NJ’s Answer to Groupon: PromoVerse’s Location-based Deal Finder
Can consumers keep straight another Groupon-clone in their short-term shopping memory? NJ-based PromoVerse has plans to enter the small business deal market with a geo-aware …
The Garbage Man of MIT
In Manhattan last Thursday night,I stopped by the NY Future Mobility Meetup at BMW’s iVentures HQ on Morton street. With Bavarian Motor Works the sponsor …
Hackers Come Through at Fifth hackNY Hackathon
While the rest of us were having our usual Saturday nights, hackers from the New York City metro area and from far away places, like …
Pivot Alert: Taap.it and Wanderfly
Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and …
InboundWriter: SEO for Small Biz and Other Content Creators
Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San …
Demo Night at General Assembly: Neat Small Biz App Called Knack
One of the apps that got my attention at General Assembly’s Demo Night yesterday falls under the small business productivity tool category. It’s a genre …
Clicks-to-Call on iPad With Help From SIP
When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished …
NYU Game Center to Offer MFA
Who knew? NYU has a has an academic department devoted to the study of games. The NYU Game Center is connected with–not surprisingly–The Tisch School …
Low-Cost Presentation Software from SalesCrunch
I suppose the web-conferencing space deserves some disrupting. WebEx is now up on Mt. Olympus with the other Cisco gods, NetMeeting is a Microsoft-centric creation, …
Infinite Monkeys: Mobile Development for Humans with Chimp-Level Programming Skills
Can just about anyone develop a capable mobile app without any programming skills?. That is the question–or in pitch-speak, the real-world problem to solve–that several …
What You Missed at NJIT’s Startupalooza
How about over 40 exhibitors split up between health care and IT, six semi-finalists asked to present and pitch, a panel of savvy judges, and …
BetterCloud’s DomainWatch Helps You Get Serious With Google Apps
Appropriately enough, David Politis, CEO and cofounder of BetterCloud, was phoning me from outside of Google’s mothership on 8th Avenue in NYC. We were chatting …
Google Apps: Tasks, Scheduling, & More for Small Biz
In a post last week on the brief history of personal information managers or PIMs, I suggested that productivity apps, like scheduling and task management …
Parking Nerds Gather at BMW’s Incubator Opening in NYC
I was in attendance at last night’s launch party for BMW i Ventures in Manhattan’s West Village. You can get a good idea of how …
Wunderkit: Return of the Personal Information Manager
A long time ago, in a magic kingdom called California, the simple but good townspeople were bored looking at their DOS-based command line and copying …
Car Buying Startup Tred Hits the Road
I first saw Grant Feek, Tred’s CEO, present his idea for an on-line auto buying startup at General Assembly’s Demo Night last month. The breakthrough …
EachScape Does Mobile App Generation Right
With Startup Weekend NYC Mobile rolling into town this weekend, I took advantage of a free demo from one of this event’s sponsors. Yesterday EachScape’s …
NYC at Center of 3D Printing and Craft Manufacturing
Last night within Google’s cavernous 8th Avenue offices, NY Technology Council assembled a few startups at an event to showcase “cutting-edge technology.” Since this was …
Marketing Earthquakes: Nature Provides the Clue to Mega-Hits
In a different era, you would have learned about Didier Sornette’s work as a physicist by perusing the pages of selected academic journals. Sornette was …
New for 2012: TEG-powered Cat Warmer
Happy New Year! Before they left on vacation, our award-winning research staff was tasked to come up with an under-the-radar technology that will reshape our …