Cloud data storage is providing opportunities for many new services. Xtrium is delivering cloud computing to mid-size enterprises. But, that was not the plan when the company started. Now, Xtium has obtained a new capital infusion of $11,500,000 to expand delivery of its cloud-based model for smaller entities.
The conventional wisdom goes something like this: The reason that a small business should form an LLC is because it makes their business in to a legal human being. Once your business is an LLC, it can buy and sell, it can pay taxes, it can be sued, and it could sue. It can do everything that a biological […]
Some days I hate being an entrepreneur and I’ll tell you why. It’s a lot of hard work and people who don’t know me well think that what I do is easier because I get to set my own schedule, I have a great boss, and my work conditions are exactly as I would want […]
You may not have heard of Guy Laliberté but he’s an entrepreneur whose story is relevant for every small business owner looking for a reason to say that their entrepreneurial dream is possible. It’s a story of somebody who went from next to nothing to an empire and it was done in the same way […]
Video conferencing has become commonplace as companies of all sizes look to reduce travel costs and still conduct face-to-face meetings. Add the trend for telecommuting and a technology issue arises that Vidyo has emerged to resolve. The company has created technology that inexpensively links different types of devices for a single videoconference.
On November 4th, 2011, the Small Business Administration announced changes for the their CAPLines program, a program designed to get money in to the hands of small business owners in order to fund short term capital requirements.
A sound plan for starting a business is providing simple tools that adapt proven technology. For instance, you don’t have to invent a new type of wheel when you can simply create a better cart. Following that formula, Independa was founded in 2009 and has developed a way for elderly people to easily access needed […]
A sound business startup doesn’t require a revolutionary technology. Sometimes a solid new corporation is built around an innovative way of delivering a service to an already established market. That’s the approach of Zimride, the San Francisco company that is altering mid-distance travel.