Topics: Entrepreneur, Investor, Networking
|
Posted by The Founding Member
In just one year we've grown the
Founder Showcase
to be Silicon Valley's Premier Startup Pitch and Networking Event. The winner of each event has received funding from an investor they met at the event, and countless other presenting companies have received funding as well - over $2mm in total. The best part for us, however, is that all the companies presenting at the event and getting financed are members of TheFunded.
The 5th Founder Showcase is coming up on Thursday, Oct. 21st in Mountain View, CA. We previously declared 2010 "The Year of…
Read More
Topics: Contract, Corporation
Software giant Oracle Corp. has tapped former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd to be the company's co-president and a director on its board. Hurd, 53, resigned as head of HP, the world's largest computer maker, on Aug. 6 after a former contract worker for the company accused him of sexual harassment. HP's investigations found no evidence of harassment, but uncovered "violations of HP's Standards of Business Conduct" related to his expense reports, according to the company's statement announcing his departure. Hurd had been at the Palo Alto company for five years.
At Oracle, Hurd will report directly to Oracle…
Read More
Topics: Acquisition, Marketing, Merger, Sales, Termination
Oracle named former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd as its new co-president today. That puts Hurd in a position where he can use his managerial skills to do some serious damage to HP, which is now his competitor.
The appointment isn't unexpected since Larry Ellison, chief executive of Oracle, came to Hurd's defense last month after Hurd resigned from HP under pressure, after an investigation by the board into a sexual harassment matter turned up inaccurate expense reports. Ellison thought that was a poor excuse for forcing Hurd to resign and he said so in an email to the New…
Read More
Topics: Investor
According to private-company intelligence firm CB Insights, now is a particularly bad time to try to raise money if you're a company built on top of Twitter.
The ecosystem of third-party Twitter apps has seen a 50% decline in early-stage investment over the past year. Whether it's due to Twitter's evolving business model or due to the number and nature of new apps on the market, investors have decidedly cooled on "pure play" Twitter applications in the past 12 months.
Between June 2008 and May 2009, a total of $21.6 million was pumped into Twitter-based startups. However, between June 2009…
Read More
Topics: SCORE
SCORE Lancaster is just for business start-ups right? Not quite. This not-for-profit group is also a comprehensive resource for established companies. In fact, one counselor, Colin Freund, takes a special interest in assisting owners who are already walking the entrepreneurial path.
Colin, who describes himself as a problem solver, often collaborates with other SCORE mentors to help business owners who are in the midst of a challenge. He says, "I often work best with clients who already have a specific problem in their business. We focus on one thing at a time to help them work through the issue."
This…
Read More
Topics: Leverage, Small Business, Social Media
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Online infrastructure for your small business doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. By leveraging many of the free and inexpensive products offered by Google, you can create a website, a domain-branded e-mail system, and a document collaboration platform, all unified under one master login and password.
Once all of the virtual wires are connected, these services are extremely user-friendly, allowing anyone with a bit of web savvy to become the "system administrator" for their office.…
Read More
