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Aging in Place Technology Startup Featured on Bay Area's ABC TV News
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Stanford's Startup Garage Teaches Entrepreneurship

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Take an inside look at Stanford’s “Startup Garage” class, where students go from concept to company over the course of two quarters. Interdisciplinary teams …

Business Startup Support

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Launching a new business can be a lonely journey and if you have a lack of support in your household, it can feel even lonelier. I’ve seen a greater number of brand new small business owners, who feel as though they are all on their own, even though they have a family and are in partnered relationship. Even if you are not presently in a personal partnership you may feel the need to seek relationship support from close friends and family members. In either case you may be been surprised by what appears to be the lack of unconditional support.

The key to a successful startup may be in lining up your support and solidifying a structure of support before your small business launch. It’s challenging enough to fight the many battles of entrepreneurship. Thus it can be completely draining to come home to your sanctuary and have to further defend your business to those who care about you.

If you need relationship help now, you’ll still need it while building your business but then there will even more pressure on all fronts. Everyone is familiar with a couple that tried to solve their relationship problems by having a baby. Did it work for the couple you knew? No? Then why would birthing a new business improve your relationships?

If you have weak personal relationships that drain your energy, then your focus will be lacking. Without a strong focus, your decision-making, personal productivity and inspired actions will all suffer.

What can you do? Talk about the challenges pre-startup and ask for the support of those who love you. Be very specific in asking for that support by making agreements.

Relationships are built on agreements kept.

For an agreement to be kept it must serve all parties, be clear understood by all and be written down for clarity.

If you don’t have strong spousal support or unconditional support in your close relationships, you first need to understand them from their perspective.

When a life partner cautiously advises you not to venture out on your own, they are not questioning your ability or resolve to succeed.

They are only speaking from the perspective of their own fears.

They could fear having less time with you. Your initiative could be forcing them to face their own fears of success, of failure or of never being authentically fulfilled in their work. And of course they could be thinking about having less money and how that affects the household budget.

Good personal relationships are essential to making good business decisions. If you are fighting battles both at home and in the marketplace, you will lose on both fronts.

If you’re considering starting a small business, first repair or end non-supportive relationships.

Make agreements that serve you both and honor them.

Contact StartUp Coach Tom Volkar to make the successful leap to the freedom of self-employment. Go to http://CoreU.com or his blog http://www.delightfulwork.com/ for a FREE Email Course Project Blast Off. The world awaits your unique business and Tom is inspired to guide you to a successful launch.

Seattle Start-up, Porch, Announces Giant $6.25MM Seed Round from Top Angels to Back the Internets Next Billion-Dollar Frontier — Get Early Access Today.

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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 05, 2013

Porch, a home improvement and repair marketplace, today announces a large seed round, its investors, and plans to launch its product nationwide free for homeowners. Early access is available upon request at http://www.porch.com Porch has its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Typical seed rounds are less than $ 1.5 million . Pre-launch, Porch has raised a large $ 6.25 million seed round from experts and angel investors in the technology, social, marketplace, and home sectors. The round includes notable contributions from SV Angel/Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, Javier Olivan, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Geoff Entress, Charles Moldow, and 20 others.

Porch is addressing the massive and favorable home improvement, maintenance, and repair market. Every year, residential construction and home improvement spend totals over $ 500 billion. Porch’s total addressable market is greater than $ 20 billion with the home services industry forecasted to grow at 3.5% annually and the housing market forecasted to increase in sales by 29% . Porch is positioning itself to be the trusted home improvement technology leader through data transparency and a beautiful social product vision.

Porch’s mission is to change the world one home at a time by making home improvement easy for homeowners. The marketplace allows homeowners to get inspired by viewing neighbors’ home projects, get educated by seeing their actual project costs, and decide on the right professional by reviewing friend endorsements. This helps homeowners make an easy and informed decision when it comes to improving their home and selecting the right home professionals.

Today, Porch accomplishes this by organizing and connecting exclusive insights from over 1.4 million professionals and 60 million projects. Every day, Porch continues to aggregate more data about homes to build the connections and acumens that fuel its data transparency and social approach. By understanding work history and which professionals’ friends and neighbors endorse, Porch is able to provide homeowners with free, personalized, and vetted word of mouth recommendations to make home improvement easy.

Porch is still pre-launch and will become nationally available later this year. Today, Porch has early, private access available to select individuals that sign up at http://www.porch.com. Consumer features and functionality will be disclosed in full closer to launch. Porch is and always will be free for homeowners.

Porch was created by successful data, marketplace, and consumer acquisition entrepreneurs from Google, Microsoft Corp, Expedia, Active Network, and Apollo Group. The company has 20 employees and is led by seasoned internet and technology executive, Matt Ehrlichman. Matt is the co-founder and CEO of Porch. Prior, Matt was on the executive team at Active where as Chief Strategy Officer, he helped grow the company’s revenues from $ 65 million in 2006 to $ 420 million in 2012, and a 2011 initial public offering. Before joining Active Matt was co-founder and CEO at Thriva, which was acquired by Active in March 2007 for more than $ 60 million.

“Until now, finding the right professional at a fair price has been comically painful – whether that be for a simple handyman project or a large kitchen remodel,” said Matt Ehrlichman, Porch CEO and co-founder. “In addition to being the largest investment in one’s life, the home is where we create life’s great moments. And while it should be easy, there is no free, simple, and personalized solution that provides the trusted information and tools necessary to make home improvement and repair easy.” Ehrlichman and his co-founders aim to solve a national, universal problem experienced at a local level by 120 million households. According to a 2012 Porch survey, 98% of homeowners experience pain when finding a professional and knowing the price for their home needs.

For more information, to browse nearby projects, or to find professionals your friends and neighbors love, sign up for early access at http://www.porch.com or visit the Porch blog.

About Porch

Coming soon, Porch is the only consumer and social Internet marketplace that connects homeowners with the right home service professionals based on who neighbors have used, project and cost history, and vetted friend endorsements. This helps homeowners make an easy and informed decision when it comes to improving their home and selecting the right home professionals across 250 categories. There is no company currently offering or delivering the level of data transparency and social information that Porch provides to homeowners. Porch is revolutionizing the home improvement industry with a simple, social, and relevant marketplace.

Source: Porch.com Inc.

Contact: Asha Sharma of Porch.com Inc., +1-262-497-2398, press(at)porch(dot)com

Website: http://www.porch.com

Blog: http://blog.porch.com

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Startup MonthlyExpress Sets Precedent: Selling Out Eleven Weeks After Launch

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New York, NY (PRWEB) January 21, 2014

MonthlyExpress is undoubtedly the newcomer to the saturated subscription startup market. But Co-Founders Travis and Tara Loring have been quick to set their new service apart from other contenders since their launch in November of 2013. With boutique, hard-to-find, and most notably – full sized – products within their curated monthly collections, the service is more of a monthly indulgence than a subscription sample service like its competitors. The luxury experience caters to modern women with hectic lives. For the Founders, this dedication to delivering what MonthlyExpress calls “me time” to their female demographic has paid off. Just eleven weeks after their launch, the startup has completely sold out of their January collection.

But now’s not the time to stop and revel, says Co-Founder and CEO Travis Loring. “Our work is constantly evolving [to] discover and bring new products to our members… this is only the beginning of our journey.”

The Founders – both advertising and marketing executives in a previous life – center much of their company around the concept of “delivering happiness,” an industry term first coined by Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh. Products from around the world are hand-selected for consideration for one of their monthly collections, and undergo a vigorous screening process before they are approved for inclusion in the exclusive service. Customer service calls and emails are returned the same day, and always by the Founders themselves. All this effort, says Loring, is to “ensure that our members are as delighted as we are about the products we curate and the experience we provide. The level of experience we offer our members is – I’m confident – why women respond to our service.”

Loring and Loring also attribute much of this their early success to “simply following what [they] know” and “addressing a need that [they] experience[d] firsthand”. It appears women around the country would agree. Memberships are continuing to roll in despite several notes on their website that new members will only begin in February.

The startup has not been without its challenges. As with any startup, minimal capital was, and continues to be a concern. The Founders started the company with their own savings. MonthlyExpress is not venture-backed and currently has no plans to pitch for venture capital funding in the near future, but the Founders have stated that they are “evaluating all of [their] growth options.”

“We’re very much aware of the opportunities for expansion,” says Co-Founder and COO Tara Loring, “but what’s most important to us right now is continuing to deliver a luxury experience to our members that no other monthly service does. I’m confident that’s why we’ve had such tremendous response. So we’re going to keep on doing it.”

About MonthlyExpress

MonthlyExpress is a membership-based subscription service offering luxurious parcels of nourishing, boutique products, delivered monthly to your door. Members discover master-crafted, hard-to-find, and even limited-supply high-end products from shops and brands all over the globe with each shipment. MonthlyExpress is a way to savor replenishing moments of ME time, any time. These carefully curated and finely crafted collections also make for the perfect gifts for the haute hostess, an appreciated colleague, or a special lady. For more information or to sign up for a membership, visit MonthlyExpress online at http://www.monthlyexpress.com. They can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/monthlyexpress and on Twitter at @MonthlyExpress.







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Startup Ideas to Exits from YC Partners and Alumni – Pioneer Festival 2013

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Content Syndicate Named Winner of TiE50 Top Startup at TiEcon 2013 Silicon Valley

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Santa Clara, California (PRWEB) June 13, 2013

TiEcon 2013 its flagship annual event is the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. This year’s edition of the event attracted more than 3,700 attendees from across the world – including CEOs of established companies, entrepreneurs, media, venture capitalists, corporate executives, speakers & sponsors from across the technology world.

TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program contested by technology startups worldwide. Since the awards’ inception in May 2009, 94% of the winners and finalists have been funded, attracting over US$ 20 billion in investments. More than 110 TiE50 winners have been acquired merged or went public in the past four years alone with successful exits.

“It’s a great honor to win the TiE 50 award – especially in Silicon Valley, which is a hot bed for innovative and exciting companies, entrepreneurs who inspired us over the years,” said Maddy Reddy, CEO & Founder of Content Syndicate. “Winning this award validates our vision and goal to help create, localize and license content at scale for content marketing and editorial needs. ”

Speaking to a global audience at the awards ceremony at TiEcon 2013, conference Chairman & President of TiE Silicon Valley, Venkatesh Shukla said, “The TiE50 program screened 1142 companies from 24 countries. 50 best-of-breed companies [such as Content Syndicate] were announced winners.”

The awards ceremony was hosted by TiEcon Chairman & TiE SV President Venk Shukla and TiE Global Trustee Vish Mishra (Venture Director at Clearstone); the guests of honor who gave away the awards were Arvind Sodhani, President of Intel Capital and Kumar Malavalli Founder of Brocade Communications.

The TiE 50 selection process involved meticulous planning, screening and judging by a team of prominent entrepreneurs, VCs, corporate executives and domain experts. Participating companies competed in two rounds across six categories – internet, mobile, life sciences, software and energy. Fifty were selected from a total pool of 1142 companies – representing the top 5 percentile globally. Winners were selected based on the leadership team, IP, scalability, potential, track record, business model & presentation.

“Over the past four years, TiE50 has gained global acclaim attracting startups from all over the world. TiE50 as a brand has gained much recognition amongst the VC and angel investor communities – particularly in the Silicon Valley,” said Program Chair Ram K. Reddy.

>About Content Syndicate:

Content Syndicate is a cloud-based B2B platform that facilitates buying, selling, commissioning and localizing content at scale in over 200 languages for corporates, agencies, SMEs and publishers. Directly and via partners, it works with over 1000 content partners, over 350+ corporate clients in over 14 countries and sold over 20 million words till date with a syndicate of tens and thousands of content providers from around the world.

Founded in 2007, by an ex-technology Editor, the Company is venture funded with presence in the US, UAE and India and expansion plans into other markets.

For more information, please visit http://www.contentsyndicate.com

>About TiE:

Founded in 1992, TiE (http://www.tie.org) is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs & professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE provides a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology entrepreneurs worldwide. It has a global network of 54 chapters located in most major North American, Asian, Middle East and European cities with more than 14,000 members spread across 13 countries.

For more information on TiEcon & TiE 50, please visit http://www.tiecon.org and http://www.tie50.net

‘Content Syndicate’ its logo, moniker and tagline ‘Words on Demand’ are the registered trademarks of Content Syndicate Holdings in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks, mentioned or otherwise are the property of their respective owners.







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Las Vegas Small Business Internet Marketing Co. Is The Newest Start-Up For Dallas, Texas-Based Venture Capital Group

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Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) January 13, 2014

Las Vegas has become home to another global company as Dallas, TX-based Z-Acquisition Group has announced the launch of Small Business Internet Marketing Co. The Texas venture capital group has been known more for their international investments the past couple of years, with openings of offices in Moscow, Russia, Kiev, Ukraine, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Pakistan, along with rumors of an upcoming Dubai location.

From an outsider’s perspective, the announcement to fund this perceived smaller operation seemed not to fit with their most recent investment pattern. When asked about this potential change in investment strategy, Dennis Zedrick, Chairman of Z-Acquisition Group, said “There is no plotline change here.” When pressed further on the topic, the no-nonsense executive added “Z-Group has always worked in the very small business space, the area where most private equity, and M&A guys don’t want to play. The majority of the work in that area has always entailed building marketing programs for startups and rebuilding marketing and sales teams for the distressed companies we acquire. We have had our in-house marketing and coding teams in place for 6 years now, and they have been servicing companies in our portfolio, some foreign operations, and various pro bono deals we get pulled into doing,” stated Zedrick. “So we put a great brand name on a team that already existed, and now they can go and service other small businesses that need help with revenue.”

Small Business Internet Marketing Co. is targeting people in the B2B segment that could use services related to Internet marketing for small business owners. Their services are available to small businesses anywhere in the world.

For more information about how Small Business Internet Marketing Co. works, as well as the services they offer, please contact them via one of these options:

Mail: 1785 E. Sahara Av. Ste. 490-1063, Las Vegas, NV 89104    

Internet: http://www.internetmarketingforsmallbusinessowners.us/contact-us/

Telephone: (702) 906-0395

Small Business Internet Marketing Co. is a global internet marketing company based in Las Vegas, NV. Their primary focus is servicing small business owners looking for Internet marketing for small business. The Internet marketing services they offer include Pay-Per-Click advertising, Internet banner advertising, small business video ad production, foreign language content translation, general website maintenance, Google remarketing Solutions, as well as foreign language advertising campaigns on the search engines Google, Yahoo, Baidu, and Yandex.







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