In political campaigns, from city councilman to president, candidates first have to fight to get the official party nomination. With that blessing from above comes financing and support, including access to the party’s software and database. If you don’t get nominated, you’re faced with an uphill battle raising money solely from donors. That money is…
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Today, Yahoo! announced that it agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. From the press release: “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same…
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It is not every day that a former trauma surgeon, a former hedge fund manager, and a former Miss Florida USA–who has a fashion background–come together to launch a startup. And it is really not every day when the trauma surgeon, hedge fund manager, and Miss Florida USA are one in the same. For Indira…
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Lux Alptraum is a woman of many talents: writer, sex educator, and CEO. Her writings have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Hustler, and at SundanceChannel.com, among many others. She has spoken at notable institutions like Harvard, Brown, Yale, New York University, Columbia, and Ohio State University, as well as SXSW. After being featured at New York City’s…
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Online shopping has grown dramatically, year over year, and with that growth, new product discovery content has blossomed on the web and on mobile platforms. Pickie is one of the newer, more personalized mobile shopping options. An Apple application, Pickie is a mobile shopping magazine that leverages user interests and relevant web content to create…
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For tech employers, finding the right candidates to fit open positions can be tough. Plenty of technology analysts and education experts have pinned down the problem as a skills gap. So how can employers compensate? The answer may lie in geography. The infographic below includes data from RemarkableHire, a platform that uses social evidence to…
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FreshNeck is a subscription-based, men’s accessories exchange service. Members can access FreshNeck’s vibrant and versatile stock of neckties, bow ties, pocket squares, and cufflinks based on their tiered subscription, through FreshNeck’s visually crisp website. Membership starts at $15 per month, and designers like Hermes, Brioni, and Versace are just some of the options at the…
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Stripe, a Y Combinator graduate, has become one of the most popular ways for startups to accept payments online. Sites like Reddit, Foursquare, Heroku, and Hipmunk are all up and running with Stripe. But Stripe is a developer product: you have to integrate it into your website’s code, or download a Stripe plugin for WordPress…
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Last week was SFMade Week, a seven-day celebration of San Francisco’s local manufacturing sector. Attendees toured factories, donated money, and learned about the retailers who sell locally made products. Another champion of the maker community is Localvore, a marketplace for locally made, artisan manufactured goods from San Francisco and Northern California. From cinnamon oat soap…
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I was fortunate early in my career to get some valuable, but simple advice. I don’t remember where it came from – probably from some motivational speaker or maybe the Dale Carnegie Course, since I spent my first few years out of college immersed in personal development. The advice is embodied in ten words, 20…
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The day-to-day for a nonprofit is busy, to say the least. Keeping track of volunteers and their hours, information, and participation history is time-consuming and often falls to the bottom of the agenda. But Andrew Stanley and Venkat Dulipalli – the good Samaritans that they are – decided to take this problem head-on. VolunteerMark was designed specifically…
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To support entrepreneurship in New York, the City and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are getting behind the startup community. In 2010, they launched a $22 million seed-stage fund, as well as the annual NYC Next Idea competition. They’re also sponsoring various incubators, from General Assembly to NYU-Poly to the newest space: HarlemGarage. HarlemGarage, to be run…
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Launching today, Fandium mobile app for iOS gives users a more social game day experience for professional and collegiate sports, complete with aggregated live content and streaming social feeds. The Chicago-based company aims to be the social destination for sports fans to get the real story from inside the stadium, whether they’re in the crowd…
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Starting this summer, the newly created FirebrandGroup will be investing $10,000 to $25,000 in very early-stage startups who go through a new accelerator called Progression Lab. The funding is intended to help new (not serial) entrepreneurs build an MVP for their big idea. “We’ve always wanted to have a way to invest in early ideas…
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