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| Jan 17, 2012 | Triangle Startup Factory Re-Launches Accelerator; Promises $50K To Each Founding Team | It’s a good day for accelerators. Earlier today we covered a nifty virtual startup accelerator called StartupPlays, which has partnered with veteran entrepreneurs and mentors to convert their experience into targeted, actionable guides to h... |
| Oct 22, 2011 | Up-And-Coming Accelerator First Growth Venture Networks Introduces Sixteen Cool New Startups | We here at TechCrunch love startups, and we love the programs, networks, accelerators, and funds that help these startups grow and take over the world. There are a lot of them out there, and for entrepreneurs, it’s all about finding the rig... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| May 2, 2011 | TechStars Beats Y Combinator, Ranked Best Accelerator Program in U.S. | A number of new startup accelerator and incubator programs have popped up lately, a response no doubt to the success of the Y Combinator and TechStars programs and the success of the programs’ participants. At some level, many of these prog... |
| May 2, 2011 | Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators & Incubators Ranked; TechStars, Y Combinator Top Rankings | There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | 7 Startups Unveiled at LaunchBox Digital Durham Demo Day | Today in Durham, NC, seven new startups presented at the LaunchBox Digital 2010 Demo Day which is the culmination of 12 weeks of mentoring. This is LaunchBox Digital's third year incubating new businesses and their first year in Durham, Nor... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Research Triangle | Research Triangle Park is one of the oldest and largest research parks in the United States. Created in the 1950s, the RTP development now spans over 7000 acres and is home to over 170 companies and some 42,000 full-time employees. But the ... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | LaunchBox Digital Brings An Incubator To North Carolina's Research Triangle | LaunchBox Digital a startup incubator similar to Y Combinator that offers founders small amounts of seed funding and a mentorship program in exchange for equity stakes of around 4-8%, is expanding its program to the Research Triangle Park a... |
| Mar 20, 2010 | Excelerate Labs Brings A Startup Incubator To Chicago | It seems that Y Combinator and TechStars-like incubators are popping up everywhere. BoomStartup just launched an incubator in Utah and TechStars is expanding to other cities in the U.S., as is The Founder Institute. Chicago has a new incuba... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | BoomStartup Gives Utah Its Own Startup Incubator | While California and New York tend to get the most attention as technology hubs, other states are quietly hosting their own vibrant communities around technology and innovation. Utah is one of these states. Utah is home to tech giants Omnit... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Legal River launches lawyer-to-lawyer referral service | Online legal tool platform Legal River launched Attorney River today to connect attorneys to other attorneys. Attorneys can use the service to post requests for other attorneys. Once a lawyer posts a request, for example for outsourcing wor... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Mobile ad network Millennial Media acquires analytics firm TapMetrics | Another big change is afoot in the world of mobile advertising. Millennial Media — the largest independent mobile ad network, and itself the subject of buyout speculation — announced today that it is acquiring mobile analytics firm TapMetri... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Washington DC | The words “fat cats in Washington” have been uttered in every corner of the nation from Texas to the Bay, yet DC’s tech scene is anything but sluggish. Companies like AOL, Nextel, MCI and Uunet found early success in the region and since th... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Mobile ad network Millennial Media acquires analytics firm TapMetrics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Another big change is afoot in the world of mobil... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | JamLegend Shreds Past 1 Million Members | JamLegend, the LaunchBox-backed ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’, has just reached a fairly major milestone: it’s now signed up over 1 million users. Co-founder Andrew Lee says that the site is up to around 60 million total song plays, of which 45... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Law site launches online legal tools for entrepreneurs | Today, Legal River and General Counsel, P.C. released a Terms of Service Generator and a Privacy Policy Generator for startups and small businesses.
Legal River’s tools are meant to keep costs low for entrepreneurs as they set up a business... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Crowd Campaign Lets Marketers Tap Into The Social Graph To Promote Contests | The Social Collective, a LaunchBox Digital-incubated startup, recently launched to provide event planners and marketers with a cost-effective browser-based service targeted at enhancing the event experience for both attendees and sponsors. ... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | JamLegend - just like Guitar Hero, but online | Startup Sessions takes an inside look at JamLegend, the startup behind a popular online music game
Have you ever looked at your computer keyboard as a musical instrument?
JamLegend, a San Francisco-based startup can turn your entire compute... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | AlphaLab Demo Day Showcases Pittsburgh’s Finest | Pittsburgh-based startup incubator AlphaLab hosted its Fall demo day earlier this morning. Created by seed funding group Innovations Works, AlphaLab provides 6 promising startups with funding, office space and business advice over a 20-week... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | DreamIt Releases Ten Startups Into The Wild | Philadelphia based DreamIt Ventures, a pre-seed stage venture firm and incubator founded in 2007 by David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, and Steve Welch, has just announced the most recent batch of startups to complete its second annual 12 wee... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Eight New Startups Pop Out Of The LaunchBox | Washington DC based LaunchBox Digital, an early stage investment firm and incubator founded in 2007 by John McKinley, Sean Green, and Julius Genachowski (now the new head of the FCC and divested from LaunchBox), just wrapped up its second a... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | Launchbox Digital launches its second class of startups | Launchbox Digital, a startup incubator based in Washington, D.C., just released the list of its second batch of startups; as with last year’s group, it’s a pretty wide range of (web-focused) companies, covering everything from concerts to t... |
| Jul 30, 2009 | JamLegend Rocks at Startup Event in Los Angeles | LaunchBox startup JamLegend began in 2008 as an idea to take Rock Band and Guitar Hero online and make them infinitely more fun for more people with more songs.
While presenting at Twiistup in Los Angeles today, Andrew Lee took a few moment... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Five Early-Stage Alternatives to the Traditional Investment Model of Growing Startups | The ways to grow a tech startup company are outnumbered only by the ways to skin a cat.
In between multiple rounds of venture capital from investment groups and skin-of-your-teeth bootstrapping, there exists an ecosystem of organizations de... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Capital Factory Gives Austin Its Own Startup Incubator | While many people in the tech world only make the trek to Austin, Texas once a year for SXSW, the city has a fairly sizable startup community. Now Austin is getting its own Y Combinator-esque program, dubbed Capital Factory.
As with other s... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | Startup Launch: Buzzable Creates Twitter Groups Around RSS Feeds (500 Invites) | One of the most requested features for Twitter is the ability to create groups. While users wait (and wait and wait) for Twitter to add this feature, a number of startups are going ahead and showing how it should be done. The latest of thes... |
| Feb 1, 2009 | LaunchBox Digital '09 Now Taking Applications | LaunchBox Digital a startup incubator similar to Y Combinator that offers founders small amounts of seed funding and a mentorship program in exchange for equity stakes of around 4-8%, is now accepting applications for its class of 2009. The... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Report: Obama picks Julius Genachowski for FCC chair | President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate tech veteran Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cites “a source close to the transition team.”
This isn’t the first ti... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides | Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims to centralize all of this on the web — a... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | Change.gov is coming — and has Obama picked his CTO? | President-elect Barack Obama has long said he wants to create the position of chief technology officer in his cabinet, a person who will make government more accessible to citizens. The first step in that plan, reportedly coming later today... |
| Aug 5, 2008 | LaunchBox Unleashes Its First Nine Startups | What does $25,000 and 12 weeks get you? If you are a startup funded by LaunchBoxDigital, it gets you a working alpha or beta site. Based in Washington, D.C., LaunchBox is the latest seed-fund incubator to take the “Build ’em cheap and build... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Roundup: Click fraud rumored to be more than 16%, new start-up MetaRam launches | 1. Click fraud accounts for more than 16 percent of clicks
2. Electronic Arts offers $2 billion for Take Two
3. LinkedIn offers mobile app, and multiple translations
4. Washington, DC incubator LaunchBox Digital raises $250K
5. Neterion, ne... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | LaunchBoxDigital Startup Incubator Raises Seed Round, Taking Applications | Washington D.C. based LaunchBoxDigital, a Y Combinator-like startup incubator that will invest small amounts of capital in very early stage startup ideas, is now taking applications for their first program. They’ve also raised their own fir... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | Guide to Seed Fund Incubators (Y Combinator Clones) | They say imitation the most sincere form of flattery. If that’s true, then Paul Graham must be about to drown from all the praise. His Y Combinator project, which has funded nearly 60 startups since 2005 and has arguably inspired a new emph... |
| Nov 15, 2007 | Ex-AOL/IAC Execs Get Into Startup Funding Game | LaunchBox Digital is a new early-stage investment firm that opened its doors yesterday in Washington, D.C. Founded by Julius Genachowski, former Chief of Business Operations at IAC, Sean Greene, founder of the Away Travel Network, and John ... |