Startups

GSV Capital Corp (NASDAQ: GSVC) is having yet another down day after Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) infamous IPO last Friday. The company is widely known for holding pre-IPO shares of Facebook and many investors were expecting a rally in Facebook shares to make GSV Capital's stock to go through the roof...

A Silicon Valley based investment firm, GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC), which is well known for holding Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) pre-IPO shares is down significantly since the social media giant went public last Friday. Traders were using GSV Capital's shares as a way to invest in Facebook before its...

If your company "pivots" to "disrupt" an industry, you need a new strategy. Oh sure, you might have heard that Company X made a billion dollars by doing that. But when the lingo of a few billionaires becomes the lingo of thousands of entrepreneurs, the overused words begin to lose their meaning...

“DIIME is a medical device company working to address issues of maternal and infant health specific to low resource settings,” explains Theresa Fisher, Co-Founder of Design Innovations for Infants and Mothers Everywhere (DIIME). Fisher says the firm arose after its founders visited Ghana to do...

In its first full trading day, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is looking at another day of moves based purely on technical supply and demand for shares, and not on the company's fundamentals. In fact, until the over-hype surrounding the stock burns out, the company is not likely to be priced out based on...

The International Man of Mystery might be popular, but he can't help entrepreneurs promote their startups. That, however, did not stop one man from trying to enlist in the help of a bare-chested Austin Powers. "It's a long story, but we were introduced to a venture capitalist by a mutual friend...

These 10 tips could prevent your startup from facing certain doom. "You can go it alone for a while, but eventually team is everything," advises Scott Bell, CEO of the wealth management firm MyGDP. Second, Bell told Benzinga that you should "read James Altucher's How to Have a BIG Idea. And then...

Social-networking leader Facebook is expected to price its giant IPO on May 17, with the stock beginning to trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market the following day under the ticker symbol "FB." The preliminary price range for the shares has been set at $28 to $35 apiece. At the high end of the...

It sounds like something out of an Ayn Rand novel or a Ray Bradbury short story: an experimental, high tech "ghost town" being built to try out new inventions like driverless automobiles, renewable energy sources, and upgraded communication networks.TheBlaze.com's Liz Klimas reported Thursday...

Recycling has a capitalist slant as kiosk "e-cycling" company ecoATM secured its Series B funding round at approximately $17 million and a Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation ("NSF") for up to $1 million last week. Previous investors Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR), TAO Ventures, and...