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Square is valued at a whopping $3.25 billion according to AllThingsD after the company closed its latest $200 million round. But what does this mean in the increasingly crowded mobile payments space?
Gamified web translation startup Duolingo announced today that it has raised $15 million in a series B round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Union Square Ventures.
The invite-only event will feature evening of speakers, networking, and discussions surrounding the rapidly growing place of gamification in business today.
The Mini Maker Faire events happen in cities across the world as part of the larger Maker Faire movement based on the original faire held in San Mateo, California in 2006. Unlike art fairs where the work is available to purchase and not to touch, Maker Faires are meant to be experienced.
I’m writing this on a Saturday night at 11:00pm at a coffeeshop in the southeast neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It’s open 24 hours a day, it serves great lattes, and organic food, and the wifi is free. Oh yeah, it’s also packed with people working on something important.
Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind Fallout: New Vegas and the forthcoming South Park RPG, has raised more than $1 million in the past 48 hours for its next ambitious title.
When you hang out in the startup scene, it feels unnatural to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t have a smooth silver screen propped up between the two of you. I’ve found that shutting off my computer and getting out into the world to talk to potential customers has been the best business moves I have made recently.
This week Amazon Web Services announced that it has officially opened its annual Start-Up Challenge with four categories for grand prize winners.
The new course covers how to build your very own startup from scratch, taught by serial entrepreneur and author Steve Blank, known for both The Startup Owner’s Manual and The Four Steps to Epiphany.
The South American company is on the verge of launching its easy-to-use platform that helps users create the kind of stylized videos that would take hours in any other animation application today.