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Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland

It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee.  On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More

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  • StartupCollage

    St. Louis Startups Work Hard, Play Hard: Launch Your Startup Here

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    In Techli, you’ve read about some of the exciting things happening in St. Louis as its startup ecosystem starts to come into its own… What a difference a half year makes! Buckle in, and take a peek at some of the people that have started to make up the St. Louis startup ecosystem- in the [...]

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    SingleHop Snags $27.5 Million Investment To Expand Hosting Services

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    Chicago startup scene darling SingleHop, which provides web-hosting services for small businesses, has completed its first ever institutional financing, securing a $27.5 million round led by Battery Ventures.

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    Hoot.Me: Switching Facebook Into Study Mode

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    Facebook application that lets students, teachers and tutors interact through social media to get homework finished better and faster.

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    10 Reasons To Launch A Startup in St. Louis

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    Why should you launch your startup in St. Louis? The St. Louis’ startup scene offers your startup some unique opportunities you won’t find in the Valley.

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    10 Atlanta Startups Making The South Proud

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    If you’re interested in startups, it might be time to have Georgia on your mind. Today, we’re taking a look at 10 of the best that the Peach State has to offer.

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    SilvrSpoon Turns Every Restaurant Into ‘Cheers’

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    Admit it. You’ve committed drive-by check-ins. In the pursuit of points, badges, and political klout, you’ve claimed “here” when really you were over there. One check-in away from receiving a mayoral perk, you thought- what’s the difference? If you’ve ever used Facebook places, FourSquare, Gowalla or any of the many location based services (LBS), you [...]

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    Startup Ecosystem: Predator vs. Prey #Infographic

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    There’s no denying that the startup world has a very distinct albeit interesting hierarchy. Whether you are navigating the waters as a mere consumer minnow or stalking startup prey as a venture capital shark , we think you’ll get a kick out of  Udemy‘s startup ecoystem infographic. Well, unless you are the attention deprived significant other, and then we suggest [...]

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    Leap: Photo-Challenge Your Way To Success

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    THE GIST Leap’s mobile app lets you create challenges with friends and keep track of your progress by snapping photos with your smartphone. Think of Leap as Path (meant for real offline friends, not loosely connected social connections ) + Instagram (photo-sharing focus)+ Competitions.  The App is in closed Beta right now, but will be launching within [...]

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    6 Game-Changing Ecommerce Startups

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    In the world of brick and mortar, there is a tremendous divide between the shopping experience one has at a mom & pop boutique than that at a large retailer like The Gap, Urban Outfitters, or Anthropologie. From the design to the experience, there’s no question as to whether you’ve stepped into the storefront of [...]

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    MIT Student Engineers The Unicycle You Never Knew You Wanted

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    Unlike its two-wheeled cousin, the unicycle has pretty much been ignored in terms of advancements. No real unicycle revolution has come about since its (debated) debut in the 1800s. Well, until today. MIT Student Stephan Boyer has engineered an electric self-stabilizing unicycle. Only slightly larger than its forefather, Boyer’s creation, dubbed the ‘Bullet’, can clock up to [...]

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    Never Forget a Birthday or Anniversary again with MoreBrownies

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    MoreBrownies is a web service that keeps you from forgetting to buy gifts for your loved ones by enabling to buy a year’s worth of gifts at once.

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    Content Discovery Engine Thoora Shutting Down

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    The content discovery engine Thoora  has announced that effective December 15th, 2011 it is shutting down its website, the API,  Wordpress widget, and Android tablet app.  In a email to its members the Thoora team bid their members goodbye, “We would like to thank each and every one of you for participating in this crazy journey [...]

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    Gentlemen: Get Fresh Kit…And Stay That Way

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    Get Fresh Kit is a membership-based service delivering samples of products to your doorstep for a monthly fee of $20.

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    Want To Work For Startups? Do An Enternship

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    Before the recession many graduates from leading universities who wanted to work in Blue Chip corporations would do an internship, hoping to progress into a wide number of graduate roles available in their sector. Then in 2008 money markets dried up, the world slipped into recession, and competition for graduate roles got a lot tougher. [...]

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    TechWeek Founders Part Ways

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    The founders of Midwestern conference company TechWeek have parted ways. Jon Pasky and Geoff Domoracki were the two remaining founders of the company that launched as midVentures in 2010 and later rebranded as TechWeek. Their first major conference under the TechWeek label was put on this year in Chicago and the external communications from the [...]

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    Dabble Expands To 50 Cities

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    Chicago startup Dabble announced this week they have expanded to 50 markets globally this week due to hundreds of requests from cities outside Chicago. Dabble allows someone with an idea to teach a class an opportunity to reach potential students that are interested in “Dabbling” in a new area. Dabble handles payments for the classes [...]

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  • Fabcom

    World’s Fastest Growing Ecommerce Company Fab.Com Closes $40M Investment Round

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    Just six months after launching, Fab.com announced yesterday the closing of $40 million in Series B financing led by investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. Fab’s agressive pre-launch strategy helped the flash-sale design site gain traction quickly, acquiring 1.2 million members and earning the title of the “World’s Fastest Growing Ecommerce Company.” Founded by Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer, Fab [...]

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    eyePhone: Control Your Phone With Just A Glance

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    Humans can tell a lot about one another by their eyes- are the interested, excited, bored, annoyed.  And soon, so will your phone. A team in Denmark have developed Senseye, a new eye-tracking software that allows you to control your smartphone or tablet with eye-movements. Using a device’s camera, Senseye identifies when & where you’re [...]

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    7 Startups Proving Berlin Is A Startup Empire In The Making

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    For most of history, location determined a city’s destiny. With access to waterways and thereby access to trade, a city could become an empire. While technology and modernization have decreased the economic impact of location, access remains one of the  determining factors for a thriving economy, especially for a startup economy.  For a thriving startup culture to emerge, startups [...]

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    TruYuu Aims To Make Hiring Suck Less

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    According to a report by The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series, there are over 10 million more unemployed individuals than the amount of job posting vacancies.  And the only thing more ominous to job-seekers than gloomy job-market statistics is in most cases, one simple piece of paper stands between them and their dream job. Unavoidable and incredibly [...]

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    hiredMYway Ends Job Board Nightmares

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    Detroit has been re-inventing itself as an entrepreneurial hub for the past several years as it looks for ways outside of manufacturing to jumpstart its economy. Enter hiredMYway.com, a new approach toward online job boards that is making headway in Detroit. The crux of the problem in hiring is that traditional job boards are ineffective [...]

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    Calling All n00bs – Learn How to Code with Code Academy

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    Code Academy is 12 week course that teaches you how to program. Founded by non-programmers and taught by experts, it teaches people who have never programmed.

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    Google, Cisco Systems and VMware Invest in Portland Startup Puppet Labs

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    Puppet Labs announced Google, Cisco Systems and VMware have invested $8.5 million in their network management software.

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    The Beat Goes On At Songkick

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    Tired of missing the latest gigs? Sick of being the one who reads about them on Facebook or in a paper the next morning? So were the founders of Songkick, a startup created out of the realization that to be kept up to date about live music acts you either need to trawl dozens of [...]

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  • blatch

    15 Year Old Wunder-Programmer Releases 2nd iPhone App

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    If you’ve been alive in the startup world recently, you’ve heard of Thomas Suarez – the 6th grader who built Bustin Jieber and has started the company Carrot Corp.  Well the line of young programming prodigies continues. I recently had a phone conversation with an amazing 15 year old, Russell Ladd. Russell recently released Blatch, [...]

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