Depending on where you live, you’ve already played several rounds of golf this year or are just now getting out the golf clubs, all eager to tee up. If you live in the Chicago area, you’re going to want to start using Back9Booking, a new interactive website that lets you search, compare and book tee…
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How would you like to earn money towards your college tuition and for charity – while gaming? At the non-profit/for-profit gaming and tuition relief startup that is Grantoo, you can do all three at once. Co-founder Dimitri Sillam used a story to demonstrate how well this platform works: “The first winner of a Grantoo contest…
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Found in Town is a free, online lost and found recovery service that helps reunite misplaced items such as keys, mobile phones, and wallets, with their rightful owners. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? But there’s more to the company and concept than meets the eye. Founded in Chicago by Zach Haller, he jokingly said that he…
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Imagine being a first-time startup founder in a non-tech-hub city going up against a well-established and ubiquitous service. Quite a challenge – but PasteLink.me founder Bret Michaelsen is working away in Salt Lake City, undaunted. His startup is a drag and drop interface for simple file sharing without the subscription fees, software, or jumping through…
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Since launching nearly a year ago, DC-based TroopSwap has been growing by leaps and bounds, raising nearly $1M from angel investors and then raising $2.5M in equity financing and partnering with Lego. The ecommerce platform exclusively for active service members and veterans now offers access to military and veteran discounts, most of which are sourced…
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Geeks and creative types are constantly thinking up ways to get hired: from creative designs to fake Facebook profiles to movie posters, we’ll do anything to escape the boringness of a black-and-white resume. Resume woes were also the inspiration for recent Y Combinator grad Coderwall, which helps engineers build portfolios: “Resumes are fundamentally broken for…
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For my recent vacation in Hawaii (yes, it was awesome – yes, I suck), I carted along 5 books and 1 magazine the size of a phone book (and yes, I read them all). I am a tactile person. I like to hold stuff, write with pen and paper, dog ear pages in books, clip…
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NetHound is online network monitoring service launching today – that is based in the Czech Republic (more on the tech scene there in a bit). Not only does this SaaS solve a major problem, the small 4 person team added a bit of humor to the service: NetHound barks as soon as it finds a…
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“It seems strange to us that people pay dramatically different prices for the exact same products, and we think we can fix that.” Although a seemingly simple problem, the solution seems far from easy. That is unless you talk with Priceonomics‘ CEO and co-founder, Michael Flaxman. With the aspiration to become “the price guide for everything,”…
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It’s a testament to how broken our hiring system is that HireArt is an innovative startup and a Y Combinator grad, no less. HireArt’s goal is to help companies hire employees based on – can you imagine? – their skills. But that doesn’t mean plumped-up skills listed on a resume; it means real-life, demonstrable talents….
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The best way to explain loyalty rewards platform Zavee comes courtesy of Cofounder and COO Ron Stack: “Daily deal sites like LivingSocial and Groupon get the customers in the door. Zavee keeps them coming back.” Sounds like a no-brainer – what merchant wouldn’t want to use a tool that can do that? And who would…
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Michael Mikikian, Founder of LA-based Gickup, which we have covered before, wants to bring back an oldie but goodie – The Dating Game. Yes, the cheesy, super popular game show that ran from 1965 to 1986. This time, of course, it will be all online – and The Blind Video Dating Game (BVDG) looks really…
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What’s the #1 feature your users want? If you said anything other than “simplicity,” the Crowdtilt team thinks you’re probably wrong. After 3 months at Y Combinator, that was the most valuable lesson they learned: “The most helpful and most common feedback was the encouragement to launch as early as possible, instead of feeling like…
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After starting AxHill, a government consulting agency, back in 2009, Jonathan Lunardi was exposed to an issue that would forever change his life. Along with fellow co-founder Paul McDonald, Ph.D., the team tasked themselves with leading the U.S. Army and National Guard Bureau in creating a program for veterans focusing on health promotion, risk reduction, and suicide…
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Solomon Arman Nabatiyan was a research professor at Northwestern University before he started pitching investors. His company, CerviaDx, was planning to create a revolutionary cervical cancer test that would be as easy as a pregnancy test. It seemed like a great investment, Nabatiyan explains: a woman dies of cervical cancer every 2 minutes, yet it’s…
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“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr. The great Martin Luther King Jr.’s words are just as fitting to starting up as anything else. Dan Henderson, co-founder of Meal Ticket, knows this as well as anyone. Two years ago, Henderson and fellow co-founder…
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