Startup Hiring Team of The Month
Say Hello to the team from Taxi Magic, also known as Ride Charge, an Alexandria, VA startup company that has a ton of a opportunities available for you to check out. The Taxi Magic Team has the #1 Taxi App and is revolutionizing the way people travel, building products that are remaking local ground [...]
Building a startup 5,000 miles from Washington, DC
I am writing this post from a gorgeous, modern co-working space in Santiago, Chile, and, yes, it is the middle of Spring in November down here in the southern hemisphere. I am from Rockville, MD, and – while I miss my family and friends in the DC-area greatly – I am constantly reminded of the [...]
Howtracker Aims To Be Your Master Checklist
Howtracker.com is a startup company launched at the recent Social Matchbox annual startup launch event. Co-founders Tom O’Dea (Atlanta, GA) and Sam Duvall (Washington, DC) are looking to help service oriented businesses to turn their scattered collection of checklists and related documents into a systemized collection of checklists. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA [...]
*Clearspring Adds New CEO: Yahoo! Alum Ramsey McGrory
Tyson’s Corner based *Clearspring has just announced the changing of the guard at the highest level. Yahoo! Alum Ramsey McGrory is CEO of *Clearspring. Founder and CEO Hooman Radfar will continue to be involved as the company’s Executive Chairman. McGrory lead the Yahoo! US data business and Right Media, pioneer of the digital advertising [...]
410 Labs Raises $750,000 Series A Round
410 Labs (Shortmail, Replyz, Mailstrom) a Baltimore, MD based multi-product startup co-founded by Baltimore’s Dave Troy and Bethesda’s Matt Koll, both seasoned founders and startup executives, told us just over a month ago that they had raised a round of funding. A few weeks later we heard them pitch the University of Maryland Dingman Center’s [...]
Why You Need A Co-Founder
By Ian Thiel
Economics defines comparative advantage thusly:
In economics, the law of comparative advantage says that two countries (or other kinds of parties, such as individuals or firms) can both gain from trade if, in the absence of trade, they have different relative costs for producing the same goods. Even if one country is more efficient [...]
Play Games, Win Discounts. It’s That Simple.
Never underestimate people’s desire for a great deal.
That’s one of the biggest lessons Peter Martin has learned working on his new startup, PlayPass. Like daily deal-ers Groupon and LivingSocial, PlayPass offers discounts for shoppers. But instead of getting an automatic deal, they have to work for it—or, rather, play for it. At checkout on sites [...]
