You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company
Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” Kraus was talking about the economics of...
View ArticleThe “Soft and Chewy Centers” That Put Your Data at Risk
A security startup called Illumio launching today has already signed up Yahoo and other large companies that need new ways to protect their data centers. As corporations plow more data and money into...
View Article5 Startups That Could Shake Up Money, Shopping And More In 2015
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year. Startups are all about innovation, although it’s often difficult to distinguish in advance...
View ArticleStrategies for the Age of Digital Disruption #DTR7
Since 2000, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist. These are challenging times for companies as the speed, volume and complexity of change...
View ArticleWhen Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?
Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative...
View ArticleHigh-Speed 3-D Printing
A five-centimeter-tall model of the Eiffel Tower being produced by a new manufacturing method. A startup’s version of 3-D printing is faster and cheaper (and makes better objects). A new additive...
View ArticleTech5 Recap: These are Europe’s fastest-growing startups
This article originally appeared on The Next Web The 2015 edition of Tech5 has officially come to a close. Starting in February, we at The Next Web, working with our partners Adyen, began a hunt for...
View ArticleThe Future Of Bigger, Better Female Startups Is Data And Design Thinking
Women in New York City are starting businesses in force, but still face significant challenges growing them. In March, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of Woman Entrepreneurs NYC (WE NYC), a...
View ArticleWhat startups need to know about big business
This article originally appeared on The Next Web “How can large companies stay innovative?”, “What can startups teach big business?”, “How to think like a startup”. Whenever we talk about the...
View ArticleIt’s taken years – but the UK is finally building a great technology industry
In the last year alone, eight UK tech businesses have reached a valuation of at least $1bn There are many problems with the British economy, but also plenty of success stories. Take the tech industry:...
View ArticleStartups are about to eat your business – here’s what to do about it
This article originally appeared on The Next Web “But, this is the way it’s always been done.” – Said no one ever in Silicon Valley Marc Andreesen once famously said that software is eating the world....
View ArticleCIOs create formal processes to get innovative tech from startups
Here’s a look at how three CIOs connect with tech startups as a way to learn about new technologies and jump-start innovation in their organizations. Peter Weis, Matson NavigationFormalize the process...
View ArticleTech startups need to get serious about security
The head of the nation’s primary consumer protection agency on Wednesday paid a visit to San Francisco, where she called on technology startups to do a better job of incorporating security protections...
View ArticleHow to outmaneuver your competitors in the startup world
This article originally appeared on The Next Web In an environment where up to 90 percent of startups fail within their first three years of existence, entrepreneurs need to be keenly aware of what...
View ArticleWhy Stockholm’s startup scene extends beyond Spotify and Skype
Local hero Spotify, like previous standard bearer Skype, has certainly inspired Swedish entrepreneurs, but Stockholm’s flourishing tech cluster is down to an mixture of forward thinking and talent,...
View ArticleScandinavia: The Coolest Place For A Start-up?
It has a reputation for being a pretty chilled place to live, but the Land of the Midnight Sun is on fire right now, at least its home grown Nordic tech startups are. Scandinavia has produced some...
View ArticleThe search for relevance in a sea of startups
We’re all fishing for the next big business innovation. But as the startup market swells, how do you know which to net and which to throw back? Startups are big news at the moment, whether it’s the...
View ArticleFending Off the Digital-First Disruptors
In July, a hot startup got scooped up by a multinational conglomerate for $1 billion. That’s hardly groundbreaking business news, except that this was no software-based entity with a hot app on the...
View ArticleFrance makes its bid to be recognized as a global AI hub
Disclosure: Organizers of the “France is AI” conference paid travel expenses for the reporter to attend and moderate several sessions at the event. Tucked into a courtyard in central Paris, the 35...
View ArticleThe Failure That Led Snap Inc. To Its Business Model
Sometimes an in-app purchase just causes too much “friction.” There’s a fun little section in today’s Snap Inc. IPO filing titled “Why We Sell Ads.” It’s odd, in a way, that Snap should have to explain...
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