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Save energy, money, and your environment with greeNEWit
Today's featured member, greeNEWit, is transforming the energy landscape into an emerging, vibrant green marketplace.greeNEWit is an organization founded to help our society build more sustainable communities and better economies through energy efficiency and conserving the use of natural resources. Their mission is to reduce energy consumption, eliminate waste and save money while reforming our relationship with the environment. Through collaboration, greeNEWit aims to inspire positive action and change the way we use, produce and think about our energy. greeNEWit helps homeowners, businesses and municipalities adopt best practices to cut costs and achieve energy savings. Acting as a consultant to utility...
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It’s All About The People: Highlights from the Regional Summit
By Donna Harris, Managing Director, Startup Regions, @dharrisindcWhat happens when you take 120 entrepreneur leaders representing 27 states and lock them in a room for a two-day collaboration-fest? Loads of very cool ideas that will help build vibrant local startup communities all over the US.That's precisely what happened at this week's national Startup America Summit. Here are some highlights:1. People and principles matter most. Attendees developed so many creative and impactful ideas to build vibrant startup communities during the Summit, but it all boiled down to two key ingredients: people and principles. First, the people – a core group of entrepreneurs who come together, commit to creating a strong community, and...
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Squashing a Tech Bug
By Danielle Forsythe, Director of Startup Engagement, Startup America PartnershipEvery startup working with technology sometimes has tech bugs, even here at Startup America. In the past 18 hours, our amazing tech team has been working hard to squash this bug. They have already restored most of our site and will be working day and night until all our functionality is back up. We will continue to post updates to this blog.If you are experiencing issues, please use the following information:If you are having trouble logging into your account, please email help@s.co and give us details on what happens when you try to login.If you are having trouble with the members only portal, please email startups@s.co and let us know the page you were...
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Stay motivated, get encouraged, and reach your goals with Leap
Today's featured startup, Leap, lets you create challenges with your friends and compete by snapping photos and earning points. Leap is an app for group challenges that motivate and encourage people to improve their lives. If you have a goal, you can join a challenge on Leap with other people who want to achieve it. For example, if you wanted to stay motivated to eat a healthy breakfast each day of the week, join a challenge on Leap, snap a picture of your meal and get feedback, help, and support from the community. Read our interview with co-founder, James Dickerson. What inspired you to start your company?Our team is incredibly passionate about self-improvement. But two things inspired us to work on Leap, specifically. One...
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Save money on shipping with 71lbs.com
Today's featured startup, 71lbs, creates shipping management tools are easy to use and cost effective. 71lbs helps small businesses easily recover the billions left unclaimed in shipping 'late' delivery refunds. They have shipped thousands of packages, negotiated many shipping contracts, and also worked for the major parcel shipping carriers. After many years in the industry, they have become all too familiar with the differences of shipping services, their strengths and also their weaknesses. Read our interview with Founder, Jose Li to learn more.What inspired you to start your company?We come from the shipping industry and have worked at FedEx, UPS, DHL, and other logistics companies. It was painful to manage internal...
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The Enterprise Entrepreneurship Challenge
This post originally appeared here. Acceleprise is launching the Enterprise Entrepreneurship Challenge with StartupAmerica and TheNextWeb, an opportunity for innovators to showcase their idea and compete for a spot in the first independent accelerator focused on enterprise technology. The challenge is simple. Early stage startups in the enterprise space submit a short video explaining their concept. People vote on their favorite entry on the Acceleprise site. Judges consider a shortlist including the top vote getter, and the results are announced on June 15th on TheNextWeb.About AccelepriseAt stake is a spot in the inaugural class of Acceleprise, an accelerator program that connects companies working to solve enterprise problems...
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Never front the money for your friends and family again.
Today's featured startup, Buyvite, is the easiest way to organize and pay for a group purchase like event tickets, gifts, and vacations.Buyvite's group pay system makes it easy for friends and family to go in on it! Buyvite Group Pay is a Patent Pending group payment platform that allows friends and family to group pay at the point of sale inside any ecommerce cart that integrates our API. What sets us apart from other group pay services is our API and the ability to integrate with any ecommerce cart, so the focus is on our partners versus our service. Read our interview with Founder, Brandy Alexander-Wimberly.What inspired you to start your company?I was looking for a way to do a true group purchase instead of a way to just...
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Kicking off the Startup America Summit in Boulder, CO
By Danny Beckett Jr, Startup California Champion. This post originally appeared here.Happy Monday! The Startup America Partnership Summit kicks off today here in Boulder, CO and I’m ready to meetup with some rock star entrepreneurs. Boulder is a beautiful place, and it’s one of the leading startup communities with Techstars, the Foundry Group, and others. Over a hundred or so entrepreneurial leaders from 27 regions (I represent the CA region as one of the leaders) in the US will gather for two days to talk startups and startup communities.How awesome is that, right? Two days filled with startup talk and what we can do to build and support more high growth startups/communities. Where do I sign?If you’re...
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Build the school you’ve always wanted with TruantToday.
Today's featured member, TruantToday, texts parents the minute that students skip class, bringing students and funding back to the classroom. TruantToday champions social reform and tackles a little heard-of issue -- school funding -- with a product created and developed by students who see the issue on a daily basis. They have been funded by well-known investors (TechStars chief among them), and they've been honored by groups as disparate as the Clinton Global Initiative and NBC's Education Nation. Read our interview with young Founder and CEO, Zak Kukoff. What inspired you to start your company?TruantToday actually started as my science fair project! I'm currently a junior in high school, and I see...
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What it Takes to Build a National Startup Ecosystem: Startup America Regional Summit, June 2012
By Donna Harris, Managing Director, Startup Regions, @dharrisindcToday, over 100 startup champions from nearly 30 states will gather in Boulder, Colorado to join the Startup America Summit. The Summit is two days of full-on collaboration — everything from presentations, discussions and breakouts, to one-minute pitches from all of the regions on what they are doing to make their communities stronger. Nearly all of these Regional Champions are successful entrepreneurs, and their startup credentials are incredible. They've run an average of 3.3 companies each, collectively raised over $4 billion in capital, and created 32,000 jobs through their startup activity. What's more, for every one company this group has founded...
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Power2Switch: The easiest way to save on your electricity bill.
Today's featured member, Power2Switch, is the easiest way to switch your electricity supplier and save money on your electric bill. In five short minutes you can compare the widest variety of rates and save an average of $200, all with one simple click. Power2Switch is a licensed web-based electricity broker that enables residential and business customers in Illinois and Texas to switch to cheaper electricity suppliers at no cost. Save 7-30% on your electricity bill and have to the option select from renewable energy suppliers. Read our interview with co-founder, Seyi Fabode. What inspired you to start your company?A desire to help everyone consume energy responsibly. Energy is not the most fun of topics but...
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Starting Up? 6 Questions to Tackle First
So you’re thinking about starting your own business? Many new entrepreneurs focus solely on their business idea during the startup process—and rightfully so. But what about those less exciting yet important business decisions that can dramatically impact your performance or your bottom line?Here are six questions you should ask — and answer — before earning your first dollar:Do I really need an office? The answer depends on the nature of your business. You’ll need space if you require a storefront or on-site personnel, but if you’re like the majority of virtual businesses today, consider setting up a home office or renting shared office space instead. Starting up can be extremely expensive, so...
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Recent News:
10/19/12 - Startup Communities Across the Country, Huffington Post (Startup America Partnership)
10/19/12 - Bonfyre partners with Powder Keg Conference 2012, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO & Startup IA)
10/17/12 - Food Waste In, Renewable Energy Out: Startup Re-Nuble Is Crowdfunding the Local Green Economy, Huffington Post (Startup DC)
10/17/12 - Powder Keg aims to blast Indy startups onto national scene, Indianapolis Business Journal (Startup IN & Startup MO)
10/17/12 - Featured Startup Pitch: Founded by a group of teachers with tech backgrounds, ActiveGrade seeks to fundamentally change the way grading is done in schools, Startup Beat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - How Tory Burch Created A $2 Billion Empire In Less Than A Decade, Business Insider (Startup America Partnership)
10/01/12 - Voices of the Tech Community: What do Ecosystem Need? The Miami Herald (Startup FL)
9/20/12 - Entrepreneurs make pitches as Startup Maryland and its studio bus rolls into UMBC, The Republic (Startup MD)
9/20/12 - USF-led partnership awarded $1 million to launch new companies, Tampa Bay Business Journal (Startup FL)
9/19/12 - Startup Bus tours Maryland, stops in Baltimore area to promote entrepreneurship, Baltimore Sun (Startup MD)
Startup America at DEMO Fall 2012:
10/11/12 - Startup Connection: Nourishment for mind, body and soul, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/05/12 - The 14 Most Interesting Startups To Emerge From DEMO, TechCrunch (Startup CA & OR)
10/04/12 - St. Louis startups look to cash in on DEMO showing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/04/12 - St. Louis’ Click With Me Now, Evtron Pitch At DEMO 2012, Techli (Startup MO)
10/03/12 - DEMO Gods: Birds, brains, and the best products of the season, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - BRIEF: Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley [The Hartford Courant], Bloomberg Businessweek (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - LifeStyleFeed brings the Seventh Art to restaurant selection, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Don’t like checking your mail? MailGapp may have your solution, VentureBeat (Startup HI)
10/03/12 - Itography hopes to lure advertisers to location-based virtual collection game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Creating More Focused Social Networks, PC Mag (Startup OR, DC, IA, VA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Business and Commerce Applications, PC Mag (Startup MO & Startup CT)
10/03/12 - Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley, The Hartford Courant (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - RecBob takes the work out of after-work sports, VentureBeat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - Watch RecBob’s DEMO presentation at noon (Live stream), Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
10/02/12 - Meet The 8 Startup Winners From Startup America’s DEMO Contest, Nibletz (Startup TN, OR, IL, DC, CA, IA, CT, MO)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, Global Reporter (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, VentureBeat (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers' iPhones, TechHive (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre Takes on Private Mobile Sharing with New App Focused on Real Life, Not Newsfeeds, Herald Online (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Three St. Louis startups launch products at California conference, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - This Barrel Is Ready to Roll! Launching Our Tech Startup, HuffingtonPost (Startup DC)
10/02/12 - For big-ticket items, social shopping needs more screen-sharing, VentureBeat (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Flite’s new Touch Ad Studio lets top publishers actually make money on mobile, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre launches mobile app to combine private with social sharing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/01/12 - CoPatient Launches Online Platform to Audit & Appeal Medical Bills on Behalf of Patients, Sacramento Bee (Startup OR)
10/01/12 - D.C. job-search start-up launching at DEMO in Silicon Valley, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
10/01/12 - D.C. at Demo: High School CEO debuts Hallway, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
09/30/12 - Hills Bank and Trust promotes four, The Gazette (Startup IA)
09/29/12 - RecBob wins Startup America contest, will pitch next week at DEMO, Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
09/13/12 - Click With Me Now wins a trip to DEMO, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
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