We already covered a couple times (here and here) how this years Super Bowl would be different as it offered more social and mobile interactivity than ever. Now I want to focus on the fact that a few of the Super Bowl advertisements put technology, innovation and entrepreneurship as their focal point. Best Buy’s Super…
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Winners of DC’s Startup Weekend, Weekly Eats are ones to keep your eye on. Not only did they claim the top spot in the capital’s weekend competition in late November – they were the highest placing US team in the recent Global Startup Battle. Here’s the pitch: When you have zero food in the fridge,…
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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is one of the largest non-profit organizations focused on fostering entrepreneurship. We have covered some of Kauffman’s recent endeavors from Kauffman Labs to the more recently launched Startup America. So we were excited when we had a chance to sit down and talk with Nick Seguin, the Manager of Entrepreneurship at…
Read MoreToday as part of President Obama’s national strategy to stimulate economic growth and the creation of quality jobs, the White House announced the launch of the Startup America Partnership. Lead by chairman Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL, CEO of Revolution LLC and chairman of the Case Foundation, the partnership will receive launch funding from…
Read MoreNOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 14 through November 20, 2010, as National Entrepreneurship Week. I call upon all Americans to commemorate this week with appropriate programs…
Read MoreThe Kauffman Foundation recently launched Kauffman Labs, a new program aimed at helping to seed fund and mentor business founders with the goal of putting them on the fast track to startup success. The first phase of the program is searching for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start a high-growth, scalable education business.
Read MoreThe Kauffman Foundation State of Entrepreneurship Address was presented by Kauffman President and CEO Carl Schramm at the National Press Club in Washington, DC today. I was on hand to see it live and the event was also streamed live on the Internet. I posted some photos here. Schramm assessed the outlook for entrepreneurship in…
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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