Startup Companies

Shouvik Roy (Elephant Design & SoundSense) Come join us for a fireside chat with Shouvik and learn about branding! Shouvik has over 17 years of experience across brand management, and…

Health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is finally here. But there is good news! SimplyInsured’s guide to 2014 could save your startup 30-85% on your health care costs. Our Advice: If…

Lean Startup Implementation A lot has been written about how Lean Startup methodology might help entrepreneurs build commercially successful products. In this article we provide a real-life example…

Last month GeekWire brought back a Seattle tech tradition, using publicly available data to generate a monthly ranking of 200 top startups in the Seattle region. As we suspected in advance, we…

Companies frequently have to confront this question: should they grant nonqualified stock options (“NQOs”) or incentive stock options (“ISOs”) to their employees? (ISOs cannot be granted to non-employee…

Pune has more in common with Bangalore than just weather and tech companies, it is also a thriving startup hub. Last Saturday, we did a Roadshow in Pune for the upcoming UnPluggd in December…

When we started to build this rocket 5 months ago -time flies-, it was crystal clear to us that it wasn’t just all about founders problems, investors have been facing as many challenges as startup…

DC is more than just the nation s capital. This city boasts and toasts many things. Recently, there has been a surge in entrepreneurial culture, and small businesses - particularly in the tech…

Clearly a jerk who is also a weak leader will never succeed, so we don’t have to talk about this unfortunate character. A “good gal” who is a weak leader will have limited success. She may attract…

We are excited to announce today that Survey Analytics was ranked #84 on the Geekwire 200 (Seattle s Startup Leaderboard) for March 2014. The Geekwire 200 rankings are determined using an algorithm…

Courtesy of turnstone For startups, workplace culture and employee values are often just as important as what the companies actually do. That s because young companies, unconstrained by a traditional…

Deloreon Motor Company DELOREAN SET John Zachary DeLorean founded the DeLorean Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1975. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive…

Early-stage VC fund 500 Startups today held the first of several demo day events for the fifth batch of startups graduating from its accelerator program. It was a fun event, with 32 high-energy…

At the last Future of Fashion event of 2012 held in the Projective Space by Fashion Digital Daily, the five presenting companies were Merocrat, Bib + Tuck, Go Try It On, Stylitics, and Little…

Overview It is said good things come in small packages. There are over 500 startup companies in Mumbai alone. There are several others across India. If their number is an eyebrow raiser, the…

Tech companies and venture capital firms are always trying to find new and unique (AND cheap) ways to get their name out there and woo employees, customers, and potential partners. The most ubiquitous…