CabCents Brings The Priceline Model To Ground Transportation

Atlanta startup CabCents is bringing the name your price, Priceline model to ground transportation. Whether you need a sedan service, van service, ride to the airport or ride around town, using CabCents you name the service you need, and the price you want to pay and BOOM you’ve got a driver. Not only that, but

The Angel List That Matters, All The Incubators & Accelerator Taking Apps Through Angel.co

Here’s the complete list of incubator and accelerator programs that you can apply to using an account from angel.co (Angel List). If youu’re not familiar with Angel List, it’s one of the three things we recommend you sign up for as soon as you start your startup, the list also includes CrunchBase and Startup America.

Damien Echols To Shed A Different Light On Technology at Everywhereelse.co The Startup Conference

Today the Memphis newspapers picked up on the story that New York Times best selling author, Damien Echols would be speaking at everywhereelse.co the startup conference. For those of you not familiar, he was one of three teenage boys arrested and eventually convicted of the brutal murder of three 8 year old boys in West

Lupe Fiasco Performance Ends Early At StartupRockOn Inaugural Party

The folks at StartupRockOn have done some phenomenal things since three startups, HyperVocal, EventFarm and Fighter Interactive formed the collaborative last year. They formed the company to promote startup and entrepreneurship alongside high profile events. We attended Startup RockOn parties at the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention.  Although invited, we were unfortunately

R360UND Is The Ultimate Go-Pro Companion Video Interview At CES 2013

Adrenaline pumping, action sports videos have taken a new place in the active sportsmans life thanks to things like Go-Pro. You could spend months watching GoPro videos on YouTube. You’d see people climbing mountains, surfing big waves, ski-ing, ski jumping, sky diving and more. But even with the best technology, and all the best Go-Pro

Cariloop The Expedia Model For Geriatric Care

Elder care and geriatric care are on the rise. As the baby boomer generation starts turning towards assisted living and geriatric care, the industry continues to grow. In 2013 we’re starting to see a new trend of somewhat computer savvy seniors, and their kids, turning to the internet to help find care and services.  We’re

TDC Games Shows Off America’s Funniest Home Videos Hybrid Board/Tablet Game At CES 2013

A startup from the suburbs of Chicago called TDC games showed off an exciting new way to play board games. Combining the power of QR codes, along with video playback, the company has created a hybrid America’s Funniest Home Videos game. A Hybrid Game? We’ve seen the app interactive toys at toy stores and department

Kauzu Targets Entry Level Job Seekers With Smartphone And Basic Phone Apps

With all this innovation and startups targeting the job market there’s one job market that still remains horribly under served. The entry level or basic jobs market hasn’t had its own app or platform until now. Chicago startup Kauzu, is taking advantage of the open space in the entry level jobs market. Grocery stores, retail

What To Do After School? DC Startup Activity Rocket Has The Answer

As the parent of a kindergartener her father and I are swimming in mountains of ideas of things for our daughter to do after school. There are a lot of programs out there but not one central website to go to where we can check out everything. We’re just getting started and have a good

CES 2013: CEA Welcomes Startups With New Membership Category

We could see the writing on the wall for this one over two years ago when Eureka Park was announced. CEA, the Consumer Electronics Association and the producers of the International CES show in Las Vegas January 8-11, has created a new membership category making it easier for startups to join the ranks of the

Barcelona Startup: Groupiest, Create Your Own Social Networks

When you scale down social networks to their core, you’ll quickly realize that they’ve been around a lot longer than Facebook. MMC groups on AOL, bulletin boards on Prodigy and even dial in BBS’ back in the 80’s would equate to what has evolved into the current social network. Albeit today’s social networks have many

We Talk With 500 Startups, Madrid Startup, Traity: Recruitment With Trust & Personality

We’ve reported on countless startups that are striving to re-invent the interview and recruitment process. It seems that recruitment may be one of the hottest startup spaces in 2012. How can you separate the good and the bad? Well one way is by knowing that Dave McClure’s 500 startups is backing this Madrid startup, Traity.

Black Girls Code Coming Home To Memphis In January

Kimberly Bryant is an award winning social entrepreneur, technology junkie, an engineer by trade and a native Memphian. She relocated to Silicon Valley and now she’s launched a program that’s rolling out across the country. That program, Black Girls Code, promotes teaching coding and development to young African American Girls. Bryant describes the mission for

Official: DC Startup Living Social Lays Off 400

We reported early this morning that Washington DC based daily deals starutp Living Social was planning on laying off 400 people. That came to fruition later this morning and was announced by company spokesperson Andrew Weinstein. Weinstein confirmed all 400 layoffs and said that they were spread across sales, editorial and customer service. They are