By interviewing users, Chicago-based startup PhilterIt has identified 4 distinct types of email personalities. Explains CEO Avi Levine: “Combiners tend to receive all messages (brand and personal) into one inbox. Separators (such as myself) may keep an account solely dedicated to personal messages (my Gmail) and one for all brand messages (my Yahoo). Filers are very…
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Monster.com, Craigslist, LinkedIn, networking – there are so many places to look for find a candidate for a job opening. The process can be stressful, frustrating, and exhausting for everyone involved. Jobaline co-founders Miki Mullor and Bill Davidheiser want to make this process a lot easier for recruiters and hiring managers in 3 major ways:…
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Bio: Artem Livshits is Founder, CEO, and Chief Technology Architect of OblakSoft, one of the startups featured at the recent Tech Cocktail Seattle mixer. He possesses 15+ years of experience architecting, designing and implementing fast, scalable, and robust mission-critical server software. Tech Cocktail caught up with the OblakSoft CEO to learn more about his company….
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While it is easy to equate Memorial Day Weekend with the unofficial start of summer, the beach, the pool, picnics, and grilling, it is important to remember why we get a 3 day weekend: to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. military. This day of observation actually has a long history –…
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You won’t get too far in the world of e-commerce without talking conversion rates. Providing the desired content, an intuitive interface, and elegant design all play a key role in getting a user to perform an intended action. These rules are as true for gathering customer feedback as they are for affecting purchasing behavior. And…
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Hosting an event and need a caterer, cleaning service, or photographer? Or are you looking for new health or auto insurance? Maybe you’re looking to get a dog, website design work, or even a spray tan. Whatever you need, conventional practices put the onus of the work on you. You’ll spend the next 30 minutes…
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Finding time to blog is a challenge that all startup founders face – squeezing in time for writing and marketing when you’re trying to start up, launch, and then grow your company makes you long for more than 24 hours in a day (sometimes, anyway). As cofounders of a startup, BuzzShift, which just happens to…
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If you want to operate a business in Brazil or France or even Canada, you need answers to about a million questions. How will you immigrate? How much do you have to pay employees? What about business taxes? And how do you make sure your employees find housing, get their kids in school, and adjust…
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Tuesday was the official launch of Fundable, a crowdfunding platform specifically for startup companies. Founded by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter, the platform follows the passage of the JOBS Act (or “Crowdfunding Act”), which allows companies to publicly raise money from anyone willing to back them: “With the passage of the JOBS Act (yay!) investors will be able…
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I used to suffer from severe fantasy football addiction. I still do, I just used to, too. As someone who knows the compulsive qualities of fantasy sports first hand, there is a tendency to start seeing the world through the lens of occupational statistics. Watching Dancing with the Stars, listening to my favorite indie bands,…
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Two for two. Two businesses started, two businesses acquired. First Doug Camplejohn started myplay, a digital music locker. That was acquired by Bertelsmann. Next it was Mi5, a web security gateway. That was acquired by Symantec. Today he’s onto Fliptop, a social information warehouse for people and brands. Is his current venture destined for the…
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Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, Bing Travel, Orbitz, Yapta, Hotels.com, Priceline, TripAdvisor, JetSetter, DealBase, Hotel Tonight, Hotwire, Agoda, Room Key, HotelSweep, Hipmunk, Momondo, Room77, YourRoomKey. What I’m trying to say is, travel booking is a competitive space…. Could there possibly be room for another entrant into this field? According to Bob Rogers, COO and co-founder of DealAngel,…
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There is a lot of video on the Internet – and it’s growing so quickly that by 2015, we’ll have 500 billion hours of video online. Billion. Finding fun videos to watch now is a random exercise that results in a lot of wasted time, so imagine how hard it’ll be in 3 short years. …
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How many times have you watched a loved one open a gift that you spent hours (or, um, minutes) picking out and wrapping, only to see disappointment flash on their face before they remember that it’s the thought that counts? Kind of a sucky feeling. Baltimore-based startup NoBadGift wants to replace that feeling of failure…
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South Africa had an unemployment rate of around 25% in 2010, and some other African countries fare much worse. It’s not necessarily because jobs are scarce: often, it’s a problem of candidates not knowing jobs are available, or facing discrimination based on their tribe. “In some cases these job seekers have to trek for miles…
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Is your beta so quiet you can hear the crickets chirping? Or is that just the sound of your mom and dad clicking around? If you need to stir up some activity, consider trying BetaPunch. BetaPunch connects startups with beta testers, who can record their screens and get paid to play. They’ve attracted almost 500…
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