Ronald Barba was the previous managing editor of Tech.Co. His primary story interests include industry trends, consumer-facing apps/products, the startup lifestyle, business ethics, diversity in tech, and what-is-this-bullsh*t things.
Aside from writing about startups and entrepreneurship, Ronald is interested in 'Doctor Who', Murakami, 'The Mindy Project', and fried chicken. He is currently based in New York because he mistakenly studied philosophy in college and is now a "writer". Tweet @RonaldPBarba.
At this year’s Innovate Celebrate, the McKinney, TX-based startup ShearShare won first place in the Startup of the Year competition. Chosen from an initial batch of nearly 1,000 startups and after competition against approximately 50 other startups in the Startup of the …
Compared to last year, 2016 so far has seen a sizable drop in the number of venture funding deals: They plummeted by about five percent. Comparing Q2 of this year to last, we see a sizable drop in numbers (1,117 North American deals in Q2 2016…
From the popularity of Pokemon Go‘s augmented reality gaming to Uber‘s testing of self-driving vehicles in Pittsburgh, 2016 has seen the rapid rise of technologies once only imaginable in some futurist’s mind. At the very first Innovate! and Celebrate …
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Tech.Co has partnered with Arlington Economic Development to bring you this story. According to the most recent statistics, the average Class of 2016 college graduate has $37,172 in student loan debt. That number is up 6 percent from last year, and is only expected to…
This article is sponsored by Comcast Business, but all opinions belong to the author. So, you’ve got an idea for a company. But, before you go about actually starting your business, you have to put a lot of consideration into the technology plan that…
This article was brought to you in partnership with HP, whose new line of HP Business Printers reinvents business printing through its cost-effective, high-quality, and hassle-free technology. In case you don’t know, I acquired a brand new printer a few months ago – an…
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According to one study, the average age of your modern-age tech startup founder is 31 and didn’t study a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) concentration in college. While the higher age seems surprising (at least when we consider the widespread belief that …
LifeFuels, a Reston, VA-based startup that’s created the very first portable, single- and multi-serve Smart Nutrition Bottle, has just announced that it has been named a 2016 CES Innovation Award Honoree by the Consumer Technology Association due to its top rating in the …
“Amazon Books—like the surrounding mall—feels like it’s predicated on anxiety. Its very existence may be meant as an answer to anxieties within the company about a persistent inability to overcome the question of ‘discovery,’ both for Amazon Publishing titles …
In 1876, Thomas Jefferson died after a long struggle with the hustle – the polymathic third President of our country literally died from hustling his ass trying to do the science and the architecture and the politics and everything else in between. But you…
Are you an innovator? Or, at the very least, do you or someone you know consider yourself an innovator? What even is an “innovator”? Am I an “innovator”? (Answer to that last question: no). If you’re one of the thousands of people participating …
According to Pew, it’s estimated that there are are 75.2 million Millennials in the United States this year; by 2020, this Millennial population (those between the ages of 18 years and 34 years) is projected to make up half of the overall working population….
