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Around this time last year, marketing software company HubSpot was spreading the inbound word using nearly 20,000 rainbow stickers and close to 3,000 stuffed unicorns. With a new year comes a new fad, however, and what better way to channel your “Inbound Style” than by creating your...
The gender imbalance in the startup world, and more specifically the development world, is a frequent topic here and elsewhere. Last week I learned of a new meetup in Cambridge aimed at getting more women to become Ruby developers by simply bringing in women to teach them...
Yet more good news for RunKeeper users trying to stick to their goals. The company announced today that an updated version of its training plans, originally released as a paid product, will now be available to all users for free. As RunKeeper’s Chas Wagner writes on the company’s blog...
Timothy Ericson and Jason Meinzer had their “a-ha” moment in Paris. They’d used the city’s newly launched bike sharing program Vélib’ and rode through the streets for hours. “We were fascinated by the idea you could hit your credit card, grab a bike and then explore these monuments,” Ericson says...
Boston officials want to make registering to vote for elections as easy as clicking a Facebook application. During a meeting on Wednesday, City Council member Tito Jackson called for a hearing to examine the feasibility of bringing an online registration measure, similar to the one recently...
Worst case scenario: You roll out of bed with a chronic case of the Mondays, proceed to get dressed only to realize your shirt is inside out, and make your way to your favorite local coffee shop for a much needed caffeine boost only to realize that you’ve left your wallet on your dresser. To no avail...
The last time we checked in on Nanigans, my colleague Sam Dwyer reported that the Boston-based Facebook ad company served up 175 billion Facebook ad impressions and achieved 1,600 percent growth in 2011. Well, now we have gotten our hands on some new numbers for the company. And it looks...
Local mobile ad network Jumptap today announced that it has partnered with Rovio, maker of Angry Birds, to create an Intel-branded experience for the game on Facebook. This is a great example of how brand integration can work for free games and other interactive content. As Jumptap said...
We’ve all been there. We’ve all had moments where we want to exercise but just can’t. Maybe you had a long day at work, maybe you need to sleep in, maybe you have to watch the kids, maybe you’re just too lazy. Every once in awhile these excuses might fly but they’re notorious ones...
Next time you are cruising through the streets of Boston, leave your iPhone on your dashboard and intentionally drive over as many gaping potholes as possible. Street Bump, a mobile app that the city has been testing, helps detect deteriorating dips in the road as your vehicle passes over them...
The problem with the white bud headphones stemming from the tops of iPods the world over is their inability to just stay put in the ear. Rigorous exercise or a turn of the head is more than enough to jostle the headphones loose from your hearing holes. It’s not exactly the biggest problem in the world...
Raymie Stata, former CTO of Yahoo!, has joined Shareaholic‘s advisory board, according to a blog post by the company. Stata resigned from Yahoo! in October and is currently CEO of Verticloud. Shareaholic says it will benefit from Stata’s expertise in big data and cloud computing...
Last night was the 34th WebInno, the quarterly networking event and startup pitch session run by David Beisel. I previewed the main and side dishes for last night’s event here, and of course now the results are in. Last night’s winner was MyReci, a recipe sharing community, by a large margin. MyReci pulled...
Phillip Fremont-Smith was sitting at his six-year-old daughter’s soccer game when a Groupon popped into his inbox. For a split second, he contemplated, “Do I need a spa moment today?” before he shook his head and realized, “Even here, they can reach me, and I can transact money on something...
It’s a great time to be a lazy person, this I firmly believe. At the intersection of behavioral science — psychology, economics, neuroscience — and technology lies a major opportunity to, essentially, get us off our butts. Last week I talked to Jason Jacobs of RunKeeper about how he’s thinking
TechStars has just announced an incredibly valuable and honorable new initiative. TechStars Patriot Boot Camp is an intense three day program aimed at educating and mentoring Veterans and service members to innovate, become entrepreneurs and start companies. While the initiatives’ overall goal is to...
The IPO seas have been particularly tempestuous for Norwalk, CT-based KAYAK. After officially filing its IPO documents in November of 2010, KAYAK tread water due to choppy market conditions and inconsistent earnings. Then, two weeks ago, after a positive first quater, the travel website announced its...
Crafting the perfect startup team is not an easy task. Even finding a cofounder or just one more person to join your startup is incredibly time consuming. Not too mention the consequences of a wrong-hire can be detrimental to the business almost immediately. Washington D.C. based CoFoundersLab...
Ask Kibits, and you shall receive. Today the Cambridge-built micro-network app will be expanding its demographics with the unveiling of an Android version (pictured left) of its already-popular iOS software. The main reason behind the expansion? User requests. The release will be a custom...
This year, 215 teams submitted to the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, competing in six different tracks: Mobile, Web/IT, Products & Services, Life Sciences, Energy and the Emerging Markets. After narrowing the pool down to 50 semi-finalists, Managing Directors Alice Francis and Adam Borelli...
Boston’s location-based mobile ad network WHERE Ads has today announced it is undergoing a makeover. Just barely a year after eBay acquired WHERE for a cool $135 million, the company will be changing its name to PayPal Media Network.
“This is much more than a rebrand of our name...
Tonight, I think it’s safe to say that the center of New England’s entrepreneurial action will be in Providence, not Boston. This evening is the culmination of Betaspring, the Providence-based 12-week accelerator and part of the Global Accelerators network, a group of accelerators that...
The basic insight behind PowerInbox is pretty simple: email would be less of a nightmare if you could actually do more within it, like follow someone back on Twitter or comment on Facebook. The Cambridge-based company currently offers functionality like that for a variety of email clients but today announced...
My first reaction to Pinterest was that it felt like the internet with all the words sucked out of it, and that’s basically how I still feel. But you can’t deny that the visual organization has some real appeal, and that’s part of why I’m excited about the latest from Charlestown-based Springpad, which launched its...
Just because something has become a buzzword doesn’t mean it’s not a huge deal, and that’s the case with “big data.” We reported last month that Chris Lynch had stepped down from his position as CEO of Vertica and vowed to fund 20 big data startups, so naturally we reached out to hear...
The way we experience music isn’t just changing. It’s being revolutionized. Today, two companies that have worked together previously in spearheading this revolution have announced a new partnership. The Echo Nest and Spotify have integrated their APIs so Spotify app developers...
Vivox, a Natick-based voice integration platform focused on the social web, today announced it had acquired Droplet, Inc., which has developed patented technology that enables video chat on mobile networks and is based in New York City. Vivox has made strides in integrating voice chatting into...
Ever since Zuck Dawg made it look super easy to become one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, everyone and their mom wants in on the action. The result? A lot of startups. Between developing a platform, raising capital and building a team, it’d be the understatement of the year to say that...
Startups seem to be one of the rare subjects for which there is still bipartisanship support in Congress. Just like crowdfunding, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives with support from both parties in November, the House today passed the “on ramp IPO” bill, legislation designed to ease startups’ path...
The 2012 MassChallenge competition is officially underway! Today, over 200 people attended the official kickoff of the world’s largest startup competition. The event was held at their spacious office in the seaport district. And even though it was rainy out, spirits were high and you could feel the excitement...