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Education has evolved a lot over the last few years. Things have definitely changed since I graduated from High School 11 years ago. But one thing remains the same and that is, homework. Of course when I was in high school I had a leg up over my parents because it least we had AOL [...]
6 Tools Entrepreneurs Should Use to Increase Customer Retention It’s easy to rest on your laurels when your company is growing, but many entrepreneurs don’t know exactly what’s driving or hindering their growth in the first place. There are often dozens of factors at play, but no matter what industry you’re in, understanding your existing [...]
The future for the Southeast US looks brighter than ever. With a massive influx of educated individuals and Fortune 500 Companies, and the reemergence of a strong manufacturing base, the Southeast US is poised to be a major player in the knowledge economy.
Technology has come a long way especially when we're talking about technology for kids. Long gone are the days of Erector sets and robotic arms from Radio Shack. Today's kids are creating with 3D printers, making robot kits with Vex and Modular Robotics and now they're even creating apps. Tynker a leading Silicon Valley startup that [...]
It's that time of year again. The time when the Moscone conference center in San Francisco transforms itself into a haven for hackers, developers and all things geeky. It starts Monday with WWDC, but Google's not far behind. Google's I/O developer event will also happen a the Moscone from June 25th-27th. Mark Gurman the Apple/Mac/iOS [...]
“We have 235,000 sites signed up with RebelMouse and people are using it for an amazing assortment of things. So Time.com used it to power their person-of-the-year announcement which is like their big event. So that was really exciting.”
Teacher Observation Classroom Mosaic No one will dispute the fact that technology in education is exploding. This weekend will start the International Society For Technology in Education (ISTE) conference, the largest gathering of education technology in the world. Tens of thousands of educators, administrators and other ed tech professionals will gather for the three day [...]
For the whole of 2013 the Greater Boston, MA area - and really Massachusetts as a whole - has been one of the top destinations for VC money. California and New York are oft considered the technology hubs of the US - rightly so - Boston has emerged as a major player, and is in-fact outpacing New York in many ways. Though it is clear that Boston relies heavily on the Ed-Tech and healthcare niches, the Superpedestrian and Sqrrl rounds display the cities growing technology diversity. It is a given that Massachusetts will not catch up to California anytime soon, but it is quite clear that Boston is thriving.
SolidEnergy, yet another company born out of MIT, is making amazing strides in the battery industry that will drastically reduce the cost of electric vehicles (EVs). The company is clearly on the brink of revolutionizing the battery industry, and the awards and honors are beginning to pile up.
"I definitely agree…and you often hear this word curation. It’s kind of a hot topic now, but we really believe the third phase of the web is user-curated."
MobileIron, an enterprise mobility management and mobile security company, just announced that it has closed a Series F round, raising $48 million. With this raise as a prompt, we took a look at the largest rounds of 2013 so far.
Usually, we cover education companies that have launched. However, we had a chance to ask Micky Dionisio about his new project, Ignite Teaching, currently in Alpha. This project looks amazing. Mickey described it at, the "perfect mix between the ease of Keynote, the power of Photoshop, collaboration of Google Docs and fun of Class Badges." Sounds [...]
If you are like us, sometimes it can be hard to manage your time. With so many tasks to get to, and so little time, it can be a hassle juggling all of them. Often, figuring out how to approach the problem takes up precious time. Anyhow, we just came across a new startup - [...]
Have you ever been experienced? I have. Lyrics from that Jimi Hendrix song make for a great introduction. Not the kind of experience you get working in an industry for years or even decades, though that’s important. In this article I’m primarily talking about the shopper’s experience. Not the online user experience, though again, that [...]
The mobile landscape has changed quite a bit over the years, first everyone wanted to get their phone as small and thin as possible, and now people seem to want just the opposite. While most phones have grown in size to feature a 4 to 5 inch display some devices have grown beyond that and [...]
“In the last 10 years, a lot of new contact forms have sprouted up. Whether it’s my Twitter handle, my Facebook URL, or my LinkedIn URL, or my Foursquare URL, or whatever…So our approach is to grab all those publicly available contact details and append those to your contact records via an API.”
Fetchnotes is note taking to the extreme. Super-clean, super user-friendly, and it helps you manage your lists. Alex spoke about the function of the product and an internal email gone wrong.
Truckily is changing the way food trucks and foodies connect. Since our lives are now more dynamic than ever, the way we connect with our food trucks should be too.
The Orb is the first non-immediate location specific form of communication for a world where technology is currently trying to make all modes of communication more instantaneous and mobile
"Dig South is an interactive festival that’s modeled on SXSW....the theme for 2013 was the intersection of technology, social media, marketing and the arts."
