Female founders and the evolution of ecommerce
By Lorraine Dahlinger, From the Lab founder There are basic, and well-documented, behavioral differences between the way men and women shop...
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The crucial factors for startup success
By Matthew Sawyer, managing partner, Rocket Market Development Most Angel investors, VCs and entrepreneurs agree that the success rate for startup...
Five ways women entrepreneurs can stop punishing themselves
By Lori Bolas, SurePayroll It’s becoming increasingly clear that working ourselves to death is not productive. More-and-more research suggests...
Silicon Alley catching up with Palo Alto? Gust releases its Q1 2014 data trends within the early-stage startup ecosystem
By David S. Rose, Gust CEO and Rose Tech Ventures managing partner The early-stage ecosystem is witnessing a startup boom, as an increasing...
A message to venture capitalists: I reject your reality and substitute my own
By Paul Proffitt, SunDown RunDown founder Venture capitalists, your days are numbered. This isn’t a threat leveled by me. It’s not even an...
Perspectives: The women’s economy starts here
By Michelle Patterson, Global Women Foundation and The California Women’s Conference For the first time in this nation’s history, women are now...
Crowdfunding the triple bottom line: With a successful Indiegogo campaign completed, Social Venture Network seeks to increase diversity among socially-conscious entrepreneurs
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat editor By now, crowdfunding has been used to jumpstart a substantial number of ventures, non-profit initiatives...
With more direct involvement with student- and faculty-initiated ventures, the UCLA VC fund seeks to build a strong startup eco-system akin to Stanford and Berkeley
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat editor Universities like Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT have long been associated with strong startup ecosystems....
Seniors: The next big market for startups?
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor The AARP has sent the call for applications for its third annual AARP Health Innovation@50 + LivePitch....
The best of the hardware startups at CES 2014
This year’s CES (Consumer Electronics Show) yielded a good number of hardware startup debuts and new product announcements—a positive development...
CES envy? The best places to catch up online
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor Feeling like you’re missing something by not attending CES? I can relate. While there was too little...
The 5 most thought-provoking guest columns of 2013
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor Yes, it’s the time of year when we all look back and reflect on the past 363 days. While I’m not a fan...
