26 posts and columns on StartUp

Jetpac Transports Friends’ Photos to the iPad for a Truly Personal Travel Magazine (Video)

in Social on December 9, 2011 at 12:09 pm PT

Jetpac is building an iPad app that’s part travel magazine, part photo-sharing platform. It’s either very creepy, or it’s the bright future of personalized media apps.
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Start-Up Slader Looks to Solve the Math Homework Problem

in Commerce on December 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm PT

Slader, a quiet New York-based education start-up, is picking away at what the school-attending population would probably list as the biggest pain point in their young lives: Homework.
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Want to Lunch Like Larry or Snack Like Sergey? Kitchit Launches the NetJets for Personal Chefs. (Video)

in Commerce on September 30, 2011 at 9:01 am PT

A new start-up called Kitchit is launching a service that allows even the ketchup class to book a high-end chef for private in-home dining. (I wonder if they’ll let you order PB&J.)
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AOL Music Boss Jumps to Start-Up

in Media on September 27, 2011 at 6:51 am PT

Jeff Bronikowski put in a year; now he’s headed to Echo Nest, the company that powers the data feed for a lot of streaming music companies.

Kara Visits Under the Radar!

in News on March 21, 2008 at 12:43 am PT

Yesterday, I was a judge on a three-person panel at the Under the Radar: The Business of Web Apps conference, held at Microsoft’s (MSFT) Mountain View, Calif., campus in Silicon Valley. The event, sponsored by Dealmaker Media, was a very good version of many such conferences held often around the region, where start-ups come to [...]

Day 2 at the TechCrunch40 Conference: More Video, More Snacks, Mint Guy

in News on September 19, 2007 at 1:17 am PT

Our John Paczkowski of Digital Daily continued to brave the potential for falling ill from start-up fatigue from his hysterically funny live-blogging of Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, while BoomTown continued to wander the halls in search of snacks and a safe haven from PR minions. To no avail, although we did have [...]

BoomTown Went to the TechCrunch40 Conference and All You Get Is This Lousy Video

in News on September 18, 2007 at 1:51 am PT

While we subjected our stalwart John Paczkowski of Digital Daily to the onerous and potentially mind-numbing task of live-blogging Jason Calacanis’s and Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference, BoomTown broke some news (on the Yahoo-Zimbra $350 million deal), wandered around and basically schmoozed. In addition, cupcakes were had. (The day also included a pricey payback lunch for [...]