Do you ever have days where you feel tremendously busy but when 6pm roles around you look back at your day’s productivity, and there’s not much to show for it. I have. You get stuck on what’s urgent rather than what’s important. Your day is spent in meetings, answering e-mails and responding to texts, you…
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We all know meetings can be long, boring, and unproductive, but San Diego-based startup Human Potential Tools cites some stomach-turning research: According to Forrester Market Research, over 25 million meetings take place every day in the United States alone. In a recent survey of 5,000 senior managers, they stated that 90% of the meetings they…
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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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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…
Read MoreYour email inbox is a sea of opportunities. Everyday I try to keep up and get through all of them but a lot of times items get lost under the fold of the Web page, tucked out of view, kept as new until I have time to circle back and dig out. I have many…
Read MoreWe all get a lot of email these days. In the time I wrote this article I received at least two dozen. While some people may get more email than others, its safe to say that all this email can cut into your daily productivity. In fact, it can be a huge distraction. To combat…
Read MoreUnlike partying, using your e-mail like it’s 1999 is something to be avoided – particularly if email is a fundamental part of getting your business done. Unfortunately, I notice far too many who fit this description. Although the basic idea behind e-mail hasn’t changed much throughout the years (despite Google’s best efforts), the capabilities within…
Read MoreCoordinating schedules to setup a meeting can sometimes be a lot of work. It could include a whole email string on possible available dates and times to meet, places to meet, etc. It can be a lot of back and forth and once you finally agree on a time you still have to send a…
Read MoreSometimes we get so much email it’s almost impossible to unplug for a moment to focus on other tasks at hand. There’s always the risk that a message requiring your immediate attention will pop into your inbox while you are busy doing other things. AwayFind aims to help solve this problem. AwayFind, created by Maryland-based…
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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