Yesterday, Salesforce announced the launch of Desk.com, a new social help desk product built by the Assistly team, which was acquired last September. We have been following the progress of San Francisco-based Assistly, syncing up every few months with founder and CEO Alex Bard since their creation and participation as a San Diego startup showcase…
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For some, their million-dollar idea strikes while in the shower. For others, it’s scribbled out on a notepad on their nightstand moments before falling asleep. For Matt Younkle, however, his flash of genius struck while waiting in line. For beer. His frustration with the slow moving line at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s student union led him to…
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Facebook owns social. LinkedIn owns professional. How about recreational? “The bet we’ve made is that people have 3 big persona’s in their life: social, professional, and recreational,” says Gabe Lozano, LockerDome Co-Founder and CEO. ”We want to cover recreational – an area that we believe people are more passionate about than any of the…
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Five millions steps. Two thousand, one hundred and eighty one miles. Six months. This is what’s required of someone crazy enough to attempt thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. It’s no surprise that roughly four in five people who attempt this feat ultimately fall short. Experienced backpackers, retired military, and endurance enthusiasts alike often fall into this…
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In between Cosmo and Glamour, there isn’t much in the way of content aimed at young women beyond celebrity news, sex tips, and what shoe is hot for fall. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course – it’s really fun – but it’s not comprehensive or focused on delivering content for all the confident, ambitious,…
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Ben Yoskovitz is a founding partner at Year One Labs, an early-stage seed accelerator in Montreal. Last September, he and his three partners accepted their first class, including recent graduate and now seed-funded Localmind. Yoskovitz is a serial entrepreneur whose recruitment-software startup, Standout Jobs, was acquired in 2010. From running startups to advising new entrepreneurs,…
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If you haven’t noticed, we’re running low on .com domain name options. On the one hand, scarcity of good .com names has caused major frustration among countless entrepreneurs. On the other hand, it has forced people to get creative, well beyond just dropping a vowel here or there. And while this was the “hot” thing to…
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Gretchen Rubin has had amazing success with her 5th and most recent book, The Happiness Project. Of her previous books, some have succeeded while some never found an audience. When she took on her 5th book, she approached it differently: She found her audience ahead of time and leveraged the Web to build momentum, thus…
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We hosted the Startup Mixology Conference in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago with the goal of having a fabulous line-up of speakers breaking down the various ingredients that go into starting and running a new venture. These ingredients included prototyping, marketing, funding, rainmaking, selling, etc. We succeeded, and now we are excited to share…
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Bootstrapping – the startup metaphor for a self-sustaining business that proceeds without external help. This is a story about bootstrapping – real bootstrapping, like, live with your parents, and rent a crappy office bootstrapping. It’s holding out on paying yourself until you start making money, on the way to a multi-million dollar revenue business bootstrapping….
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Failure is something that we all face everyday. It’s how we react to failures that makes us who we are. Startups are a constant flow of successes and failures. Micah Baldwin, the CEO of Graphic.ly, has most recently created community around digital comics and worked at various startups through the years. Micah joined us at…
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We have talked with Garrett Camp before and marveled at the growth of his social recommendation engine, StumbleUpon. The site has been growing like a weed and sending around more social media traffic than Facebook or Twitter. Pretty impressive. We love StumbleUpon as it’s a great way to find new relevant content on the web via…
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Location based services have been hot for a few years now, motivating people to check-in to collect a badge or other virtual good and compete with others. One of the leaders in the space is Gowalla, an Austin based startup led by founder and CEO Josh Williams. Josh is an entrepreneur who has had other…
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TechStars the seed accelerator and startup incubator that got it’s start in Boulder, Colorado in 2007, has been expanding like mad. They have now taken on branches in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and most recently New York. TechStars also made big news earlier this year as they were part of the Startup America initiative, rolling out…
Read MoreIf there’s someone who knows a little about delivering happiness to people, it’s Ben Huh, founder and CEO of Cheezeburger, a network of humor sites where over 16.5 million people go each month to get their laugh on. Ben took some time out of his SXSW schedule to share his perspective on blogs vs books, failure, and business…
Read MoreAs CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed helped grow the community-based company that prints designs created and chosen by users from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices. He also helped Threadless produce a revenue of over $20 million. Reed has since moved on from Threadless and is working on his own secret startup. Harper…
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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