Imagine you own a clothing shop, and you get a beautiful shipment of summer dresses. Floral patterns, bright reds and yellows, everything just screams to be bought. But if a dress appears on the rack and no one’s there to see it, does it make any money? Launching publicly today, Walkby is an iPhone app…
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Let’s be honest: when it comes to planning a wedding, it can be a full-time job. Between the coordination, the details, the RSVPs, and even the post-event sharing of memories, it’s a headache. When I was done with my wedding, I felt like the honeymoon was just a necessary vacation to recover from the craziness…
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Tom Nolan was prepping for a conference in a city he had never visited. After hours of research on the best restaurants, sightseeing opportunities, and optimal travel routes, he was ready to go. However, he soon found the map technology available to him to be lacking. Aggregating the myriad locations he had discovered onto one…
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You’re home, and you’re hungry. Before you rifle through take-out menus, your first move is to venture over to the fridge. Basking in the cool air and jolt of light as you open the door, everything is in front of you. Vegetables are in their drawer, so are the fruits. Your drinks and condiments are…
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Custom menswear brand Arden Reed was founded in 2008 by Mike Abadi and Carlos Solorio. After leaving their investment banking jobs in New York, the two turned to Kickstarter and launched the company last year. They ended up raising over five times their original goal and became the men behind Kickstarter’s 12th most funded fashion…
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Everything is changing, and everybody knows it. There is a palpable sense of anxiety over what the future holds for America and what it means for the coming generations. The new fluid workforce, global economics, and disruptive information technologies are going to have a significant impact on American competitiveness and, as a result, the opportunities…
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Right now, Jeremy Keeshin is on a two-month roadtrip to bring programming workshops to high school students across the country. As cofounder of CodeHS, he wants to prove that computer science can be fun and accessible before college. According to Keeshin, only 5 percent of high schools currently offer AP computer science. On top of…
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Coming this spring, Splenvid is the latest solution to creating meaningful and comprehensive video content. Founded by former Google employees Henry Green and Jeff Raubitschek, Splenvid’s ambitious goal is to create videos automatically for you, no editing required. Green is like most people. He loves to take pictures with his children, commemorating memories as they are…
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According to the Social Good Network, about 47 percent of people who go to donate to a nonprofit end up giving up. That’s a lot of lost money that the Boise startup wants to put in the hands of worthy causes. Social Good Network’s offerings start with a better donation button for nonprofits’ websites. Instead of…
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When you were a kid, was there anything more satisfying than your onesies? Hint: nope. Pajamas own that soft spot in your heart by combining comfort, self expression, and positive association. Smart PJs, winner of last night’s Hottest Showcasing Startup – Boise, wants to add technological innovation to this list. Smart PJ’s transforms kid’s evening…
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The average worker spends about three hours of the day sifting through email. You are working on a project when a new email comes in, you read it, and realize your coworker is asking for presentation data from a three-week-old meeting; now, where did you put it? David Johnston, Patrick McGuninness, Curtis Lacy, and Chris…
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Mobile app development is a vicious cycle. Every time technology hardware improves, so must your app. While it may be easy initially to build a small app following instructions and manuals available online, the process of building an app for a new technology (for example, Bluetooth LE hardware), and keeping your app updated, can be tedious as…
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Since edX launched last May, ten top universities have joined MIT and Harvard in offering free online college courses. Coursera delivers you content from over 50 other universities, Udacity offers college credit for some classes, and Udemy has a library of over 4,500 free courses. But – at least for courses filmed at universities –…
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I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon on Yelp; perhaps you’ve seen it? Some great restaurants end up with three stars – but when you take a look at the rating distribution, the majority of reviews are four stars. Negative reviews can, perhaps undeservedly, pull down a restaurant’s rating. But not on WHO I CHOOSE – this…
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In a post-recession job market, more and more companies are leaning on temporary workers. This change means many homeowners and businesses need workers for small jobs, side jobs, contract jobs, day work, and temporary work. Many job sites focus on filling full-time and long-term employment. But LaborFeed matches workers with employers for contract and day-work job…
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“Tracky is a lot like a mullet: all business in the front, all social party in the back,” their website jokes. Tracky’s results are real and practical: you can manage multiple projects, keep track of to-do’s and timelines, and assign tasks. Unlike other project management tools, plans are based on the individual (rather than the…
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