By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Perhaps, this study might make you more angry about CEO bonuses than the banker bonuses. Scientists have found that appearances are everything, even on the executive level. If you are a white male, who looks competent, then you’ll make more than a CEO that doesn’t look the…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The Financial Times Weekend Magazine featured one technology investor’s vision for start-ups in Europe.

According to the FT, venture capitalist, Saul Klein thinks big: “Start-up X will be the Skype of software. Company Y will be Europe’s Apple. Group Z is Google…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The startup scene in any city has cliques — London is no different. If you know Rob Kniaz, then you’ll know the tech scene. If you go to poker night or other startup networking events, you’ll likely find Kniaz drinking nearby, secretly scouting…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

IBM restored the feeling of hope for some business owners this week at the Global Entrepreneur initiative. When many owners have been left to take care of themselves without venture backing, IBM wisely steps in.

By helping startups, IBM hopes it will build…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Tech Crunch is bringing a game show approach to elevator pitches. At an event on May 24-26 in New York City, entrepreneurs will dish out their startup ideas in front of a thousand people — and the audience will vote American…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

VC money may be going down the toilet in other areas, but clean tech seems to be doing well. But even clean tech took a hit last year— dropping by 45% from the third to fourth quarter. Now all VC eyes…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I was at Dogpatch Labs yesterday and I could feel the excitement in the air. Young entrepreneurs were sitting in open tables, typing on their computers. The  guys running the dating service, Good Crush, were busy folding T-Shirts and posters.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Today is the early edition of Tech Startups focused on money. Not really but this my second post of the day that is focused on money. More specifically, the finances of nerds.

The Wall Street Journal, last evening published a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

To some, it feels like it’s 1997 again. However, investors and business leaders at the JP Morgan Conference in San Francisco were slightly more optimistic. The rooms were filled with investors sitting on the floor and hope was in the…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

OneForty, the Twitter App Directory has raised $1.6 million according to an FCC filing. Founded by Laura Fitton (@pistachio), the Company’s CEO and author of Twitter for Dummies,…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

We try to stick to tech startups around here for obvious reasons, ahem. However, I can’t pass up a chance to talk about something that isn’t very techy.

It fits the bill for being startupy, but certainly not tech in nature.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Friend, smart dude and all-around good guy Micah Baldwin wrote up a post yesterday that hurt me a little bit – quite a bit, if I must be honest. It bothers me because he’s right.

On every account…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

When it comes to deciding what direction you should take your next great idea it is helpful to sort out what you want from the startup.

In every case you should be answering that with – revenue. But, also at the…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Last week we had a search come in for “what happens in a startup merger?” A brilliant question that is most likely being asked at the worst time – the merger.

This question might have been asked by an employee of…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith

I’m not one for the nostalgia of the good old days, but this year’s BlogWorldExpo is really bringing out the sentimentalist in me. A few of the same faces and connections rekindled but there are many new faces that are ready to…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith

I am sitting down with my favorite comfort food, Lucky Charms, to write this post.

What i am about to share is a real world account of how to spend six valuable months on the prowl for vc investment money from 2009. My goal…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

If you’re a startup and have a great idea, what are you going to do to get your business off the ground? You’re probably going to need some cash to get things going and that’s why many startups start looking for…

by Senior Staff Writer – Jason Bean

A little bit of news in the startup industry itself. Not of a new tech startup really, but more of a consolidation for those companies interested in tracking all the startups happening.

VentureBeat has been tracking what’s happening in the venture capital arena.…