Mobile payment could boost restaurant...

Mobile payment could boost restaurant revenues

BigHospitality.co.uk, bighospitality.co.uk

The restaurant industry could boost revenues by £5.6 billion by adopting mobile payment, according to a new study.

Ranked: All 32 billion-dollar mobile internet startups...

Ranked: All 32 billion-dollar mobile internet startups (report)

John Koetsier, VB Insight, venturebeat.com

A little less than two months ago there were 25 billion-dollar mobile Internet startups. In a sign of just how quickly the mobile ecosystem is exploding, there are now 32.

Today in a report on VB Insight, mobile consultancy Digi-Capital released…

Are You a Venture or a Debt Entrepreneur? BY Ami Kassar...

Are You a Venture or a Debt Entrepreneur?

BY Ami Kassar @akassar, inc.com

MONEY

This decision is far more personal and emotional than rational.

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the @inc5000 conference in Phoenix where I participated on a panel called “Where’s the Money!” As a part of the panel, I spoke ab…

Mobile games to overtake console revenues in 2015 — and Apple’s...

Mobile games to overtake console revenues in 2015 — and Apple’s revenue could double Nintendo’s

Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com

The console business has ruled gaming for years. But its reign may officially end next year.

The mobile game business is expected to surpass console games in revenue in 2015, according to Newzoo. The market-research firm said that mobile games w…

6 Lessons Marc Andreessen Gives the Startups He Invests In BY...

6 Lessons Marc Andreessen Gives the Startups He Invests In

BY Oscar Raymundo @OscarRaymundo, inc.com

TECHNOLOGY

The famed venture capitalist warns his companies about the risks of extravagant spending and gives his two cents on the next big thing in tech.

After launching Netscape 20 years ago, Marc Andreessen has had a remarkable second act a…

Affordable Mobile Phones Act as Financial, Social Liberator in Emerging Economies

Affordable Mobile Phones Act as Financial, Social Liberator in Emerging Economies:

Angela Ludwig, mobilemediaxchange.com

With mobile payments increasingly becoming front of mind for consumers in the United States, it’s important to compare the factors influencing adoption, domestically and abroad. In developing economies, limitations in technology can fuel and even…

Where to Look for Investors to Fund Your Startup

Where to Look for Investors to Fund Your Startup:

Alan Lobock, entrepreneur.com

Q: Any tips on how and when to start getting to know potential investors? By the time I start to raise funding, I want them to know me.

-Ali R. Tariq

Waterloo, Canda

A: The first issue here is considering what k…

As empresas de mobile que entraram no clube dos bilhões de...

As empresas de mobile que entraram no clube dos bilhões de dólares

Startupi, startupi.com.br

Olhe bem para essa pirâmide. Veja cada uma das marcas aí e preste bastante atenção nelas. Todas têm algo em comum e que você, empreendedor, provavelmente também gostaria muito: valem mais de US$ 1 bilhão e são extremamente rápidas.Todas trabalham …

100 entrepreneurs walk into a dark forest… Boris,...

100 entrepreneurs walk into a dark forest…

Boris, thenextweb.com

Taking risk is an important part of being an entrepreneur. We all know and respect that. But there’s a difference between acceptable and calculated risk and just blindly putting everything on red.

What works in one situation, for a particular te…

O espírito Startup de que as empresas precisam

O espírito Startup de que as empresas precisam:

mundodomarketing.com.br

Empreendedores levam o brilho nos olhos e a vontade de fazer a diferença na vida das pessoas em seus sonhos. Assim, não medem os desafios que têm à frente

Sebrae e Facebook lançam capacitação online Da redação de...

Sebrae e Facebook lançam capacitação online

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

Ferramenta espera ajudar 200 mil pessoas até o final deste ano (Foto: Divulgacão)O Sebrae e o Facebook apresentam nesta segunda-feira (1º) o ‘Empreenda com o Facebook’, treinamento online gratuito desenvolvido para empreendedores brasileiros. Cria…

Direto do Vale do Silício: CEO do Blogo comenta como brasileiros...

Direto do Vale do Silício: CEO do Blogo comenta como brasileiros podem aproveitar o TechCrunch Disrupt

Associação Brasileira de Startups, startupi.com.br

"Não é um tiro curto, você tem que ter sua estratégia". É assim que Amure Pinho, tecnologista, investidor anjo e empreendedor (CEO do gerenciador de conteúdo Blogo) resume sua experiência em diversos eventos TechCrunch Disrupt, em entrevista a…

Assista ao TechCrunch Disrupt direto de San Francisco Startupi,...

Assista ao TechCrunch Disrupt direto de San Francisco

Startupi, startupi.com.br

Nesta segunda, terça e quarta-feira, acontece em San Francisco o evento TechCrunch Disrupt, uma das principais ocasiões para startups, empreendedores e investidores aproveitarem o Vale do Silício. No final de semana, aconteceu a maratona de…

10 mentiras que investidores contam a empreendedores Diego...

10 mentiras que investidores contam a empreendedores

Diego Remus, startupi.com.br

Publicamos uma lista de mentiras que empreendedores contam a investidores comentada por Bill Reichert (sócio de Guy Kawasaki na Garage Technology Ventures) durante uma palestra na Universidade de Stanford, agora publicamos uma lista de mentiras qu…

iBeacon Hack Makes It More Efficient To Wait Tables Natasha...

iBeacon Hack Makes It More Efficient To Wait Tables

Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com

It’s still pretty early days for beacon tech, but practical applications for the Bluetooth trigger hardware are set for big growth. Beacons can be embedded into all sorts of everyday objects linking them to smartphones and their users via a compan…

An Inside Look At The Starbucks App, The Most Successful Mobile Payments System In The US

An Inside Look At The Starbucks App, The Most Successful Mobile Payments System In The US:

John Heggestuen, businessinsider.com

At 6 million average weekly transactions in the U.S., it now accounts for a full 15% of transactions made at the U.S. Starbucks-operated stores.

In a new research note from BI Intelligence we take a deep dive into how the Starbucks app works, wh…

Mobile Apps Are Fueling Huge Growth In Time Spent On Digital...

Mobile Apps Are Fueling Huge Growth In Time Spent On Digital Media

Mark Hoelzel, businessinsider.com

Time spent on digital platforms, including desktop and mobile, saw massive gains over the last year. Digital time spent topped nearly 1.2 trillion minutes in June 2014, increasing by 24% over the same month last year, according to a report by…

Geomarketing ad platform xAd takes $50M to get huge Ruth Reader,...

Geomarketing ad platform xAd takes $50M to get huge

Ruth Reader, venturebeat.com

xAd announced a $50 million raise for its mobile geomarketing platform today, but the company says it doesn’t even need the money; it’s building its business on profit alone.

The funding may be yet another sign that growth funds are looking to g…

The Most Important Transportation Innovation of the Decade Is...

The Most Important Transportation Innovation of the Decade Is the Smartphone

Eric Goldwyn, citylab.com

So why don’t cities and transit agencies take more advantage of it?

In the most recent New York City mayoral election, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis bragged that he was the only candidate with a vision of the future worthy of the city. Whi…

These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America Dan...

These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America

Dan Frommer, qz.com

In its latest mobile app report, comScore tracks the 25 most popular apps in the US. This is an interesting slice of the App Store, as it highlights active usage, not just one-time downloads or recent popularity.

Tap image to zoom

Some…

Micro e pequenas empresas podem melhorar o desempenho das...

Micro e pequenas empresas podem melhorar o desempenho das exportações

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

Mauro Borgéa Soares, diretor de mercados da Secretaria da Micro e Pequena Empresa (Foto: Fabio Cardo)No VI Encontro Brasileiros das Empresas Comerciais Importadoras e Exportadoras (Ceciex), realizado hoje (10/9), em São Paulo, a tônica foi melhora…

Por que vendas de startups no Brasil ainda são casos...

Por que vendas de startups no Brasil ainda são casos raros

Editado por Camila Lam, de EXAME.com, abril.com.br

Fernando de La Riva, especialista em negócios digitais, afirma que os casos relevantes de saída no Brasil são relativamente raros

Exit: a peculiar questão de saída no Brasil

Respondido por Fernando de La Riva, especialista em…

Santander Brasil anuncia linha de R$10 bi para pequenas e médias empresas

Santander Brasil anuncia linha de R$10 bi para pequenas e médias empresas:

reuters.com

SÃO PAULO (Reuters) - O Santander Brasil anunciou nesta quarta-feira que vai disponibiliza 10 bilhões de reais em linhas de crédito voltadas principalmente à formação de estoques, pagamento de 13º salário, capital de giro e desconto de cheques e…

5 Steps for Building a Great Startup Team BY John Rampton,...

5 Steps for Building a Great Startup Team

BY John Rampton, inc.com

GROW

Follow this process to assemble the right people during the early stages of building your business.

No matter how strong an idea you have, the fate of your startup ultimately rests on the shoulders of your team. After all, it could take o…

Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It’s 1999

Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It’s 1999:

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER, nytimes.com

Last year, I was excited to hear about a new start-up in San Francisco that delivered cheap bottles of wine within an hour. It was called Rewinery, and it was fantastic. I ordered a $5 malbec one day and a $10 chardonnay the next, delivered by bik…

Facebook lança programa de aceleração para startups no Brasil O...

Facebook lança programa de aceleração para startups no Brasil

O Globo, globo.com

Escritório do Facebook, em São Paulo. Empresa lança programa de aceleração para startups no Brasil - DivulgaçãoRIO — O Facebook inicia nesta semana seu programa de aceleração para startups de desenvolvimento no Brasil. A intenção é capacita…

Here are the tasks startup CEOs should always outsource Mikita...

Here are the tasks startup CEOs should always outsource

Mikita Mikado, thenextweb.com

“There isn’t enough time.”

It’s a common complaint. A familiar refrain reverberating through the startup world, picking up volume as it swells to a more-or-less deafening roar in Silicon Valley.

It’s “go, go, go” in startup land. And whether…

São Paulo: a start-up ecosystem for Brazil

São Paulo: a start-up ecosystem for Brazil:

ft.com

A planned Google Campus in 2015 is a mark that the potential of the city as host to founders from early stage to well-established has been recognised

5 Ways for Bootstrapped Startups to Get Through the First...

5 Ways for Bootstrapped Startups to Get Through the First Year

Zach Cutler, entrepreneur.com

In the eyes of an investor, a bootstrapped startup that has proven stable and successful within the first year is powerful. It not only raises confidence in the product and the leadership behind it, but also indicates that any invested money will…

The Secret To Getting On The World's Most Innovative Companies List

The Secret To Getting On The World's Most Innovative Companies List:

Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen, forbes.com

What does good management look like? We teach what we think are good management principles in literally thousands of business schools around the world. Yet Scott Cook, founder and leader of Intuit told us, “When MBAs come to us we have to…

SmartThings sweetens its hub for consumers and developers in a...

SmartThings sweetens its hub for consumers and developers in a bid to own the smart home

Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com

SmartThings, the company behind a connected home hub, is walking the fine line between creating an open ecosystem for connected devices and a user experience that doesn’t make users toss up their hands in frustration. That’s not to say it hasn’t…

5 technologies that are shaping the future of design Katie...

5 technologies that are shaping the future of design

Katie Fehrenbacher, gigaom.com

Theatrical robots. 3D printers that churn out cells. Wearables for infants. These types of technologies might be “out there,” but they show off key enabling technologies that are pushing the future of design forward These types of technologies wer…

This bracelet could replace your passwords, your car keys, and...

This bracelet could replace your passwords, your car keys, and even your fingerprints

By David Pierce, theverge.com

Fingerprint readers. Face Unlock. Retinal scanners. They’re all no better than your average password, at least the way Dr. Karl Martin sees it. “Your face, your iris — they’re all physical features that can be stolen, that you leave…

Here’s What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track...

Here’s What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track You

SARAH KESSLER, fastcompany.com

Retailers are already able to track your movements and activities in the physical world like websites do on the Internet. Is that creepy? Decide for yourself.

In its guidelines for facial recognition technologies, the Federal Trade Commission…

5 regras para um serviço por assinatura funcionar Da redação de...

5 regras para um serviço por assinatura funcionar

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

O site “Mashable” listou algumas regras para as startups que vendem serviço por assinatura (Foto: shutterstock)Os serviços por assinatura cresceram de tal forma que hoje existe um clube para quase qualquer coisa: especiarias, apostas da Mega-Sena,…

EE’s ‘Cash on Tap’ payment service now lets...

EE’s ‘Cash on Tap’ payment service now lets you pay bus fare

Harish Jonnalagadda, androidcentral.com

EE has announced a new feature addition in its NFC-based payment service through which customers can now pay for travel on London’s bus network. In addition to paying for bus fare, EE subscribers will be able to leverage the service to pay for far…

How to Write a Business Bid Proposal Letter

How to Write a Business Bid Proposal Letter:

PM WATCH, projectmanagementwatch.com

As long as the official workings and organizational operations of government agencies and large scale organizations are concerned, they always prefer every minute activity to be recorded on the documents. With the least interest of saving these…

Ex-Hulu CEO Raises Funding From Benchmark and Bezos for...

Ex-Hulu CEO Raises Funding From Benchmark and Bezos for Startup

Seth Fiegerman, mashable.com

business

Jason Kilar stepped down from his posi­tion as CEO of Hulu in early 2013 after help­ing to build up the video stream­ing ser­vice from its launch in 2007.

In the sec­ond half of 2013, Kilar began work­ing with Hulu’s for­mer CTO Richa…

App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Panic Button JOHN BROWNLEE,...

App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Panic Button

JOHN BROWNLEE, fastcodesign.com

Amnesty International’s new app helps activists around the world to secretly alert their friends when they are in trouble.

Human rights activists and jour­nal­ists often hope to make a con­crete dif­fer­ence in the way gov­ern­ments treat…

San Francisco parking app refuses shut-down order

San Francisco parking app refuses shut-down order:

TERRY COLLINS, Associated Press, apnewsarchive.com

SAN FRAN­CIS­CO (AP) — The com­pa­ny behind a mobile app that allows San Fran­cis­co dri­vers to get paid for the pub­lic park­ing spaces they exit has reject­ed an order from the city attor­ney to stop its oper­a­tions.

Mon­key­Park­ing CEO Pao…

App Camp for Girls expanding to Seattle after successful first...

App Camp for Girls expanding to Seattle after successful first year in Portland

Blair Hanley Frank, geekwire.com

App Camp for Girls, a summer camp that gives middle school-aged girls a chance to build their own iPhone apps, is coming to Seattle as a part of its second year of operation. The camp, which started in Portland last year, will run as a one-week…

Hey, founders — before you name your startup something stupid,...

Hey, founders — before you name your startup something stupid, read this

Shawn Hur, Survata, venturebeat.com

GUEST POST

Encap­su­lat­ing a busi­ness in a sin­gle word or phrase can be a daunt­ing task. For star­tups, the name of the busi­ness becomes the first word of every investor pitch and the first mes­sage that’s spread to poten­tial users. Althou…

Inside the Mind of a Top Angel Investor

Inside the Mind of a Top Angel Investor:

inc.com

Brian Cohen, Chair­man of New York Angels, tells Inc.'s Scott Ger­ber every­thing entre­pre­neurs need to know about build­ing a busi­ness that will impress investors.

Parking spot startup vows to fight San Francisco’s plan to...

Parking spot startup vows to fight San Francisco’s plan to shut it down

By Josh Lowensohn, theverge.com

An Ital­ian start­up that lets peo­ple buy and sell city-owned park­ing spots to one anoth­er plans to ignore efforts to crack down on its busi­ness and those who use it. Mon­key Park­ing today said it will keep offer­ing a way for peo­ple in pub­…

Lead Mobile Developer

Lead Mobile Developer:

smartrecruiters.com

As a Lead Mobile Devel­op­er, you will work inde­pen­dent­ly and also moti­vate your team to work with cus­tomers, busi­ness, oper­a­tion and sup­port to con­tin­u­ous­ly inno­vate and improve our sys …

Empreendedorismo, Negócios e Inovação Endeavor Brasil,...

Empreendedorismo, Negócios e Inovação

Endeavor Brasil, endeavor.org.br

Artigos

Operações

Enten­da a importância e as van­ta­gens de se ter estratégias de Mar­ket­ing Dig­i­tal que envolvem a equipe de Tec­nolo­gia.

Estratégia & Crescimento

Des­cubra a teo­ria que pode te aju …

9 ways virtual reality will affect the startup scene Scott...

9 ways virtual reality will affect the startup scene

Scott Gerber, thenextweb.com

It sounds like sci­ence fic­tion, but vir­tu­al real­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy is tak­ing off. Not even the sky’s the limit for imag­in­ing what could be done with this tech­nol­o­gy. Just ask Google I/O 2014 atten­dees and their card­board VR…

Can Mobile Money Extend Financial Services To Smallholder Farmers

Can Mobile Money Extend Financial Services To Smallholder Farmers:

Stephanie Hanson, cgap.org

Kenya is widely acknowledged to be a global leader in mobile money. Over two-thirds of its adult population uses M-PESA, the mobile money system launched in 2007 by Safaricom.But even in Kenya, many are not using M-PESA. I know many smallholder…

The Entrepreneur Disrupting Wall Street

The Entrepreneur Disrupting Wall Street:

BY Chris Beier, inc.com

VIDEO • HOW I DID IT

The story of how Brad Katsuyama—a former RBC trader featured in Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys—started his own stock exchange.

Foursquare finally comes up with a monetization strategy that...

Foursquare finally comes up with a monetization strategy that makes sense

Nathaniel Mott, pando.com

Foursquare is planning to monetize its greatest asset — its database of precise locations for restaurants, shopping malls, and anywhere else someone might want to visit — by asking some of its partners to start paying for that cartographical treas…

5 Ways To Give A Presentation That No One Will Ever Forget The...

5 Ways To Give A Presentation That No One Will Ever Forget

The Muse, forbes.com

We’ve all been there: In the audi­ence at a dry pitch event or wit­ness­ing a lack­lus­ter pre­sen­ta­tion in a work meet­ing and count­ing the min­utes until you can stop pre­tend­ing to lis­ten.

It’s alarm­ing how com­mon the expec­ta­tion is …

eMarketer Retail Weeklyemarketer.com June 26, 2014Amer­i­can...

eMarketer Retail Weekly

emarketer.com

June 26, 2014

Amer­i­can World Cup view­er­ship has been steadi­ly on the rise over the past 10 years—and if this past week­end’s draw with Por­tu­gal helps lead the US team to the knock­out Round of 1 …

eMarketer Retail Weeklyemarketer.com June 26, 2014Amer­i­can...

eMarketer Retail Weekly

emarketer.com

June 26, 2014

Amer­i­can World Cup view­er­ship has been steadi­ly on the rise over the past 10 years—and if this past week­end’s draw with Por­tu­gal helps lead the US team to the knock­out Round of 1 …

Como conseguir crédito em bancos para acelerar o seu negócio Da...

Como conseguir crédito em bancos para acelerar o seu negócio

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

Empreendedor tem que se organizar e planejar para conseguir dinheiro (Foto: Divulgacão) Você já sabe que tão importante quanto a decisão de acessar capital é a de que tipo de financiamento você quer ter para sua empresa. Uma opção é buscar crédito…

8 franquias de cosméticos baratas para investir Da redação de...

8 franquias de cosméticos baratas para investir

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

8 opções para quem quer abrir uma franquia no setor de cosméticos (Foto: Divulgação)A indústria brasileira de higiene pessoal, perfumaria e cosméticos apresentou um crescimento médio de 10% nos últimos 17 anos, passando de R$ 4,9 bilhões (1996) pa…

LevelUp offers restaurants real-time customer feedback

LevelUp offers restaurants real-time customer feedback:

Rian Boden, nfcworld.com

LevelUp has added in-app surveys to its mobile payments platform, enabling restaurant owners to collect feedback from customers and respond straight away to any complaints. The idea, LevelUp says, is to give merchants a way…Read the rest of…

Why Entrepreneurs Should Plan for Failure, Not Success Jerry...

Why Entrepreneurs Should Plan for Failure, Not Success

Jerry Jao, entrepreneur.com

Start­ing three com­pa­nies — two of which didn’t take off the way I envi­sioned — taught me that while entre­pre­neurs should dream big, it’s essen­tial that we also plan for fail­ure. More than 90 per­cent of star­tups fail.

And rec­og­niz­i…

Six unbelievable quotes about Yo, the stupid app that raised...

Six unbelievable quotes about Yo, the stupid app that raised $1.2M

Dylan Tweney, venturebeat.com

Cor­rec­tion 12:25pm: Yo has over 790,000 users, not 50,000.

Moshe Hogeg is one of the two guys behind the strange­ly viral, stu­pid­ly sim­ple app Yo.

Yo is as prim­i­tive of an app as you can imag­ine: All it does is let you send a…

Brutal Lessons From 4 Failed Startups John Boitnott,...

Brutal Lessons From 4 Failed Startups

John Boitnott, entrepreneur.com

With thou­sands of star­tups world­wide build­ing new prod­ucts, it’s no won­der 75 per­cent of them fail. It’s actu­al­ly a good thing because start­up birth and death helps the ecosys­tem over­all. Entre­pre­neurs can learn as much from mis­take…

How I Made It Business Talent Group CEO places experts in...

How I Made It Business Talent Group CEO places experts in short-term jobs

By Ronald D. White, latimes.com

The gig: Jody Green­stone Miller is chief exec­u­tive of Busi­ness Tal­ent Group, a firm that she says is chang­ing the way com­pa­nies obtain top busi­ness tal­ent for con­sul­ta­tion and project-based work. Miller’s com­pa­ny, which she…

Concept Sunday: Artefact Token puts your wallet on your...

Concept Sunday: Artefact Token puts your wallet on your wrist

Jerome Skalnik, eyeonmobility.com

BeamPro Delivers Smart Presence For The Workplace Jennifer...

BeamPro Delivers Smart Presence For The Workplace

Jennifer Hicks, forbes.com

You don’t have to go back too far into our col­lec­tive hive minds to remem­ber Dick Tracy’s watch phone. He used that watch to com­mu­ni­cate with any­one where ever he was, at any time. It was sim­ple and smart.

His watch phone, which debuted …

Stanford’s Tina Seelig tells us the quick-and-dirty way to teach...

Stanford’s Tina Seelig tells us the quick-and-dirty way to teach both innovation and creativity (interview)

Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com

Tina Seel­ig recent­ly got one of the Oscars of Sil­i­con Val­ley. The SVFo­rum named hon­ored her as a win­ner of one of its annu­al Vision­ary Awards.

Seel­ig has taught inno­va­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty for the past 15…

Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating...

Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating app industry

Rory Carroll in San Francisco, theguardian.com

The bay area tech boom has given many of the industry’s workers money, confidence and a hedonistic tinge, writes Rory Carroll from Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley has long attracted young entrepreneurs and software engineers with the promise of…

Empresário ganha dinheiro vendendo “ar enlatado”...

Empresário ganha dinheiro vendendo “ar enlatado” para turistas

Da redação de Pequenas Empresas e Grandes Negócios, globo.com

O ar é sempre de Curitiba, mas os produtos transportam a atmosfera de vários pontos do Brasil (Foto: Divulgação)Chegar em casa após uma viagem tem seu lado bom. Depois de dias longe, dormir na própria cama e não se preocupar em carregar bagagens é…