Startup Day Video: T.A. McCann on starting, funding, killing and selling companies There are four big decisions that can happen in a startup, says T.A. McCann: When to start the company, when… Read More
RIM to shut down contact manager Gist on September 15 RIM is planning to shut down Gist, the personal contact management service that it acquired in February 2011. The service… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: T.A. McCann sells Gist to RIM Persistence, courage and an ability to learn from failure. Those are some of the attributes of entrepreneurs, all traits exhibited… Read More
Book smarts vs. street smarts: Which makes the best startup entrepreneurs? (Infographic) Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and… Read More
Costa Rica getaway sparks Tony Wright’s latest app: TouchBase Calendar It is a little ironic that Tony Wright’s latest startup project, TouchBase Calendar, was built in the shadow of the… Read More
RIM buys NewBay for $100M Well, it must be acquisition day in the mobile arena. Following news that Nuance had purchased Swype, now comes word… Read More
Tech Moves: Redfin bets big on analytics; Startup Digest curator lands at PopCap; and more Here’s a quick look at some of the folks taking on new roles at Pacific Northwest technology companies. Redfin is… Read More
Tech Moves: Robert Pease says goodbye to Gist; lawyer defections Sure, it’s technically summer time. But that doesn’t mean everyone is on vacation. Some folks are shifting jobs. Here’s a… Read More
Ex-Microsofties raise $500,000 for Connected, a rival to Seattle’s Gist A San Francisco upstart by the name of Connected — led by two former Microsoft employees — has raised $500,000… Read More
Gist CEO T.A. McCann: ‘To be an entrepreneur takes a tremendous amount of courage’ Gist founder T.A. McCann just completed a successful sale of his startup to RIM. So, why did the Seattle entrepreneur… Read More
Now part of RIM, Gist unveils contact organizer app on BlackBerry Well, you probably saw this one coming. Gist today unveiled its first BlackBerry app, a launch that comes less than… Read More
