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 [...]
"REscour was built out of frustration with the current state of information sharing in the multi-family investment industry. Professionals were tired of listings flooding their inboxes and spending way too much time manually building an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of it all. REscour is a private online community that was specifically developed for multi-family institutional real estate investment professionals to gather, organize, track and share information."
One of the biggest problems facing the enterprise is that of mobility. Most large-scale companies use massive "packaged on-premise applications, cloud-based applications, or custom-built systems" to run their business. These applications, although incredibly useful on a PC or Mac, are difficult to use when mobile. However, StarMobile solves this problem.
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.
Buzzy is an incredibly unique product. Buzzy, "is an award-winning physiologic pain blocker. Using cold and vibration, Buzzy is proven to naturally block unpleasant sensations on contact."
The Clean Hands Safe Hands System is a cost-effective, non-intrusive, wireless technology designed to help hospitals remind providers to use the hand sanitizer and monitor compliance.
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.
Skye Energy provides a cloud software platform for commercial building energy and water operational analysis and detailed efficiency recommendations. Building owners can share their building details and opportunities with marketplace providers that can bring greater detail to the analysis and submit energy and water efficiency project ideas.
