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6 Tools Entrepreneurs Should Use to Increase Customer Retention

By |Editors' Picks, OpEd, Startup, Tips|

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 [...]

With Tynker Elementary School Kids Can Create Apps

By |Everything Else|

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 [...]

3DLT: The Dark Horse

By |3d, 3D Faster, Editors' Picks|

3DLT was recently invited to present at The Dark Horse Competition. The event took place last Friday at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. Attendees heard keynotes from prominent Chinese and US investors, and pitches from twelve Chinese startups, who were there to compete against twelve American startups, including 3DLT. While Dark [...]

WWDC 14 Is Here. Here’s What We’re Expecting (And What We’re Not)

By |Apple, Editors' Picks|

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 [...]

New Mobile App Rewards Students For Helping Each Other With Homework

By |Apps, Education|

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 [...]

The Reinvigoration of the Southeast

By |Everything Else|

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.

RebelMouse Founder & CEO Paul Berry | The Innovators Interviews

By |Featured, Interviews|

“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.”

Eureka! Classroom Mosaic Is The Missing Piece In EdTech [ISTE]

By |Editors' Picks, Education, ISTE 2014|

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 [...]

SolidEnergy and The Key To Electric Vehicle (EV) Survival

By |Editors' Picks, Less Visible Innovations|

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.

Boston: Not Just For Ed-Tech Anymore

By |Editors' Picks, Innovation|

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.

CHNL.it Co-Founders | The Innovators Interview

By |Interviews|

"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."

Ignite Teaching: A Digital Creation Tool for Students

By |Education|

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 [...]

Alphabet Soup: The Largest Rounds of 2013 So Far

By |Investing|

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.

Wimble: An Ingenious Approach to Time-Management

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

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 - [...]

FullContact CEO & Co-Founder Bart Lorang | The Innovators Interviews

By |Featured, Interviews|

“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.”

Crescerance: Helping Schools go Mobile

By |Editors' Picks, Education|

    There is no question about the importance of mobile. That said, there is a question about mobile within an education setting. For the great majority of schools and school districts, it is just not feasible to commission a mobile app. However, we just came across a company that dramatically reduces costs, and makes is [...]

Fetchnotes CEO Alex Schiff | The Innovators Interviews

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

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 Co-Founder Derek Kean | The Innovators Interviews

By |Interviews|

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.

Just Orb Me: A Communication Revolution [One Spark Preview]

By |One Spark 2014|

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 Executive Producer Stanfield Gray | The Innovators Interview

By |Events, Featured, Interviews|

"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."