A few days before we hit the road to One Spark 2014, we wrote about the SweetSpot sugar dispenser. What we wrote then is even more true after we had a chance to see it in person, "One of the more practical One Spark Creator Projects that we have come across is the SweetSpot sugar dispenser. [...]
Uber, the on demand black car app, is widely known for it's good service and it's price gouging, or surge, as they call it. They're also known for throwing some great parties. At this past weekends Coachella music festival they got the chance to blend both. There's a wide variety of Uber photos from Coachella [...]
One of the more interesting projects that we came across at One Spark 2014 was Two Way Resume. The main idea behind Two Way Resume is that paper, black-and-white resumes are both dull and incomplete. Essentially, Two Way Resume is an update to the paper resume. Using the platform, users can transform the paper resume [...]
One of the more interesting booths we were able to check out at One Spark was that of the JaxHax Makerspace. They weren't really pitching a project, per se, but rather they were pitching their giant workshop. JaxHax is a 8,000 Sq. Ft. shared workshop right in the middle of Downtown Jacksonville. According to their Facebook [...]
SNAPprints was another super-creative application on display at One Spark. Perhaps the only thing that held SNAPprints back from performing better in the popular vote was their location. They were tucked into the Bank of America building which, for whatever reason, did not see much traffic throughout One Spark. Anyhow, SNAPprints is a collaborative, event [...]
I'm used to seeing copycat startups. It's something that has been going on for years. Typically I give a startup or new innovative tech company a chance to show me that they're like Apple. You see, although I use all Apple products, it's always a refreshing reminder when helping new companies, to point out that [...]
The internet was abuzz Monday with news that Google had doubled down on robotics, specifically in the drone variety. Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar powered drones that can fly 65,000 feet above sea level without needing to land, reports TechCrunch. The company was reportedly in talks to be acquired by Facebook [...]
For whatever reason - we haven't been able to figure it out - there was a proliferation of daily deal platforms/apps/websites at One Spark. There was a ton of variety in these projects, and some really great offerings, and one of them, Eatrhguy, won the popular vote in the technology category. However, the most interesting [...]
Synergy it's the one "startupy" word I absolutely hate to use but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) it continued to come up all last week in Jacksonville Florida for OneSpark, the World's Crowdfunding Festival. The crazy event, which ran from Wednesday through Sunday,saw over 235,000 attendees. Let's let that soak in for a second, a sophomore [...]
A new company called Brellabox is looking to rent Umbrellas in New York City and then expand out to other large metropolitan areas. Business Insider reports that the company is similar to ZipCar/Citibike which are overwhelmingly popular, but definitely not in the same realm. Zipcar relies on the fact that many people in metropolitan areas [...]
