The United States patent laws are supposed to keep the intellectual property developed by individuals or businesses from being used without compensation to the developer. Instead, these laws are being used to make money for patent owners who have no plans of actually developing the product.
Tapjoy is one of the principal firms helping developers of mobile applications promote and distribute their programs. The company has recently raised $30 million. All existing investors participated, with JP Morgan Chase leading the funding round.
The stock market strikes again and maybe you’re considering putting your plans to form an LLC on hold for a while. With the world’s investment markets once again taking us to a corridor between disaster and false alarm, should you wait to start your business until the economy looks to be more friendly to the […]
Putting all the steps in motion to finally start a business usually begins by simply having an idea with commercial appeal. Everyone gets these. They think about how some product or service would improve a situation or make people more comfortable. Before long, a lot of these people realize there’s a way to turn that […]
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the world and their lobbying power for small business development and the empowerment of entrepreneurs is unmatched. Recently they offered a four part plan for small business development to Washington law makers and although many believe that it makes sense in the current […]
Corporations involved in the online and mobile payments industry continue attracting capital. Braintree has recently raised $34 million of institutional capital. The company, which started in 2007, was bootstrapped during four years without any outside funding.
The founders of iPhone application development company Abvio – Steve Kusmer and Kevin Wallace – are not inexperienced entrepreneurs. They’re baby boomers who first met in 1983. Kusmer brought Wallace onboard his first new company startup in 1998. That company was sold in 2005. Not long thereafter, the pair went looking for a new business […]
Starting a business is a little risky, but so is not getting started. There’s no reason to let a good idea for a new corporation go wasted because of worry about making mistakes. All entrepreneurs make mistakes. But their drive for independent success – combined with a sound business plan – allows them to innovate […]