Dec 04 Watch 5:43 Replacing surf shops with startups, tech boom makes waves in bohemian Venice Beach By PBS News Hour Some high tech entrepreneurs have started trading in the high costs of the San Francisco Bay Area for the sunnier skies of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. But with the benefits of the boom, like high-paying jobs, also come problems,… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch When to pull the plug on a dying startup company By PBS News Hour The startup scene has exploded on the tech market with good ideas and some not-so-good ideas. Special correspondent Steve Goldbloom examines the process that startups go through to become solid businesses and how unsuccessful business get canned. Continue watching
Oct 23 SEC ‘crowdfunding’ rules will give start-ups a new way to fundraise Small businesses and start-up companies are one step closer to having the ability to raise investment capital over the internet. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued proposed rules today to implement a provision to the 2012 Jumpstart Our… Continue reading
Nov 22 Can Tech Startup Schools Teach #TheNextBigThing? Depending on where you live, the word startup has different connotations. For some, it means embarking on an adventure filled with unknown risk and ending in likely peril; for others, like those in our story on Tuesday's NewsHour broadcast, it's… Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch Accelerators Groom Technology Ventures for Success The Kauffman Foundation, which studies entrepreneurship, recently found that startups create about 3 million new jobs a year. Hari Sreenivasan reports on efforts to nurture promising companies and bring them to market faster. Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch AngelPad Gives Select Startups 10 Weeks to Shine AngelPad Gives Select Startups 10 Weeks to Shine… Continue watching