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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team.

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

A place to share their resources and links with each other, get High Fived (or ^5 in Geeklist terms), earn GeekCred™, build their own connections and join in Geek communities, all in a completely integrated social manner. A news curation dashboard for teams and organizations. Welcome to the virtual mall.

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Starting (Up) in the Big Sky: Fund Raising Outside Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. I was looking for technical feedback on what we'd done so far which was written a social network based around writers and publishers.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

Its founders (Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs) have extensive experience with some of the biggest online properties. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Gibbs was the founder of Google’s App Engine.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. Co-working spaces tend to provide businesses with savings up to 30 percent , which can be huge savings for new companies with a lot of expenses to contend with. What are the best locations to start a business?

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What Social Media Needs To Do To Better Pique Your Interest

YoungUpstarts

by Russell Cowdrey is the CEO and co-founder of Plum. A number of interest driven networks offer an alternative, and a host of smaller sites are building smarter tools to gain deeper insights about you and what you actually like, showing the bigger guys how this can be done. Do you really like cats?

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.