Looking to find advice for your startup, but struggling with how to make contacts if you’re not located in Silicon Valley? Clarity, the app that connects individuals to give and receive advice, has raised a $1.6 million seed round to advance the conversation. Read more »
SpringboardIoT, a new accelerator program focused on startups working on hardware and the Internet of Things, has launched in the UK. The scheme’s founder joins forces with an experienced insider to explain why it’s a necessary and useful development. Read more »
The first employee and lead architect of the company that later became Twitter has sold his Uruguay-based dev shop to lean startup consulting group New Context, which counts Eric Ries as a partner. The move marks the emergence of customer development as a service. Read more »
Pivotal Labs, one of the smartest Web teams, known for its pioneering work in agile development, is in talks to be acquired, we have learned. The news will come sometime later this month. And we are still trying to pin down the buyer’s name. Read more »
What’s one way to maximize the potential success of your startup while minimizing risk? Make sure that your business and application are ready by testing on users before you make a big marketing push, says Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup. Read more »
