18 Ways To Come Up With Your Next Startup Ideas
Ask yourself-How is the current product too complicated? What simple little thing could you do to just make it simpler. Ask again-why it doesn’t work better and how to resolve…
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Apply Now: Startups For Good Challenge
As part of the Social Good Summit, Mashable will host the inaugural Startups for Good Challenge, a special event to showcase startups that are striving to improve the world. Startups…
Tagwhat Helps Uncover Fun Facts About Places Using Augmented Reality
Tagwhat helps uncover fun facts about places using augmented reality, Paintapic turns digital photos into physical art projects and TripLingo is a pocket language guide for world travel. Discover great…
14 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy From Foursquare
Foursquare is a location-based social networking website based on hardware for mobile devices. The service is available to users with GPS-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones. Users “check-in” at venues…
NYCMate Provides New Yorkers With Real-time Subway Arrival Information
Today, Densebrain, Inc., a New York-based digital ideas agency, in an exclusive partnership with Mobile Transit Solutions (MTS), is introducing an update to its NYCMate application that provides New Yorkers…
BillGuard Scans Your Credit Cards For Scams and Fraud
BillGuard wants to monitor your credit cards for ‘spam’. BillGuard is antivirus for your bills. BillGuard monitors your credit card and debit card bills and alerts you when they contain…
It’s Finally Here: Google Unveils Wallet And Offers
Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of Commerce, took the stage at Google’s massive New York City HQ to announce Google Wallet and Google Offers. Tilenius made it clear that the platform…
Rent the Runway Scores $15 Million From Kleiner Perkins
Rent the Runway, an online destination for dress, accessory and bridesmaid dress rentals, has raised $15 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). At only eighteen…
Gilt-ii Takes The Judge’s Choice Award At The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Hackathon is a Techcrunch event where hackers learn, code and launch all in 24 hours. Fueled by pizza, beer and RedBull, the hackathon event begun on Saturday afternoon through Sunday…
Gilt Groupe Secures A Whopping $138 Million Funding
New York-based Gilt, which has raised $83 million in venture funding over the past three years has raised a new $138 million funding, led by Softbank, which took nearly half…
Techstars NYC: All 11 Most Promising Startups
TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program. It is a three-month long program in Boston (MA), Boulder (CO), New York City (NY) and Seattle (WA) once each year. Each…
Fred Wilson On Startups
Fred Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures ($125 million in capital under management), New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter,…
2 Teams Win Startup Bus Competition (SXSW)
“ StartupBus is a resource to help future entrepreneurs,” explains StartupBus founder Elias Bizannes , who also believes the six-city effort will help raise the profile of less recognized technology…
6 Startups Chosen For The Startup Bus Competition Finals
“ StartupBus is a resource to help future entrepreneurs,” explains StartupBus founder Elias Bizannes , who also believes the six-city effort will help raise the profile of less recognized technology…
These New York Startups Are Generating More Than $10 Million In Revenues
The New York startups scene has seen massive growth over the years. NYC’s start-up center “Silicon Alley,” has produced billiant ideas and startups and its as vibrant as California’s Silicon…
Yobongo Wants To Help You Connect With People Around You
Yobongo is a new iPhone app with plans to make building connections between locally-based, like-minded users easier. The app provides a simple chat-based interface that groups users based on location…