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| Jan 23, 2026 | Cork Raises $5.5M in Seed Funding | Cork, a NYC-based company that provides a protocol building tokenized risk infrastructure for onchain finance, raised $5.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Road Capital, and a16z CSX with participation from 432 Ventures, BitGo Venture... |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Веб-кейсы: лучшие сайты для привлечения клиентов в авторском топ-10 онлайн-бизнеса | Лучшие сайты для привлечения клиентов — результат синтеза стратегии, технологий и эмпатии к пользователю. Они соответствуют рекомендациям предпринимателей и даже опережают ожидания рынка: адаптивность к любым гаджетам дышит, контент говорит... |
| Oct 22, 2025 | MIT Technology Review's EmTech MIT 2025: Leading with Transformative Technology | MIT's flagship conference returns November 4–6 to explore how to lead with confidence amid technological disruption.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The countdown is on to EmTech MIT 2025, MIT Technology Review's flagship ev... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Aitu Brand Launch held in Shanghai, Highlighting AI Technology as the Future of Apparel Manufacturing | SHANGHAI, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 23rd, Aitu, the world's first AI-powered apparel manufacturing brand, themed "AI Reinvents Sewing Machine," held a launch event in Shanghai. The event, livestreamed globally, s... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | What drives globally disruptive innovation in China? IDEO reflects on 20 years in this dynamic, extreme market | As a global design and innovation firm, we are continually learning what’s next for design and innovation, and China offers an abundance of opportunities for this.”
— Remy Jauffret, Partner and Managing Director of IDEO ChinaSHANGHAI, CHINA... |
| Nov 12, 2024 | What Would You Tell a Therapist If You Were Anonymous? A Lot, This Founder Realized, and It Helped Her Raise $52 Million. Zeera's audio app has the same clinical outcomes as one-on-one therapy, but is done anonymously, which makes more people want to seek out help. | Ariela Safira was studying at Stanford University when a friend attempted to take her own life. It was 2013, and visiting her friend at a facility left Safira feeling scared. "It was the first time I had ever seen mental health care,&q... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Disrupting AI with Human-Centered Design: Tatyana Mamut on Harnessing Human Skills | DI PRS EP 146 - TATYANA MAMUT
Tatyana Mamut, a renowned expert in technological innovation and disruptive change, joins Karla Jo Helms on the Disruption Interruption podcast to explore the intersection of technology, culture, and humanity. ... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | User-Centered Design (UCD) Process: Полное руководство | Процесс ориентированного на пользователя дизайна (UCD) определяет этапы на протяжении всего цикла проектирования и разработки, уделяя особое внимание глубокому пониманию того, кто будет использовать продукт. Проще говоря, пользователь наход... |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Design thinking в IT-проектах | История дизайн-мышления (design thinking) началась более полувека назад, когда Герберт Саймон озвучил идею дизайн-мышления в 1969 году в книге «Науки об искусственном» (The Sciences of the Artificial). В своей работе он привёл тезис об общн... |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Rockefeller Foundation Announces Inaugural Cohort of Big Bets Climate Fellows | 16 leaders based in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Puerto Rico selected to advance climate solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
NEW YORK, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation anno... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Design firm Zypsy will do $100K worth of work for 1% equity for early-stage startups | Zypsy, a design firm with a track record of helping early-stage startups, has launched a new and somewhat unique venture investment program.
It will be offering 10 startups up to $100,000 of brand and product design services, spanning 8 to ... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | IDEO APPOINTS DEREK ROBSON AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEO, the global design and innovation company, today announced that Derek Robson has been named its Chief Executive Officer, effective January 5, 2023.
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Robson has been Managing Part... |
| Jun 21, 2022 | Building community-powered systems lands $5.2 million for Neol | London-based decentralised and tokenised cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, Neol has raised $5.2 million in funding. The seed round was co-led by kyu Collective and Global Ventures. Also participating in the round were Lea... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Antimatter raises $12M Series A to help SaaS companies keep their customer data secure | With SaaS becoming the standard for most business software, the security demands on SaaS companies are constantly increasing. Add users who need their data sandboxed from others or kept in a specific geographic region and the workload for d... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Nurturing a green world! Lune brings in $4 million to make customer experience climate positive | London-based climate tech company Lune has raised $4 million funding. The round was led by early-stage VC Crane and saw the participation of fifteen angel investors, including Maximilian Tayenthal (co-founder of N26), Fredrik Hjelm (co-foun... |
| Mar 7, 2022 | UK-based LifeScore has raised £11 million and wants to ‘soundtrack your life’ | The UK-based startup LifeScore has raised £11 million in a Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures. The funding will be used to further develop the company’s proprietary adaptive music technology as it aims to expand its customer bas... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | HubSpot : 28 Case Study Examples Every Marketer Should See | Putting together a compelling case study is one of the most powerful strategies for showcasing your product and attracting future customers. But it's easier said than done. In this post, we'll go over the definition of a case study and the ... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | A therapy startup set to launch in person in March pivoted online in one week and went on to land $6 million in funding, and now it's looking to reinvent mental-health care as people grapple with the effects of the pandemic | Ariela Safira. Ariela Safira This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jul 15, 2020 | Реальная окупаемость инвестиций в UX: Кейсы редизайна в сфере B2B | Дизайн, ориентированный на пользователя — это не только создание превосходного опыта взаимодействия для клиентов. Это еще и умный бизнес ход. В этой статье мы разберем несколько успешных кейсов редизайна в сфере B2B.
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| Jun 12, 2020 | The Public Sector Is Central To The Recovery — And Here Is Why | PA Consulting played a key part in scaling up the production of ventilators to be used in treating ... [+] coronavirus patients.PA Consulting |
| May 26, 2020 | Corporate innovation weekly: Autonomous planes, Sweden’s foodtech valley | Agriculture Growth advice
Leaps, Bayer’s strategic investment vehicle, took part in the $6m Series A funding round for Apollo Agriculture, a Nairobi-based commercial farming platform that gives small farmers advice and access to finance. Av... |
| May 15, 2020 | The Constraints That Move Us Forward: How Covid-19 Has Sparked Creative Solutions | Different Approach - Different Direction Getty |
| Aug 26, 2019 | The Smartest Way To Sell A Product Is To Position It Like A Service | Products face a tough marketplace. But companies can break out of that rut by positioning them like services instead: renewable must-haves. |
| Jul 25, 2019 | The Sorry State of Cybersecurity Imagery | The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple Google Image search for the term proves the point: It’s all white men in hoodies hovering menacingly over keyboards, green “Matrix”-style 1s and 0s, glowing locks and serve... |
| Apr 8, 2019 | “But Why?” Ask These Questions to Actualize Innovation Efforts | In this digital age when all the information in the world is readily accessible at our fingertips, the secret to digital transformation and innovation is not data — it’s questions. If you can ask the right questions and reframe the issues y... |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Алексей Иванов, Directly: как скейлить культуру, дизайнить продукты с искусственным интеллектом и менять свое поведение | Первая часть интервью Саши Мемуса (Chatfuel) с Алексеем Ивановым, старшим дизайнером ИИ-стартапа Directly в Сан-Франциско.
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| Feb 5, 2019 | The geniuses that helped design Apple's first mouse have set their sights on blockchain and promise the Internet will never be the same again | Jeff Chiu/AP
Steve Jobs turned to IDEO to design the first mouse.
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| Sep 16, 2018 | Дизайн-мышление в XX и XXI веках. Как проектировать изменения к лучшему | Anonymous Мнение 16 сентября 2018, 17:56 Дизайн-мышление в XX и XXI веках. Как проектировать изменения к лучшему
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| Sep 10, 2018 | UPDATE: Umitron Increases Seed Funding Round for Aquaculture Automation Tech to $11m | *UPDATED SEPTEMBER 6, 2018: Umitron added a further S$3.7m ($2.7m) of funding from SPARX Capital’s Mirai Creation Fund.
Umitron, an Asian startup using satellite imagery, IoT, and automation to increase the efficiency of offshore aquacultur... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Cross Creative Delegates Announced | The Cross Creative 2017 programme is aimed at professionals within Scotland’s commercial digital companies. It gives the individuals and the companies they work for an opportunity to gain a competitive edge and raise their ambitions within ... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Startups say this fintech ‘lab’ is giving them needed access to Wall Street and regulators | Banks want to know what around the corner is trying to put them out of business, so it’s no surprise that a spate of fintech-focused accelerator programs has sprung into existence in recent years. For example, Deutsche Bank just opened is f... |
| Sep 20, 2017 | Startup With Google Provides Business Resources for Founders | Google has launched a new website compiling a ton of resources for startups. While it's a little self-advertising — the search giant's name features prominently in the site's title, Startup with Google — the site contains a wealth of inform... |
| Sep 18, 2017 | 3 Design Principles to Diversify Your Startup’s Revenue Model | Few entrepreneurs launch a startup without hoping to earn a little revenue — or a lot, let's be honest — from the venture. But there are dozens of ways to earn money, and the best method is different for every business. Startups in particul... |
| Jul 31, 2017 | Build Empathy and Find Joy—How to Combine Making and Entrepreneurism in Your Classroom | You know how they say antipathy is the mother of invention? Five years ago Karen P. Kaun, founder of Makeosity, was running a New York City-based nonprofit that helped teachers bring hands-on STEAM projects into their classrooms, when she s... |
| May 29, 2017 | Why Tom Kelley of IDEO is the ultimate disciple of ‘design thinking’ | Jared Erondu Contributor
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| Apr 30, 2017 | The past, present, and future of design in Silicon Valley | Steve Vassallo Contributor
Steve Vassallo is a general partner at Foundation Capital and the author of the new book The Way To Design.
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| Jan 2, 2017 | Museums, startups and accelerators… oh, my! | Brendan Ciecko Contributor
Brendan Ciecko is the CEO and founder of Cuseum.
Startup accelerators have become an integral part of helping early-stage companies build, fund and bring to market new products and ideas. Countless startups wieldi... |
| Oct 9, 2016 | Japan: IDEO and Genuine Startups partner to launch new VC fund | Premium
Influential design firm IDEO and Tokyo-based VC firm Genuine Startups announced last Monday that they will launch a new venture capital fund, D4V. This is aimed at aiding early-stage Japanese startup ventures enter the international... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models | This profile is part of an EdSurge Research Guide about school redesign and the landscape of service provider organizations that support schools and districts throughout the process. The full guide includes a report highlighting trends, ins... |
| Jun 27, 2016 | Google launches Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform for teaching kids to code | Google today announced Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform that allows developers, designers and educators to build physical programming experiences that can help kids (5+) learn to code.
While Google worked together with design fir... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Why You Should Never Take a Job Just for the Money | The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question “In choosing a career, h... |
| May 25, 2016 | New Report Explores Design Thinking in Financial Services | Design thinking is a methodology used during the process of designing and a problem-solving protocol which consists in, first, defining the problem, and then, implementing the solutions, always with the needs of the user demographic at the ... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Samsung Invents a Tri-Fold Smartphone that supports Multiple Operating Systems
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| Dec 8, 2015 | Better Health By Design: Making Healthcare Tech More Usable, Understandable And Profitable | John Maeda Contributor
John Maeda, design partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is an American designer, technologist and served as the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
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| Oct 23, 2015 | How Major Retailer Target is Collaborating with MIT and IDEO on Food Technology | What happens when one of America’s favorite retailers, one of the world’s most renowned research institutions, and a global design firm team up to explore the future of food?
A multi-stage initiative to push the boundaries of science, techn... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | Homeward Health developing a frailty tool, better assess at-risk patients | The Ohio-based startup has three products: tablet-based apps that let patients handle more of the discharge, extract data to pinpoint patients who are more likely to be re-admitted to a hospital, and provide better care for those at-risk pa... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | Finistere Ventures Breaks Norm to Invest in a Nutritional Food Discovery App | A nutrition-driven food discovery app has caught the attention of established agriculture technology investor Finistere Ventures in what could be described as a break away from the venture capital firm’s usual stomping ground.
ShopWell Labs... |
| Sep 16, 2015 | Jillian Kenny – founder of Machinam | This is part of a series of interviews with members of the Foundation for Young Australians Young Social Pioneers program which supports Australia’s best and brightest emerging social entrepreneurs and innovators, aged 18-29. The program am... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | Mondo: дерзкая инновация для Великобритании, обычный банковский сервис для России | Очаровывая регуляторов
Жарким июльским вечером Том Бломфилд (Tom Blomfield) вышел из здания Банка Англии в центре Лондонского Сити и тут же снял пиджак. Двадцатидевятилетний генеральный директор Mondo — цифрового банка для смартфонов, выход... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Microsoft Explores Blockchain Tech's Use for Social Good | The ways in which blockchain technology can be used to support social good were discussed at an event hosted by Microsoft’s Civic Innovation team in New York last night.
Taking place at the LMHQ venue in Lower Manhattan, the event was kicke... |
| May 6, 2015 | Between the Extremes: The Fundamentals of an Innovative School | The call for innovative solutions that will disrupt an antiquated school model have grown to a din. Yet even with more education innovation groups emerging--incubators, graduate programs, funds, and companies--two stifling trends remain fru... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Educators and Entrepreneurs: Get Thee to a Classroom and Observe Students | Forget policy. Forget expertise. Want to design better schools? Force yourself to sit in a classroom and see what it is actually like to be a student.
Alexis Wiggins, a veteran high school teacher, shadowed students for two days and recentl... |
| Oct 9, 2014 | Medication manager PillPack raises $8.75M to help double staff and go nationwide by 2015 | The company began the year with 12 staff and expects to have 25 by the end of 2014. Next year it hopes to increase it to 50. Although sales and marketing are a priority, designers and developers will be part of that growth, too. It is curre... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Jamie Lee – founder of Kids at Switch | Jamie Lee, founder of Kids at SWiTCH, is changing the way kindergartens, schools, childcare centres, sporting groups and parents entertain and educate children. Boasting a hybrid entrepreneurial skill-set: strong academic accomplishments, b... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | What a Peruvian School Designed by IDEO Looks Like | What happens when a billionaire, an ex-engineer, and an IDEO design team get together to build a school system in Peru?
From the outside, it looks something like this:
Step inside, and you’ll see bright colors and flexible space. Students e... |
| Jul 31, 2014 | Meet EVO, San Francisco’s Answer To The Ultimate Urban Utility Bike | Every couple of years, the Oregon Manifest launches a contest designed to surface new ideas in bike design from teams across the country. The project this year has tasked designers from five cities to build what they believe is the “ultimat... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Top designers react to Airbnb’s controversial new logo | No, design pros aren’t taking Airbnb’s new logo as hard as you are.
Immediately after Airbnb unveiled its new logo mark on Wednesday, the company was hit with heavy criticism for its suggestive shape and its startling similarity to the exis... |
| Jun 27, 2014 | Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language | Two days ago, Google revealed its next generation “Material” design language — a departure from past guidelines and a clear reaction to design trends made popular by Apple and Microsoft.
To fully digest the impact Material will have on the ... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | SoundHawk Unveils A Wearable For Your Listening Pleasure, Partners With FoxConn | Somewhere in the midst of too many rock concerts, loud dance clubs and blasting Spotify right into our eardrums, some of us have lost a bit of our hearing – and we’re never gonna get it back. But we’re not deaf, we just can’t pick out certa... |
| Jun 8, 2014 | Picfair Raises $520K To Take On Getty With An Image Marketplace | Sites like Tumblr and Reddit have taken the practice of sharing pictures and turning them into viral memes into something of an art form. But on the paid, professional side of the equation — when pictures are used for commercial purposes — ... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Julep bets that crowd-sourced products will change the beauty industry, raises $30M | Andreessen Horowitz-backed Julep believes the beauty industry lacks innovation. The company just raised $30 million to change that — although it’s claimed “tech startup DNA” may just be a marketing vehicle.
Like a beating drum, Julep pitche... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | On Failure And Embracing Hard Work: Q & A with Samantha Morshed of Hathay Bunano | Dear readers, please find a nice place and get comfortable with yourself because this is not an interview that you want to miss! We are honored to interview social entrepreneur and Founder of Hathay Bunano Samantha Morshed. Samantha has a b... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Aaron Marcus, Berkeley's Bard of User-Centered Design, Battles "High-Order Crap" | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Aaron Marcus, watching from his perch on Euclid Street in the Berkeley hills above San Francisco Bay, has seen the business world’s infatuation with design rise and recede, ri... |
| Feb 1, 2014 | Peek Is A Playful Calendar App, From An Ex-IDEO Designer, For People Who Aren’t Forever Busy | Peek is a new (paid) calendar app for iOS that’s aiming to appeal to the social middle ground of people whose lives don’t consist of non-stop meetings from 9 ’til 9. So not a calendar app for professional calendar nerds, then. The app rethi... |
| Jan 30, 2014 | Ben Rennie – CEO and Co-founder of 6.2 | Ben Rennie is the CEO and co-founder of 6.2 and comes from Sydney. He resides on the NSW South Coast.
Widely regarded as a leader in innovation & creativity, Ben works daily to transform organisational thinking to future proof some of A... |
| Jan 27, 2014 | Venture-backed beauty startup Julep is crowdfunding its new bendable nail-polishing tool | It’s not common for a company with more than $25 million in financial backing to run a crowdfunding campaign, but in a market where real customer feedback is key, Julep says the approach makes more sense than you might think. Julep CEO Jane... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Founders Fund and SOSventures launch startup accelerator for Leap Motion’s gesture tech | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Founders Fund and SOSventures have joined to launch Leap Axlr8r –– a startup accelerator for companies building on Leap Motion, the ges... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Which of these 8 ideas to transform healthcare will Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fund? | Just say no to communication breakdown Fred Trotter of Not Only Development wants to improve the flow of medical information. That includes improving health literacy by helping people better understand their healthcare, which can lead to in... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | A healthcare design primer: 5 cool articles that will help you get up to speed | 2. “Healthcare Is Broken. And This Designer Thinks She Can Fix It”
Want to know the basics of why design and healthcare are in the same sentence in the first place? Read this profile of IDEO Active Health Lead Gretchen Wustrack at Wired.
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| Sep 11, 2013 | Enigma Launches A New Developer Program That Gives API Access To Civic-Minded Hackers | It’s been a very busy few months since the Enigma team took home the Disrupt Cup back in New York, and co-founder Hicham Oudghiri took the stage here in San Francisco today to deliver an update on the company’s trajectory… and unveil a new ... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | One startup’s quest: Standardize neonatal resuscitations, guide physicians through crisis events | Inspired by his time as a practitioner delivering babies in ICU, as well as his firm belief in Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto, Coelho created NeoCue. It’s part hardware, part software, and monitors vitals then pushes them through a ... |
| Aug 2, 2013 | Bucket Lister is a morbid, colorful to-do list for your dreams and life goals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Is your favorite to-do list app not long-term enough for you? Then meet Bucket Lister — a to-do list app that focuses on the big pictur... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Michelle Williams – founder of Ideaction | Michelle is the founder of Ideaction, a connector, facilitator, community manager (offline and online) and strategist. Michelle and Ideaction have a focus on the “participatory” environment – co-design, collaboration and online movements to... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | A startup for startups: helping entrepreneurs keep their personal networks intact | Crowdfunding has taken off in healthcare, and although the majority of campaigns fail, those that succeed seem to be getting most of their dollars from their close social networks.
But assembling that network early and keeping track of ever... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Microsoft Surface: From Idea To Pro | When it comes to designing new hardware, most companies are pretty quiet about the design process. Microsoft, with its Surface tablets, is taking a far more open approach than many other companies. Just a few days ahead of the launch of the... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | An all-in-one social, telehealth solution to help seniors age in place attracts $5M – and big name partners | The Angela Personal Interaction Device is actually a platform that can be used on tablets, iPhones and, thanks to a strategic partnership with LG that’s being piloted at three senior care communities, in commercial TVs. It serves as a singl... |
| Nov 10, 2012 | Box and Yammer founders say: it’s time to beautify enterprise software | 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!
LOS ANGELES — For Yammer‘s cofounder, user-experi... |
| Nov 10, 2012 | Box and Yammer founders say: it’s time to beautify enterprise software | LOS ANGELES — For Yammer‘s cofounder, user-experience design may be a solution for large companies getting their “asses handed to them” by scrappy startups.
Today, Yammer’s Adam Pisoni and Box‘s Aaron Levie took to the stage at Connected En... |
| Aug 5, 2012 | Computer, Walk With Me | Editor’s note: Gentry Underwood is a software designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Orchestra, Bring a Trailer, and formerly led the Knowledge Sharing domain at IDEO. You can find him on Twitter at @gentry.
Let’s start with the obvious: ... |
| May 28, 2012 | 25 things investors say when rejecting your startup | 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!
After speaking with a number of fellow “hustlers”... |
| May 4, 2012 | Harnessing the power of emotional engagement | IDEO’s Rodrigo Martinez believes we all have the power to improve people’s lives by gleaning small insights from everyday interactions
By Lindsey Hoshaw
“What is the purpose of healthcare?” To a room full of doctors, nurses and other health... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Easy-to-Use Mashup Tool ifttt Gets Betaworks Backing | Point and click web mashup startup ifttt (“if this then that”) has raised financing from cutting-edge tech incubator Betaworks. News of the funding came to us via NeuVC’s bot watching the firm’s portfolio page, which is fitting given the na... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Some Takeaways from Silicon Valley | Two weeks ago I was fortunate enough to travel with about 30 business and community leaders from Greater Baltimore (GB) to Palo Alto, CA. This trip is part of a series of executive “field trips” organized by the Economic Alliance of Greater... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Mobile Learning Platform Stickery Raises $325K From Google Ventures, 500 Startups And Others | Educational games platform Stickery announced $325K in seed funding today, from Google Ventures and 500 Startups in addition to other international investors.
Stickery just launched its “Mermaid Waters: Adventures of Hana & Cory” game —... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | Design Competition Yields Bikes Of The Future | Oregon Manifest, a nonprofit located in Portland, has been running a competition over the last few months in which students and pro teams work to create a next-generation city bike. This isn’t about speed (like the McLaren Venge) or concept... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | Zurb: The Boutique Interaction Design Firm That’s Really About Business | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Why did Color, the $41 million startup that was launched with such force in March, slam instantly and with equal force into a wall of user dissatisfaction? The folks at Zurb h... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Bashpole Group: Center City invention house launches first product, the Pocket Grill [VIDEO] | Ben Ashpole has a technology company, and its first product is the infomercial-ready Pocket Grill, boasted to be “the first full-sized grill that fits in your pocket.”
And with a Kickstarter campaign, he’s aiming to push the first round of ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Tribal Leadership: A Review | Organizational leadership theories too often manifest into tedious memoirs peppered with Sun Tzu and Machiavelli quotes. The frequent outcome is subjecting teams to rewriting job priorities as MBOs, KPIs or another pedantic upper management... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by bestselling author and former venture capitalist Peter Sims. His next book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. He can be found on Twitter @petersims.
In his rec... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Co-working space General Assembly gives NYC startups a home | New York City’s tech ecosystem has been flourishing recently, with both rookies and alumni from local successes like Foursquare, Etsy and Gilt Groupe starting companies. Co-working space General Assembly (GA) is looking to become the centra... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Ideo Spinoff ShopWell Says Better Health Starts at the Supermarket; Part 3: Food as Data | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
These days, the simple act of going to the grocery store is a fraught and anxious affair. Americans are being told that what they choose to eat isn’t just a personal decision,... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | ShopWell, Ideo’s First Big Spinoff, Says Better Health Starts at the Supermarket | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control shocked the nation two weeks ago with a study projecting that by the year 2050, as many as one fifth to one third of U.S. adults... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | ShopWell makes grocery shopping more personal | Nutrition advice site ShopWell, which raised $1.1 million in funding last month, launched its free iPhone app today. The app, powered by bar code scanner RedLaser, allows users to scan grocery bar codes and get personalized nutrition inform... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 9/15/2010 | Twitter launches redesign; Conviva raises $15M; ShopWell gets $1M; Google and GM get more social
Conviva raised $15 million in C Series funding, bringing its total amount raised to $44 million since the companies launch in 2006. Funding cam... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Palm Pre designer Peter Skillman leaves Palm/HP | You can now add yet another name to the ever-growing Palm defection list. Peter Skillman, the Vice President of Design at Palm, and the person who was in charge of designing the Palm Pre, has left the company, according to TechCrunch.
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| Aug 9, 2010 | Palm Pre designer Peter Skillman leaves Palm/HP | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
You can now add yet another name to the ever-growing Palm defection list. Peter Skillman, the Vice President of Design at Palm, and the... |
| May 2, 2010 | Inside Brazil's Advertising Startup Boom | I just got back from a few weeks in Brazil. It was one of my last research trips for my upcoming book on entrepreneurship in emerging markets. During my last trip to the country, I wrote about the preponderance of finance multinationals and... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Tendril unveils device to make saving energy run like clockwork | 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!
A horde of companies is taking on home energy man... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Tendril unveils device to make saving energy run like clockwork | A horde of companies is taking on home energy management — and each is working to present consumers with energy consumption information in a way that will actually make them change their behavior and conserve resources. One of the frontrunn... |
