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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 Year ...
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 conference, ...
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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...
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech.Co’s articles from the last week? It’s okay. We want to let you know that we forgive you; we totally get it. You’re a busy person, with a lot of things on your mind and...
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech.Co’s articles from the last week? It’s okay. We want to let you know that we forgive you; we totally get it. You’re a busy person, with a lot of things on your mind and...
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...
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 ...
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“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 and ...
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech.Co’s articles from the last week? It’s okay. We want to let you know that we forgive you; we totally get it. You’re a busy person, with a lot of things on your mind and...
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 in...
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....
South Asia was hit with a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Monday – striking the Hindu Kush area of Northern Afghanistan, with tremors being felt in an area spanning Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and New Delhi, India. According to Al Jazeera, the death tool currently stands at 169...