Y-Combinator Launches 9 Startups
YCombinator, the Silicon Valley start-up incubator, launched its ninth class of companies yesterday. Here is the initial list of companies. FlightCaster: Predicts flight delays up to six hours before airline…
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Thomas Oppong
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Founder at Alltopstartups and author of Working in The Gig Economy. His work has been featured at Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.
The 35 Best Iphone Applications
Hundreds of Iphone Applications are submitted to the App store for approval everyday and hundreds get enlisted everyday.There are more than 60,000 applications released for the iPhone and iPod Touch.…
7 Business Startup Ideas
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Using Facebook to come up with start-up ideas!
I have always thought about soliciting ideas from friends about their problems with the current application they are using or frustration with certain products.This page on facebook has a lot…
5 Cleantech Startups With Support from Intel
Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, has invested a total approximately $10 million in five clean tech startups. Intel’s new sub-group, dubbed the Energy Systems Group will focus on the…
Top 12 Tech Startup Incubators
An incubator is a new type of educational institution. It teaches hands-on “entrepreneurial development” to the business owner in a very precise manner because the instructional method is not generalized.…
Web OS With Social Media Twist
Google is working on building a web OS for notebooks.A lot expects have predicted the emergence of a web OS in a year or two. Launched last week, Glide Engage…
7 Mobile Video Applications
The success of youtube has been phenomenal even though revenue generation has not been so good as the user traction. A lot of other startups are replicating the same model…
10 Startup Ideas Funded by DreamIt Ventures
Philadelphia-based early-stage investment outfit DreamIt Ventures is in the business of finding, funding, and accelerating great startups. DreamIt, now in its second year, sees startup founders through the summer with…
Trends, Ideas and Opportunities for a startup
In my last three posts I have deliberate focused on startup ideas because I think the world deserves to know about the ideas I have been thinking about. I believe…
Startup Ideas from 2 Startup Industries
A lot of startups exist as a business with contributions from the public to gather content. Startups like Digg , Reddit , stumbleUpon and Wikipedia have been able to create…
Consumer Startup Ideas
I have always believed that succeeding with a consumer application in the internet is very difficult.Even though i have explored a coupled of them I still think consumer applications takes…
Saas Startup Ideas
Software as a service is being talked about everyday by trend experts, Industry Bloggers, and trend predictors.I have been Thinking about how best to to take advantage of this wave.But…
Twitter and Facebook Are Not Alone,How Different Is TipDrop
The new micro blogging term is “What do you know about that?”.Can this statement overtake “Whats on your mind” from facebook and “what are you doing” from twitter .Th micro…
Google Storms Africa With SMS Search, But….
Internet penetration Africa is not as rife as it is in the US, Europe or Asia.Few people have phones in their homes.It may be a walking distance, but access to…
10 Marketing 2.0 Commandments.
• By knowing the lifetime value of your users, you know exactly how much you can pay to acquire new users with an acceptable profit margin • andrewchenblog • dig…