California start-up brings deft touch to virtual reality
Silicon Valley start-up, zSpace, has produced a virtual 3D display its founders say will revolutionize the way people interact with computers. The system gives three-dimensional form to virtual objects and allows users to manipulate those objects as if they were real.
A Billionaire’s Startup Secrets
Clay Mathile, the billionaire former Iams CEO and founder of the Aileron Institute, sits down with three young founders to talk about building a vibrant company culture while hiring the right people.
Suitcase Startup: One man’s journey to London to launch a startup, armed with just a suitcase and dream
Suitcase Startup is a four month, online documentary series following what it truly takes to get a business off the ground, from marketing on a tight budget to building a team, raising finance and launching, Suitcase Startup is the story of the entrepreneur’s journey, of trying to make a dream, a reality.
Chris Bradley is the first-time entrepreneur under the spotlight, and he’s inviting anyone with an interest in the startup scene to come along for the ride over the next four months, through 8 episodes appearing on The Next Web, each covering the blood sweat and tears involved as he attempts to take his startup, Publicate, from a bedroom in North Wales to London — with no office, no accommodation and no money. He does, however, have a suitcase. Will it be enough?
Startups vs. Big Business with Jesper Sørensen
Jesper Sørensen reveals the competitive advantages and disadvantages that startups and established companies can exploit as they compete for customers in new markets. He is the Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
BranchOut: Facebook App connects you with your friends’ place of work
Rick Marini, founder/CEO of disruptive job-sourcing platform, BranchOut, has become the #1 place to network professionally on Facebook. In this video, Marini shares his secrets as to how BranchOut has unlocked Facebook’s immense potential to be more meaningful than a social platform.
Andrew Ng: Education for Everyone
Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that is offering classes from Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Caltech, and other top universities to anyone in the world. Its mission is to give anyone, anywhere in the world access to a high quality education for free.
Co-founder Andrew Ng, also the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and an associate professor in computer science at Stanford, presented at the Leading Education By Advancing Digital (LEAD) Symposium held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2012.
He spoke at the Leading Education By Advancing Digital (LEAD) Symposium held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2012.
How Chegg became the #1 source for textbook rentals
The story of Chegg’s “pivot” - from online classifieds to textbook rentals. This Silicon Valley-based startup has carved a niche for itself by helping students save hundreds of dollars. Why buy expensive college textbooks when you can rent and save money?
Earbits: ad-free music streaming service & music marketing platform
Earbits is a Y Combinator-funded startup that connects musicians with fans via their revolutionary ad-free Internet radio service. With 200 curated stations, Earbits brings music lovers the best independent music from around the world.
Hands-On (Or Actually, Heads-On) With Muse, The Headband That Reads Your Brain Waves
You may or may not have noticed, so I’ll provide a quick fashion world dispatch: Headbands have been gracing the foreheads of many a stylish person over the past few years.
If a Toronto-based startup called InteraXon has its way, that trend will become even more pervasive for years to come as people buy its own Muse headband — but the Muse is meant to be much more than just a fashion statement. It’s a brainwave-reading gadget that is meant to help you better understand all the complicated ways that your mind works and use that knowledge to improve your life.
ECNlive and Tech City Partnership
Prime Minister David Cameron backs ECNlive partnership with Tech City, as he announces plan for £50M regeneration of Silicon Roundabout
Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO), the body tasked with promoting British technology companies based in the East London tech cluster, is joining forces with digital news network ECNlive, in a partnership that will connect Tech City with investors in the City of London.
The partnership was announced this morning at a Tech City event attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, who praised the success of innovative British technology businesses such as ECNlive and announced a £50 million plan to regenerate the Old Street Roundabout at the heart of East London-based Tech City business cluster.
News of the Prime Minister’s announcement was broken on the ECNlive network, as the first step in a content partnership that will see ECNlive’s digital network carry live news and real time information from companies within Tech City, to financial institutions, media groups and technology companies across the capital.
Tech City will use ECNlive’s digital network, which reaches more than 400,000 business people across the capital, to carry real-time up-dates on company initiatives, tech sector data and trends. ECNlive is present in more than 100 landmark offices buildings in London, including the offices of the City’s most influential investors from the technology and financial services industry.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: “The UK is in a global race and I am determined that we as a Government continue doing everything we can to equip the UK to compete and thrive in that race.
“As well as backing the businesses of today, we are creating an aspiration nation and also backing the innovative, high-growth businesses of the future. That’s why we’re investing in creating the largest civic space in Europe - a place for start‐up companies and the local community to come together and become the next generation of entrepreneurs.”
Antony Ceravolo, CEO of ECNlive commented: “ECNlive will give Tech City companies a consistent presence in the heart of the City of London informing potential investors of the latest developments within the dynamic technology sector based in East London.
“ECNlive is itself a great example of how an innovative British technology-based business can establish itself and thrive. Now we’re helping to take Tech City to the City.”
Based in East London, ECNlive is backed by Octopus Ventures and an international consortium of private investors in the media and technology sectors and is led by Chief Executive Antony Ceravolo, a founding director of LOVEFiLM.COM.
ECNlive delivers a mix of live content and digital full-motion display advertising. Content is up-dated in real-time and includes global and national news, financial and sports up-dates, weather and travel information, as well as localised information relevant to audiences within individual buildings.
TCIO was established by UK Trade and Investment to promote the growth of companies based in the tech cluster centred in Shoreditch. In October Joanna Shields formerly Facebook’s, Vice-President and Managing Director Europe, Middle East and Africa, to be Chief Executive of TCIO.
