4000 people attended this year’s Dublin Web Summit conference and watched two days of speeches and exhibits by leaders in the technology industry. Nearly half of web searches are simply people looking for what they have already seen before. The Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award went to a US-based startup SmartThings. Rolio    . MORE >>

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. MORE >>

Year One Labs is an early stage seed accelerator that will help fund and build startups, primarily in the web and mobile spaces. Today is a big day. After 6 or so months, I’ve launched my new startup: Year One Labs. I’m particularly excited about the team: Raymond Luk , Alistair Croll and Ian Rae. Sales calls? MORE >>

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Startups. Mobile. Gadgets. MORE >>

Market Achieve, today announced a special program to support start-ups and early-stage companies, who do not have the budget to spend on advertisements, events and purchased data bases. Most of these methods (like web research, data collection or posting messages in internet mediums) are highly manpower intensive. MORE >>