Posts Tagged ‘Incubator’
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Zuckerberg is on-stage for a question-and-answer session. You can watch it here live or update as we go. This is paraphrased.) Jessica Livingston: First I want to go way, way back. I know you built a few things in high school. What did you learn from those experiences? Zuckerberg: I mostly built stuff I liked. I built games and I built AIs to play the games against me
Tags: Ais, Answer Session, Berkeley, Blogging, Daylong Program, Experiences, Hacker Culture, Incubator, Mark Zuckerberg, Play Games, Play The Games, Question And Answer
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Took me a while to get back to get back to it, but Zend_Feed_Pubsubhubbub, the Zend Framework implementation of the Pubsubhubbub (PuSH) Protocol is moving along nicely. This week I committed some final changes to bring the implementation count to two sides of the protocol: a Pubsubhubbub Publisher and Subscriber. You can grab it from the Zend Framework Incubator via subversion . This article explores both of these sides (the Subscriber in Part 2), and introduces the basic code to get each wor
Tags: Implementation, Incubator, Php, Protocol, Publisher, Subscriber, Subversion, Wor, Zend Framework
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The economic downturn has prompted credit scarcity, layoffs, and cutbacks. Despite the tumult, however, earlier this year twenty Austin business luminaries pumped $100,000 of their own money into the creation of Capital Factory , an Austin-based technology startup incubator that gives funds and mentorship to the most innovative startups. In May, the Capital Factory partners picked five potential blockbuster startups to invest in, even spending ten weeks helping the young entrepreneurs grow a
Tags: Austin Business, Blockbuster, Creation, Economic Downturn, Factory Partners, Incubator, Layoffs, Luminaries, Mentorship, Money, Scarcity, Showcases, Startups, Technology Startup, Tumult, Young Entrepreneurs
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentWashington DC based LaunchBox Digital, an early stage investment firm and incubator founded in 2007 by John McKinley, Sean Green, and Julius Genachowski (now the new head of the FCC and divested from LaunchBox), just wrapped up its second annual 12-week program. Modeled after Y Combinator, LaunchBox invests seed capital of around $20,000-$25,000 into teams, and provides them with 12 weeks of education, mentorship and access to a small a
Tags: Education, Fcc, Incubator, Investment Firm, John Mckinley, Launchbox, Mentorship, Pop, Seed Capital, Stage Investment, Startups, Y Combinator
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
[Additional reporting by Paul Carr ]. Back in the heady days of 2007, flush with what was officially announced as $4.5m in funding from incubator Brightstation Ventures , UK Blog network Shiny Media held an event for advertising agencies to come and see how the new world of blogs would change their entire business strategy. But in a scene straight from The Office , the company’s commercial manager stood up and dismissively told the assembled media luminaries that they were “all sheep [wh
Tags: 5m, Advertising Agencies, Blog, Business Strategy, Chaos, Heady Days, Incubator, Luminaries, Network Reporting, Paul Carr, Sheep, Unhappy People
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