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Combinatorial Innovation
There are so many new technologies today: tablets, geolocation, video chat, great app frameworks. It is easy to cherry-pick off “combinatorial” innovations that seem compelling, and can maybe even be monetized readily.
But all those innovations are inevitable. If our technologies afford a certain possibility, they [...]
Young CEO Out to Transform Health Care
Grant Verstandig’s Twitter bio reads, “The best way to walk on water is to know where the rocks are.”
And Verstandig does seem to walk on water. He received a prestigious National Cancer Institute fellowship in high school and spent his summers in the lab working on cancer treatments with mice. He enrolled in an Ivy [...]
DoBand Wants to Help You Turn Ideas into Action
Actions speak louder than words. Words to live by if you want to start something, and finish it. But for many, setting a goal rarely means we actually meet it.
That’s why DoBand, the “action-oriented social network” wants to help. Just like you might share your to-do-list with a co-worker or classmate so they can hold [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak’
As a startup founder I find myself looking for practical advice and inspiration for how to improve how the odds of our team’s success. This article titled ‘The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak’ that was recently published in Inc. magazine really hit the spot. He shares some really fantastic insights about how Kayak [...]
AOL Placing A Big Bet On Email, Acquires unblab.com from Social Matchbox Alum
Chapel Hill, NC based unblab.com founder Eli Holder has just announce that the company was acquired by AOL’s Palo Alto, CA based Project Phoenix group. unblab is the second Social Matchbox Startup Launch Series alumni to be acquired in recent months.
You may recall that unblab’s focus was on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques [...]
AppMakr Raises $1 Million
The guys from AppMakr announced the successful close of a $1,000,000 funding round from a group of Silicon Valley angel investors.
We will be using these funds to bring you amazing new features. Stay tuned for some BIG announcements before the end of the year.
Here’s the list of amazing investors that made it happen: Mitch [...]
Successful Founders and The Company They Keep
Last night we watched Aaron Sorkin’s and David Fincher’s box office hit ‘The Social Network‘ and we can’t stop talking about it. In fairness, it isn’t because it is one of the best movies we have seen – ever or even recently. The film is based off of Ben Mezrich’s book ‘The Accidental Billionaires: The [...]
