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| 03.08.2026 | Back to School Resources in August | This month, we share back to school community, educational and mental health resources for kids, parents, and educators.
We once again approach that special time of year when back to school preparations begin, and in turn want to take a mom... |
| 10.04.2026 | Sam Snideman and Taylor Hughes: Businesses should seize the chance to partner on child care | - |
| 13.10.2025 | Fraser Allport, a Fiduciary and Certified Estate Planner ™ : 'Are Seniors prepared for Long Term Care expenses ? | Serving Clients since 1982
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| 01.08.2025 | Back to School Wellness and Preparation | This month, we share community school supply and mental health resiliency resources for kids, parents, and educators preparing to return to school.
We once again approach that special time of year when back to school preparations begin. As ... |
| 06.06.2025 | UK Response to Aid Abused Migrant Carers Failing Most, Data Show | - |
| 16.05.2025 | Financial Factors to Keep in Mind When Supporting Senior Health | Share
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| 19.04.2025 | Trellis Health: A New Dawn for Women’s Healthcare | In a world where healthcare often feels like a maze, Trellis Health emerges as a guiding light. This San Francisco-based digital health platform has just launched with a promising $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The goal? To revolutionize... |
| 18.04.2025 | Trellis Health Launches with $1.8M for Personalized Women’s Health | What You Should Know:
– Trellis Health, a digital health platform designed to empower women with personalized, proactive care, today emerged from stealth.
– The company is launching with $1.8M in pre-seed funding from Palette Ventures, Swiz... |
| 17.04.2025 | Trellis Health: $1.8 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised To Provide Women With Personalized And Proactive Care | Trellis Health, a digital health platform designed to empower women with personalized, proactive care, today emerged from stealth. The company is launching with $1.8 million in pre-seed funding from Palette Ventures, Swizzle Ventures, NEXTB... |
| 12.02.2025 | Why Benefits Matter: Paycom’s Approach to Employee Well-Being and Success | Stress is inevitable and prevalent. According to the leading financial service company MetLife’s 22nd Annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study, employees are feeling more stressed (12% higher) and burned out (17% higher) than they were bef... |
| 01.02.2025 | Business | 10 tips to help you recover from holiday spending | Last, take note of any debt that you accrued over the holidays. Once you know what you owe, you can work on a debt payoff strategy.2. Create a Budget
If you don’t have one yet, making a budget is a great step toward sorting out the aftermat... |
| 22.01.2025 | Compt Unveils 2025 Employee Benefits Data: 60% Health and Wellness Utilization Signals Market Shift | Download the 2025 Lifestyle Benefits Report from Compt at the link below.
New research shows how flexible benefits drive real engagement, with health & wellness programs seeing an unprecedented 60% utilization and caregiving up 300%. BO... |
| 30.11.2024 | Budget: Parents facing 20 per cent childcare fee hike after NIC raid | - |
| 26.06.2024 | This Flexible, AI-Powered Side Hustle Lets a Dad of Four Make $32 an Hour, Plus Tips: 'You Can Make a Substantial Amount of Money' Kyle Heyliger has a lot going on, so he set out to find a source of s... | Kyle Heyliger lives in Atlanta, where his wife of twenty years and their four children are the center of his world. "It's all about finding happiness in your day-to-day and doing things that matter," he says, "and for me, it'... |
| 08.05.2024 | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRADLEY COOPER IN PRODUCTION FOR CAREGIVING, THE NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE STATE AND STAKES OF PROVIDING CARE IN AMERICA | PROJECT SLATED FOR SPRING 2025 PREMIERE ON PBS
Nationwide Well Beings Campaign from WETA Leverages Power of Public Media, Engagement Partners, and Extended Digital Series to Highlight Caregiving Challenges and Advances
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| 15.04.2024 | IAC Joins with Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles in Strategic Partnership to Define The Daily Beast's Next Chapter | NEW YORK, April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) announced a new strategic partnership today with Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles to lead The Daily Beast. Effective immediately, Sherwood will serve as Publisher and CEO and Coles as ... |
| 06.04.2024 | Fashion designer finds rewarding career as chef cooking up "big, happy, colorful" meals | More than 70% of Americans say a rewarding career or job is extremely important for them to live a fulfilling life — more important than family, friends or wealth. CBS News interviewed a broad array of workers who chose unique jobs, for a s... |
| 29.03.2024 | The benefit that pays for itself and increases worker productivity | Economy The benefit that pays for itself and increases worker productivity
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| 10.03.2024 | More employers offer child care benefits | A growing number of employers are beefing up workers' child care benefits — driven by a labor market that gives workers more power and the inordinate difficulty of caregiving.
The big picture: 56% of American companies say they're prioritiz... |
| 23.01.2024 | OHAI.AI’s AI Assistant Revolutionizes Home Organization for Chief Household Officers | Ohai.ai’s AI virtual assistant, O, will support parents, caregivers, and more with family scheduling and coordination
Ohai.ai, a platform leveraging AI to revolutionize caregiving and improve the lives of families, launches led by Sheila Li... |
| 14.09.2023 | At The Edge Of The Cliff: Why Business Leaders Need To Care About The Expiring Federally Funded Childcare Act | For working parents, this September doesn’t just spell the start of the new school year — it also marks the end of childcare funding via the American Rescue Plan. Known as the “childcare cliff,” this act’s expiration means the withdrawal of... |
| 11.09.2023 | 4 Ways Employers Can Better Serve Working Moms | Society celebrates motherhood through extensive commercial campaigns, endless products and public messages, but there lies a disconcerting underbelly of policies and practices that systematically undermine the well-being and career prospect... |
| 12.07.2023 | How to make your home work for you through the years | (BPT) - Courtesy of Peerless® Faucet
“Aging in place” (aka independent living) is the phenomena of older adults remaining in their homes as they age, rather than relocating or moving into an institutional setting. In fact, about 75% of 50+-... |
| 30.05.2023 | More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to | Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute shortage.
But health care worker Jada Carter was lucky. Her two children went to Hospitots, one of the few places to stay open during the... |
| 21.04.2023 | 5 Proven Tips For Balancing Your Career And Motherhood | Work Life Balancegetty |
| 15.02.2023 | 32 Ways for Kids to Earn Money in 2023 | It’s time to talk about how your kids can make money. Why? There is no denying that life with kids can be expensive. Besides wanting the latest (and hottest) items on the market, kids also outgrow things quickly.
Furthermore, it teaches you... |
| 30.01.2023 | Ocean Media Set Up For Growth in 2023; New Wins in 2022, along with promotions and key hires Position the agency for a successful 2023 | HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB) January 30, 2023
Ocean Media, the leading Independent media-buying agency, has capped off another banner year in 2022 with a number of new client wins and is set up for growth in 2023 with several key new hi... |
| 27.01.2023 | New Research Shows Remote Work Essential For Caregivers | Work from homeSurface/Unsplash |
| 02.06.2022 | Canonical Crypto Launches $20M Inaugural Fund Backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon | Canonical Crypto, a newly opened venture capital firm, has raised $20 million for its inaugural fund to back infrastructure projects for blockchain development, with a preference for talent making the transition from Web 2 to Web 3.
The fun... |
| 26.04.2022 | IAC's Vivian Health Announces $60 Million Investment Led by Thoma Bravo | SAN FRANCISCO – Vivian Health, an IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) company and a leading healthcare jobs marketplace serving healthcare professionals first, today announced a $60 million primary and secondary equity investment led by Thoma Bravo, a leadin... |
| 13.01.2022 | Proof of Learn Raises $15M in Round Led by New Enterprise Associates | Proof of Learn (POL), a Web 3 ”learn-to-earn” platform, has raised $15 million in a funding round that was led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates.
Proof of Learn will use the funding to spread awareness among users, and it wi... |
| 05.01.2022 | IAC Appoints Christopher Halpin as Chief Financial Officer | NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) today announced the appointment of Christopher (Chris) Halpin as Chief Financial Officer, effective January 26, 2022. Mr. Halpin will join IAC from the National Football League, where... |
| 23.12.2021 | Investment Banking To Care.com: How This General Manager Landed Executive Roles At A Young Age | Natalie Mayslich, general manager of Care.com Ryan Christopher Jones |
| 20.12.2021 | HubSpot : The 7 Key Qualities That Define the Entrepreneur Mindset | Some salespeople are just built differently. They put another degree of effort and strategic thought into their day-to-day responsibilities - and they do this by employing the entrepreneur mindset.
The entrepreneur mindset is a special fram... |
| 01.12.2021 | IAC's Dotdash Announces Close of Meredith Transaction | NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) company Dotdash today announced the completion of its acquisition of Meredith Holdings Corp. ("Meredith"), owner of world-class brands such as PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gar... |
| 16.11.2021 | HubSpot : 60 Small Business Ideas for Anyone Who Wants to Run Their Own Business | If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn't have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life. Brian CheskyAirbnb Co-founder
Airbnb Co-founder, Brian Chesky, said, "If we tri... |
| 06.10.2021 | IAC's Dotdash to Acquire Meredith Corporation's National Media Group | NEW YORK and DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) and Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), a leading media company and owner of world-class brands such as PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Liv... |
| 12.07.2021 | How to Help Employees Work From Home With Kids | July 12, 2021 10 min read This story originally appeared on Calendar
I remember many years ago, when I was still considered a kid myself, hating the Staples “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” back-to-school commercial. It reminded m... |
| 19.05.2021 | Vimeo to Participate in JP Morgan Technology, Media, and Communications Conference | NEW YORK, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vimeo, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) will attend the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Communications Conference on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Anjali Sud, Chief Executive Officer of Vimeo, wil... |
| 09.05.2021 | You know what mothers really want for Mothers’ Day? A work and school schedule that lines up | A mother is working while her daughter plays next to her on an iPad. Getty Images
We pamper moms on Mother’s Day, but massages and gifts can’t make up for how society is stacked against mothers.
Millions of parents are constantly stressing ... |
| 01.04.2021 | Vimeo Announces Board of Directors for Post-Spin Off Public Company | NEW YORK, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vimeo, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC), today announced the anticipated composition of its Board of Directors, as the company prepares to spin-off from IAC. The spin-off is expected to be c... |
| 08.03.2021 | 4 Ways Your Company Can Radically Help Working Mothers | March 8, 2021 5 min read
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Major world events like pandemics or climate disasters take too many lives, shatter families, take homes, and wipe out entire industries. And each one h... |
| 18.02.2021 | Policygenius Welcomes Jeannie Kim as Vice President and General Manager of Content | NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial services leader Policygenius announced today the hiring of Jeannie Kim as the company's Vice President and General Manager of Content. Kim will oversee the company's content product strategy... |
| 03.02.2021 | Digital.com Names The Best Nanny Payroll Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) February 03, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best nanny payroll software of 2021. The top solutions were selected based on pay... |
| 10.09.2020 | While America Waits For A Second Stimulus Check, Here Are 12 Ways To Make $1,200 Fast | getty |
| 02.06.2020 | Amazon offers temporary backup family care to all 650,000+ U.S. employees as coronavirus rages on | As coronavirus pandemic rages on, eCommerce giant Amazon is joining other big tech companies by offering a temporary backup childcare benefit to employees who are struggling to keep up as they try to work from home while taking care of thei... |
| 01.03.2020 | Celebrating Women’s History Month With Justice Leah Ward Sears | Justice Leah Ward SearsPhoto provided by Leah Ward Sears |
| 20.12.2019 | IAC to Acquire Care.com | IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) is to acquire Care.com (NYSE: CRCM), a Waltham, Massachusetts-based online marketplace for finding and managing family care.
The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which IAC will acquire Car... |
| 26.07.2019 | The Best Bootcamp For Soft Skills May Be The Oldest Camp | Last Sunday was visitor’s day at Camp Northland, about 150 miles north of Toronto (240 Canadian kilometers), where my three boys are spending a month. It’s the camp I attended and my feeble attempt at providing them with a diverse summer ex... |
| 30.01.2019 | What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac
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| 15.01.2019 | 7 top part-time jobs to get in 2019 | Part-time jobs can be valuable for people in transition: students needing to support themselves while taking classes, parents who transition from being stay-at-home to entering the workforce, people who want to cover an employment gap, or p... |
| 20.11.2018 | When you need help caring for an aging parent | Dear Savvy Senior: Where can I turn for caregiving help? I help take care of my 78-year-old mother but I still have to work. — Exhausted Daughter
Dear Exhausted: Taking care of an aging parent — especially when juggling work and other famil... |
| 10.10.2018 | Starbucks will offer employees backup child care for $1 per hour | Originally Published by:
The cost of child care just hit an all-time high We need to talk about child-care expenses if we’re going to plan for them
Starbucks made a grande gesture this week toward the company’s working parents.
The coffee c... |
| 18.06.2018 | 7 High-Paying Summer Jobs For Teens | Shutterstock |
| 06.10.2017 | Stephanie Breedlove, Co-founder of Care.com Homepay, Provides Entrepreneurial Advice on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast | |
| 04.10.2017 | Bambino app helps parents find babysitters recommended by their neighbors | Parenting young children involves a lot of logistics, including what to do with them when you need to run a last-minute errand, go to an appointment or just have a few hours to decompress. For parents who don’t have friends or relatives the... |
| 21.03.2017 | Here are the 10 places where it's cheaper to raise a family in the city than a suburb | Mats Lindh/Flickr
In some places you can save up to $14,000 annually by choosing the city over a suburb.
When the time comes to raise a family, most people tend to flee cities for suburbs expecting they'll get more bang for their buck.
Adve... |
| 09.03.2017 | 4 Innovative Benefits That Will Help You Snag Top Talent | March 9, 2017 5 min read
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Money no longer rules where talent will end up, a fact evidenced by news anchor Megyn Kelly’s highly publicized exodus this past January from Fox News t... |
| 15.02.2017 | 25 Money-Making Ideas You Can Leverage Online | Image: Shutterstock |
| 05.02.2017 | Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne | Roger Lee Contributor
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| 04.12.2016 | Arranging care for faraway father entails professionals, gadgets | Dear Savvy Senior: Can you recommend any long-distance caregiving tips that can help me help my elderly father, who lives in another state?
He has physically declined over the past year but is determined to stay living in his own house.
— W... |
| 11.10.2016 | Kindly Care launches with $3.1M to help loved ones access vetted caregivers | Despite massive structural changes in the American healthcare system, proper care for the nation’s aging baby boomers remains out of reach for many people. Assisted living centers for our parents and grandparents suffering from dementia and... |
| 19.09.2016 | Stripe offers Instant Payouts to all contractors after early rollouts at Lyft, Care.com, goPanache | Stripe, the startup that competes against the likes of PayPal’s Braintree and WePay to provide payment services to digital businesses, is taking the wraps off its newest product to set it apart from the rest of the pack. Stripe is launching... |
| 30.08.2016 | 101 Ways To Save Money | Gallery: 20 Ways To Save More Money
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| 18.07.2016 | Bubble wants to tap users’ social graphs for an on-demand babysitting app | Who would you trust more with your kids: a person sent by a babysitting agency or the sitter who watched your friends’ kids last weekend?
Bubble, an on-demand babysitting app (iOS and Android) launching in London today, reckons most people ... |
| 03.07.2016 | Why Google Capital deal could augur the reemergence of so-called PIPEs | Last Wednesday, Google Capital ventured into the world of investing in publicly traded companies, announcing it has backed Care.com, a platform that connects people with caregivers which went public in early 2014.
With Google Capital invest... |
| 30.06.2016 | Care.com Receives $46.35M Investment from Google Capital | Care.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRCM), a Waltham, Massachusetts-based online marketplace for finding and managing family care, received a $46.35m investment from Google Capital, a growth equity fund backed by Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq GS: GOOGL).
The inv... |
| 29.06.2016 | Google Capital Just Became Care.com's Largest Shareholder | Care.com disclosed Wednesday afternoon that Google Capital, Alphabet's growth equity fund, has purchased a $46.35 million stake in the Waltham company.
"This is a huge opportunity to take advantage of Google Capital’s strategic experti... |
| 19.01.2016 | With Google, Facebook And Nextdoor, What’s Next For Lead Generation? | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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| 16.09.2015 | Envoy raises $3M for its on-demand senior care service and expands to San Antonio | As our lives get busier, who will take care of the elderly members of our family? If you’re a fan of the on-demand economy, then Envoy might be just the thing. It’s a family concierge service for seniors and family caregivers, and today it ... |
| 16.09.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 16.09.2015 | Envoy raises $3M for its on-demand senior care service and expands to San Antonio | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As our lives get busier, who will take care of the elderly members of our family? If you’re a fan of the on-demand economy, then Envoy ... |
| 16.09.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Lightspeed raises $61M to expand its point of sale to retailers and restaurants worldwide
As more mobile point-of-sale syste... |
| 14.09.2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
| 28.08.2015 | Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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| 02.06.2015 | The Freelance Economy | I was on the phone last night with Stephen DeWitt, the CEO of our portfolio company Work Market. He was talking about a specific community of people and I asked him how many of them were likely to be freelancers. He said “well the statistic... |
| 30.01.2015 | Fighting Sexism In Silicon Valley | Patricia Nakache Contributor
Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures.
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| 18.01.2015 | Mobile Commerce In 2015 | Patricia Nakache Contributor
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| 18.10.2014 | Facebook, Yelp, recent Internet IPOs buck downturn | Despite market turmoil, recent IPO'd Internet stocks are showing positive returns, so far in 2014
2014 has seen a slew of high profile companies going public, or at least filing to.
IPOs have included Candy Crush maker King, food delivery s... |
| 18.07.2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: Care.com, Plastiq, DraftKings | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s a trio of deals that popped up around the Boston area this week, ranging from a public Web company to smaller startups:
—Care.com, a publicly traded online marketplace ... |
| 18.07.2014 | Care.com acquires Citrus Lane for up to $48.6M | Citrus Lane is a social commerce platform designed toward mothers and their children
(Article previously incorrectly stated that this was Care's first acquisition since 2012)
Care.com, that service that is designed for families to find and ... |
| 17.07.2014 | Care.com Acquires Subscription Kids’ Goods Startup Citrus Lane In Up To $48.6M Deal | Care.com, the listed Massachusetts-based company that runs an online marketplace for finding and managing family care resources such as babysitters and elder caregivers, announced today that it has acquired Citrus Lane, the e-commerce start... |
| 27.02.2014 | Smarterer Raises $1.6M to Help Companies Discover Their Skill Gaps | Smarterer is now better helping companies make more informed decisions, with the help of $1.6 million. The Boston-based startup announced Thursday its newfound financing would be used to fuel the development and growth of its new enterprise... |
| 23.01.2014 | Care.com Raising $91M in IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Online caregiver marketplace Care.com is raising about $91 million in its initial public stock offering, topping its previously projected price in the Boston area’s first vent... |
| 10.01.2014 | Care.com raising $75M-$86M as it goes public, breaking Boston's tech IPO dry spell | 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!
Finding someone to take care of your loved ones i... |
| 12.12.2013 | Care.com raising $80M IPO to capture early (and massive) care market | Care.com is going public.
The company, which connects caregivers with people who need care, aims to raise $80 million in its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
Care took advantage of a JOBS Act provision which lets companies confidentially... |
| 12.12.2013 | Care.com raising $80M IPO to capture early (and massive) care market | 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!
Care.com is going public.
The company, which conn... |
| 12.12.2013 | Care.com Seeks $80M IPO, Still Unprofitable | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Care.com, an online marketplace for childcare, tutoring, and other personal services, has made its IPO paperwork public.
We knew this was coming—media reports had already pick... |
| 27.11.2013 | Boston Roundup: Care.com, Sonian, QD Vision, Rest Devices | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
—Care.com, a Waltham, MA-based operator of Web search services for finding babysitters and other personal service providers, has reportedly filed secret paperwork for an IPO. ... |
| 25.09.2013 | Introducing the Boston #TechTimeline: What Milestones Have Defined the City's History? | The city’s startup scene is thriving; “winning the war,” as Boston Mayor Thomas Menino might say. The East Coast-West Coast rivalry is dissipating, the argument becoming exhaustive, at best—largely because it’s shortsighted.
Boston’s brimmi... |
| 16.08.2013 | System Down! An Application Outage Survival Guide | A major system outage is every business’s worst nightmare, especially if you rely on applications to generate revenue. Depending on the scale of the outage this can be a very expensive problem—eCommerce stands to lose millions in sales for ... |
| 17.04.2013 | Report: Matrix Partners Raises $450M Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Another Massachusetts venture capital firm is apparently rounding up a new batch of investment dollars.
Fortune is reporting that Matrix Partners, headquartered in Waltham, MA... |
| 10.04.2013 | Boston Roundup: Care.com, Kendall Square, SavingStar | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some hiring, regulation, and investing news around the Boston area in the past few days:
—Care.com, the heavily-financed operator of online caregiver search services, is stoki... |
| 07.01.2013 | While many investors dabbled in digital health in 2012, these 8 did the most deals | Nearly 180 organizations invested in digital health companies in 2012. But, most of them did single deals. Only eight invested in three or more companies. Interestingly, the top investors by number of deals are an even mix of venture capita... |
| 07.12.2012 | Sheila Marcelo on the importance of thinking long term | Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo talks about long-term relationships
At our Vator Splash NY event this week, Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo delivered a riveting keynote address on the particulars of branding. And with Care.com now active in some 18... |
| 06.12.2012 | Sheila Marcelo on building the right team | Marcelo tells entrepreneurs to pick team members based on what you should be, not what you could be
Finding a caregiver is a daunting task, because no matter what kind of credentials they have or how many CPR and first aid classes they’ve t... |
| 05.12.2012 | Sheila Marcelo tells NY startups to "be authentic" | Marcelo explains at Vator Splash NY that branding is about building relationships
I think I have a feminist crush on Sheila Marcelo. The CEO of Care.com flew in from the UK to speak at Vator Splash NY (her plane literally landed an hour bef... |
| 02.11.2012 | Care.com's Sheila Marcelo on women, business & funding | Marcelo will be at the upcoming Vator Splash NY on December 5
Our third Vator Splash NY is coming up on December 5, and we're honored to have Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo as a keynote speaker. Care.com has raised $111 million to date, includ... |
| 02.10.2012 | eBay Is Now Selling Live Services, Launches Secretguru As A Beta Pilot In The UK | The auction giant eBay today is taking one more step in its transformation into a wider online marketplace. It has launched a new service in the UK called Secretguru— a concierge-style service where people can buy time from professionals in... |
| 18.09.2012 | Karoo app keeps parents & caregivers connected | Care.com launches the app to get families and caregivers on the same page
Striking a work/life balance is easy when you’re single and childless and living on your own. It goes like this: work your ass off, and then come home and watch last ... |
