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07.09.2024 | The Future of Hiring and Hospitality: Two Questions and a Kiosk Revolution | In the fast-paced world of hiring and hospitality, simplicity reigns supreme. Two questions can unlock the door to talent. Meanwhile, a kiosk is reshaping how customers interact with businesses. Let’s dive into these two transformative tren... |
07.09.2024 | The Art of Hiring: Avoiding Pitfalls and Finding Gems | Hiring is like fishing. You cast your line, hoping to reel in the big one. But too often, we snag the wrong catch. Mistakes in hiring can cost time, money, and morale. To avoid these pitfalls, it’s essential to refine your approach. Here’s ... |
03.09.2024 | I've Interviewed Over 2000 Candidates — Here Are the 2 Questions I've Asked the Best Hires I've learned that there are only two questions that really matter when hiring. | I've held positions in several companies where I needed to make hiring decisions. That includes Square (Block), Weebly, and FutureFund, the free fundraising platform for K-12 school groups that I founded. All of those businesses require tal... |
27.07.2024 | OpenAI's SearchGPT: A New Dawn in Search Technology | OpenAI has stepped into the ring with its latest creation: SearchGPT. This prototype search engine, unveiled recently, aims to redefine how we seek information online. It’s a bold move, one that could shake the foundations of the search eng... |
25.07.2024 | 5 Lessons Nonprofit Leaders Can Learn from Big Tech Nonprofits can do more good by adopting a few key lessons from tech companies — like focusing on efficiency and using data for strategic decision-ma... | FutureFund, the company I run now, is a very different organization than Square or Weebly, where I worked previously. The biggest difference? Instead of a typical B2B startup, we exist to help K-12 school groups fundraise, which means we wo... |
19.09.2022 | I quit my teaching job to start a small business because I cried daily from the stress. I'm so happy I did. | Redeem now
Cheryl Ritzel decided to quit her teaching job after 26 years. The final straw was the pandemic.
She was only five years away from retirement and receiving full benefits from her pension.
Ritzel started a local photography busine... |
07.03.2021 | How to Turn Your Idea into a Business | March 7, 2021 9 min read
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Ask any successful entrepreneur how they came up with the idea for their business, and they’ll likely be able to pinpoint the exact moment or scenario. ... |
24.02.2021 | American company Shippo raises US $45 million in series D round | Shippo, an American software shipping services company, raised an additional US $ 45million investment in Q4 2020. In what is termed as a Series D funding, the company saw major participation from D1 capital. |
05.01.2021 | Digital.com Names Best Photography Website Builders of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) January 05, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best photography website builders of 2021. The top platforms were evaluated based ... |
08.09.2020 | A Guide to Marketing a New Business | 0 shares
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07.08.2019 | The Geocities Archive Project will make you want to gouge your eyes out [Update] | The internet has changed significantly over the years. These days if you want a public presence on the web you can create pages on various social networks, or build websites and host them on your own domain, or on a service like Weebly or W... |
05.09.2018 | David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit | David Rusenko from Weebly (YC W07) details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today.
Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ |
05.09.2018 | David Rusenko – How To Find Product Market Fit | David Rusenko from Weebly (YC W07) details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today.
Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ |
30.08.2018 | Weebly brings more e-commerce features to mobile | Weebly is part of Square now, but it continues to update as a standalone product. This week, for example, the company announced a number of new e-commerce features for the Weebly mobile app.
Those features include the ability to ship and pr... |
30.04.2018 | Square Acquires Weebly for $365 Million, Aims to Be a One-Stop Solution for eCommerce Businesses | Digital payments company Square has announced plans to acquire Weebly for approximately $365 million in cash and stock. The purchase was in line with Square’s objective to provide a cohesive solution to entrepreneurs in running their busine... |
27.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, April 27 | MEGA-MONEY
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With Sequoia Global Growth Fund III, the firm aims to buck the hot venture market trend of aggressive man... |
14.12.2017 | Guest Blog: Allister Frost, Wild Orange Media | Creating and maintaining a website is far easier today than ever before, says Allister Frost (pictured) of Wild Orange Media
Many small business owners are perplexed by the choice of having a website or Facebook page. Some complain about lo... |
31.08.2017 | Five years after its launch, website building platform Strikingly raises $6M Series A | A website built using Strikingly’s platform.
Half a decade after it was founded, website building platform Strikingly finally decided it’s time to raise a Series A. The Y Combinator alum announced that it has closed a $6 million round from ... |
11.08.2017 | 113 Tools Every Startup Needs | Appreciate and respect your competitors and you’ll be more capable of outdoing them, writes Rohan Perera, Facilitator/Consultant at Lean Disruptor
There are 113 links in this article to help an entrepreneur through every step of their start... |
12.04.2017 | Millennials: Your Dream Job Is a Solid Portfolio Away | When hiring for both non-technical and technical positions, companies are searching for all-star talent who take initiative, work as a team, and provides exceptional value to the organization. However, when you're applying to a job, your re... |
21.10.2016 | Website creator Weebly leaks over 43 million accounts | One of the world's most popular personal and business website creation platforms, Weebly, has suffered a data breach believed to affect over 43 million user accounts.
The company confirmed the breach to iTnews.
"Weebly recently became ... |
21.09.2016 | Weebly’s online platform adds email marketing | 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!
Weebly launched in 2007, at a time when businesse... |
21.09.2016 | Weebly updates its website builder with a focus on e-commerce and marketing | Weebly launched a new version of its platform today.
While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to build my own website), CEO David Rusenko said that with Weebly 4, “We feel like for the first time... |
29.07.2016 | No Money? No Problem. Here’s your Free Startup Kit | Disclaimer: The only condition - you won’t spend a penny…and nothing illegal (obviously).
Don’t have money, but want to launch your own startup? You can do it for free. There are websites that offer tools and features at no cost that visito... |
29.07.2016 | No Money? No Problem. Here’s your Free Startup Kit | Disclaimer: The only condition - you won’t spend a penny…and nothing illegal (obviously).
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Don’t have money, but want to launch your own startup? You can do it for free. There are websites that offer tools and features at no co... |
16.04.2016 | How Silicon Valley can put local businesses back on the map | Tony Xu Contributor
Tony Xu is the CEO and a co-founder of DoorDash.
I come from a small-business family. My mom has owned three small businesses; most recently, a medical clinic in the South Bay. But it was in her first business, a Chinese... |
05.04.2016 | Rise and Shine! How to Boost Your Teacher Brand and Digital Reputation | These days, your online presence is your resume. It’s also the best way to promote your personal and professional brand. Haven’t yet jumped on the social media bandwagon? Now is the time. Together, the elements that create your brand should... |
04.03.2016 | Why Weebly's Founders Took Vacation Even in the Early Years | In this episode of Startup School Radio, co-hosts Aaron Harris and Kat Manalac sat down with David Rusenko.
You can subscribe to Startup School Radio on Soundcloud or iTunes. For weekly recaps of The Macro, sign up here.
Rusenko is the co... |
04.03.2016 | Why Weebly’s Founders Took Vacation Even in the Early Years | In this episode of Startup School Radio, co-hosts Aaron Harris and Kat Manalac sat down with David Rusenko.
You can subscribe to Startup School Radio on Soundcloud or iTunes. For weekly recaps of The Macro, sign up here.
Rusenko is the co... |
02.03.2016 | Weebly expands beyond easy-to-build websites, adds easy-to-build marketing emails | Weebly isn’t just for building websites anymore — it recently launched Promote, a platform for building marketing emails.
CEO David Rusenko said this is actually Weebly’s second big expansion, after adding an e-commerce platform. But at lea... |
08.11.2015 | Twenty-Year-Old Shahed Khan Has More Connections Than You Do | Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, while many of his peers are either attending college or living with their parents, he’s working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a noted team of investors at NFX Guild, a ... |
27.10.2015 | Weebly targets Europe with localized support and services for its drag-and-drop website builder | Weebly, a website-builder and web-hosting service based in San Francisco, has announced a major localization program for Europe that will see the company cater specifically to businesses in the U.K., France, and Germany.
Above: Weebly Andro... |
20.10.2015 | 'Find Your Yoda' and Other Advice from Your School's Tech Department | People see you as THAT teacher.
You love using technology to enhance learning for your students, and you're always ahead of the curve. You find webquests so 2004, and think QR codes are as old as the Dewey Decimal system. All the software l... |
01.10.2015 | Website Builder Weebly Gets A Revamp And Its First App Center | Weebly is launching the third generation of its product today, which it calls Carbon — CEO David Rusenko described it as the “first big step” in a new direction.
Until now, Weebly has been known as an easy-to-use tool for building websites ... |
23.08.2015 | Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston explain Y Combinator’s success | Twenty-four-year-old Brian Liou was a little nervous. But he had to focus. His turn was next. Liou is the cofounder of Leada, a startup to help businesses train better data analysts, and he had a lot riding on this. After all, his company h... |
22.07.2015 | 15 Tips for New Teachers From a Technology Facilitator | As an Instructional Technology Facilitator, I have the immense privilege of seeing my school from a pretty unique perspective. I taught Social Studies for five years, and I’ll be honest: my purview of the educational landscape rarely extend... |
21.05.2015 | Qwilr’s quest to create smarter document software gets a $500,000 boost | Sydney startup Qwilr has raised $500,000 from the Sydney Seed Fund and Macdoch Ventures to reinvent document software.
Co-founder Mark Tanner says documents haven’t changed in a very long time, whether it be Microsoft Office or Google Docs,... |
20.03.2015 | YC-Backed SmartHires Helps Startups Find Tech Talent Within The Same Investment Portfolio | Finding good tech talent is a challenge right now. The Obama administration poured $100 million into the new TechHire initiative this last month to fill half a million open IT jobs in the U.S. for that reason. Y Combinator-backed SmartHires... |
10.03.2015 | 7 Unorthodox Tips to Help Land Your Dream Job | March 10, 2015 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
There’s a lot of job advice out there that sounds like a broken record:
Arrive early
Bring a portfolio and resume
Dress neutral and professional
Resear... |
10.02.2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
05.02.2015 | Staying Relevant In A Rapid Innovation Era | Brian Kelly Contributor
Editor’s note: Brian Kelly is the chief technology officer of Golgi, a mobile cloud service for app connectivity and intelligent data transport that helps developers eliminate long loading times for connected devices... |
20.10.2014 | Как запустить свой сайт, не разбираясь в программировании — обсуждение на Quora | Пользователи Quora обсудили вопрос о том, как запустить свой сайт, не зная ничего об HTML, шаблонах, дизайне, пользовательском интерфейсе и имея ограниченный бюджет. ЦП выбрал из дискуссии лучшие ответы.
Самый популярный ответ на этот вопро... |
09.10.2014 | Weebly Debuts An iPad App For Building And Managing Websites | Website creation startup Weebly has quietly grown to power a large number of publisher and e-commerce sites over the years, and now it’s rolling out a whole new way for users to build experiences on its platform. With the launch of a new iP... |
04.09.2014 | This 23-year-old founder wants to turn your car into a rolling billboard | Mac Nagaswami knows the value of hard work.
The 23-year-old spent his high school summers in Newark, Del., scooping and serving customers at a local ice cream stand.
His work paid off. By graduation, he bought his first car — a 1994 Dodge S... |
28.05.2014 | How Much It Will Cost to Connect (Almost) All Schools | How much will it cost to "Keep calm and connect all schools"? Try $3.2 billion. That's how much CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) and the EducationSuperHighway say it will cost to equip and update public K-12 schools' existi... |
25.04.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/25/14 | CorvisaCloud, Crate Data, Secretsales, FinancialForce, Stitch, ShopKeep POS, Pure Storage, Talixo
Seed stage
Travel planning service Utrip raised $750,000 in a seed funding round led by Matthew Upchurch and CB Alliance.
Estonian taxi compan... |
22.04.2014 | Website-Building Platform Weebly Raises $35M More | Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding.
The money comes from previous investor Sequoia Capital and from Chinese company Tencent. Weebly CEO David Ruse... |
22.04.2014 | Weebly races WordPress around the world, takes $35M | The website-making space is hot: Last week alone, Squarespace announced a new $40 million round, and WordPress parent company Automattic was reportedly raising up to $100 million, and just today, Brandcast grabbed $1.5 million from Salesfor... |
22.04.2014 | Weebly Raises $35M in Series C Funding | Weebly, a San Francisco, CA-based global service that allows users create a website, blog or online store, raised $35m in Series C funding.
Backers included existing investors Sequoia Capital and Tencent Holdings Ltd.
The company intends to... |
22.04.2014 | Weebly races WordPress around the world, takes $35M | 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!
The website-making space is hot: Last week alone,... |
28.03.2014 | The 8 Best Ways to Market Your Healthcare Facility and Stand Out Online | 70% of consumers say that feedback about a product or service they find online is the #2 factor in deciding whether or not to do business with that practice. It is time to ensure your practice is listed in the right places with the most upd... |
29.01.2014 | Defense.net’s DDoS Frontline Fights Cyberattacks On IP Services And The Internet Of Things | Distributed denial of service attacks have been one of the most common and well-known ways that malicious hackers have gone after companies on the web. But as cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and widespread, and our lives become increa... |
02.12.2013 | Y Combinator Alum Strikingly Launches Its Super Easy ‘One-Click’ Site Builder | Y Combinator alum Strikingly launched earlier this year to enable people to build websites in just a few minutes. With the launch of its new one-click site builder, the startup has now reduced that time to seconds.
The one-click site builde... |
06.11.2013 | Weebly (YC W07) launches e-commerce capabilities, lets you sell unlimited products for $29/mo | It’s been said that under half the businesses in the United States don’t have a presence on the web beyond a quick listing by Google. Part of the reason is that website hosting can be expensive and complicated. Website builder Weebly, which... |
06.11.2013 | With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify | On the heels of Wix’s debut on the NASDAQ this morning, another veteran website builder is responding with some big news of its own. Since launching in 2006 (the same year as Wix), Weebly has taken a slightly different approach to website c... |
27.08.2013 | Weebly (YC W07) expands to new 36K sq ft SF HQ, will expand to 600 employees | Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million uniq... |
24.08.2013 | As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees | Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million uniq... |
23.08.2013 | GetInspired365 Is A Discovery Site For Inspirational Videos | An industry has blossomed around people hungry for a quick hit of motivation. TED talks, Do Lectures and sites like Brainy Quote all exist to provide inspirational content for the time-strapped. GetInspired365 wants to draw visitors by show... |
22.08.2013 | 9 of the Hottest AngelList and Silicon Valley Angel Investors | Is it any surprise that Silicon Valley, a paradise for tech startups, is home to some of the most active and influential angel investors in the world? Angels are, after all, the people who invest the high-risk capital in the early part of a... |
24.07.2013 | PageLines: A Drag-and-Drop Design Editor for Your WordPress Blog | The last time I created a WordPress blog, I spent hours scouring the free themes to find the perfect design. I customized colors, deleted columns, and changed background images. Then, when I finally thought I found the perfect template, I d... |
19.06.2013 | Backed By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund, Pagevamp Turns Facebook Pages Into Websites | It feels like startups are taking more and more steps to make the website creation process as easy as possible. There are companies like Weebly, which offer drag-and-drop interfaces for building websites. There’s Barley, which doesn’t requi... |
04.06.2013 | Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads | Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launch within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge adv... |
10.05.2013 | Startup names don’t have to be terrible. Here’s the proof. | Rob Meyerson is director of verbal identity at brand consultancy Interbrand.
The Bay area gets a bad rap when it comes to names. No, I’m not talking about your friends’ babies, Namaste and Venture. I’m talking about brand names — especially... |
10.05.2013 | Startup names don’t have to be terrible. Here’s the proof. | 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!
Rob Meyerson is director of verbal identity at br... |
03.05.2013 | With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service To Android | In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go for a social media approach, a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but the likelihood is that you wa... |
08.03.2013 | How Stripe, Weebly And Cue Make Programming Challenges That Are Good For Recruiting | Editor’s note: Robby Walker is co-founder and CTO of Cue. His previous company, Zenter, sold to Google in 2007. Follow him on Twitter @rwalker.
Startups like Stripe, Weebly, and Cue have spent weeks of valuable engineering time building pro... |
05.03.2013 | TC Cribs: A Look Inside Weebly, The Land Of Prohibition-Era Tunnels And (Shh) Secret Rooms | A big part of what makes our Cribs series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.) But it’s not every day that Cribs take us behind a second set of closed doors — ones that are co... |
06.06.2012 | Weebly Aims Big For Web Site Creator Market, Adds 25 More Themes And A Polished New Interface | It’s 2012, you’re a small business, and you know you need a web presence — but where do you turn? Maybe a Facebook Page or Twitter account if you want something social and very simple. But maybe you need a fuller set of features, where you ... |
28.05.2012 | Work At A Startup: Weebly, Codecademy, And Stripe On Startup Recruiting [TCTV] | Earlier this month, Y Combinator held its Work At A Startup Event, where many of its alumni took the stage — not to pitch investors (as is the case at the incubator’s enormous demo day), but instead engineers who might be lured to work at t... |
15.05.2012 | Moonfruit Finally Exits For $29 Million In Cash To Re-energize Yell | In the white heat of the current tech market it’s sometimes easy to forget that some companies, although taking their time, simply become viable businesses – instead of waiting for a call from Facebook or Twitter that may never come. I’ve b... |
02.05.2012 | Weebly Adds Slick iOS App To Its Quietly Huge Web Site Creation Business | I keep hearing rumors about the ridiculous amounts of money that Weebly is making. But the San Francisco company, which provides a set of tools for small businesses and other organizations to easily create their own web sites, has only scof... |
02.05.2012 | Quiet giant Weebly (YC W07) reports over 75M monthly visitors and 11M websites created | Weebly has been doing great, as reported by AllThingsD today:
Web site creation and hosting service Weebly is a bit of a quiet online giant. Founded six years ago, the company has helped users create more than 11 million Web sites, with 75... |
15.04.2012 | Stop Looking For A Technical Co-founder | Editor’s Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon. This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship Club.
“How many of you want to start a co... |
21.02.2012 | 6Scan’s Auto-Updating Website Protection Service Is Launching Today, Starting With WordPress | If you run a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or hosted professional blog services like Wo... |
31.01.2012 | Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is | This morning a friend shared with me some amusing American Sign Language videos, and in return I wanted to share with him my favorite ASL video of all time: B. Storm’s interpretation of the Gnarls Barkley song Crazy. Only I couldn’t because... |
30.01.2012 | How to build your startup without learning code | If you can’t code but aspire to start a Web business, odds are you feel just like the ostrich. Ostriches can’t fly, and to add insult to injury, they’re one of the largest bird species out there. They have to hobble around looking for somet... |
30.01.2012 | How to build your startup without learning code | 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!
If you can’t code but aspire to start a Web busin... |
25.10.2011 | (Founder Stories) Baseline Ventures, Steve Anderson: On Why He Invested In Heroku And Weebly | In part II of Chris Dixon’s interview with Baseline Ventures founder, Steve Anderson, Anderson discusses two of his more successful investments: Heroku and Weebly. Weebly is a startup he led an investment in back in 2007 that helps consumer... |
30.09.2011 | How to build a Web startup | The Lean LaunchPad Edition As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development.
One of the pro... |
22.09.2011 | How to Build a Web Startup: Lean LaunchPad Edition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design ... |
16.08.2011 | YC NYC Meetup, September 26 | Have you ever considered joining a startup? Or starting your own?
Or both? If so we’d love to have you at Y Combinator’s first NYC
meetup, this September 26. We’ll have both YC partners and founders
of companies we’ve funded on hand to a... |
03.08.2011 | Weebly’s designer platform gives designers an easy button for success | Weebly, a startup that offers popular easy-to-use website building tools, launched a new designer platform today aimed at helping designers build sites faster, manage more clients and retain their own branding.
The Weebly Designer Platform ... |
20.07.2011 | WePay Launches WePay Stores For Easy, Embeddable Storefronts | Back in March 2010, WePay launched to the public as a group-payments platform — one that makes it easy to coordinate things like fraternity dues and bills that you share with your roommates. They’ve since expanded to offer event ticketing a... |
17.07.2011 | Hadoop & Startups: Where Open Source Meets Business Data | This guest post was written by Kovas Boguta, Head of Analytics at Weebly. In 2009, Kovas wrote a guest post about visualizing real-time social structures.
A decade ago, the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack began to ... |
20.04.2011 | Weebly’s website builder adds group editing | Popular website-building service Weebly is adding a new feature today, one that users supposedly requested most — the ability to create and edit websites as a team.
On one level, this feature seems particularly well-suited for businesses, w... |
20.04.2011 | Weebly Launches Support For Multiple Editor Accounts | Weebly, the web-based website creator that sports an easy, drag-and-drop interface, is launching a big new feature this morning: support for multiple editors under the same account. In short, you’ll now be able to let other users edit your ... |
07.03.2011 | Is Getting Australian Business Online right for your business? | The fact that half the country’s businesses still don’t have a website is worrying, as more and more customers are moving online in order to search for products and services.
Last week accounting software provider MYOB and search giant Goog... |
02.03.2011 | SohoOS Begins Rolling Out An About.me For Small Businesses | On the heels of its recently announced $1.75M round led by Mangrove, SohoOS is today announcing the roll-out of SohoOS.me, a new product that allows SMBs to create simple business profile pages for themselves—very similar to how About.me al... |
07.01.2011 | Where the Valley’s hottest incubator nests its companies | A new report shows that most companies developed at Y Combinator, the much-watched Silicon Valley incubator known for both the geeky prowess of the startups it grooms and the Hollywood glitz of the investors it draws to its Demo Day events,... |
28.12.2010 | Seeing Interactive And Weebly Partner, Offer White-Label Websites To Bolster Small Biz SEO | YCombinator-backed Seeing Interactive, which helps newspapers build and sell space in online ad directories and YC-backed Weebly, the service that lets you create your own drag and drop websites, have partnered up to give local newspapers e... |
22.09.2010 | Jimdo upgrades its tools for online shopkeepers | I haven’t spent as much time writing about simple website builder Jimdo as I have on San Francisco-based competitors Weebly and Yola. But Jimdo caught up with the competition in one key respect today, with the full launch of its online stor... |
27.08.2010 | Y Combinator and Facebook teaming up | Product, technical and design support for social based start up companies
Facebook is teaming up with venture capital firm, Y Combinator, to encourage the creation of social-media-based startups.
Startups that participate in the joint progr... |
24.08.2010 | Moonfruit secures $2.25m funding to accelerate internationally | You would think most people know how to get a simple web site up and running these days just on something like WordPress, but the fact remains that millions of people don’t have these skills. As a result Moonfruit, the web site building bus... |
16.08.2010 | Startup Soccer Tournament Raises $1,200 For Charity:Water | On Sunday, a dozen startups from around Silicon Valley came together for the Startup Cup — a soccer tournament raising money for charity:water that rounded up over $1,200. Companies playing included Box.net, Slide, WePay, Scribd, Weebly, Xo... |
28.07.2010 | Weebly's ImagePerfect Gives Users Drag-And-Drop Image Editing | Weebly, the startup that lets you build a website with an easy drag-and-drop interface, is looking to help you give your site a little extra flair: they’ve just launched a new image editor called ImagePerfect that allows users to craft nift... |
28.06.2010 | YComb's Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures | When it comes to local advertising, everybody wants to replace the Yellow Pages, which makes money hand-over-fist from local merchants across the country. Seeing Interactive, A Y Combinator startup which launched last March, just raised a s... |
18.05.2010 | Building Silicon Cape: How Much of a Difference Can One Guy Make? | Some people, ahem, are predicting a big resurgence in business software. Given how outdated most tools are, that’s probably a safe bet – whether it happens now or in the next few years. While software as a service and open source have plugg... |
11.05.2010 | Udemy launches complete education toolkit for the Internet | There’s a whole host of ways to teach online, and startup Udemy is looking to make a business for itself in combining a variety of tools together to make what it hopes will be a new kind of online classroom experience. The site officially l... |
11.05.2010 | Udemy launches complete education toolkit for the Internet | 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!
There’s a whole host of ways to teach online, and... |
30.03.2010 | Webs brings Facebook Connect to DIY sites | Veteran site-building tool erases registration process, beats Yola, Weebly, Ning to the punch
The younger your startup, the more innovative, usually. But sometimes the veterans surprise you. Webste builder Webs (formerly FreeWebs, founded w... |