Chile is aspiring to become a “global innovation hub” with Start-Up Chile, enticing startups to travel across the world for US$40,000 in equity-free seed capital and one-year work visas. 154 companies were selected on Friday for its latest class, and one of those is Hong Kong startup Flipter, which will be heading to Chile for…
Read MoreVideo from first part of event (intro and startup presentations): Video from second part of event (interview with Max Ventilla): February’s Speakers: Max Ventilla of Aardvark, Sean Gorman of FortiusOne and Sean Murphy of CloudSpree Kevin Dewalt, Patrick Smith and Steph Hay have organized another great event and now we get to broadcast it to everyone who…
Read MoreYesterday Google continued it’s winter shopping spree as it announced it had acquired Picnik, an online photo editing application. Other recent purchases include the acquisition of social search Aardvark and the acquisition of iPhone email application reMail. For those of you unfamiliar with Picnik, it is a Seattle based start-up that offers a pretty slick…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More