‘Boston Startups’ Archive

Boston Startups: Raizlabs – Making Useful, Fun iPhone Apps July 15, 2009 No Comments

Let’s be honest here – iPhone apps are big business for developers who have made compelling, interesting programs.  Many of the success stories have been games made by individuals as part of side projects.  These are folks who get a good idea, act on it and end up with a really successful product.  I recently [...]

Boston Startups: Wiggio – A Social Collaboration Suite for Students (and Everyone Else) July 10, 2009 1 Comment

I first saw Cambridge based Wiggio at the Web Innovators Group back in March and was immediately impressed. They launched in the late summer of last year, and immediately positioned themselves as ‘a collaboration tool for college students’.  Why they targeted this market segment is interesting, as I find their tool useful and I’m not [...]

Boston Startups: Shareaholic – One Browser Button to Rule Them All July 2, 2009 No Comments

The reason I like Shareaholic’s Firefox plugin so much is because, well, it’s a browser plugin, and therefore it’s always going to be right in my face and totally simple to use.  Before I got the Shareaholic button, I had buttons from multiple web apps in my bookmarks toolbar (Delicious, TinyURL, Evernote, etc…).
Now Shareaholic has [...]

Boston Startups: Tikatok – A Children’s Book Creation Platform (One for the Kids) June 30, 2009 1 Comment

Have you ever set out on a creative project with your kids to try to make a book from start to finish?  I don’t have personal experience with this myself, but I can imagine that the art and story writing with your kid(s) is the easy part.  The actual creating and binding of the book [...]

Boston Startups: Sponty – Stop Pushing Email and Pull Your Social Life June 29, 2009 2 Comments

Every social circle is different it seems.  People have their work, agendas and times when they want to be social and hang out.  When my group of friends here in Boston and other places I’ve lived made plans to hang out, we typically do the planning via the phone, email or text.  I usually didn’t [...]

Boston Startups: Tipjoy – Social Micro-Payments that Aim to Please June 25, 2009 No Comments

I’ve written about it before on this blog: I really believe that it’s time to begin to break down the walls of free value on the web in the form of excellent media and content.  So with that being said, I get really excited when new ideas around revenue generation within the web realm pop [...]

Boston Startups: CitySquares – Why Hyper Local Matters June 22, 2009 1 Comment

CitySquares is a Boston based startup whose web application is devoted to hyper local search and discovery. Now before you write off the company with your “these guys can never win, they’re in the same space as Google” thinking, hear me out. Hyper local matters, and we’ve yet to see a real winner [...]