Tech Tips A Great Alternative To Styli For Tablets And Smartphones

TechTips, Montana Startup,startups, startup inteviewLast year at CES 2012 we saw a North Carolina startup called TextRings in Eureka Park. As you can tell from our narrative we weren’t very impressed and if they’re still in business they’ve had minimal to no traction as far as we can tell. The problem they were trying to solve is still a big issue however they were trying to solve it with rings that looked like you would find them in the treasure box at the dentists office. Couple that with the astronomic cost of entry and it was destined to earn our “least favorite startup” of Eureka Park in 2012.

Fast forward to 2013 and we got to meet Sri Vellanki. Not only has Vellanki had a pretty distinguished career to date, she’s a beautiful young woman entrepreneur and she’s from Montana. Here Montana startup called Tech Tips, is similar to Text Rings in that she is looking to solve the problem of input on smartphones and tablets, specifically for women.

Tech Tips is a product that fits on the finger tip, rather than in a ring format, and allows a natural extension to ones fingers for the specific purpose of input. Strokes are more natural because they feel natural. It’s almost like using your actual finger for the input.

Naturally when we first arrived at the Tech Tips booth we were surprised to see something similar to Text Rings, but I can assure you that this is definitely a much better product with a great founder.

But in the infamous words of the late great Billy Mays… That’s Not All!

Vellanki has a second product she is just now introducing as well. This product is called Nano Nails. Think acrylic nails that are made with the same kind of coating that’s in those gloves we use for our smartphones and tablets to input data, draw pictures and navigate.

After talking to several women the reaction has been “That’s Awesome”. Both solutions function better than a stylus and certainly better than Text Rings, check out our interview below and for more visit Tech Tips and Nano Nails here.

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Florida Startup: Moasis, Geo Local Mobile Targeted Advertising INTERVIEW

It seems like local mobile is all the rage these days. We’ve run so many stories about social, local, mobile (SoLoMo) startups lately. Another industry that’s taking advantage of local and mobile is advertising. That’s what West Palm Beach startup Moasis is doing for advertisers. In a nutshell they’ve setup a very targeted hyper local geo-fenced platform for advertising.

There are huge benefits to geo-fenced advertising. Of course adwords has the ability for advertisers to drill down and purchase local clicks, but the benefits to doing it mobile are ten fold.

Anyone who’s read Nibletz, the voice of startups everywhere else, for any amount of time knows that we’re on the sneaker strapped nationwide startup roadtrip which means we travel a lot. There are so many instances where we’ve done internet searches on the phone to find something close by, be it a pizza place, drug store, Best Buy, or other store, the mobile device is quickly becoming the place for search.

The father and son team of Steve and Ryan Golden along with Jason Mascari founded Moasis to take advantage of the endless possibilities that come from the power of delivering targeted local ads to the mobile device.

We got a chance to interview Moasis. Check out the interview below:

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