Friday, November 16, 2012
A sampling of stories from the past two years.
Hello! Welcome to Arlington Patch. We have a large number of people today who seem to have stumbled across our site perhaps for the first time thanks to HuffPost Politics. If you aren't familiar with Patch, we're AOL's hyperlocal news arm. We have more than 900 sites across the country, including more than 30 in the Northern Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. If you are new, we hope you'll stick around and check out the site. Below, I've put together a few links from the past couple of years that have had broad appeal. Thanks for stopping by! Jason Spencer Editor, Arlington Patch Arlington has an electric startup scene. Tech startups here like Opower, UberOffices, Gridpoint, uKnow.com and more are working hard, enjoying success …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Twenty businesses will have a chance to give a 1-minute pitch for cash, space and mentoring.
Startup Virginia will give 20 entrepreneurs an opportunity to make a 1-minute pitch later this month for a chance to bolster their business and to win a cash donation to the charity of their choice. It's part of a weeklong series of events at entrepreneurial "hot spots" across Virginia, said Jennifer Ives, director of business investment at Arlington Economic Development. Events will be held in Blacksburg, Charlottesville, Richmond, Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia. Arlington Economic Development will host the Northern Virginia event on Nov. 30 at its office on North Glebe Road. "It's a huge deal in the startup world to be able to say you won a pitch event. It's a really big deal," Ives told Patch. "It gives them validity. It also gives…
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Arlington Economic Development
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Friday, October 26, 2012
uKnow.com lets parents stay abreast of what children are doing online.
With all of the opportunities for young people unlocked by the Social Web also comes an increase in potential pitfalls — even dangers. Steven L. Woda learned that firsthand. A child in his own family, 14 years old at the time, friended someone online who turned out to be a predator. The child was physically unharmed and the predator is now serving time, Woda said. But it was a wake-up call. "This person was using the social networks as his own personal hunting ground for kids, looking for opportunities and weaknesses," Woda said. Such predators take advantage of a young person's nature to build their number of friends, which can give the impression of increased popularity, and the naivete that leads them to "pour their hearts out," posting…
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Office-sharing venture caters to tech startups, looks to expand by year's end.
A little after 10 a.m. Wednesday at UberOffices in Rosslyn — it's Pitch Day at the office-sharing startup, which even at less than 4 months old is already developing the reputation for being one of the coolest new spaces in the Washington metro region. Every startup hub does it a little differently. Uber co-founder Raymond Rahbar says startups traditionally get four to seven minutes to make their pitch. But at UberOffices, they get 30 minutes. Typically, two to five businesses — some are members, some aren't — get face time with a small room full of investors. They get instant feedback and, if they're lucky, they eventually get the capital they need to move their company into its next phase. Sometimes, they may get a lead on another source…
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UberOffices
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Local entrepreneurs aren't interested in hearing rhetoric, they say.
Startup and small business owners inside the Beltway have a mixed bag of expectations ahead of the first 2012 presidential debate. The debate takes place Wednesday evening at the University of Denver. The debate will focus on domestic issues, and local small business owners say they'll be paying attention to whether the candidates are specific and detailed about their plans to get the economy moving and to what the candidates say about business rules and regulations. Primary Need: Encouraging Small Business Development "As a small business-owner, I want to get it right. I don't want to run afoul of government. So I'd love to know how, from the top, we can effect better, more positive change, urging regulatory reform to say here's how a …
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Senate candidate Tim Kaine attended the Rosslyn roundtable event and said the conversation shows a 'breadth' of bipartisan support for the issue.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine heard about the importance of immigration reform and access to capital from about 25 tech startups Tuesday afternoon at UberOffices in Rosslyn. The issues haven't been uncommon in his hard-fought campaign against former Sen. George Allen, a Republican. But they haven't always come up at the same time. "The connection of immigration reform to the talent economy was a really important theme here today," Kaine later told reporters. Kaine, who was joined at the office-sharing space by Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, heard story after story about how immigration reform was vital to the tech industry — from startups to giant companies, all of which want as few hurdles as possible when it comes to hiring …
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Dr Chill
6:58 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Startup 2.0 is a tax haven for Investors who want 0% capitail gains tax. This bill does nothing to create new jobs for Americans, and it doesn't allow the free market to let salaries for Americans to rise according to demand. It would allow visas for inexperienced students to compete directly with Americans for American jobs and would " import " outsourced workers so called "American Jobs" There … more ›