What Start-ups Should Know About Hiring a Lawyer
Hiring and working with a lawyer is often confusing and daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. But when you’re starting a business, it’s crucial. With the right expertise on your side, you can feel confident you’ve got your legal ducks in a row as you’re getting down to business. We sat down with start-up lawyer [...]
Read MoreDeveloping Minorities in STEM
If we want America to succeed in the 21st century, making sure we offer the nation’s students a world-class education is more than a moral obligation, it’s an economic imperative. In the long term, our country faces a stark choice: we can invent and manufacture the clean energy technologies of tomorrow in America for export around [...]
Read MoreBeCouply Wins Ford SYNC AppLink Developer Challenge at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
During TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this past week, Ford offered the developer community an opportunity to create new mobile apps that will be compatible with the voice-activated Ford SYNC system in what was called SYNC AppLink Developer Challenge. Becky Cruze and Pius Uzamere, NewME Accelerator alums and founder of the dating start-up BeCouply, won the challenge for creating app Dates.fm, a location-based [...]
Read MoreApple Event Wrap-Up: a New iPhone, New iPod Touch, and More
Well its finally here, the moment you all have been waiting for- the iPhone 5! Apple announced the new phone and other new and exciting things at today’s event. They gave the people what they wanted – minus the iPad mini, but it was predictable that wasn’t coming today. So with new iPhones, iPods, earphones [...]
Read MoreInteractive One Creating A Digital Destination for Latinos
Interactive One, known for serving digital driven African-Americans continues to expand its reach to the Latino market with the launch of ZonadeSabor.com, an entertainment news Web site targeting young, urban Latino Americans. ZonadeSabor.com will join MiGente.com, Interactive One’s social media site providing the latest in music, television, film and fashion news for all Latinos. “We’ve built [...]
Read MoreWhy Eyeballs No Longer Matter For Start-ups
Need funding for your startup? Don’t load up your PowerPoint with nifty charts showing all the users your online service has grabbed. Venture capitalists are no longer impressed. These days, investors want to hear about the revenue you’re generating, not the traffic. “There have been a lot of companies that had a lot of users [...]
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