Gauravonomics Blog For Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists How To Organize and Energize Your Evangelists Blog Speaking Writing Bio Media Subscribe Slideshare Twitter LinkedIn Facebook IdeaSliver Labs Tumblr « Dare Magazine Story on How Indian Brands Are Using Social Media Elif Shafak: Write About the Unknown, Not the Known » Killer Startup Idea: GTTGTHR.com (Get Together at Places With Friends of Friends) Welcome to the Gauravonomics Blog for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists ! My friend Amit Klein and I have been giving away startup ideas on our blogs. MORE >>

Whites make up 87% startup founders, with Asians make up 12% ( source ). 92% of venture backed startups are male ( source ). Half of the startup founders who Raise Money ages range from 35-44 ( source ). Hot Topic for 2011: Black Startup Founders/ Entrepreneurs. It’s about time is how I feel about since I’ve been in the web/tech space since before the first dot com bubble and even though the internet is suppose to make things a level playing field, sadly when it comes to launching a web tech startup and getting funding it’s not. Flickr photo by By rickz. MORE >>

For example, The Golden Age of Television and broadcasting gave rise to three powerful networks. The next wave of media disruptors are laser focused on being tailored, rather than retrofitted, for mobile devices. This means they're cut from a different cloth than older stalwarts that often need to retrofit themselves for mobile. With Internet consumption on mobile devices set to surpass the same on PCs next year, according to Morgan Stanley, and US smart phone penetration to hit 50%, Nielsen says, mobile is no longer the tail on the media dog. Lose It. MORE >>

We’ll be back full force tomorrow with a line-up for the week that includes a podcast with Neomedia CEO Laura Marriott , a new take on mobile search and shopping from Aisle 411 and a mobile code roundup from Cynthia Artin, the newest addition to the MSearchGroove team. Cynthia joined the team in December and will be covering the exciting mobile codes space and reporting on innovations (and innovators) in mobile health and mobile giving. Today also marks my first (formal) shout out to the global mobile community for guest columns and contributions. MORE >>

There was a question on an ASAE listserve last week from a Japanese AMC looking for online/mobile examples of what associations and nonprofits could do to help with Japanese relief efforts following the earthquake a couple of weeks ago. I scoured my Reader and fired off a few links (including some about social networks and tech companies and startups); and it seemed like a good idea to repost them here with a couple of additional ones I’ve seen since. uberShare is a startup technology company that has also set up relief efforts. See also Google Crisis Response. MORE >>