startups + marketing + nonsense
SXSW 2013 was my third straight year going down to Austin. I have been fortunate enough to work for companies that thought it was important to send me to SXSW to learn and network with people…
Back in June I wrote about the first Kickstarter campaign that I invested in for a soccer magazine called Howler. A few months back I got the first edition of the quarterly mag but just recently…
RebelMouse is a “social media aggregator” that creates a webpage based on your social media profiles and other stories you add. The service is currently in beta only and slowly releasing invites. The site is…
A new quarterly print soccer magazine called Howler has turned to Kickstarter to fund their launch. It is not often that I get to mix my passion of soccer with cool fundraising websites where I can help…
I was first interested in Airtime before they even announced what it did strictly on the founders. Sean Parker (played by Justin Timerlake in the movie The Social Network) and Shawn Fanning, both of Napster fame, launched…
The hype around the Facebook IPO was a bit crazy. Everyone became a stock expert. To drive some attention from the event, a site called facebookipodayclosingprice.com asked individuals to predict the closing price of the stock on…
I have not got around to write about Paul Carr‘s new startup New Gambit ,and the parent company Not Safe For Work Corporation, but I hope to in the coming week. They have just released a…
Selling a mobile app (iphone or android) can be a real pain. Over the years I have entertained the idea of selling the first app I came up with in 2008, a soccer app called…
I don’t know how I first came across Lot18, a startup that provides daily deals on wines. I assume it was an article in techcrunch or another blog. The first thing that caught my eye…