Startups Israel's Venture Funding Falls Off A Cliff In 2009 American startups are not alone when it comes to the well of venture funding drying up. A recent report by the Israel Venture Capital Research Center has found that funding in Israel fell drastically to $1.12 billion in 2009, nearly half the amount from the previous year. The 46% decrease marks the lowest funding numbers since 2003 and ends… Chris Cameron View comments
Startups Crowdflower and Skout: How Labor on Demand is a Better Moderator It looks like the startup trends of 2009 are getting the resources they need to become lucrative businesses in 2010. Labor on demand provider Crowdflower closed a $5 million dollar Series A this morning from Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. ReadWriteWeb named the elastic workforce phenomenon a major trend in 2009 and we caught up… Dana Oshiro View comments
Features Is The Enterprise Cloud Coming To Us, Or Are We Coming To The Cloud? At the annual Salesforce user conference this year, DreamForce '09, the buzz was about its ability to merge people's streams, Twitter for example, into their CRM solution. A new question for the industry emerges: Will the Salesforce cloud reach consumers on on their own timeline, or instead will social media own the stream and connect to the… Mike Kirkwood View comments
News Generation M2: Understanding the Multimedia Teen If you've spent any time trying to talk to a teenager lately, then the latest numbers on how much time they spend with their nose buried in a glowing screen of some sort will come as no surprise. Whether it's text messaging, Tweeting, watching YouTube videos on their iPhone, lurking on a social networking site like Myspace or Facebook or doing… Mike Melanson View comments
Startups InstantLoop Leverages Twilio API For Quick Phone Feedback Last week we told you about "lean startups" and how one of their strengths is rapidly collecting customer feedback and implementing changes to their product. With online tools like Get Satisfaction, gathering the opinons of your users is easy, and now with InstantLoop you can even hear what they have to say with automated phone… Chris Cameron View comments