With the struggling economy and lack of jobs around the country, we are seeing a rise in student entrepreneurship. Apparently students today are not content with just trusting their luck at getting a job after graduation day. And as students take matters into their own hands, they are also organizing, forming clubs where they can…
Read MoreNetwork Solutions just shared their State of Small Business Report with the University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business and it’s not pretty. But it is optimistic. Here’s why. From the first paragraph of the report: The competitive health of America’s small businesses is as low as it has been since the SmallBusiness…
Read MoreApparently the Internet savvy crowd is not made up of loners, but joiners. A new national survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has found that the Internet is playing an important role in the group and organizational life of Americans. According to the study, 75% of all American adults are…
Read MoreThankfulfor, an online gratitude journal community, has released a report ranking what people are most thankful for just in time for Thanksgiving. From a sampling of twenty-five thousand posts, analysts (from the data-mining resources of Crowdflower) identified over 40 separate themes, which were grouped into 10 overarching topics, as seen in the illustration produced by…
Read MoreEdison Research and Arbitron released study today titled Twitter Usage in America 2010, that shares some interesting data about usage of social networking site like Facebook and Twitter. The study presents three years of tracking data from a nationally representative telephone survey (via landline and mobile phone) of 1,753 Americans, and was conducted in February…
Read MoreThis week’s Social Media Hour, offers a trio of guests, each of whom address their perspectives on social media engagement, empowerment and addiction. Alec Howe of BreakingTrends.com will talk about their just launched research project into how social media is impacting our world. Andrew Eisner of Retrevo will share his company’s latest report that examines…
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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