Last fall, Colorado suffered a devastating wildfire. As the flames spread, they left a trail of tweets, Flickr photos, and collaborative Google maps – disconnected information that was constantly changing. This natural disaster was the inspiration for Crowdspoke, a news platform centered on topics where users vote stories up and down – and a useful…
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A host of startups are helping users save energy, from Opower’s energy reports to the smart thermostat from Nest Labs. But Simple Energy cofounder Yoav Lurie thinks users – despite their good intentions – need more motivation. “The premise in much of the industry has been if you present the data, they will come,” explains…
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Rather than counting pennies with Google AdWords, bloggers have a new option to make money: Blogmutt, which was showcased at our Tech Cocktail Boulder mixer. BlogMutt writers create posts for companies that have no time to blog using suggested keywords. Companies then browse the crowdsourced entries and pick one post per week. BlogMutt’s challenge is…
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According to FullContact, my first name is Kira, my last name is M. Newman, I’m female, and I live in Washington, DC. Other than the middle name blip, that’s pretty accurate, considering I left DC only two months ago. You can see what FullContact knows about you here. FullContact helps developers enhance their app’s contact…
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Lackluster analytics getting you down? ReportGrid, a company that was showecased at our Tech Cocktail Boulder event on Monday night, is here to the rescue with a simple API – and intelligent, eye-catching analytics to boot, which they deliver as a service through a web browser. They are also a Startup Weekend company and graduate…
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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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If you are like most startups, you are working with a tight marketing budget. If you’ve been thinking about spending some of those dollars for online advertising, check out Boulder-based The Trade Desk. Their goals is to help you figure what is this impression, this user, and/or this website worth? Their data-driven marketing suite, which…
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According to Boulder, CO-based startup Radish Systems, research shows that people understand information at least 50% better when both seeing and hearing. If you want to do a better job explaining what it is your startup does to potential investors, partners, or clients, check out their new product ChoiceView. It is a really cool idea,…
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Lijit Networks, which provides advertising and analytics tools to publishers, announced Tuesday its acquisition by Federated Media Publishing for an undisclosed amount. “While the details of the transaction itself weren’t released, this acquisition ranks among the most significant outcomes for the region in the past 10 years,” said Seth Levine, managing director of Foundry Group,…
Read MoreThink you want to start a new company and need a little funding and guidance? You might want to check into an incubator program. Today I was in Boulder, Colorado as TechStars 2008 Investor and Demo day as it launched its second years worth of startups. TechStars was founded last year by David Cohen, Brad…
Read MoreSocialThing, a Boulder, Colorado TechStars startup that aggregates all your online social updates into one slick lifestream, launched into private beta this past March in Austin, Texas at the South By Southwest Interactive event. We got a chance to get a preview of the product the week before as SocialThing showed off its stuff at…
Read MoreFiltrbox, a Boulder-based startup which was founded about a year ago as part of the first TechStars program, will soon be launching a self-service business-grade keyword driven alerts product. Filtrbox offers keyword driven media search which includes the blogosphere & mainstream news. “Filtrbox is a business-grade version of Google Alerts.” – SOMEWHAT FRANK The filtrbox…
Read MoreYou have probably seen the Lijit search widget on a number of sites around the Web. It offers some great site search analytics in a manageable and easy to digest format. I even get a weekly statistics email from Lijit keeping me updated as to how search is performing every week and what people are…
Read MoreOn a clear, crisp evening in Boulder, Colorado over two hundred technology enthusiasts piled into The Foundry Billiards Club to better connect and amplify the technology signal of the region. The event, TECH cocktail Boulder in partnership with DEMO, showcased five startups from the local area. The event was sponsored by Boulder-based Lijit and Chicago…
Read MoreOur first TECH cocktail Boulder event which was put on in partnership with DEMO turned out to be another great event. The spacious Foundry Billiards Club, with its theater-style marquee, helped spread the word about TECH cocktail from the street as we attracted a couple hundred local technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and social media experts to…
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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