Categorized: startups-apps
CitizenGroove is a media-centered content management system for organizations that accept auditions – the application streamlines the music school or audition application process. Cleveland-based CitizenGroove is a great study in what produces success in the startup world. For example: This is not the founders’ first venture; in fact, the first venture is described by 26…
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Though you may be more familiar with Kayak, Priceline, Travelocity, and Expedia, Calabasas-based CheapAir.com has been around longer – since 1989 – and after talking to founder and CEO Jeff Klee, I think they’re better than the competition. Despite being in a crowded marketplace, they are constantly looking for ways to innovate – and that…
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The #2 team in the conference is the Whitman Vikings, who played the conference-leading, defending state champion Churchill Bulldogs this past weekend. The two teams had played 4 weeks earlier in a hotly contested, down-to-the-wire game that ended with a late tie breaking goal for the Bulldogs. On that night, the undefeated Bulldogs handed the…
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Imagine having your finger on the pulse of your favorite topic – whether it’s Justin Bieber or the Large Hadron Collider. If you’re a lawyer, you’ll never miss a related court decision; if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll never waste time figuring out what’s up in your industry – and with your competitors. This is where…
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Last week I got a chance to listen to Paul Singh from 500 Startups talk about raising money at The Fort. First of all, I have to say that almost every sentence Paul uttered could have been used as a quote on its own. Below are the best ones, which I broke down into 3…
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Imagine using your media center as a server for your startup. You’re sitting there, watching Netflix, and suddenly, everything goes down. You realize your server just got hit because the Denver Post started using your startup. It happened to Paul Kenjora, and he proceeded to raise $1.5 million for that very same tech startup…in Arizona….
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Just in time for New York Fashion Week, much like Clothia, new startup StyleMusee is helping men and women discover fashion inspiration that matches their personal styles. The NYC-based company is setting out to be the fashion industry’s hub on Facebook, bringing the social offline shopping experience online. StyleMusee has identified and classified nearly one thousand style…
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Three years ago, James Khoo’s sister drove her car into a tree and was knocked unconscious. She was hurried to the hospital with the help of passers-by, but Khoo and his family didn’t know what happened for several days. “Those 3 days were very torturous for us,” he recalls. Inspired by that experience, and a…
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As we evolved as humans, we relied on our gut instinct to survive, going from “Um, there’s a lot of roaring coming from that corner of the jungle – maybe I’ll take a different route” to “Wow, this guy is a little aggressive – no date number 2 for you, crazy dude.” Relying on instinct…
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Categorized: gaming
To the Moon was released in November by the independent studio Freebird Games. In contrast to last year’s big productions like Skrym or Batman Arkham City, this is a small-budget game developed in a 16-bits retro style. However, this game has been critically acclaimed for its originality, story and music score. From a visual viewpoint,…
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For a new generation of students, “test prep” will no longer conjure up the image of sleepy, 3-hour Kaplan classes or 10-pound Barron’s SAT books. One startup ushering in the digital age of studying is Chicago-based BenchPrep, backed by Lightbank. Founded in 2009, BenchPrep has recruited more than 150,000 students to their online learning platform…
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Marshall Seese’s reasons for starting social gaming company Mowgli Games were clear. “Simply put, it pissed me off that money like that could be made from a game where people spent all their time making something fake,” he said, in reference to Zynga’s wildly popular Farmville. “So from there I decided that social gaming would…
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New Year’s resolutions: easy to make, easier to break. If you’re still struggling to get into a regular exercise routine, sleep more, eat healthier, drink less alcohol and more water, a new web app called RoutineTap just might come in handy. The nice thing about this Lisbon, Portugal-based progress-tracking app is that it’s customizable. You…
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Many women can sympathize with one of Audrey Melnik’s romantic mishaps: she had a promising date – drinks led to dinner, then the guy gave her a goodnight kiss and walked her to the car – but she never heard from him again. “I felt quite helpless in this situation, where if I was to…
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What’s the bottleneck in your laundry operation? This may seem like a silly question, but for entrepreneurs, whose time equals serious money, mundane tasks like doing laundry can either eat into your bottom line or spare time. One is valuable, the other invaluable. Chances are, the answer to the above question is likely socks or…
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