Indian Startup 500 Hours, Giving Away 500 Development Hours To Worthy Startups [interview]

Vishesh Duggar and Shreya Tiwara are both Indian natives and both attended college at Northeastern University in Boston. After finishing college both Duggar and Tiwara returned to Pune India where they immediately got their hands dirty in the budding startup community out there. Now, Duggar who graduated with an MS in Computer Science, and Tiwari,

Mark Cuban Backed Apptopia Tops $1 Million In Sales

Boston startup Apptopia is another startup we’ve been tracking for quite some time. We first brought you the story about this company that helps app developers actually sell their apps and app businesses, back in March of 2012. While app markets seem to be a dime a dozen these days, Apptopia is not an app

DC Startup Seva Call Is A Virtual Concierge In Real Time & By Phone

If you’re looking for a professional service provider the highly acclaimed DC startup Seva Call may be just the right thing for you. Seva Call is a virtual concierge service that links customers by phone to the professional services that they need. Whether you’re looking for computer repair techs, heating and cooling pros, locksmiths, maid

Listen Up Here’s How You Could Win A TechCrunch Startup Alley Booth

TechCrunch has just announced the first wave of their 2013 meetups and this year they’re coming with “Pitch Offs” as well. TechCrunch held a pitch off event in New York City back in February. It was met with huge success. TechCrunch editor John Biggs called the event a “mini Disrupt”. If you’ve ever been to

American Airlines And Their Partnership With Startups [video][AAMRQ]

When startup people talk about airlines and airplanes they are typically talking about some new startup to order up a jet plane or to help you find the cheapest fares. Well lately we see more and more American Airlines signage, and people at startup events. Are they scoping startups for their next talent? Are they trying

48 Startup Stories From SXSW 2013 [sxsw]

Before we dive into this list of 48 startup stories from everywhere else at SXSW 2013, in the words of the late great Billy Mays, “But wait there’s more”. We have another weeks worth of stories so if we met you or interviewed you and you don’t see your story yet, or your jonesing for

We Caught Up With Fetchnotes At SXSW INTERVIEW

Last April we first started reporting on Ann Arbor Michigan startup Fetchnotes. This startup was born out of the University of Michigan which is where Co-Founders Alex Schiff and Chase Lee met. While they are tons of note taking apps available, Fetchnotes secret sauce is that the app is based on how the user takes

EdTech Startup MatchBox Lets Colleges Manage Applications On An iPad, SXSWedu Pitch Video

Stephen Marcus, the founder and CEO of Matchbox has created a product that colleges and universities are quickly adopting and loving. Matchbox is a complete solution that allows admissions staff to manage the applications process via an ipad app. “For us, using Matchbox was a no brainer,” said Sundar Kumarasamy, vice president for enrollment management

TechStars’ Katie Rae On What Drives An Entrepreneurial Community

Entrepreneurial and startup communities are growing everywhere across the United States. The recent everywhereelse.co The Startup Conference event highlighted entrepreneurial communities “everywhere else” outside the major hubs like Silicon Valley and New York. We’ve recently started up our “Sneaker Strapped Nationwide Startup Road Trip Part Deux”. During our first journey, that started at SXSW 2012,

SideCar Acquires Ride Sharing Competitor Heyride

Ridesharing has been a very popular means of transportation in Europe for many years, it’s just now starting to take off in the United States. Startups like RidePost, who recently graduated from the Iron Yard accelerator, and HeyRide have started a trend in peer to peer ride sharing. San Francisco based SideCar has, by far,

Uber’s Biggest Competitor Hailo Raises $30 Million For Eastern Expansion

We’ve been covering Uber’s biggest competitor Hailo since last March. The European startup aggressively expanded throughout Europe in major cities like Dublin and London before coming over the the U.S. Now, according to report from TechCrunch and AllthingsD they’re ready to expand eastward to Asia. They just announced a $30 million dollar raise led by

Techstars Hackstar Launches Her Own MassChallenge Startup ZoomTilt, 99Designs For Video

Anna Callahan is a Techstars hackstar turned startup founder who went through Mass Challenge. With all that startup pedigree we know her startup ZoomTilt is already destined for success. The magic comes into play now that they’ve completed MassChallenge and were named a finalist. But what is ZoomTilt? Well think 99designs. Callahan loves film making,

GeckoCap Is Gamifying The Asthma Inhaler, We Checked It Out At Eureka Park

Millions of kids across the country and around the world suffer from Asthma. Fortunately, for many of them the Albuterol rescue inhaler helps them live mostly normal lives.  The problem is that many kids either forget to take their inhaler or forget to tell their parents and loved ones that they used their inhaler. It’s