1. DogBuddy DogBuddy claims to be Europe’s largest dog sitting community, and is “making dog sitting a walk in the park in three easy steps.” Search your postal code, read customer reviews to find the best dog sitter for you, and book them. This is great for those unexpected trips, or really for any time you go out of town. Since their 2013 launch, DogBuddy has already had a merger (myDogBuddy with Spanish competitor Bibulu), raised at least $4,350,000 in funding, and is available in most major cities across the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden....

Today marks nearly a decade of observance of International Women’s Day, a day that highlights the struggles for women’s rights. This year’s theme focuses on the need for bringing gender equality to the workplace, which has also led to a secondary grassroots spinoff called A Day Without Women, calling for a global strike today. In our current political environment, now more than ever we see just how impossible it is to separate life, work, and the outside factors that affect both....

Natalia Burina Natalia is the Co-Founder of Parable, a creative photo network on iPhone and iPad. That’s following on her earlier startup, Flockish, which was sold to StubHub-eBay. Flockish was a mobile social platform (iOS and Android) to discover gatherings and participate with others around you. Natalia also held product leadership roles at eBay, Samsung and Microsoft. At eBay she led eBay’s industry leading affiliate program. At Microsoft Natalia worked on Microsoft’s search engine Bing where she shipped a number of innovative search experiences....

1776 co-founder Evan Burfield lead the Startup America DC movement and, through those efforts, was able to identify some of the key issues facing the region when it comes to startups. His hope is that the new space will help tackle some of these large national problems. Burfield has teamed with Startup America Partnership’s managing director Donna Harris to pull this effort together. The duo are working hard to open the space by early February (which is only a few weeks away)....

WalletHub just announced 2015’s Best Cities to Start a Business, their ranking of the 150 highest populated cities in the US. Cities were ranked on 13 metrics: Access to resources Accessibility of financing (total value of small business loans / number of businesses)Cost of office space (per square foot) Availability of employees (job openings – number of people unemployed) Median annual income (labor costs) Business environment Corporate taxesCost of livingAverage length of a workdayEducational level of the workforce (percentage with a bachelor’s degree or more)Entrepreneurial activityFive-year survival rateNumber of small businesses per capitaIndustry variety Small business friendliness...

Sounds good, right? But, across the same period, actual network attacks jumped 15% to reach an all-time high, with Log4Shell ranking as one of the top vulnerabilities exploited. The report is just the latest look at the continuing cybersecurity ripples that have followed 2020’s big shift towards remote work. Some vulnerabilities have been tamped down, but the attacks remain a major concern. Attacks Are on the Rise The most recent analysis comes from the 2022 Unit 42 Network Threat Trends report, recently released from American cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks....

Stop Focusing on the Numbers Unlike Twitter, Facebook or Google+ your influence and reach is not established by the number of connections you have. It’s all about the quality here. Accept “the less is more” approach when it comes to building your connections on LinkedIn. Before even getting started, sit down and work on your plan. Identify those ideal contacts you’d like to connect with and why. Rather than being focused on gaining new contacts, don’t forget about the big three that have brought you to where you are today – past customers, current customers and vendors or power partners....

– Angela Delmedico of Elev8 Consulting Group – Jessica Baker of Aligned Signs – Tony Banta of Calix Networks Read more about entrepreneurs and their decisions here on Tech.Co

No matter how large your company is, you can’t have positive results by targeting everyone. Sadly, this is what so many organizations do. They simply push out content and advertisements, hoping that the right customer will stumble upon it. It’s time to stop spitballing and start focusing your efforts on location-based marketing that actively identifies, targets, and converts very specific demographics. Here are a few tips to get you started:...

There, Dr Mark Hammond, one of the founders at Deep Science Ventures, lists a series of reasons why higher degrees in science qualify one for a grueling startup cycle. Here’s a condensed version of the reasons. 1: They Rely on the Same Skills Start-ups demand endurance, just like science PhDs. Also elements in common: 2: Cost for Science Startups Is Low Traditionally, tech startups are great for low-cost initiatives, thanks to rapid growth and cloud software as a service....

BloomNation is an LA-based company that provides the freedom of ordering directly from the florist without having to go through a middleman. You’re given a choice of florists and bouquet designs local to your delivery location and you pay local prices without any additional service fees. Also, they are the only flower service currently accepting bitcoin. UrbanStems is a DC-based on-demand flower delivery service. They simplify the process by offering one price point ($35 including delivery) and three bouquet options....

According to research from Owl Labs, remote employees miss social interactions with coworkers more than anything else. Nearly half of all respondents (48 percent) claimed it was the thing they missed most about working in an office, followed by team celebrations (40 percent), company culture (34 percent), and being closer to tactical strategy (26 percent). This reaction from the more than 1,000 remote employees surveyed is pretty understandable. While remote work provides unmatched flexibility, the strife caused by working in an office often creates a strong bond between team members....

Cross-channel marketing is a successful retail strategy because it follows your audience’s activity from channel to channel, effectively increasing sales opportunities at each touch-point. For example, if a prospect is browsing a product on your website but abandons his shopping cart before completing the purchase, you can use cross-channel engagement to re-market the product they looked at via an alternate medium, including a Facebook ad or email marketing campaign. Considering that the last five years of digital ad saturation has resulted in an epidemic of banner blindness, it’s become clear that marketing efforts must innovate, expanding to multiple touch-points both in and outside the home....

When I buy a new iPhone, I have a routine. I start by following the usual setup steps and then I download a set of essential apps that my team and I simply can’t work without. There are five of them; some of them we’ve used for years, and some we’ve only discovered recently, but these five must-have apps make our work much faster, smoother and more productive. 1. Zula Zula is a mobile solution for team communication — moving from fragmented threads to a seamless stream of focused conversation....

Growth of Mobile POS Solutions “Over the years, we’ve seen POS systems evolve from cash registers that simply ring up sales to full-fledged retail management solutions that allow retailers to stay on top of inventory, reporting, customer management, and ecommerce from one platform,” Vend, a leader in POS solutions, points out in its recap of the history of point of sale systems. They also reference the fact that the 2015 year-over-year growth rate of mobile POS software installs in North America is an impressive 41 percent....

The former British Deputy Prime Minister was no doubt familiar with such lines of questioning. But, with BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme pulling no punches, he had to deal with some particularly hard questions about Facebook. Also up for discussion were calls for Facebook’s regulation, the Christchurch shooting, and the threat of tech progress in the East. 1. Facebook Welcomes Regulation Clegg made his case for regulation of tech companies, and that this should come from government bodies....

When it comes to having a successful startup, founders and managers need to build trusting relationships with their employees. In fact, a recent APA survey revealed a fourth of employees don’t trust their employers, which is why it’s important to make trust the No. 1 priority for your startup. Here are five qualities that mold startup founders into trustworthy leaders: Follow through with your vision. A unified vision builds trust because it ensures every employee is on the same page....

It’s not without reason that a little over 4.5% of all sites on the internet are built on WordPress. The beauty of WordPress is not in being a free platform (though I love that aspect of it, for sure!) What makes WordPress stand out from other website platforms is the seemingly limitless number of apps and plugins that are built just for WordPress. This mind boggling library does not only make life easier for webmasters who use WordPress, but also makes sure visitors have a superlative, smooth user experience....

Technology has benefited both the traveler, the traveling agency, and the supplier. The supplier, in this case, refers to the company that offers the travel services. The travel agent only sells those services on behalf of the transportation company. All these players are enjoying the advantages of the advanced technology. So what are the tech innovations that have transformed the travel industry? Here are six ways the travel industry has evolved today....

Being primarily a digital form of art, graphic designers heavily rely on apps and electronic devices for their work. Some of the popular app choices of graphic designers include: Evernote Developed by a private company called Evernote Corporation, this app is a cross platform primarily used for note making, archiving and organizing. While it may not seem conspicuous to have a note-taking app in a list for graphic designers, this app is in fact indispensable....