The Next Web meets Esther Dyson: Angel investor, author and backup cosmonaut
thenextweb.com
The Next Web sat down with Esther Dyson, a world leading angel investor, to learn something about her top investments and trends, mainly in eastern Europe. Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. Her interests include information technology, health care,...
Comments:
Related:
Equity Crowd-funding Site, SeedAsia Launches
techcrunch.com
SeedAsia, an equity crowd-funding site based in China, has just launched. The company is offering stakes in selected early-stage startups to the public. “It’s kind of a hybrid between Kickstarter and private investment,” said co-founder Tom Russell. The startups to be listed would have ideally gone through some some sort...
Teens create business plan for floor boards that convert footsteps into electricity
www.geekwire.com
The winning TyE group will head to D.C. for a national competition. From left: Serena Ahuja, Amrita Ram, Diane Tuan, Aarthi Ganapathi and Sonya Ahuja. A group of Seattle-area high-schoolers is heading to a national competition after creating a business plan for piezo electric flooring boards that convert kinetic energy generated...
Booting Up: You Can't Use Square to Sell Guns Any More
betabeat.com
(Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Public Domain Photographs, Via Wikimedia Commons) The crooner Bing Crosby might've been a total dick, but it turns out he was a pretty smart angel investor. Guess the Biebs isn't so special, after all! [New Yorker] "They became a virtual criminal flash mob, going from machine...
Microsoft's Huge Win: Yammer Sales Are Up 259% Y/Y
www.businessinsider.com
Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of social enterprise tool Yammer last year turned out to be a great move. In Microsoft's most recent quarter, Yammer increased its sales by 259% year over year and added 312 new clients to its roster. Microsoft is incredibly pleased with the acquisition. We first saw...
Russell Buckley Joins UK Government To Bring About Silicon Valley In The UK
techcrunch.com
Today in interesting moves comes the news that serial entrepreneur-turned-investor Russell Buckley – who co-founded AdMob (which sold to Google) is joining the UK government to accelerate its policies around startups, mainly funding. Specifically, he’s joining the UK Government’s Venture Capital Unit. The Unit, launched last year, is designed to...
Eyeing $4.5B In Sales This Year, Phone Maker Xiaomi Looks To Emulate A 340-Year-Old Chinese Medicine Company
techcrunch.com
Who do the idols idolize? Lei Jun, the CEO of Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi, is arguably the face of tech entrepreneurship in China as a long-time angel investor and serial entrepreneur behind companies like Amazon-acquired Joyo.cn and the recently IPO-ed YY. He’s been called the “Steve Jobs of...
Eyeing $4.5B In Sales This Year, Phone Maker Xiaomi Looks To Emulate A 340-Year-Old Chinese Medicine Company
Beyond Verbal secures $2.8M, detects human emotions and character through voice recognition
venturebeat.com
Voice recognition is not a new idea, but enabling machines to determine a person’s mood using their raw voice is. Beyond Verbal Communications, an Israel-based startup that’s just pulled in a $2.8 million seed round of funding, uses what it calls Emotions Analytics to determine someone’s emotions and character...
GeekWire Awards: What to know if you're going to tonight's celebration
www.geekwire.com
Jonathan Sposato at the GeekWire Awards. Photo: Annie Laurie Malarkey We can’t wait to see more than 750 of you for tonight at the big GeekWire Awards bash. It’s going to be an epic celebration, and we’re excited to announce the winners (and hear the acceptance speeches) in 14 geeky...
Another Facebook Home Staffer Flies The Coop; Android Head Of Product Bubba Murarka Joins DFJ As General Partner
techcrunch.com
After losing mobile product head and Facebook Home team member Charles Jolley to Battery Ventures, Facebook is facing another departure from a previous Home staffer. Draper Fisher Jurvetson announced today that Facebook’s head of product for Android, Bubba Murarka, has joined the firm as General Partner and Managing Director. Murarka...
Another Facebook Home Staffer Flies The Coop; Android Head Of Product Bubba Murarka Joins DFJ As General Partner
Quote Roller raises $655,000 to help salespeople create better proposals and close deals faster
thenextweb.com
Quote Roller, a startup from – of all places – Belarus, has secured $655,000 in seed funding to support its expansion to the United States and to enhance its cloud-based software for sales proposals. Indeed, Quote Roller helps companies create, send and process better sales proposals, in order to win...
×
Just a test of the new info bar. What do you think?