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Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.
What’s a chumby? The quick answer is this: chumby is many things, and the list never stops growing.
We last wrote about chumby in April 2008, when they raised $12.5 million in a Series B round in order to “accelerate growth of the company, and expand and broaden the Chumby Network to other screen-based [...]

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.

In February of 2008, six guys in San Diego decided to fundamentally change the software community for the better.

You need only read the first sentence of OpenCandy’s About us page to learn a telling amount about the new company: one, they carry a grand vision for the impact their product will have on [...]

This post has been long in the making, but it is finally here. 
It all started when I decided to apply for the position of Founder’s Associate at Twitter. Rather than a standard cover letter, I submitted a strategic analysis outlining Twitter’s current competitive state and its options to win the microblogging battle and larger social [...]

Randall Stross wrote an article in the New York Times recently asking whether Tesla should receive the $400 million in low-interest federal loans it has requested. The money would come from a $25 billion loan package the government initially earmarked for improving fuel efficiency, but which now may be necessary just to keep the Detroit [...]

I was fortunate to sneak the Chicago MIT Enterprise Forum’s Whiteboard Challenge into my schedule Tuesday night. I’m about to take off on a fishing trip with my dad at Milton Lake, far, far up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and I had planned on driving back to Iowa that night to pack for the trip. However, [...]

It’s an oft-stated reality that confluence of low cost, simplicity, and speed in developing web applications has made it easier than ever for a new competitor to launch on to the scene and grab an opportunity or fill an emerging niche.
The relatively low risks to launching a new Internet business, compared to physical ventures with [...]