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 [...]
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 [...]
Launchbox Digital Alumni & Co-Founders of JamLegend Call It Quits
A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with the guys who founded JamLegend with the help of Launchbox Digital. They originally moved to DC after attending Claremont McKenna College together to work on Fantasy Congress which they sold to Politico. After their exit from Fantasy Congress, they built JamLegend [...]
Now Is The Time To Be Looking For Co-Founders
If you have a startup idea and are looking for co-founders, technical or design or business or marketing or otherwise, now is the time to be looking for your co-founder. I can’t quite put a finger on this trend yet, but let’s call it market turbulence. There are a lot of companies that are going [...]
A Different Kind of Bubble
People in the media really want there to be a startup bubble. People in the startup community are looking out for a bubble. So I thought about this and decided to put some thought into what to make of this media bubble patrol. Here it what I came up with. As far as all my [...]
DC Based YouEye Represents At Soft Launch On The Pacific Coast
YouEye, a startup that presented at a recent SocialMatchbox garage series event, represented the Washington area startup community well at today’s West Coach launch event. Check out the event video here. For such a big time event I was a bit surprised at the softball nature of the questions asked by the panel. The Microsoft [...]
Washington Area Startups & Product Companies Are Hiring, Oh Yes They Are
A few seconds ago I sent a note to a journalist that I know here in Washington, DC because I wanted to relay the fact that all this downer press about how the economy is still peeling itself off the floor with respect to jobs is a bunch of echo chamber nonsense. Maybe there are [...]
