Enigma: Taking The Mystery Out Of Data
At 28 years old, Marc DaCosta and Hicham Oudghiri have a lot to brag about. While many of us around their age are still living with our parents, their big-data startup is taking off in a major way. DaCosta and Oudghiri go way back, having graduated together from Columbia University in 2006. Post-college…
7 Strategic Ways To Seek Startup PR
It feels great to be covered by the media, but unless there’s a business goal for getting press, it often doesn’t lead to any useful outcome – aside from allaying your parents’ fears that you don’t have a real job. Often, the goal of PR for startups is not for the obvious reasons. Here are the 7 objectives…
SocialStock Wants To Commodify Your Social Worth
For the fourteenth season of the animated series South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone played with the idea of ‘friend stock’ in an episode titled, “You Have 0 Friends.” In it, Kyle befriends an especially unpopular boy on Facebook out of pity. This act eventually leads to Kyle’s Facebook account being labeled ‘bad friend stock’ by Cartman, on his show Mad Friends, itself a parody of Jim...
CenterNetworks.com – Internet News Source
Users familiarized with sites like TechCrunch.com, Mashable. com or even KillerStartups.com will probably feel very comfortable browsing CenterNetworks.com, which is a site that’s been around for several years now, and which aggregates internet and IT news and comments on them. Interestingly, the site works not only as a Tech blog and news source, but it keeps its users updated on IT and internet job openings; they can get RSS feeds...