MaintainPR Clients Teamly and Bluefields Set to Make it Big in 500 Startups (Silicon Valley Incubator)

Today's Evening Standard carried great news from Silicon Valley, with lead Science and Tech Editor Mark Prigg writing on two of London's most promising startups (and MaintainPR clients:) who just announced their "accelerator" period!

Teamly for reinventing the performance review, and Bluefields for sports team organization have been accepted into Dave McClure's prestigious 500 Startups incubator, where they will take their concepts to the next level through coaching and an undisclosed (at this time anyway) investment!

Here is to both founders sticking to their guns, Scott Allison of Teamly, and Andrew Crump of Bluefields! Nice going guys.

Ryan

Scott Allison Techcrunch Guest Post: The Trouble with Non-tech Cofounders

Teamly's Scott Allison has been impressing folks on both sides of the Atlantic lately, and his recent interactions/experience in Silicon Valley, has brought us this great guest post for Techcrunch's Europe Channel.

The Trouble with Non-tech Cofounders gets to the point of why so many startups fail.

Here's an excerpt:

"I’ve seen the problem with non-tech founders a few times now, different people, different ages and backgrounds, with different levels of skill, but all with the same thing in common: having to rely on someone else to bring an idea from paper to screen."

A great read and getting lots of comments, so click through to check it out!

Event Vid -- Duedil Wins Geek N Rolla 2011

Congratulations to UK-based startup Duedil on their win at this years Geek N Rolla

Duedil stands for "due diligence," and they are aiming to utilize big data in correlation with public social media sentiment, and behavior data in order to flip the model of a capital-intensive risk management firms like Dun & Bradstreet into a platform with easier entry for anyone -- from Small to Medium sized firms down to your plumber.

Other standouts from the demo pit in our mind included Teamly, a slick enterprise team planning play; ColourDNA, a new social discovery and sharing platform; and Tastebuds where your music tast acts as cupid online!