College hiring is projected to rebound in time for the Class of 2011 to feel its effects, according to a new survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers who took part in NACE’s survey say they’re anticipating hiring 13.5% more new college grades from the Class of 2011 than they did from the Class of 2010
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How to Get a Job at a Startup After College Graduation
Back in August, after the release of the company’s Android app , I spoke with GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold about how his startup prepared itself for making the move to mobile .
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Phases of App Maturity: Roadmapping Your Startup’s Mobile Strategy
You could have the greatest idea for a startup in the world. You could even have the best team working together to build a great product. That’s all fine and dandy, but for first-time entrepreneurs, if you don’t have traction, you’re not going anywhere
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Traction for Your Startup: How to Get It & How Much is Enough
The product you’ve built, the team you’ve assembled, the customers you’ve won, the growth you’re predicting – all crucial for winning investor support. And you can have all those pieces in place and still blow it during your pitch
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How Not To Lose Your Investor During Your Pitch
While a successful exit in the form of an acquisition may be the goal for many startups, the experiences of Backblaze , an online back-up and storage startup, demonstrate how time-consuming, challenging, and expensive the process can be, particularly when, as was the case with Backblaze, things fall apart. Backblaze was in the process of negotiating an acquisition with one of its partners and then with another business. Both deals fell through, and Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman penned a blog post chronicling the process to offer some insights and lessons learned for other companies entering the process.
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Lessons Learned from a Failed Acquisition
Earlier this week we provided a few tips for marketing your startup on the cheap , and a large part of that involves managing your brand’s social media presence.
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Managing Your Startup’s Social Media Relationships
Let’s face it – the traditional business plan as we know it (or as we knew it) is slowly slowly going away. Or is it
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Business Plans Are Dead, Long Live Business Plans
InDinero wants to help you predict the future of your business. When we covered the launch of the Y Combinator-funded business finance app in early July, co-founder Jessica Mah told us that automated financial forecasts were in the pipeline, and the startup recently delivered that promised feature
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InDinero Adds Automated Financial Forecasts for Businesses
If there’s one thing every entrepreneur realizes before launching a new venture, it’s that one of the most important steps toward success is getting your name out there. If you’re new to the startup game and don’t have a reputation upon which to announce a new company, public relations (PR) is likely at the forefront of your mind as you build your startup. Most startups, however, are looking to penny-pinch in any way they can in order to bootstrap their businesses, so how can you get the word out on a budget?
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How to Market Your Startup On the Cheap
Five years ago, Steve Huffman was another young entrepreneurial mind chomping at the bit to launch his very own startup. After taking a train from Virginia to Boston to see Paul Graham speak at Harvard in 2005, Huffman and his partner Alexis Ohanian eventually joined the very first class of Y Combinator .
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Why Reddit’s Founder was "Terrified" to Launch New Startup, Hipmunk
(or So Says Former Places Engineer) There’s a very interesting question over on Q&A site Quora.com regarding last night’s announcement of Facebook’s geo-location effort, Facebook Places.
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Facebook Places Makes Location a Commodity
Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren’t just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook’s recent acquisition Hot Potato , which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books and other activities, have been part of the fuel behind the recent check-in craze.
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Texting has never been so much fun, thanks to the high-speed magic of the keyboard that could: Swype. But I know there are a lot of sad pandas out there who want to Swype, but just can’t because they own a Nokia. Well, you can turn that from upside down, matey, as Swype is now available for S60 5th Edition through Nokia Beta Labs ! Now, now, before you get too excited, I have to let you know that it is currently only available for the Nokia N97, N97mini, X6, 5800, and 5230, with other devices coming later
All the engineers in the audience will be pleased to hear that Globalfoundries today announced that the very first 28nm ARM Cortex A9 dual-processor qualification vehicle has now been taped out.
T-mobile have now confirmed, via their Scoop page , that the upcoming T-mobile G2 will rock an 800MHz Scorpion processor (as part of the new MSM7x30 Snapdragon chipset), run the Android hotness that is Froyo (sans Sense, as previously thought ), and will also be “ready” for flash 10.1. Now, those in the audience with an insatiable appetite for teh megahurtzes will probably be disappointed to hear that the clock is a full 200MHz slower than the usual 1GHz Snapdragon that most all high-end phones are gifted with.
T-mobile is really going to draw out this whole limited knowledge launch of the G2 . This time, though, we have some confirmation on what you can actually expect. It is well known that this will be the first HSPA+ phone , and T-mobile is telling you to “brace yourself for blazing-fast downloads, browsing and search” on the “fastest smartphone experience in America.” Another note, and I do not get sick of posting this, vanilla Android 2.2 out of the box with one-touch quick keys (for quick access to Google shortcuts and applications) and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ready (which probably means you will have to download it from the market yourself). T-Mobile is also confirming that that Qualcomm MSM 7230 Scorpion silicone will be clocked at 800 MHz. I know some of you wish it was clocked up to 1 GHz, but you need to remember that GHz isn’t everything. Nothing really new there, but some official confirmation is always good. The rest of the scroll box, from the Scoop page, can be found below. Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments! T-Mobile SCOOP
Unconfirmed reports are coming in via Twitter that T-Mobile is currently out in the Seattle areas. No information is known at this time, stay tuned for details!
According to a post at the Windows Phone 7 blog , Microsoft’s latest operating system is now fully cooked and ready to consume.
In case you aren’t interested in the T-Mobile G2 or the HD7 , perhaps the MyTouch HD aka “Emerald” suits your fancy? A trusted tipster has dropped off word that the release date for the next phone in the myTouch lineup will drop November 3 rd at your local T-Mobile store. That lovely little roadmap we’ve been following so closely I believe if I am reading it correctly states that the Emerald is dropping November 5 th , then again it could be a 3, its blurry as can be in this picture.
A trusted source dropped off a piece of info a few days ago which we’ve been wanting to get up but when we saw an article this morning over at Engadget , it peaked our curiosity even more. This one goes out to all you Windows Phone 7 fans who are looking to see what phone Magenta might be picking up to deliver the brand new Windows Phone goodness
So we’ve seen images , have a great guess at a release date and a pretty decent idea as to what to expect inside the device . How about price, you guys want to know price don’t you
Another day, another rumor. Yesterday we heard about merging with Sprint , but what about surpassing them? Well, it is very possible that that could happen if this particular rumor came true. It’s not the first time we have been on this roller coaster, but yet another analyst says the iPhone is coming to T-Mobile. Tee Examiner’ s source says “There were talks about it, then strong rumors. Then, there were problems with the carrier. But now, the iPhone will definitely be available for T-Mobile.” Is there any reason to believe this iPhone rumor over any other iPhone rumor
iOS 4.1, which has had a few beta releases over the last couple months, has been released. It’s nothing too major, but let’s go down the additions: Updated Game Center HDR photos HD video uploads over WiFi TV show rentals It should be arriving next week.
Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already available on a number of smartphone platforms) and its impending iPhone release. “They’ve entered the very final round of testing!” they said. “It’s going to get submitted to Apple early next week!” We’re one day past what we’d personally consider “early next week”, but sure enough: SkyFire has just announced that they’ve submitted the browser for Apple’s oh-so-important stamp of approval.
It seems like just yesterday, we were fighting our way through traffic on the way to Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Today, we’re joining Apple for something a bit less out-of-the-blue: their annual September product announcement in San Francisco.
Now I know that the Froyo update for the Incredible was released on the 27th of this month, but that was just one of those limited-release roll-outs used to weed out any major faux pas before making it available to the great unwashed. If you weren’t lucky enough to get that joyous notification this past week, well, hold onto your hats, coz word on the web/streets is that the Froyo update is now being pushed out to all users. If this is the first you’ve heard of the Froyo update, and you’re peachy-keen (and you should be) to get it onto your device ASAP, then Android Central have a how-to on manually updating your phone.
T-mobile continues to bring the latest update to their 3G network to more cities today, with the “4G-like” HSPA+ speeds now available in: Boston, Mass. Erie, Penn.
