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| May 13, 2013 | NewME To Bring Silicon Valley to Detroit With Pop-Up Event | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The San Francisco-based NewME Accelerator, a tech startup incubator focused on businesses led by minorities underrepresented in the tech world, is planning a Detroit pop-up ac... |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Detroit’s Ubi Video Offers Smaller Cable Providers a Way to Compete | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The only shows I watch on regular TV anymore are sporting events. I’m an avid consumer of television, particularly those shows in the HBO-Showtime-AMC stable, but appointment ... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Dwllr Brings Real Estate Pros’ Most-Used Tools Together In One App | It’s tough to be a real estate professional for reasons that go well beyond the state of the housing market. As a real estate pro, often you essentially work for yourself — it’s a set up which has real perks, but it also means that you need... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Derbywire Wants To Let Creatives Sell Works Straight From Their Smartphones | Thanks to the growth of the web in recent years and the advent of a number of startups making art- and design-focused marketplaces, the cliche of the “starving artist” may not stick around for much longer.
The latest entry into this realm i... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Plisten’s ‘Brand Boards’ Let People Express Themselves Through Their Favorite Big Names | When done right, brands can go way beyond a static marketing symbol — they take on a life of their own, and immerse themselves into customers’ psyches. Take the number of people who have had a Nike swoosh (or a BMW logo, or even a Facebook ... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Travtar Lets You Sell Those Hotel Reservations You’ve Booked But Can’t Use | If you’re like me, when it comes time to actually pay for a hotel reservation online, you double- and triple-check the dates (and the schedules of your travel companions) before you click that payment button. Hotel reservations typically se... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Given.to Wants To Take The Guesswork Out Of Pitching In Money For Group Gifts | The gifting space has been very hot lately in the web world — Facebook is even seeing gift-giving as having major potential for boosting its revenue — and now another brand new startup is throwing its hat into the ring. Given.to made its of... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Spriggle Wants To Let Parents Shop For Science-Friendly Kids’ Toys Through Tupperware-Type Parties | Spriggle made its debut last week out of the NewMe Accelerator with the aim of building a new, super social way for parents to test out and shop for kids’ toys — by bringing the experience into in-home playdates that are already a way of li... |
| Nov 4, 2012 | “Greed Trumps Race”: How To Be A Successful (African) American in Silicon Valley | Editor’s note: Dr. Paul Judge is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, co-founder and Chairman of Pindrop and Limitless Smart Shot, and previously led three companies to successful exits. Fo... |
| Nov 1, 2012 | Given.to: After three months, presenting at NewME Accelerator Demo Day today | McKeever Conwell and his co-founders, Sam Henry and Michael Washington, will present 12 weeks of work when they present their company, Given.to, at NewME Accelerator‘s Demo Day today.
“I’m very excited and nervous at the same time,” said Co... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | NoBadGift rebrands as Given.to, enters week eight of NewME Accelerator in San Francisco | About two months ago, McKeever Conwell arrived at the NewME Accelerator in San Francisco, ready to make the social gift-giving company he co-founded, NoBadGift.com, stronger.
But when Conwell arrived, NewME founder Angela Benton had just on... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | The Search For Minority Entrepreneurs Is Over — Now They Need To Be Ready For Investors | Editor’s note: Wayne Sutton is the founder and CEO of PitchTo, a mobile development lab that builds tools for investors to make smarter decisions and help entrepreneurs deliver exceptional pitches. This article is inspired by Dave McClure’s... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Kairos Lands $500K To Bring Facial Recognition Tech To Employee Time Clocks | Kairos, a startup that launched earlier this year out of the Spring 2012 class of the NewMe Accelerator, has landed $500,000 in seed funding from a group of angel backers.
The money will be put toward launching Kairos’ flagship app TimeCloc... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | Baltimore’s NoBadGift.com chosen for minority-focused NewME Accelerator in San Francisco | The buzzy Silicon Valley-based NewME Accelerator announced Wednesday seven startups to be part of its Summer/Fall 2012 class, reports TechCrunch. Among them is Baltimore-based NoBadGift.com, which allows users to create wish lists of items ... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | First Look: The 7 Startups In NewMe Accelerator’s Summer/Fall 2012 Class | NewMe Accelerator, the startup incubator program aimed at under-represented minorities in the tech industry (namely African Americans, Latinos, and women), announced today that it has chosen seven startups to be part of its Summer/Fall 2012... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| May 2, 2012 | 7 Startups Launch Out Of NewMe Accelerator’s Spring 2012 Demo Day [TCTV] | The NewMe Accelerator, a startup incubation program founded last year aimed at under-represented minorities in the tech world (namely African Americans, Latinos, and women), held its second-ever Demo Day today for its latest class of entrep... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Inside The NewMe Accelerator 2012 Startup House [TCTV] | The NewMe Accelerator, a startup incubator program focused on underrepresented minorities in the tech industry, assembles a select group of tech entrepreneurs from all over the United States every year to participate in its 12-week Silicon ... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | I’m A Startup — Why Am I Being Inundated With Cloud Providers? | Editor’s note: Robert Scoble is Rackspace’s Startup Liaison and a blogger. Follow him on Twitter @scobleizer.
Over the past few weeks, when I’ve visited several startup incubators from Stanford’s Start X, to Los Angeles’ Start Engine, to th... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Female-Focused Accelerator “Women Innovate Mobile” Announces Its First Participants | Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), the new accelerator aimed to help promote companies started by female entrepreneurs, is ready to debut its first class. Like other incubators, WIM provides mentoring, support, free office space, and seed funding... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | DreamIt Ventures Launches A New Minority-Focused Accelerator, DreamIt Access | DreamIt Ventures, the startup incubator with programs in place in New York, Philadelphia, and, most recently, Israel, is announcing a year-long minority accelerator program called DreamIt Access. The program, launched with Comcast Ventures ... |
| Feb 11, 2012 | Minority-Focused NewME Accelerator Announces Second Class of Startups | NewME Accelerator, the incubator launched last year to support minority entrepreneurs, just announced its latest group of startups.
In her blog post about the new class (NewME’s second), founder and CEO Angela Benton also talks about the su... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | 500 Startups-Funded OneSchool Raises $750K For College Student-Focused App | OneSchool, a free mobile app for college students which provides easy access to maps, course schedules, directories, bus routes, news, student groups and more, is announcing its official launch today in eight universities around the U.S. Th... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | NewME Accelerator scores sponsorship from major VC | US-based start-up program NewME Accelerator has secured venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a sponsor, joining the likes of Google, HP and social networking site Tagged.
Operating out of San Francisco, NewME describes itself as “a r... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | NewME Accelerator Adds Andreessen Horowitz As Sponsor, Plus New Tech Mentors | The NewME Accelerator program is getting more support as it heads towards its second class of founders, today announcing that it’s landed top venture firm Andreessen Horowitz as a sponsor/partner. Joining other backers, including Google, HP... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Done is Gold: Interview with AisleFinder’s Curtiss Pope | I recently interviewed Curtiss Pope, Founder and CEO of AisleFinder, a company that makes the signs at the top of each aisle in the supermarket irrelevant. With applications available for iOS, and now Android, and a database of over 3,000 s... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | City Hall hosts screening of tech-focused Black In America documentary | Monday evening in the Mayor’s Reception Room on the second floor of City Hall, Mayor Michael Nutter and more than 30 influential African-American technologists watched a screening of the fourth installment of Soledad O’Brien’s Black In Amer... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Why CNN’s ‘Black in America’ misses the point on race in tech | Almost no one has seen episode 4 of CNN’s documentary series “Black in America,” about race in the technology world, but a lot of folks are already jumping in on the race controversy the show’s promo has kickstarted.
A lot of folks need to ... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | NewMe Accelerator, Aiming To Encourage Black Tech Entrepreneurs, Has Its First Demo Day | Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don’t “look” like I should work in technology, meaning that I’m a ... |