Founder and resident entrepreneur at SocialTimes, Ellie Cachette founded ConsumerBell.com in 2010 to help connect consumers and corporations to make recalls more streamlined. Recognized by the California State Senate as an “Outstanding Educator” in AIDS and Public health in 1997, Ellie has been an active supporter in the campaign to cure AIDS and promote healthy living. Ellie is a strong advocate of Women 2.0, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to empowering female entrepreneurs and a product safety junkie
Friends of mine share their concerns of competitors creeping up on their idea, stealing users and abolishing all their hard earned work. In the gaming industry this is quite common and we see many “copycat” games released soon after a successful game reaches market. There is also the possibility of having a competitor and not [...]
Think you want to date a powerful female startup CEO? Think again, it might be tougher than one expects…
What happens when you put leading thinkers and founders together on a boat? You get sunburnt and realize the possibilities are endless…
Competition for start-ups is getting stiff. Requirements for funding and expectations of traction increasing, even incubators are flooded with hundreds of applicants. Rejecting business plans and startups is hard work and surely a tough task, here’s a very small lesson: don’t email over 60 entrepreneurs and forget to BCC them.
Recalls (and unfortunately) lawsuits are inevitable. But taking control and mitigating risk is easier than ever before. We took 5 poorly-managed product recalls and looked at what could have happened if today’s online strategies were applied.
Ji Lee, the Creative Director for Google Creative Lab confirmed this morning on Twitter he is indeed moving on to be Facebook’s very first creative director. What’s interesting about this move is that it confirms both the talent leakage of Google but also Facebook’s long term build out of the strategic departments. Interestingly enough Lee [...]
GigaOm hosted its BigData Conference yesterday in NYC to get the experts from data storage and prediction industry together. For more information about the big versus fast data debate read here. Some quotes that have been thrown around have been anything from noteworthy to outright funny, understand most of this is in context of complex data descriptions and not to be taken literally but goofy on their own.
Last year a website community called Angellist launched, helping match start-ups with interested angel investors and the site has gotten more popular as start-ups are closing anywhere from $50k to $3MM in funding. The bar is set high for getting an Angellist recommendation which helps investors feel comfortable if they are reviewing a start-up that [...]
Apparently you can do a lot with a little- Today’s GigaOm BigData conference in NYC boils down what it means to track and store consumer data
New changes to the Startup Visa make it more flexible for entrepreneurs to come from abroad, but will they?
