How To Finance A Startup News

How To Toolbox: How to choose an accountantTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:08PMThere is no shortage of certified public accountants who want to win the business of a young tech startup and then ride along with the client as the company grows. The challenge for the startup is in finding the right accountan

Social mobile developers taking their pick from investment sourcesTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:10AMStarFund is just the latest initiative promising to fund innovative mobile game ideas Developers making social mobile games are currently spoiled for choice when it comes to potential sources of investment, but they must carefully scrutinise these opportunities for the strings that may be attached. On Friday, US social games publisher CrowdStar partnered with startup incubator YouWeb for ...

Feds award $4.5 million to community lendersMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:48PMA Treasury Department agency awarded a total of $4.5 million to three Chicago community lenders on Monday to help finance affordable housing, health-care clinics, neighborhood charter schools and local startup companies.The lenders — non-profits lender IFF, the Chicago Community Loan Fund and the Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan Association — will use the $1.5 million that each received ...

MOVE ACQUIRES SOCIALBIOS, AWARD-WINNING SOCIAL SEARCH PLATFORMMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:14AMCAMBPELL, Calif., July 18, 2011 - Move, Inc. Nasdaq: MOVE, the leader in online real estate, today announced its acquisition of SocialBios, an award-winning social search platform. SocialBios allows individuals and companies to create one social hub for their online profiles through interactive About Us pages that simplify the discovery of shared connections on Facebook,...

The Craigslist Ad That Found Us An Incredible CTOFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:44AMIn 2009, Irving Fain and Josh Bowen were ex-finance guys with an idea for a music loyalty startup. They searched high and low for a technical cofounder at meetups and networking events.