At my last 9-to-5 job, every time I thought differently from my supervisors and managers about a problem we faced, I wrote down what bothered me and how I would do it differently given the opportunity. Before long, I had a huge spiral notebook filled with ideas. I realized that all these “negatives” were actually
Stacey Ferreira, the co-founder of MySocialCloud tells her entrepreneurial story from private catholic high school, to meeting Richard Branson, getting $1million dollar investment and acquisition in this story and video.
This DC startup is betting the key to better customer engagement is longer, more engaging contests.
Startup accelerators are great,] because they give young growing startups capital, access to resources, mentors, and hopefully investors. But they aren’t always rosy. In fact, if all your days in an accelerator program are rosy, then you need to run like hell from that accelerator program. On our sneaker-strapped startup road trip, we’ve had the
Portland startup Lytics.io, that uses Money Ball deep analytics for customer intelligence, secures $2.2M seed round from Rembrandt and Voyager, more here.
My favorite thing about working in startups? Companies like PlanG. We are inundated with apps, social networks, and games that seem to make little real difference in the world. It’s often hard to identify the real problem companies are solving, even if those companies are creating something fun. PlanG isn’t like that. Instead, PlanG is
In 2011 Google stopped indexing Twitter, since then trying to search tweets for context has been a huge problem. This Berlin startup is solving that problem.
When Sam Bowen took the stage at the GigTank demo day on Tuesday afternoon, he talked about everything wrong with corporate training. And he should know. He’s been a trainer throughout most of his career. He has trained professionals in state government, the hospitality industry, and non profit organizations. At one point he even had
Restaurant recommendations made easy with Detroit startup myfab5
Digital services leaders in Chicago form new collaboration called Ensemble to help startups with a suite of services. More here.
This Jordanian woman has created an amazing Foodie startup.
Community banks are great. Often times community banks have more 1:1 resources to give to their customers. They can offer education, guidance and products that benefit local businesses, local residents and bolster the local economy. But what happens when a college student or young adult leaves home for another city? Well often times they turn
St. Louis regional chamber teams up with Cultivation Capital to launch new Six Thirty accelerator named after the Gateway Arch, more here.
Jumpstart Inc, inks new partnership with Memphis’ StartCo.
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