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New Crowdfunding Platform Advances Fast-Growing Ocean Energy Industry (via Ecopreneurist) Crowdfunding, as the darling of startups and new product launches across a wide range of industries, has been incredibly powerful for raising awareness and demand for all sorts of creative projects. Getting financial support for innovations in clean… (more…)
Y Combinator alumn Statwing wants to democratize statistical analysis, and challenge Excel’s dominance (via StartUp Beat) A Q&A with Statwing co-founder Greg Laughlin. The San Francisco-based startup, which offers software built to make data analysis easier for both experienced statisticians and novices, announced at the end of January that it has raised an undisclosed… (more…)
Personal Branding: it’s all in the name (via The Blog Herald) What’s in a name? The old adage is as true today as it ever was. A name is just a word, unless it is leveraged correctly. When you look across the business landscape, there are dozens of examples of business people who have leveraged […]
WunderBar startup on Dragon Innovation crowdfunding platform (via ALEKSANDR TSUKANOV Entrepreneur & Philanthropist) Project launched: January, 2014From: Berlin, GermanyFunding ends: February 17, 2014Financial goal: $91,000 AUTHORS OF THE PROJECT Harald Zapp – CEO and founder of WunderBar – for many years is the enthusiast of the Internet of Things. Electrical… (more…)
Net Neutrality battle begins as Verizon appears to throttle Netflix (via The Inquirer) UNITED STATES TELECOMS CARRIER Verizon appears to have lost no time in taking advantage of a recent appellate court ruling to throttle Netflix traffic. After a surprise decision in which a US federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Communications… (more…)