While companies like Amazon started with books. Ebay started as an auction site for collectors. Any company with a huge amount of breadth has to find that first breakthrough to build their business on. Several insights such as combining the need to do your absolute best with pressure from people who have invested and that urges the drive to beat deadlines and grow beyond capacity. Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski’s sales team at Calfinder had just hit $8 million in revenue and he shares his experience on the same with seven bullets to dodge while looking to scale your sales. Read More>>
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces
Technology and social media have clubbed together yet again as Facebook has acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. With over 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps, Wit.ai will remain open and free to users, where Facebook wants to use the technology to draw developers into its Build-Grow-Monetize loop where they get help building apps, but eventually pay Facebook for ads to grow or monetize by splitting revenue with Facebook from hosting its ads. Read More>>
Florida’s Cape Canaveral may be world’s busiest spaceport in 2015
This year, Florida’s Cape Canaveral is scheduled to launch up to 24 rockets thus making it the busiest spaceport. Ten launches would be for United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, while the remaining would be by SpaceX. If successful, the program would surpass the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which had 21 launches, 19 of which were successful. Read More>>
The 14 Best Startup Cities in America
The following article provides us with a list of the top 14 startup cities after San Francisco. From St. Louis, Missouri to Queens, New York feature in this list. Hence these cities provides an ecosystem to turn innovators to entrepreneurs. Read More>>
Asteroid to fly by Earth safely on January 26
designated 2004 BL86 asteroid will pass by earth safely on January 26th. This unique phenomenon will gives astronomers an opportunity to observe and learn more. Scientists prepare themselves to view the asteroid which was first discovered in 2004 by a telescope of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico. Read More>>
