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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What would you do with two extra hours added onto your week? Exercise? Spend time with loved ones? Work? Personally, I would opt for two additional hours of sleep. (I know what you’re saying, but I don’t want to wait until I’m dead). Why do I ask? SaneBox, an e-mail software client aimed toward structuring…
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Do you lean on certain groups of friends to share and recommend books, websites or videos? Chances are you are sharing via email. Email takes care of one-to-one sharing; Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon cover one-to-many sharing, but there are few services that cater exclusively to small group sharing. Skmmr offers a new way to share…
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I wish Apen Smart Pens had been around when I was in college. Their 4 pens let you digitize everything you write or draw – it would have been so much easier to keep class notes organized! But this looks like a great tool for everyone, especially startup teams who exist in a constant state…
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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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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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As a Google mail user, I used to love the way you could leverage Google Gears to access your email offline so you could plow through emails while on-the-go or sitting a long flight. Google Gears stopped working with the latest version of the Firefox browser and was eventually discontinued by Google in favor of…
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Your email inbox just became more useful. Instead of signing into Twitter, Facebook and other frequently visited sites, with PowerInbox, you can handle more of your web business from one location. Platforms such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook and Hotmail become web multi-taskers with PowerInbox, which enables users to run apps from within their email. PowerInbox is…
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Critics of online education complain that it’s impersonal, but mailVU is helping to change that. Its mail platform can bring students and teachers together to exchange lectures and homework assignments by video, rather than text. “So many educators use us and blog about us and talk about us,” says Alan Fitzpatrick, cofounder and CEO of…
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Earlier this summer, Pew Internet released a Smartphone Adoption and Usage survey. I think it’s safe to say that all of us in the tech community are pretty much tethered to our phones. I sure am, and I get in trouble for it all the time! As you can see in the above word cloud…
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Today Baltimore-based email marketing service provider Blue Sky Factory announced that they were acquired by WhatCounts. Blue Sky Factory CEO Greg Cangialosi had this to say about the acquisition: “This is an exciting day for Blue Sky Factory and WhatCounts. Together WhatCounts and Blue Sky Factory are a powerhouse in the industry and now have…
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Looking to make email communications more focused and pleasant, Shortmail, which we covered previously, has come out of private beta today. Since we previously covered Shortmail’s private beta in March, the 410 Labs team lead by Matthew Koll and David Troy has added the ability to send public as well as private messages. So when you…
Read MoreDaily deals might be fun, but highly targeted marketing is a better way to reach new and repeat customers. San Diego-based TipCity has recognized this truth and created a self-service marketing platform that allows restaurants to send real-time promotions to targeted consumers. Restaurants currently spend an average of $3,000/month on marketing, with over 90% going…
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Wouldn’t it be nice if special offers you are actually interested in came to you? GoFivo is a new website and mobile app that will save you time and money on the things you like to do. GoFivo delivers real-time offers from local bars, restaurants, shops, and venues to your smartphone or email. When you sign up for alerts…
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Tired of writing the same email messages over and over again? Go beyond copying and pasting with Tout, New York-based startup offering a time-saving service that will help you better manage email. Tout’s email platform helps you focus on the unique parts of your emails, instead of the information that remains the same from one email to another….
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In the past week, I’ve gotten an email from just about every online retailer I’ve ever given an email address to, each informing me that a third party email service provider, Epsilon, has suffered a data breach. While the exact wording of each of these emails is unique, the general message is the same. What follows…
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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