Tag: STARTUP

Yesterday, Barack Obama held a private meeting with a dozen Silicon Valley luminaries, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple's Steve Jobs and heavyweights from Twitter and Google. During the two-hour dinner, Obama reportedly discussed his ideas on investments in education and a proposed public-private partnership geared toward helping startups and small businesses get off the ground. ...

Jokey Web generators tend to be fleetingly funny, poorly designed affairs that slap some Impact-styled, algorithm-derived jokes on top of a wolf photo. With a glossy Web 2.0 design, the Random Startup Generator goes after the crazy Web startup culture and its tireless ability to make us wish we lived in a simpler time, before people spoke IRL about Tweeting Kinect troubles while crawling Tumblr ...

4chan founder Christopher Poole has just launched his latest site, Canvas, to a select group of invitees. Canvas, at its most basic level and much like 4chan, provides users with a forum for discussion. Members post content to the site, others chime in, and the conversation snowballs from there. All user identities remain anonymous, but, unlike 4chan, all content is archived and recorded on ...

While his classmates probably admired comic book heroes and professional athletes, Christian Owens, a U.K. teen, looked up to somebody real -- Steve Jobs -- and it paid off for him. According to SWNS, taking inspiration from the Mac magnate, Owens made his first $1 million in just two years by creating two wildly popular Web start-ups. He got a Mac, learned basic Web design, and started his ...

A new Facebook-based start-up called Cameo Stars is hoping to turn itself into the next viral craze by having celebrities wish you a happy birthday. Cameo Stars features A-list football players Reggie Bush, Tony Romo and Drew Brees -- along with the perpetually irrelevant Carmen Electra -- shot on green screen and expressing generic platitudes for you to post on your friends' Facebook pages. ...

The economy is in bad shape at the moment, to say the least. With banks failing and other financial institutions being absorbed, the foundations of money making in the U.S. are crumbling. However, some companies are oddly optimistic about the situation -- and we don't just mean those who make money from foreclosures. New York-based tech startups have been losing talent to Wall Street for years, ...

Oh irony, how we love you so. And really, what's more ironic than an auction site, created by two disgruntled eBay users, selling itself on eBay? Not much my friend, not much. Peter Michaud and Jeff Ramaglia, founders of Mighty Bids, have hopped on the trend of selling your Web start-up through eBay, following in the footsteps of online calendar service Kiko, and German Twitter clone dukudu. ...