Last week, Fiksu, one of our showcased startups in Boston last September, announced the results of their December indexes, which looked at app store competitiveness and the cost of mobile app marketing. I was curious as to what this data meant for startups and mobile app developers. As it turns out – a lot. If…
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Boston-based PowerInbox, which we first covered in August and then showcased at our Tech Cocktail Boston mixer in September, has just launched an API (in beta) that is a marketer’s dream. Anyone from developers to publishers can add ecommerce, videos, photos, real-time updates and more right in the body of email messages. Founder and CEO…
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You do what you can to stay as green as possible. You ride your bike to work. You buy your food from the local farmer’s market. You get your furniture second-hand from local garage sales. And then you walk into your local coffee shop to buy your usual fair trade dark roast coffee. You’re doing all…
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According to a December study by Yesware, you may be sending your emails at the wrong time. Their analysis of 20,000 emails revealed that recipients opened more work-related emails on the weekend than during the work week. Yesware, which we covered previously, is an email productivity tool for salespeople, with funding from Google Ventures and…
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Starting this spring, MIT will begin offering online courses to anyone, anywhere, for free – and this time, students can receive a certificate of completion. The platform, dubbed MITx, will include online labs, communication with other students, and individual assessment. But MIT is making sure to distinguish MITx from its traditional degree programs. The university…
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I don’t know anyone who makes New Year’s resolutions – and sticks to them – at least for longer than 2 weeks. It’s so easy to say “I want to eat better or exercise more or stop drinking like it’s New Year’s Eve every day,” but with broad goals like that, actually making those changes…
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App developers, raise your hand if this sounds familiar: You create a beautifully designed iOS app that solves a major problem. Everyone loves it in beta. You launch it on the Apple Store, charging maybe $0.99 or $3.99, and hundreds or thousands of people download it within a few days. Then adoption drops off a…
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CustomMade, a Boston-based online marketplace, just raised a nice $2.1 million in Series A funding – a nice holiday gift for the startup, whose platform connects shoppers with artisans who create handmade luxury custom goods. The funding will be used to expand the CustomMade team and its operations. If Etsy is Anthropologie – or a…
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Love to tinker? Well the MIT grads at Supermechanical have a new toy for you. It’s called Twine, and it promises to connect anything to the web without a “nerd degree.” A 2.5″ square pizza-box shaped device, Twine reads from a bunch of sensors and then sends tweets or texts to alert you when those…
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A Boston-based startup wants to make it easier and less frustrating for you to find web-based business apps that actually do what they say they will and become a valuable, go-to source of information. Billing themselves as a Yelp or Trip Advisor for B2B apps, Comparz lets you search a number of categories for apps,…
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The Ivy League school whose super-famous dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have revolutionized our lives has launched an incubator. The Harvard innovation lab, or i-lab, will bring together students with big ideas with the entrepreneurs, faculty, and those in the Boston area who can help get those big ideas off the ground. They are…
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NYC-based Emma Graham Designs (EGD), a women’s clothing company whose preppy designs are part JCrew, Tori Burch, and Lili Pulitzer, has raised their first round of outside funding. Founded by 2 friends from Boston, Emma Mahon and Jackie Graham, the company designs and manufactures clothes aimed at the stylish college crowd on a limited budget….
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Yesware, an email productivity service that helps salespeople close more business, officially launched yesterday and announced it has closed a round of funding lead by Google Ventures and Boulder-based Foundry Group. Yesware integrates into Gmail and your mobile phone and provides email analytics, customizable templates and more to help salespeople respond to customers more effectively….
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In recent years, the international student population in the United States has hit record highs – and that number is only growing. With US colleges only accepting tuition payments in US Dollars, international students are forced to either pay via wire transfer or credit card, incurring fees and suffering unfavorable exchange rates. PeerTransfer, a new…
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Take the Interview, a new cloud-based video interviewing software platform that just demo’d at Tech Cocktail Boston, announced today that they received $775,000 in seed funding from an undisclosed investor. According to founder Danielle Weinblatt, the cash infusion will be used to build a sales and marketing team, attend conferences, create new features for the…
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There may be as many as 2 billion people learning English worldwide – a huge market motivated by the promise of higher-paying jobs and new lifestyles. Genii is exploring that market with its first English-learning game, VocabGenii. “We think there is a lot of potential in gaming in education,” says cofounder Rebecca Li, whose background…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More