Piazza, the social network that lets college students and instructors discuss material online, has closed on $6 million in a new Series A funding round. Piazza’s service is meant to counteract study group snobbery and eliminate students’ fear of asking “dumb” questions. Read More »
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In this video, Halle Tecco, co-founder of non-profit seed accelerator RockHealth, gives her elevator pitch about the company’s vision to shake up the world of healthcare. RockHealth is aimed at lowering the barriers for startups developing apps for the healthcare industry. Read More »
Eucalyptus, an open-source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon’s EC2, directly using the Amazon command-line tools, was released today. For the full story, and a way to download Eucalyptus, head over to OStatic . Read More »
Our friend Mark Mahaney, Internet Analyst at Citicorp, has issued a note parsing the latest search query data from comScore. He notes: Overall query growth decelerated, but Google gained market share, 70 bps to a “record-high 59.2 percent.” However, slower gains can be a… Read More »
Think you can “market your way through [the] recession”? Harvard‘s Prof. John Quelch thinks you can. We have the economy on our mind at Found|READ. We imagine our readers do, too, so we’re beginning a new series of posts today on how you can best prepare… Read More »
I was with some Microsoft execs last night, at one of their Startup Accelerator events, where the conversation turned again to the many challenges of promoting innovation at companies large, and small. (You know how MSFT prefers to tackle this –cha ching!) The innovation… Read More »
In my first Found|READ post, How to Work the Room, I gave you tips on how to amp up your social graces for the business party circuit, because — a much as we might hate to admit it — a founder’s startup success… Read More »
We’ve posted a few times on the leadership qualities of presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — and what you can learn from them. See: Obama’s Iowa speech: the difference btw. a Tactician and a Leader. The topic is fostering debate all over,… Read More »
