Startup News Review, 12 June 2015

Jon S

Larry Alton, an independent business consultant, gives tips on setting up a startup pension plan on Business 2 Community.

Keith Jones, Cofounder of Sw7, an accelerator based in Rivonia, South Africa, explains Africa’s tech innovation ecosystem on Disrupt Africa.

Between 10–11 June Halifax, Canada, hosted the 3rd Atlantic Venture Forum. Peter Moreira presents the event in The Chronicle Herald.

On 11 June the White House and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) launched the Startup in a Day initiative. More information in Ronald Barba’s report on Tech.co.

“Startups have under 4 minutes to convince investors”, a new study of DocSend, a file-sharing startup from San Francisco, and Harvard Business School shows. Brian Feldt reviews other study results in St. Louis Business Journal.

Lisa Chau interviews Deputy Mayor Kajsa Ollongren on the situation of entrepreneurship in Amsterdam on U.S. News & World Report.

Andrea Noronha gives some tips on how to market a startup with a USD 0 budget on iamWire.

Cogobuy Group, one of the largest e-commerce companies in China, has released a press release on PR Newswire that its INGDAN.com platform for intelligent hardware projects has attracted a lot of attention.

Dojo Madness, an eSports startup based in Berlin, has managed to attract a EUR 2 million investment. See Rachel Weber’s report on gamesindustry.biz.

Product Hunt has announced on Business Insider that it is going to add games as a new category to its website and app.

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