The (Highly Controversial) YouNoodle Startup Valuation Predictor Is Coming « Jessica Colaco on the Mobile and Technology World

Stop Stock-Outs: Mapping Access to Essential Medicines

Over the last few months, the team at Ushahidi has been pleasantly surprised by all the innovative uses of Ushahidi that are popping up globally. Stop Stockouts is one of them. Stop Stock-Outs is a campaign to ensure access to essential medicines by using Ushahidi and Frontline SMS to map the availability of [...]

Cuidemos el Voto: Monitoring Federal Elections in Mexico

The Cuidemos el Voto mashup is an independent platform to help monitor the federal elections of 5 July 2009 in Mexico. The information collected is generated from text messages (SMS# 5532690062), emails, twitter, and reports, then aggregated onto the mapping. The main objective of the project is to report incidents and irregularities in the electoral [...]

Ushahidi one of the Knight News Challenge Winners for 2009

Ushahidi is extremely excited to be one of the Knight News Challenge Winners for 2009! We have received a grant in the amount of $70,000 to allow us to focus on testing and building partnerships in Kenya, where the idea of Ushahidi was born. We at Ushahidi have undertaken to maintain a special commitment [...]

“We copied THEIR pattern”

Clay Shirky is one of my favorite authors and speakers. As always, he puts together a “must watch” presentation for anyone dealing with social media and the democratization of information. Today his latest TED Talk on social media, which was given at the US State Department last month, was pushed live. In [...]

Ushahidi at 1% Club Event in Amsterdam

Last friday, I had the pleasure to represent Ushahidi at the 1% Club Event in Amsterdam, where I ran a workshop with Hajo Van Beijma of TextToChange. During the workshop we presented our projects and discussed with the participants how mobiles and platforms such as Ushahidi can be used for activism. The 1%Club is an organization [...]

Thoughts on Implementing Ushahidi

Over the last few months, the Ushahidi technical team has been focused mainly on the release beta version and on building out Swift. We have also been working closely with a select group of testers to figure out to make implementations easier, to address bugs that have come up, and to build a tool that [...]

Ushahidi and the Open Mobile Consortium

I’m a little late to the party as far as announcing that the Open Mobile Consortium (OMC) has launched - but, better late than never. We’ve been part of the working group since the very beginning and are proud to be a part of such a great group of people and organizations. The [...]

It’s a Small World

It’s so great to see the Ushahidi name becoming known and spoken about by people beyond the core team. Here I relate a story from a new aid worker in Tanzania that I met up with in Nairobi before she left for Tanzania last week and happened to give an Ushahidi t-shirt to: So last [...]

Civic Participation & Lebanon Elections - Sharek961 Launches

Sharek961 launched today, it is the culmination of work by the civic organization Sharek961, with support from eMoksha, Meedan, Social Media Exchange and other volunteers. The site utilizes the Ushahidi platform, and incorporates the backend enhancements that were made to VoteReport.in. Sharek961’s goal is to get citizen reports about the elections wh […]

Ushahidi Wins an Open Source Award in Kenya!

I’m really glad that I was able to accept the Kenya Humanitarian Open Source Award for Ushahidi today. Permanent Secretary of Communications Ndemo handed it out at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi. We REALLY appreciate this award, because it’s an especially good feeling to be recognized in your own country. This is really an [...]

The (Highly Controversial) YouNoodle Startup Valuation Predictor Is Coming

In February a well backed startup called YouNoodle said that they were developing a product that would accurately predict the future success of startups based on an analysis of the business and the founding team. Much like a credit rating tells creditors how likely an entity is to pay off debt, YouNoodle aimed to tell investors how likely they would be to see a return on their investment, and would even go so far as to estimate the exact valuation of a startup a few years into the future.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/the-highly-controversial-younoodle-startup-predictor-is-coming/

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