TechForward lets you sell back your used electronics at guaranteed prices
Buyers remorse is common when it comes to buying consumer electronics. Within six months, your beloved gadget may become obsolete. That’s where TechForward comes in with its guaranteed buyback plans that you can purchase at the time you buy your products.
When you buy goods at TigerDirect or CompUSA, you can purchase a plan for something like $20. If you return the product within six months, the store will buy it back from you for 50… Continue Reading
ReCellular dials up $15M for cell phone recycling
Don’t throw away that used mobile phone just yet — chances are ReCellular, a Dexter, Mich.-based phone recycling firm, can help find it a new home. One of the world’s leading cell phone recyclers, it has just raised $15 million in first round funding from Investor Growth Capital.
ReCellular plans on using the proceeds to ramp up its revenue growth, which, at an 8-year average of 25 percent, is already nothing to sneeze at, and to… Continue Reading
Want the latest gadget? TechForward offers cash in exchange for yesterday’s toy
TechForward, one of several companies that sees opportunity in the market for reused consumer electronics, believes its guaranteed buyback plans are just the thing for people always lusting after the latest in high tech consumer electronics.
Like fellow startups Flipswap, Turtle Wings and Second Rotation, TechForward is touting the concept of “Ownership 2.0″ — the idea that you should be able to donate, sell or trade-in a gadget you no longer want. Unlike its rivals, however,… Continue Reading
Roundup: VC tax fails, Feedster folds, and more
Here’s the latest [updated] action:
1) NVCA thanks the Senate for blocking VC tax
2) Feedster goes belly-up
3) David Chao is new head of Doll Capital
4) Asian telcos may finally find a US toehold
5) Biofuels could be worse than gasoline
6) TechForward raises financing
7) Facebook blocked in Syria
Senate blocks carried interest tax — The National Venture Capital Asoociation expressed its gratitude to the US Senate for dropping a provision to change carried interest tax rates, again. This isn’t… Continue Reading