AWARD WINNERS of the Social Matchbox Launch 2011
Congratulations to our two startup award winners from the 2011 Social Matchbox Launch Event in D.C.!
Founders’ Award: Watchparty.tv
The Founders’ Award is based upon the votes of the Social Matchbox Founders, which includes ONLY past presenters, production team members, and select sponsors and investors.
Community Choice Award: OMGiLuv.It
The Community Choice Award is an [...]
SOCIAL MATCHBOX 2011: Meet the PRESENTERS.
The SECRET is OUT!
The Presenters had sophisticated products. The 2011 Social Matchbox Launch event featured the most sophisticated startup Presenters and audience ever. The event series is known for its magic mix startup founders and presenters with venture capitalists, accredited angel and seed investors, and media. Although the exclusive registration process leaves some of [...]
Updated List of the Best Washington Coffee Shops To Work From
Our list of the best coffee shops to work from in the Washington area was pretty popular among readers so it is going to become a regular feature as long as we get updates from readers and are meeting up with people in new an awesome coffee shops across the Washington area. [...]
Featured Jobs on SocialMatchbox.com
This week there are a ton of startups and web product teams from both the East Coast and West Coast who have job openings featured on SocialMatchbox.com. If you have a job to share, go here today.
Mobile Web Developer – Frontend / The Washington Post / Washington, DC
GM of Startup Business Unit / Confidential [...]
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 [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘Startup Weekend Leaves Wake of Entrepreneurship in Baltimore’
If you missed this year’s Baltimore Startup Weekend, you probably missed what was one of Baltimore’s best startup events in recent years. The good news is that Bmore Media’s writer Amy Dusto did a great write-up about the event along with photos. Check out her story here.
People we talked to had a variety of things [...]
See How Washington Area States Rank When Business Tax Systems Get Compared
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, an organization based in Oakton, VA has just released their ‘Business Tax Index 2011: Best to Worst Tax Systems for Entrepreneurship and Small Business‘ Report and it confirms a few things we already knew as well as a few things we didn’t know. It would be interesting to see [...]




