In this video, Robert Scoble talks about the keys to getting funding for your Startup.
Category Archives: Funding
How Crowdsourcing.org Powers Fundraising
In this GrowVC podcast, Carl Esposti discusses Crowdsourcing.org, a top destination for people in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries.
Crowdsourcing has been changing the way people start and run businesses for years and will continue to play a larger role in the global economy going forward. Carl is an industry expert and has some very valuable insight to share with entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone else tuning in.
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Video: Rembrandt Venture Partners See Gold in Big Data
In this video, Michael Baum from Rembrandt Venture Partners discusses Big Data marketplace as an exciting space to be in for investors and Startups. Recorded at the Structure: Data conference in New York on March 21, 2012.
How to Build a Community of Entrepreneurs
In this video, Angel Investor and author Bob Gilbreath discusses how to build a community of entrepreneurs.
Video: Steve Case on Why Entrepreneurs Hold the Key to the Future
In this video, Steve Case from Startup America and The Case Foundation shares his thoughts, insights and perspective on why entrepreneurship is the future of America. The talk was recorded at the Tech Cocktail’s Startup Mixology Conference on June 16, 2011.
Video: Chirpify Turns Tweets into Transactions
In this episode of Meet the Startup, Chris Teso, founder of the Twitter stream commerce platform Chirpify, talks to us about product evolution and what it is like raising money as a sole founder.
Chirpify turns Tweets into transactions, enabling consumers and businesses to buy, sell, donate and transact in-stream on Twitter. These are social, device agnostic, frictionless, in-stream, one step payments. We do this in real time at scale. By removing all frictions of a traditional payments or e-commerce system, Chirpify transforms Twitter from a broadcast platform into a transactional one. To transact on Twitter Chirpify users need only Tweet simple commands such as “buy”, “pay” and “donate”.
A Tip of the Hat goes to Silicon Florist for pointing us to this story.
Video: Meet the Startup – InvestorInMe
In this video, InvestorInMe CEO Nathan Taggart discusses how his company aims to ease the pain of ordinary investors in a very competitive market. A tip of the hat goes to Silicon Florist for pointing us to this story.
Startup Grind Interviews George Zachary
In this video, George Zachary from Charles River Ventures discusses his experience with VCs, funding, and entrepreneurs.
Video: Startups Uncensored Interview with David Hornik, VC
In this video, Startups Uncensored does a fireside chat with Venture Capitalist David Hornik from August Capital.
Video: When Startups Change Course
In this video, Scott Olson from FounderBuzz interviews Tara Hunt, founder and CEO of Buyosphere. The company recently raised $350k after changing their business model to a shopping Q&A community.
Buyosphere didn’t start out this way. Their business model adapted from a more user and data analytics intensive model that required the users to fill out a tastes profile and where users would have more things automatically suggested for them to purchase based on data analytics. When both users and venture capitalists pushed back on early versions of the site, Tara listened and now has a rapidly growing site that was able to obtain the seed funding to prove their model with their community.
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