Startups

How Will the Facebook IPO Impact New Startups?

by Jeff Weisbein January 8, 2012

The Facebook IPO will have a huge impact on the startup world as many talented engineers cash out for the next big thing.

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How Safe Is Starting A Business?

by Jeff Weisbein November 6, 2011

Found this infographic interesting and thought it was worth sharing. Is starting a business safer than a job? Definitely a worthwhile topic to examine with unemployment still above 9% and still a somewhat bleak immediate future. Obviously, starting a business may be difficult for someone with not much experience, but I still think it’s doable. I started [...]

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Hunch Introduces Itself to the World

by Jeff Weisbein August 11, 2011

Earlier today, a New York City based startup called Hunch released a video (below) essentially introducing Hunch to the world. It’s a service that uses information added by its users (e.g. you, your friends, connections, other people with similar tastes as you) to build a “taste” graph of things you like, would potentially like, or not like.

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Drop It Like It’s Hot. Facebook Acquires Drop.io

by Jeff Weisbein October 29, 2010

Facebook has acquired the file sharing/storage site Drop.io according to a post on the company blog. The service will be shutting down on December 15th, 2010. Yet again, Facebook is acquiring startups for talent, technology, and assets only to leave the startup to die (e.g. Friendfeed) or just to shut it down (e.g. essentially every [...]

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Google Set to Acquire A Company Every Two Weeks

by Jeff Weisbein September 21, 2010

Google is currently on pace to acquire a new company every two weeks in 2010. As we wrote about back in July, Google has already spent $1.1 billion on acquisitions so far this year. While Google CEO Eric Schmidt told analysts to expect about one acquisition per month in 2010, the Mergers & Acquisitions team [...]

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The Next Big Thing Will Improve Communication

by Jeff Weisbein September 9, 2010

If we take a look at the way people communicated before technology became a prevalent part of our every day lives, it does not take much time to realize that it was a completely different world than it is today. Today, there are a multitude of ways to communicate with other people. Mobile technology is [...]

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George Steinbrenner: The Boss You Would Have Wanted for Your Startup

by Jeff Weisbein July 13, 2010

The New York Yankees principal owner, George Steinbrenner has passed away this morning at the age of 80. George was a very unique, extremely hard working person. He was a visionary and a leader in all of sports. He changed sports – for the better. When he bought the Yankees in 1973 for what would [...]

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Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups

by Jeff Weisbein June 17, 2009

Dear Search Engine Startups, I realize that I may only be 19 years old and lack a lot of the experience that a lot of big name (or just older) entrepreneurs may have acquired throughout their years in the industry but it doesn’t mean that the advice I provide in this open letter should be [...]

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