Archive : New Ventures & Start Ups

Sahil Lavingia is not any other entrepreneur, but is the man who designed Pinterest. The talented young man has gone ahead and has started a new service Gumroad where you can add your products and start making your fortune. The online shop website, Gumroad removes even the need of eCommerce site. The app allows you to sell anything with just a link [...]

Sarah Fey and Justin Colt are graphic designers based in New York City. They are both graduates of Penn State University and they have chosen a unique field in which to set up their new business. Their startup company is called Gift Couture and as the name suggests they aim to make your gifts more desirable by making designer wrappings and theme based [...]

In the ever evolving world of e-commerce, a new entity has now its presence known by not only presenting to the world a new kind of online product review service, but by also amassing $1 million in venture capital. The all new Get.com is the brainchild of Steven Fruchter and Jake Gold, who were formerly associated with Stickam and aim to rejuvenate [...]

Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of one of the biggest technology blogs on the web, TechCrunch has now announced that he will be joining hands with VantagePoint Partner, Patrick Gallagher to set up a Venture Capital Fund that will amount to a whopping $20 million. The VC fund will primarily focus on providing essential capital assistance [...]

Heello, which was nothing but a photo sharing system until last week, has launched its very own social networking site with the same name. And if you take a closer look at this site, its graphics and designs are all set to steal Twitter’s thunder. One might wonder, how two products with the same concept would sell like hotcakes, but that is where [...]

Start-ups and entrepreneurship is a buzz word in India now. Picture this: a 14 year young girl participating in Entrepreneur India 2011, a two day national level conference organized by Franchise India and UTV Bloomberg at Hotel Claridges, Surajkund on 15-16 July.  No, she is not an aspiring entrepreneur but takes pride in already running her own set [...]

If you are gay, and were looking for a place to stay in Miami where you could stay in luxury and also check out some hot guys, worry not any more! At Lords, a team would welcome you to the newly opened Miami branch of the first gay-hotel chain which is the brain child of Brian Gorman. Lords is designed by the New York based studio in a sparsely populated [...]

Lady Gaga and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt have come together and have invested in a  startup called Backplane. This particular startup was founded by Lady Gaga’s business manager Troy Carter. Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Gaga have collaborated in order to create a lot of wealth, and Gaga would have a share of 20%. The idea is to combine [...]

One of the foremost names online private retailing, 99labels.com that has been in the business of providing consumers with the best deals from major luxury brands has now got yet another major financial boost, as Info Edge, a leading name in the Indian IT sector has funneled in a staggering sum of $3.5 million as investment to help 99lables expand [...]

More and more technological innovations are coming out of startups that are mushrooming everywhere and run on the passion and drive of the men behind them. Oxygen Accelerator has done remarkable work in identifying the bright idea amongst the startups and providing it the support in terms of finances, knowhow and operational expertise to expedite its [...]