Boston based Springpad, ‘the smart note app,’ that helps you stay organized and remember the things you like and which are important to you, just announced a major user milestone. Springpad’s users have doubled in the past 6 months from one million to two million. The recent surge in user growth...
Read more Category: BostInno, Jeff Janer, SpringpadMIT Media Lab startup Bluefin Labs, which has incredible technology that discovers and analyzes, in real-time, what people say via social media about the shows and ads that they’re watching on television, has just made two big enhancements to their first product offering Bluefin Signals. Bluefin Signals...
Read more Category: Bluefin Labs, BostInno, Deb RoyWhen looking for new gadgets on the internet it is easy to get lost in Amazon, Best Buy or any number of e-commerce sites. These sites throw a ton of products at you with no regard for what you are actually looking for. A new startup that launched yesterday is hoping to change your gadget buying...
Read more Category: BostInno, Curisma, Eugene Gorelik, Fatma YalcinOver the past few years I have started to see an unnerving trend. Being an entrepreneur or working at a startup is now the “cool thing to do.” Before startups, working at a Hedge Fund was the “it” job. And by no means am I an expert in startups (yet) but my experience over the last few years has led me to observe...
Read more Category: BostInno, StartupsFirst some background – I started Kinvey, a Cloud Backend as a Service for mobile and tablet apps, in September 2010. Since then, we successfully went through the TechStars program in Boston, launched our Beta and raised $2M in a Seed Round of Financing. We now have almost 1000 developers signed up for our Beta and we’re growing our team to improve our product... Read more
Category: BostInno, Kinvey, Sravish Sridhar, TechStarsI pitch brands and agencies every day. Not a day goes by that CampusLIVE doesn’t respond to a request for a proposal (RFP) or brainstorm internally for a big pitch with media buyers. I’ll be honest: it’s not easy . . . at first. The very nature of the agency job – creating massive campaigns for massive brands – means dollars float to the top. The companies... Read more
Category: Boris Revsin, BostInno, CampusLiveAnd here lies the beauty in writing pieces that people in the community actually care about. Just like the HubSpot post that we published a few weeks ago, the latest SCVNGR/LevelUp piece sparked some conversation in this town. Yes, both articles got circulated throughout the community and received a good deal of comments (some nicer than others... Read more
Category: BostInno, LevelUp, SCVNGR, Seth PriebatschOver the last few days I have noticed some odd status updates coming from the LevelUp Twitter handle. Status updates different than any other in the past and some that could be signaling of some troubled waters ahead. We’ll get to that in a second though, let’s take a quick walk down memory lane to bring you up to speed. SCVNGR was founded in 2008 by Princeton dropout... Read more
Category: BostInno, SCVNGRAfter hitting publish on the last HubSpot piece about the Guiness Book of World records I just came to one alarming conclusion. I have NEVER used their software or even SEEN it. Frankly, I am not so sure that it exists (contrary to their 4,500 clients of course). A colleague of mine, Chase Garbarino claims that he tried it a few years ago on a 30 day... Read more
Category: BostInno, HubSpotUpdate: The acquisition is finally confirmed 4:3opm 8/18/2011. Here are the announcements. One and Two. Fresh off its Performable acquisition it looks like HubSpot is about to acquire another Boston based social media company. Sources close to the deal are telling us that HubSpot will acquire oneforty’s current employees along with their content... Read more
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