Jeremy Murphy and Mike Aucoin never planned on ending up in the travel business. But a common need led the duo to the creation of TheSuitest, an online data cruncher that delivers comprehensive and dynamic hotel searches. Murphy is a former quantitative analyst and risk manager, engineering a risk management system and asset allocation system….
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“Making the effort to be neat and organized is wasted unless you can easily find what you have organized,” CEO and cofounder of SafelyFiled Mark Snow explains. “After all, that’s the real purpose of organization.” Staying organized in real life is difficult, but trying to maintain control over a flood of documents on a cloud…
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When it comes to driving, teenagers seem to be like a category five hurricane: destruction apparently follows them everywhere. Insurance agencies tend to gouge this demographic on premiums and monthly rates simply because of their age. But what if you do not fit this mold? What if you are a fantastic teenage driver? You can…
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You know the drill. The second week of every month, Tech Cocktail puts on an awesome conference called Tech Cocktail Week held in the emerging utopia that is Downtown Las Vegas. That week is right around the corner, and as part of April’s Tech Cocktail Week, we’re thrilled to put on another Tech Cocktail Week Startup Showcase and Mixer. And…
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Public transportation offers riders something that has become a premium in today’s fast-paced society: downtime. TransitChatter offers a solution for riders to better spend their time in transit. Founded by Samuel Pro and David Rogers, TransitChatter expands on current public transportation applications. TransitChatter supplies a forum for riders to anonymously vent and connect with other…
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Toast, the new iOS app for the nightlife industry that helps customers save money at bars by way of membership, took home the title of Chicago’s Hottest Showcasing Startup at last night’s Tech Cocktail Chicago Mixer. We caught up with Lakshman Mody to learn more about how Toast is taking the nightlife industry by storm.
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Last week, American Express OPEN and Daniel Isenberg announced a new program to help grow startup scenes across the United States, starting with Milwaukee. The program, called OPEN for Enterprise: Coalitions for High-Growth Entrepreneurship, is based on Isenberg’s work fostering entrepreneurship in Colombia, Brazil, and Denmark through BEEP. His perspective is that ”scale-ups” are more…
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While emerging corporate cloud applications aim to make businesses more productive, the sheer volume of all the different apps makes it difficult for companies to keep everything organized and everyone involved. Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson created Bitium as a solution for companies that want a better way to manage these applications across teams of…
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Founded in 1864, Boise, aka The City of Trees, ranks as the 101st largest city in the US (according to the 2011 census) and was voted the #1 city for men in 2013 by Men’s Health. These are all facts I pulled from Wikipedia. A fact that doesn’t require Wikipedia’s aid: Boise has an up-and-coming,…
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Be Great Partners, a new incubator in Los Angeles, launched in February with a $6 million fund planned for startups. The company is actually a hybrid of an accelerator and an incubator (a coworking space with extra programs and mentorship). Like the former, Be Great Partners offers office space, mentorship, and capital (around $25,000 per startup,…
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“Every business owner will tell you that word-of-mouth is the best form of advertising,” says Carrie Layne, CEO and founder of BestBuzz. The problem Layne sees is that traditional word-of-mouth is slow and data-less. BestBuzz brings word-of-mouth into the tech age. Layne’s integrated marketing service offers a start-to-finish solution for promotions and campaigns. Not only…
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Atlas is known in Greek mythology as the primordial titan who held up the celestial sphere. The poet Virgil commonly associated adjectives with these titans to help describe their nature of being. For Atlas, he chose the Latin durus: hard, enduring. Apply that knowledge to Hunter Gray and Michel Bayan’s time scheduling platform, aptly named…
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Buying and maintaining a car is something many of us have been accustomed to since our sweet sixteenth birthday. But there has been a trend to go car-less and with this trend, new services like Zipcar, Uber, Lift, Sidecar and more have launched to provide options when you have no wheels. Today, the Downtown Project,…
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Toast, by Jeziel Jones, Lakshman Mody, Ivan Mathy, and Jeff Olsen, was invented as a way to purchase membership for a specific bar or become a member at a group of bars under the same owner’s banner. Put a different way, Toast is a membership service for the bar and nightlife industry that will allow…
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Have you noticed the gold rush toward subscription based delivery services over the last couple of years? Perhaps you’re familiar with Truck Club, Birchbox, Foodzie, and/or Quarterly.co? Science Inc. has doubled down on this trend with their backing of Wittlebee, Dollar Shave Club, Urban Remedy, and Fresh Dish. With the success of those who have paved the way, the…
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If you want to make some extra money on the side, HangPay lets you charge money for Google Hangouts. The process is simple: just share your personal HangPay link with someone. When they click on it, you’ll get a notification. Open up the Hangout, choose a price, and start talking. If they reject the fee,…
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