies emerge from Ohio University’s digital media accelerator ATHENS, Ohio (Sept. 10, 2013)—Six startup companies founded by students and alumni of Ohio University and West Virginia…

At 43 years old, Izak Jenie is still talking about new business ideas and starting projects. He just can’t stop. This is a man who has started more than ten companies in Indonesia, beginning…

Santa Monica, Los Angeles Background: Our startup is a team of 4 young, recent undergraduates that all lived in LA for at least 4+ years before we moved. You hear it everywhere: Los Angeles is…

Peerzada Abrar, ET Bureau (Bangalore emerges as Mecca…) BANGALORE: Its well-publicised troubles with basic infrastructure and political instability notwithstanding, Bangalore is proving that…

By Peter Day Presenter, Global Business Singapore s skyline glitters with the regional headquarters of big multinationals - but can it create the right environment for new businesses to thrive?…

2012 proved another great year for Atlanta’s startup community. Many companies grew their revenue and headcount, energized Atlanta’s economy, and exited successfully. Atlanta startups also continue…

From left, startup founders Samir Mayekar, Erik Severinghaus and Rahier Rahman John R. Boehm It s a city filled with incubators, investors and top-notch research universities. So, for entrepreneurs…

The natural gas boom is often viewed as a great disrupter to coal-fired power plants. But what about displacing oil? One startup has developed a process to turn natural gas into petrochemicals…

Microsoft Ventures Beijing Recently, Microsoft began consolidating its startups in Beijing initiatives. The offshoot of this move was, which effectively built on the company’s accelerator program…

Developing a critical web application for Xerox two years back gave us a toehold in the very competitive American market,said Ali whose company builds intranets and web portals using open source…

Some say that people do not really want advice, even when they ask for it — but when starting a company, good advice early on can be the difference between success and failure. For this reason…

As I mentioned in my earlier posting, it is important to know yourself. In a smaller organization, everything is magnified. You cannot be anonymous and fly under the radar. You will likely work…

Working at a technology company in Chicago whose company culture focuses heavily on our employees, I often blog about tech startups and the challenges they face, particularly the challenge of…

When Godard Abel began the B2B sales and software company, BigMachines, he was based in Chicago, so planting the startup seed near the city was a no-brainer. After he sold the company to two…

Use your > keys to browse more stories Entrepreneurs based in Singapore fall into either one of two categories: either they believe that Singapore is the best market to get started in…

Insurance companies are notoriously unloved. But few of us hold as much contempt for the industry as Ali Diab. For Diab, insurance companies aren’t just opaque and overpriced bureaucracies, they’re…

But What Does a Business Model Have to Do With My Startup? Your startup is essentially an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. As a founder you start out…