LivingSocial, the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals and top Facebook applications Visual Bookshelf and Pick Your Five, today announced that it has completed a $25 million Series B round of venture funding led by U.S. Venture Partners. Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution LLC are also participating.
With this round of funding, LivingSocial Deals is launching [...]
Last night, I attended the DC Lean Startup Circle in Arlington, Virginia, hosted by Kevin Dewalt and Ken Yarmosh, featuring a couple of industry heavy weights, Dave McClure and Eric Ries, talking about everything “Lean Startup.” The group was in town for the Startup Visa Act which we covered previously. The duo spoke for a [...]
This past week entrepreneurs and VCs headed to Washington, D.C. to unite and rally support for the Startup Visa Act. The group met with a variety of federal representatives to brief them on the bill, including the White House, State Department, Commerce Department, DHS, SBA, and members of congress. The bill, introduced by Senators John [...]
Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK), a 10 day festival in Washington D.C. focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation’s capital was just announced to take place from June 11th – 20th. Modeled after Internet Week NY, Social Media Week, FotoWeek DC, Fringe Festival, etc. — DCWEEK will consist of a series of [...]
With the Internet a mainstay in almost everyone’s daily life, let’s take a second and reflect on it. To help us reflect, Washington, D.C. based creative agency JESS3 created the motion-graphics, visualization video (above) titled The State of The Internet showcasing lots of data associated with the use of the Web.
“I made the video to [...]
It seems like just yesterday that some of the LaunchBox Digital 2009 class demoed at TECH cocktail DC 6. One of the showcased startups at the event was TapMetrics, an all-in-one business & analytics solution for iPhone app publishers. TapMetrics focuses on creating tools for application architects to better understand their users, continually improve their [...]
Thank you everyone who came out to TECH cocktail DC 8 last night. It was another great event and the creative energy in the room was just amazing. Special thank you to Pillsbury Law for sponsoring the event and showcasing its emerging start-up incubator program. Also thank you to ClingPhoto for sharing its “clinging” photo [...]
We are looking forward to TECH cocktail DC 8 tonight. It’s the first TECH cocktail of the 2010 year and we are excited to be bringing together the tech and social media community to showcase another handful of local start-ups. We could not do it without the help of our platinum sponsor Pillsbury Law. They [...]
See Joe Rock is a community for musicians to connect with other musicians & industry pros who can help their music career. The site was created by Virginia-based designer Mary Adkins after working for years with local musicians and music festivals designing their branding and marketing materials. She noticed that connecting musicians with music industry [...]