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Why We Launched a Crowdfunding Campaign
"We are excited to welcome Ameriploy to the Startup America Partnership!" These were the pleasant words sitting in my inbox a few months back. After founding Ameriploy with my brother, one of the first things we decided to do was apply to Startup America. Why, you may ask? Well honestly, why wouldn't you? They offer an array of awesome perks and resources for startups just like us to utilize: valuable relationships, webinars, corporate connections, etc. We literally could NOT wait to get our hands on them!As work at Ameriploy progressed, we quickly realized that funds are essential for a startup's survival. I'm sure all startup founders would agree with me that without funds, it makes it really difficult to do...
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A Unique Way of Giving Back to the Military Community
In honor of Veterans Day, today's featured startup is a business that honors those who serve our country in a unique way. Bullets2Bandages offers fashion, utility, and other consumer products that are made of repurposed materials from the military. Founded in 2011 by two former Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal divers, Bullets2Bandages seeks to merge fashion, utility, and social consciousness by offering products that honor those who have served our country. By hiring veterans, manufacturing locally, and donating 15% of its profits to veteran charities, Bullets2Bandages gives back to the people and organizations who deserve thanks and support. Learn more about this Startup California startup from its founder, Cole Evans.Tell us...
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Top 10 Reasons to Start Your Own Business
As scary and intimidating as it can be to start your own business, there are many benefits and good reasons to start one. Here are the top 10 reasons to start your own business. 1. Be your own boss Don’t like it when people tell you what to do? Do you like having control and making your own rules? Owning your business can let you do that. You make the rules of your business and run it how you want to. You don’t need permission to implement ideas, you can just do it! 2. You get to do what you’re interested in It’s not fun when you’re doing something you do not genuinely enjoy. You could have fun while working if you are doing something you are interested in. This is your career, if you...
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No Ads, No Problem
Ads can get annoying and repetitive while watching videos on Youtube, Hulu, and other video online media.Today's featured startup, LoopLogic, is an online video website similar to Youtube, but without the ads and much more tools to control the videos you create and watch. Membership with LoopLogic allows you to automatically work with your blog, mass email, maketing, and other apps, which makes it simple and easy to use it for leisure or work. Learn more about this Startup Arizona startup from its founder, Scott Mitchell.Tell us about your product or serviceVideo that tracks who watches what and for how long. Works with existing YouTube videos OR your own ad-free video uploaded directly to LoopLogic. Automatically integrates with your...
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6 Reasons to Join IBM Global Entrepreneur
Does your startup’s solution address problems the world is facing in areas such as energy, healthcare, or travel and transportation? IBM is constantly looking to team with entrepreneurs building solutions for a smarter planet, and our Global Entrepreneur Program can provide the support and resources to help you change the way the world works. Here are six reasons you should apply today.1. Mentoring and networking through IBM Innovation Centers. We’ll help you build, market, and sell your solutions with our online, remote, and face-to-face training and assistance. Use our centers to port and test solutions, close deals with your clients, and collaborate with IBM, Business Partners, academic leaders, IT professionals, and other...
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Network with the Stranger Next to You
You never know when and where you could meet the next person who could change your career. If you've ever wondered who the person sitting next to you at an event, in the airport, or on the train is, now you can use your mobile device to find out. CanWe Studios has built an app that helps you connect is a new way.CanWeNetwork is a business networking application designed to identify and connect users with high-value, authenticated opportunities and introductions. With the app, people with similar professions connect through their LinkedIn profile, recommendations, and locations, makings it easy to strike up a conversation with the stranger next to you and professionally network anywhere. Learn more about this Startup...
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The Future of Jobs
By Evan Burfield, Chairman Startup DC, @eburfieldThis post originally appeared here.We need jobs in America, which means we need to unleash our entrepreneurs. Companies less than five years old have accounted for all of the net job growth in our country between 1980 and 2005. Our job creators aren't corporations, or government, or even small businesses. They are the founders of high growth startups. Creating millions of jobs means having thousands and thousands of new entrepreneurs taking risks and persevering past obstacles to create many more successful startups.The formula seems simple. And yet there's a paradox. The jobs these startups are creating aren't like the jobs they're replacing. The single greatest challenge...
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Learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur from Tech Investor Bill Liao
On November 13-14 IBM SmartCamp will be holding its EMEA Regional Finals in Berlin, among the distinguished speakers is tech investor Bill Liao, recently named by CNNMoney as one of the 25 most influential tech investors on Twitter. Liao is an Australian entrepreneur, social networking pioneer, author, speaker, and philanthropist. He is currently a venture partner with SOSventures and is the founder of the WeForest Movement, a non-profit organization set up to counter global warming through reforesting the Earth.Liao, who also co-founded the German-based social network Xing, joined SOS Ventures last year to focus on discovering and financing Internet and social media companies. He's invested in companies like the website Silicon...
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All For One and One For All: Texas Startups Unite
by Trey Bowles, Chair Startup America: Texas Region, @treybowlesThis post originally appeared here. One of my favorite things about being an entrepreneur is the feeling that we are all together in this fight. We all know what it feels like to be in the trenches of starting a new business. If you are like me, you may have started multiple different businesses. Every time I embark on a new journey, I appreciate my brothers and sisters in arms that are pursuing the same goal that I am…SUCCESS. And how you define success can determine how you move from venture to venture. Some people measure success by money in the bank while others consider lessons learned and reaching a greater potential as a successful venture. But no...
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Job listings for real people, not resumes
Sending and reading resumes is tedious and boring. What does a piece of paper really say about a potential job candidate? Business hire people not paper.Today's featured startup, MyNextGig.com helps people not resumes. MyNextGig.com is a social networking site for employers and job seekers to create and watch digital profiles so that it's easy to place the person in the right job. With video interviewing, trait matching, and more, this site allows for a simple and interactive way to get hired. Learn more about this Startup California startup from its founder, Leiane Thornton.Tell us about your product or serviceMyNextGig.com is a cutting-edge hiring tool that makes stacks of paper resumes a thing of the past and connects real...
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Learn About Startup Weekend Next with Steve Blank
Startup America recently participated in the launch of Startup Weekend Next. The program will inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities: some 30,000 entrepreneurs from 10,000 early-stage startups in over 350 cities worldwide. In a four-week class founders will learn “how to build a successful startup,” using the basics of Business Model Design and Customer Development, coached in live sessions by seasoned startup veterans.Five entrepreneurial partners have teamed up to deliver the program. It’s led by Startup Weekend, the global 501(c) 3 that’s hosted more than 800 such events in over 350 cities worldwide. Steve Blank provided the course content, his Lean LaunchPad class. We’ll leverage...
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Can your iphone identify Big Bird?
Most of us know who Big Bird is, what street he lives on, and why he is famous (and infamous). But did you know that Big Bird is an an eight-foot two-inch tall bright primrose-yellow bird? With Birdeez you can quickly and easily use your iphone to find out.Birdeez is an iPhone app that makes it quick and easy to identify birds, then collect and share your sightings. Today's featured startup, EcoLek, launched Birdeez at DEMO Fall 2012 and went on to win a DEMOgod award for their innovative product and presentation. A DEMO first, the Birdeez team was accompanied on stage by a live falcon for their presentation. (Watch the video below). Learn more about how and why this Startup California startup makes bird...
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Recent News:
10/19/12 - Startup Communities Across the Country, Huffington Post (Startup America Partnership)
10/19/12 - Bonfyre partners with Powder Keg Conference 2012, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO & Startup IA)
10/17/12 - Food Waste In, Renewable Energy Out: Startup Re-Nuble Is Crowdfunding the Local Green Economy, Huffington Post (Startup DC)
10/17/12 - Powder Keg aims to blast Indy startups onto national scene, Indianapolis Business Journal (Startup IN & Startup MO)
10/17/12 - Featured Startup Pitch: Founded by a group of teachers with tech backgrounds, ActiveGrade seeks to fundamentally change the way grading is done in schools, Startup Beat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - How Tory Burch Created A $2 Billion Empire In Less Than A Decade, Business Insider (Startup America Partnership)
10/01/12 - Voices of the Tech Community: What do Ecosystem Need? The Miami Herald (Startup FL)
9/20/12 - Entrepreneurs make pitches as Startup Maryland and its studio bus rolls into UMBC, The Republic (Startup MD)
9/20/12 - USF-led partnership awarded $1 million to launch new companies, Tampa Bay Business Journal (Startup FL)
9/19/12 - Startup Bus tours Maryland, stops in Baltimore area to promote entrepreneurship, Baltimore Sun (Startup MD)
Startup America at DEMO Fall 2012:
10/11/12 - Startup Connection: Nourishment for mind, body and soul, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/05/12 - The 14 Most Interesting Startups To Emerge From DEMO, TechCrunch (Startup CA & OR)
10/04/12 - St. Louis startups look to cash in on DEMO showing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/04/12 - St. Louis’ Click With Me Now, Evtron Pitch At DEMO 2012, Techli (Startup MO)
10/03/12 - DEMO Gods: Birds, brains, and the best products of the season, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - BRIEF: Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley [The Hartford Courant], Bloomberg Businessweek (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - LifeStyleFeed brings the Seventh Art to restaurant selection, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Don’t like checking your mail? MailGapp may have your solution, VentureBeat (Startup HI)
10/03/12 - Itography hopes to lure advertisers to location-based virtual collection game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Creating More Focused Social Networks, PC Mag (Startup OR, DC, IA, VA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Business and Commerce Applications, PC Mag (Startup MO & Startup CT)
10/03/12 - Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley, The Hartford Courant (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - RecBob takes the work out of after-work sports, VentureBeat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - Watch RecBob’s DEMO presentation at noon (Live stream), Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
10/02/12 - Meet The 8 Startup Winners From Startup America’s DEMO Contest, Nibletz (Startup TN, OR, IL, DC, CA, IA, CT, MO)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, Global Reporter (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, VentureBeat (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers' iPhones, TechHive (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre Takes on Private Mobile Sharing with New App Focused on Real Life, Not Newsfeeds, Herald Online (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Three St. Louis startups launch products at California conference, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - This Barrel Is Ready to Roll! Launching Our Tech Startup, HuffingtonPost (Startup DC)
10/02/12 - For big-ticket items, social shopping needs more screen-sharing, VentureBeat (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Flite’s new Touch Ad Studio lets top publishers actually make money on mobile, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre launches mobile app to combine private with social sharing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/01/12 - CoPatient Launches Online Platform to Audit & Appeal Medical Bills on Behalf of Patients, Sacramento Bee (Startup OR)
10/01/12 - D.C. job-search start-up launching at DEMO in Silicon Valley, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
10/01/12 - D.C. at Demo: High School CEO debuts Hallway, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
09/30/12 - Hills Bank and Trust promotes four, The Gazette (Startup IA)
09/29/12 - RecBob wins Startup America contest, will pitch next week at DEMO, Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
09/13/12 - Click With Me Now wins a trip to DEMO, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
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