You have just finished building an epic new website, but there seems to be a little voice inside your head telling you it amounts to nothing and will get no traffic. When it comes to a new website, it can be tricky to be sure of what is going on without the proper data analytics….
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Online shopping has grown dramatically, year over year. And with that growth, new product discovery content has blossomed on the web and on mobile platforms. Pickie is one of the newer, more personalized mobile shopping options. An iOS application, Pickie is a mobile shopping magazine that leverages user interests and relevant web content to create…
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FreshNeck is a subscription-based, men’s accessories exchange service. Members can access FreshNeck’s vibrant and versatile stock of neckties, bow ties, pocket squares, and cufflinks based on their tiered subscription, through FreshNeck’s visually crisp website. Membership starts at $15 per month, and designers like Hermes, Brioni, and Versace are just some of the options at the…
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Stripe, a Y Combinator graduate, has become one of the most popular ways for startups to accept payments online. Sites like Reddit, Foursquare, Heroku, and Hipmunk are all up and running with Stripe. But Stripe is a developer product: you have to integrate it into your website’s code, or download a Stripe plugin for WordPress…
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Last week was SFMade Week, a seven-day celebration of San Francisco’s local manufacturing sector. Attendees toured factories, donated money, and learned about the retailers who sell locally made products. Another champion of the maker community is Localvore, a marketplace for locally made, artisan manufactured goods from San Francisco and Northern California. From cinnamon oat soap…
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The day-to-day for a nonprofit is busy, to say the least. Keeping track of volunteers and their hours, information, and participation history is time-consuming and often falls to the bottom of the agenda. But Andrew Stanley and Venkat Dulipalli – the good Samaritans that they are – decided to take this problem head-on. VolunteerMark was designed specifically…
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Launching today, Fandium mobile app for iOS gives users a more social game day experience for professional and collegiate sports, complete with aggregated live content and streaming social feeds. The Chicago-based company aims to be the social destination for sports fans to get the real story from inside the stadium, whether they’re in the crowd…
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What happens to your important documents and information after you die? The ones that your family and close friends need to access. It’s an uncomfortable question, but also a topic that needs to be confronted. Odds are you don’t have a good answer. The winner of last night’s Hottest Showcasing Startup at our DC Mixer, wants…
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Everybody is a fan in one way or another, and everybody has their favorite sports team. Thanks to season-long data, we are privy to what sports team reigns supreme, but it raises an important question: how do we evaluate the sports fans? In the hopes of settling an age-old debate, Will Coatney and Hunter Browning…
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With the emergence of services like Google Offers and Groupon, businesses big, small, and in between are utilizing digital coupons and offers to increase their sales. Tim Rothwell and Brett Berman, cofounders of UMeTime, observed an overlooked gap in this industry trend. How can business owners use couponing services to acquire new customers and increase business…
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This spring, Tim Ferriss was obsessed with the movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster, the Athletic Greens superfood cocktail, and something called a Buddha Board. And anyone who subscribed to Ferriss on Quarterly got a shipment of this stuff (and more) for $100. Quarterly sells quarterly shipments of stuff picked out by influential people. And some of…
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No one wants to be in a hospital, whether it’s because of your own health or that of a loved one. They are chilling and intimidating. However, they provide a needed and valuable service that we are all thankful for. Mike Galbo is the COO and cofounder of the data collection application for hospitals, Aidin. Galbo aims…
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Do you sell on auction sites like eBay or Amazon? Like money, but hate shipping? Me too! ShipHawk provides packing, shipping, insurance, and residential or commercial pickup services for shipments of any size. “You can overnight a letter, or ship an earthmover, in less than three minutes from the comfort of your living room,” says Bodenhamer,…
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Whether it is for the office quarterly review meeting, or a 4th of July bash, choosing and organizing an event’s catering is one more pain that you could do without. Chris Collins and Carly Chamberlain created CaterCow to provide a marketplace for consumers in need of catering to discover and order the perfect catering solution…
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SMS messaging has been the cornerstone of cell phones since before they were smartphones. Anthony Nguyen, founder of Locotext, posed a question to himself one day though: Why has nobody innovated around traditional SMS messaging? What about geo SMS? “My initial thoughts lead me to really dig into geo-sensing technology,” says Nguyen. “I thought it…
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Would you buy your employees a latte every month? If so, you can afford AnyPerk. That’s probably why over 2,500 companies – including Pinterest, Hulu, Pandora, and Quora – have signed their team up for perks in fitness, entertainment, travel, and technology. If you’re wondering about the quality of the perks, look no further than…
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