The new program will place Google squarely in big tech co-working facilities in Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Durham, Minneapolis, Nashville and Waterloo, Canada. These cities aren't tech backwaters, but they aren't San Francisco either.…
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Does it matter which site you use to crowdfund?
When you're looking to crowdfund your latest project, does it matter who you list with? Two Silicon Valley workers scraped the data to compare Indiegogo and Kickstarter, but results are mixed.…
Read MoreDoug Engelbart and the vision thing: Is Silicon Valley suffering from a failure of imagination?
Computing pioneer Doug Engelbart -- who passed away earlier this week -- had a vision of how the technologies he developed could help us to create a better world, not just a way to sell more smartphone apps or get people to click on advertising.…
Read MoreTechStars Chicago’s first class of startups: patient-monitoring, matchmaking and marketing
TechStars Chicago, formerly Excelerate Labs, has announced its inaugural class of startups.…
Read MoreTech startups are the luckiest startups: A view from outside the bubble
Starting a company is hard, but it's a lot harder outside the startup-happy tech culture in the Bay Area as I discovered talking to toy inventors at The Toy Fair.…
Read MoreBalancing team passion and product-market fit
Entrepreneurs are often told to figure out what the market wants and to follow their passions. Unfortunately, these can be competing directions. Dave Kashen, founder of Quantum Leading, has his own bit of advice for startup founders -- don’t settle for what the market wants if it doesn’t intersect with what you're passionate about doing.…
Read MoreLessons from the TSA on how to launch a startup
Can you name America’s largest startup? It’s not Facebook or Amazon. It isn’t even a technology company. This giant startup is the Transportation Security Administration, and its massive scale offers a roadmap for entrepreneurs eager to turn big ideas into sustainable businesses.…
Read MoreA reminder to talk to your users relentlessly
Remind101 co-founder, Brett Kopf's dyslexia and ADD led him to create a text messaging service for students. After failing to find an audience, Kopf starting talking to users. In this video, Kopf explains how important that communication was to finding the right business.…
Read MoreGet Satisfaction CEO Wendy Lea: How to be a good mentor
A good mentor is invaluable for the modern startup founder or tech exec. But what makes for a good mentor relationship, and how do you find one? Get Satisfaction CEO and mentor Wendy Lea explains her approach and what she looks for in a mentee.…
Read MoreInternMatch CEO: Advice for finding the right advisors
Advisors may not be as sexy as angels in the startup ecosystem, but the right one can provide a ton of value for young companies. InternMatch Co-Founder and CEO, Andrew Maguire, shares his thoughts on finding and working with the right advisors to help any startup.…
Read MoreFour South Korean startups to watch
Korea's future as a startup hub is still a work in progress but I see a lot of reasons to be optimistic about companies emerging from this country of 50 million people. Here are four start-ups that caught my attention at the BeLaunch conference last week.…
Read MoreTechStars NYC 2012: 7 startups to watch
Thirteen would-be darlings of New York’s tech scene are hitting the stage today at startup incubator TechStars NYC's third Demo Day to present its latest class of graduates.…
Read MoreKorean startups gear up for the spotlight
South Korea is building a start-up ecosystem, hoping to create some of the innovation that turned Silicon Valley into technology capital. The latest step is a two-day conference next week called beLaunch, which is equipping local entrepreneurs with important lessons and getting them to think big.…
Read MoreLocalmind CEO on how to make habit-forming products
How many apps on your phone do you use on a daily basis? Moving your product from a novelty to a habit is tricky, but Localmind CEO, Lenny Rachitsky thinks he's found a way to make it happen and open up in this video interview.…
Read MoreToday in Connected Consumer
Does Facebook have a Mark Zuckerberg problem? If eyebrows were raised when Facebook’s initial S-1 revealed Zuckerberg’s near complete control of the…
Read MoreWhat we can learn from a young boy’s cardboard arcade
The viral video of a nine-year-old boy who built a magical arcade out of cardboard at his father's auto-parts business in Los Angeles has a lot to say about the spirit of entrepreneurship and creativity that fuels much of what we write about at GigaOM.…
Read MoreWhen is €300m not €300m? Ask OP Ventures
Orange and Publicis hit the headlines this week for underpinning a €300m venture fund targeting European startups. But in fact only a third of that money is actually fresh funding that will end up in the hands of continental businesses.…
Read MoreCan Europe crowdsource its way to startup success?
Europe's digital commissioner Neelie Kroes has a mixed record of helping the continent's web entrepreneurs. But now she's opening up to questions from the floor, with a new initiative aimed at finding ways to get Brussels to do a better job for startups.…
Read MoreWhat’s love got to do with it? For startups, everything
After trying to become a social network, the team behind Fab.com pivoted a year ago toward their current model as a design site because it was something the founders were passionate about. It's another reminder that passion matters and can be what determines success.…
Read MoreEverything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss
In his early 20s, entrepreneur Donald DeSantis had an interesting mentor — a very successful businessman whose business happened to be organized crime. Despite — or perhaps because of — his seedy profession, the mentor taught DeSantis much about managing risk, acquisitions and networking.…
Read MorePortrait of (and podcast with) an artist entrepreneur: Marc Maron
Marc Maron's popular WTF podcast is more than an entertaining listen; it shows how the artist-entrepreneur can harness the power of Internet distribution and community. In this audio interview, Maron talks about the lessons he has learned and where he fits into the media landscape.…
Read MoreWahooly, the Klout and Kickstarter hybrid, opens to startups
Wahooly has created a group of 25,000 influential testers and is now opening the doors to startups to apply to engage this group. Startups will create testing groups of 5,000 to 8,000 people, who will share in a pool of equity ranging from 4–6 percent.…
Read MoreThe values-driven startup
Dave Kashen of Quantum Leading calls for a change in startup culture. He believes that when we operate according to our core values and principles, in pursuit of a vision for the future that inspires us, we maximize our individual and collective well-being.…
Read MoreStartup entrepreneurs are ‘arrogant and psychopathic’
The startup world is littered with stories of bad behavior, arguments, bullying and trickery that few people would tolerate in normal life. But German researchers suggest this might not just be a coincidence -- and that perhaps it's crucial to a company's success.…
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