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SEOmoz Hands Off Consulting Biz to U.K. Firm, Doubles Down on Software and Tools
Gregory T. Huang Don’t think of Seattle-based SEOmoz as a consulting firm. It’s all about software and tools now—and pretty much has been for a couple of years. That’s the message from founder and CEO...
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From Social Media to the 3-D Internet: Companies Need to Change Up, Says...
Gregory T. Huang Every once in a while, I sit down with a businessperson who brings a unique perspective to a huge global trend—and helps me see things in a profound new light. In this case, that...
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Inside the McKinstry Innovation Center: A First Look at Seattle’s Big...
Gregory T. Huang Elsa Croonquist of McKinstry would cringe at the hype, but I’m here to say it’s at least partly true. The Seattle alternative energy scene has been eerily quiet as of late. This is...
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How to Predict Whether a Startup Will Succeed or Fail: Testing the...
Gregory T. Huang Thomas Thurston is a startup predictor. Tell him about your company, and he’ll tell you whether it will survive or fail. No, he’s not an investor, or a psychic. By day, Thurston is a...
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How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Your Mobile Strategy
Nitzan Shaer Mobile presents an enormous opportunity. Pick your supporting statistic—from 2013 as the tipping point for mobile to eclipse the desktop (comScore) to Gartner’s prediction that 2010 will...
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TechSmith Takes Long Road to the Top in Screen Capture and Recording Software
Jillian Berman “Why not have a high-tech company in Michigan?” This is the question Bill Hamilton asks of those incredulous of the possibilities of success of a software company based in Okemos, MI....
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Architexa Grows Up at MassChallenge, Seeks to Help Developers “Understand”...
Gregory T. Huang The MassChallenge global startup competition is in full swing. The 110 chosen companies have been pitching their wares over the past few days, trying to make the cut down to the 26 or...
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U-M Investment Group TAMID Introduces Students to Entrepreneurship, Israeli...
Jillian Berman [Corrected, 4:40pm. See below] Last month, Jon Medved, the founder of Jerusalem-based Israel Seed Partners, a multi-million dollar venture capital fund, came to the University of...
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How VCs Use Advice from Experts
John Steuart In recent years, doctors, scientists, and experts who consult with pharmaceutical companies and hedge funds have come under increasing scrutiny from the media and their fellow...
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CloudTP Comes Out of Stealth, With $1M in Equity Seed Funding, to Help Big...
Erin Kutz Serial IT entrepreneur Chris Greendale is taking a crack at another company, which is involved in what he calls “carbon reduction by cloud computing. It’s not exactly the most commonly...
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Churnless Consults Big Corporations and Incubates Startups Focused on Helping...
Erin Kutz Mix one part consultancy with another part incubator and then toss that with an entrepreneur’s passion project. Sprinkle on some academia, too. And there you have New York-based Churnless....
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GlobalOne Lands $25M, Gets New CEO
João-Pierre S. Ruth Software-as-a-service provider GlobalOne in New York said in a press release Wednesday it secured an initial funding commitment of more than $25 million from Columbia Capital....
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Brand People for Startup Boards: A Q&A with NY Investor Michael Duda
Erin Kutz Michael Duda uses the word fun quite a bit when talking about what he does. It’s not hard to see why. He’s co-founder of Consigliere Brand Capital, a New York-based investment and consulting...
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Got Hardware? Dragon Innovation Helps Big Names Get Built
Curt Woodward A few months before his little startup company became a poster child for the crowdfunding revolution, Eric Migicovsky had one of those moments of serious panic. He’d been through the...
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ForwardMetrics Combines SaaS, Networking for Business Consultants
Bruce V. Bigelow ForwardMetrics, an Encinitas, CA-based startup, says it has raised $1 million from individual investors to expand its Web-based platform for consultants and business leaders. The Web...
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Here’s What Mobile Industry Insiders See Ahead for 2014
Curt Woodward By now, you should know the truly big stories in the mobile sector: Samsung’s rise to challenge Apple, Microsoft finally acquiring Nokia, Google leaping into wearables, more moves toward...
View ArticleArcadia Health Gets $13M Shot to Boost Healthcare Data and Analytics
Private equity has already helped Arcadia Health Systems use technology to reinvent itself. Now a PE firm is writing the Burlington, MA, business a check to continue the transformation. The data...
View ArticleExperfy Expands Data Science For Hire With $1.5M Seed Round
In today’s outsourcing tech marketplace, you can find freelancers for almost anything, from mobile marketers on Elance to algorithms on Algorithmia. Boston-based Experfy is building on the fact that...
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Catalant Scoops Up $41M to Boost Business Consulting Marketplace
It’s officially summer in Boston—the mercury is rising, and the venture capital is flowing. The latest local startup to cash in is Catalant Technologies, which on Tuesday morning announced it received...
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Nordic to Move Into Management Consulting After Partial Acquisition
Nordic, a healthcare consulting firm that advises on implementations of computerized patient records software and other projects, said Tuesday that it had acquired part of The Claro Group. Madison,...
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