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BlogFrog – From Blogs To Communities
Being an entrepreneur isn't exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog's co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. The 30-year old rocket scientist left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur.
Marketing Consultant Amish Shah Made His Start As A Futurist Not A Fortune Teller
Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003.
Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus
One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus, a social media and mobile application development company.
CampusBookRentals.com – Textbook Entrepreneurship
CampusBookRentals.com is a U.S.-based website that it offers textbooks for rent. It's a very simple business proposition, but this helps many thousands of students across 5,600 college campuses each semester to save quite a bit of money.
SpiritHoods – Getting Into The Spirit
SpiritHoods was founded by four young men - Ashley Haber, Chase Hamilton, Marley Marotta and Alexander Mendeluk - who birthed the company out of love, love for friends and family, for their families, and all living things around them.
Ariella Vaccarino – Of Family, Music And Mompreneurship
Ariella Vaccarino is not only an accomplished voice teacher and opera singer over the past 18 years, she also happens to be a mompreneur with three kids.
Manage Wedding Invitations With Glö
Taryn Westberg is the founder and CEO of online wedding management site Glö (www.glosite.com), which offers online wedding invitations and streamlined guest communications tools for the modern wedding.
SwiftSharing – Age Is No Barrier To Ideas
Swiftsharing (www.swiftsharing.net) is a new and growing social network site that has seen over 8,000 members signed up and has more than 20,000 posts since launching in January this year. If that doesn't sound impressive to you, consider the fact that none on the Swiftsharing team of five are over the age of 19.
Betterfly.com For A Better You
Betterfly (www.betterfly.com) is a services matchmaking website that helps match people who want to learn, look and feel better with providers of self-improvement services.
SpeechTrans’s Mobile App Translates Different Languages For You
SpeechTrans (www.speechtrans.com) is an automatic speech recognition and translation mobile application available for iOS devices, essentially turning your device into a portable translator.
AppSumo – Big Deal On Web Tools For Entrepreneurs
Appsumo.com (www.appsumo.com) is a daily deals site that offers deals on software and applications targeted at small businesses.
Wootfood – Having Your Food, And Sharing It Too
Wootfood is a location-based food finder and mobile application developed by Malaysia-based ideas incubator Alphapod that allows you to search, discover, recommend the best dishes to a "hungry" community.
WhatchyaGot Gives You Bags Of Hope
Salt Lake City, Utah-based WhatchyaGot was founded because its founder Julie Gallegos wanted to create a bag for her father, who was stricken with colon cancer and heart disease.
CampusLIVE – Where Marketing, Social Games and College Students Come Together
CampusLIVE (www.CampusLIVE.com) is a social gaming platform that enables college students to connect with brands through casual, easy-to-play games such as polls, surveys, scavenger hunts, team matches and such.
BooksActually – A Local Bookstore That Thrives In A Digital World
BooksActually is an independently run bookstore tucked away far from the madding crowd at 9 Yong Siak Street. It is the result of two individuals united by their passion for the written and printed word – Karen Wai and Kenny Leck.
A Father And Son Business – GiftsOnTime.com
GiftsOnTime (GiftsOnTime.com), run by a father and son team, is an online gifting platform that lets professional service providers to select and schedule client gifts to celebrate any occasion, with delivery throughout the year.
Liveset.com Brings Live Concerts To A Screen Near You
Liveset (Liveset.com) is a New Orleans-based live music and video streaming service that is a new and affordable way for music lovers to see their favorite bands perform live.
LittleLives – A Social Network For The Little Ones
LittleLives is a social networking site that brings kids together to build global friendships and ignite collaboration, and aims to be one-stop shop for all things education and for children.
VINCI – A Tablet (Device) For Young Children
If you haven't noticed by now, tablet devices are all the rage this year. But here's one tablet that probably escaped your notice - VINCI is an Android-based mobile touchscreen device that is specifically designed for young children.
Want Help Buying A Gift? You Need INeedGift.com
Singapore-based INeedGift (www.INeedGift.com), started by Niles Toh, 25, and Wilbur Suen, 25, looks at helping busy and time-stressed locals source for premium gifts and deliver it to their intended recipients - for a price, of course.
The Pigeonhole Cafe – A Story Of Two Love Birds
The Pigeonhole Cafe, a laid-back and quirky chill-out spot started by a young Singaporean couple, opened some weeks back in the Duxton Hill area.
Save On Fine Dining With DineTonite.com
DineTonite (www.dinetonite.com) is a New York-based dining membership site which offers real-time reservations and special discounts at top restaurants in New York City.
Rockto, An Emerging Social Recommendation Site
Rockto is an Indonesian startup that positions itself as a social recommendation site. Members can post a link to any content, complete with description and tags for other members to “Rock It” if they like the post.
[Interview] Aneace Haddad, founder of Taggo
In this video interview, Mike Foong chats with Aneace Haddad of Taggo about how his startup seeks to manage loyalty card subscriptions.
BrandStory Inc: Every Brand Tells A Story
Behind every brand is a unique story and Asia-based branding agency BrandStory Inc aims to tell these stories. Contributing writer Ho Sim Yee chats with founder Reene Ho-Phang to find out the story behind the storyteller.
Prosperity4Kids.com Teachs Kids To Be Financially Smart
Mompreneur Lori Mackey started her company Prosperity4Kids (www.prosperity4kids.com) to educate children in a fun and engaging way, teaching valuable lessons on how to grow up and be financially savvy adults.
Artyii Is A Sales And Social Platform For Asian Artists
Singapore based start-up, Artyii, is a sales and social platform for emerging Asian artists to sell, learn and network with the art circle which includes gallery owners, art schools, independent art groups and curators.
PlayNice.ly While Squashing Bugs
PlayNice.ly (www.playnice.ly) is a project management app developed by London-based software startup Playnice.ly Labs that is aimed at small teams of developers, as well as anyone else involved in projects, such as designers, product managers, etc.
The Idea Behind Moodler, The Mood Graph Microblog
Here's an interview with the founder of Moodler, an India based micro-blogging platform which tracks the mood of your social network.
JabberJury.com – Weighing In On Conflict Resolution
JabberJury (www.jabberjury.com) is a virtual courtroom where people can air and settle their conflicts, with the public weighing in.