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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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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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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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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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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Entrepreneur Cory Kidd finished a PhD at MIT, so Boston was an obvious choice for starting a company. He also thought about moving to Silicon Valley, but this Louisiana-born American decided to cross the globe to start up in Hong Kong – and he’s not the only one. “We took our company a lot further…
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PowerInbox, a startup that launched just 3 weeks and demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Boston mixer last week, has released the first, and only, third party Google+ client. They posted a survey on their homepage to find what PowerApps people would love to have in their email, and Google+ won by a landslide. Here’s how…
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I wish SpotHero had been around when I lived in Boston. This Chicago-based startup lets you reserve a parking spot by neighborhood or event, which would have come in quite handy when I lived off Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College. I am sure parking there is still a nightmare. There is certainly a market for…
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We are really excited to showcase 20 innovative startups here in Cambridge tonight. Previews of all participating companies are below; they range from a video interviewing service to an app that lets you pay tips and gratuities from your smartphone. Many thanks to all of our sponsors for making this possible: Title Sponsor Sprint; platinum…
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With the trend of people increasingly using their credit/debit cards and the growing options of mobile payments, our society is becoming less cash-focused. A sample size of 1, myself, can tell you that I rarely use cash these days to pay for anything. I prefer the convenience of swiping a card, getting reward points, and not wondering…
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Kids are expensive. Food, clothes, toys, books, education, activities – it adds up quickly. As a parent, going out to dinner, the movies, or a concert ends up costing a small fortune. You pay for what you do, and you pay for the babysitter. Here in DC, that pretty much doubles the cost of dinner…
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If you want to connect with someone today, you have lots of options. You could email, Facebook message, tweet or direct message, IM, call, or use a carrier pigeon. With the number of ways to communicate continually growing, it has become difficult to stay up to speed with them all. For example, if someone sends…
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Education startups are popping up everywhere, but education is still a slow-moving, tradition-heavy space. Boston startup iCreate to Educate, which produces movie-making software for the classroom, has experienced this firsthand. “The education market is so difficult to penetrate, particularly when you’re bootstrapping,” says founder Melissa Pickering, who previously managed operations at the Tufts Center for…
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It’s no secret that social media can drive engagement and increase business. Companies looking for a great place to launch their online marketing efforts should check out GaggleAMP, a cloud-based social media marketing platform. GaggleAMP is the first social media tool specializing in social marketing amplification; it’s kind of like a business version of HootSuite….
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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