Before You Blog About Trying to Occupy Techcrunch…
Posted by Tiffani Bell
Hi-ho! One of the NewME Summer 2011 founders here! I’ve watched the tenor of the conversation around CNN’s Black in America 4 go from the startups and how they’re trying to break down barriers to only the barriers. I’ve talked to people on Twitter who think highlighting the issue as it stands right now is [...]
Read MoreVisiting Y Combinator’s Startup School with Ev, Zuckerberg, and Hsieh
Posted by Tiffani Bell
I decided to make the trek out to Berkeley to check out this year’s Startup School (and to let it serve as a serious peptalk–it’s working). Startup School has been held since 2006 by the folks behind Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that specializes in funding early stage startups. Teams can raise up to [...]
Read MoreGoogle Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice
Posted by Tiffani Bell
I got my Google Voice invite Friday afternoon and have been fiddling around with it ever since. Many folks might remember Google’s lackluster (at first) acquisition of GrandCentral. I signed up for it a while back and gave the number to all of three people who promptly decided to keep dialing my real number. In [...]
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