From April 9 – 13, we will be in sunny Jacksonville, FL to bring you coverage of the second annual One Spark Crowdfunding Festival. This year look bigger and better, and there is more than $3.25M up for grabs.
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There's a problem with the resources out there on the web already to help people who need jobs get jobs. LinkedIn seems to work just fine to connect to old colleagues the way you connect with old friends on Facebook. There are also several great platforms delivering beautiful resumes. There are also a bunch of [...]
"I've fallen and I can't get up" no matter what decade you grew up in you undoubtedly remember the commercial, and if not, you may have seen the episode of the Goldbergs featuring the same First Alert device. First Alert features a pendant designed to be worn around the neck of an elderly person, which [...]
HI-FI Social Network is another app we plan on checking out this year at One Spark. The Ponte Vedre, Florida based company has high hopes that their app will become one of the next big things. The #hashtag is the new language of today’s mobile generation, yet the current single-channel newsfeeds of todays’ social networks [...]
It seems the original instant/daily deals app is back and going for a shot at standing on it's own two feet. Ben Tyson, the founder of Five & Fifty, is a serial entrepreneur, an adventurer and the youngest ever inductee into the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship for his work on Google Earth, so he has some [...]
This year at One Spark there will be a huge variety of products on display and one of the coolest things that I've spotted that will be in attendance thus far is actually a board game. Get Signed is a roll of the die-style music trivia board game that begins at the "unsigned" spot and [...]
An idea that started many many years ago with handmade signs on grocery store bulletin boards has evolved over the years. Ebay was the first company to take the concept online, selling your old stuff. There are actually many place to sell your own stuff, but the problem with most of them is that they [...]
There are tons of companies building technology for and innovating in the restaurant industry.Tons. My experience has been that the majority of these companies are more concerned with the consumer, building ordering apps or aggregating menus. There is very little innovation in the restaurant kitchen. However, there is a One Spark Creator - OrderUpp - looking to do just that.
For whatever reason, there don't seem to be many hardware projects at this years One Spark. There are some, however. One of the hardware projects is the Verti Bluetooth item finder. The Verti is similar to the Lupo device and the Nokia Treasure Tag, with a few key differences.
There are an awful lot of different ideas and projects at the upcoming One Spark. However, Curt Bender's The App is one of the most unique approaches to One Spark that we have seen. While The App does have a function and purpose, here is Curt's answer to why it is called "The App," [...]
WaZINIT is an application that helps users make better and more informed decisions about food. "WaZINIT will allow you to quickly scan products and compare ingredients against ANY of those you're trying to avoid."
