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.
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.
Flipping from tab to tab can get annoying. Sure, RSS solved that issue when it came to content. But our lives on the web are becoming increasingly saturated with more dynamic web experiences. Enter Backstitch, a Detroit-based startup that wants to beautify your personal web.
On September 28, America’s top young entrepreneurs will be honored in Washington D.C. in what Empact co-founder and CEO Michael Simmons calls “the Academy Awards of entrepreneurship”. The event showcases entrepreneurs in the US age 30 and under with revenues over $100,000.
App Academy requires no up-front tuition students, and is instead asking for a relatively small percentage of their salary over the first six months of employment — only if they secure a developer job.
The Portland Seed Fund is betting that lighting will strike three times with the announcement of its third class.
When most startups relocate for investments, they traditionally head west to Silicon Valley. Thanks to a renaissance in midwest venture capital, east coast startups like Quikkly are moving westward, only to plant their stake in the ground far before hitting the west coast.
Anyone who’s been looking to get their hands on a shiny new electric vehicle may find the most affordable option yet in a new Kickstarter project out of Silicon Valley.
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