Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland
It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More
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The Psychology Of Design: John Roa Shares A Look Inside AKTA
BY: Sonali Basak“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA one of Chicago’s most sought-after design studios, and Roa one of Chicago’s most influential entrepreneurs? Roa’s journey was riddled with successes, failures and a carefully [...]
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Have a Great Startup Idea, But Need A Developer? Meet Matchist
BY: Edward DomainMatchist cofounders Stella Fayman and Tim Jahn meet a lot of entrepreneurs through their successful speaker series Entrepreneurs Unpluggd in Chicago. “Time and time again,” said Fayman, “we always heard questions from people about developers. How to hire one, how to work with one and things of that nature. We felt that there was a [...]
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Organize Your Daily Deals This Holiday Season With MyCabbage
BY: Kathryn HoughWith so many offers going digital this holiday shopping season, there has never been a better time to build a hub for users to save, organize, and plan their holiday shopping and dining experiences from within one app.
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St. Louis Design Week Wrap-up
BY: Kathryn HoughAIGA shined a spotlight on the best of the St. Louis design community during their seven days of STL DesignWeek programming last week. The event, in its second year, featured talks, events, tours, and exhibitions devoted to celebrating the contributions of local designers.
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Designer Aaron Draplin’s Tall Tales From A Big Designer Who Likes To Think Small Packs The House At Portland Digital eXperience
BY: Kathryn HoughWhen Draplin is not in Portland working at his firm Draplin Design Co., he is an in demand speaker. Yesterday his appearance at the Portland Digital eXperience Conference marked the first date of The DDC 2012 Fall Tour.
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Portland-Based Vizify Makes Your First Impression On The Web Beautiful
BY: Kathryn HoughA startup based out of Portland, Oregon called Vizify is setting a new standard for beautiful digital identity that blows Flavors.me and About.me away.
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Smarter Handsets Aren’t Necessarily Better Phones: Report
BY: Jon ChristianThe dissonant implication of Pew’s findings is that powerful, expensive handsets are not necessarily serving as better phones
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What A 3D Printed Assault Rifle Means For Safety, Copyright
BY: Jon ChristianA firearm enthusiast believes he may have been the first to test a 3D-printed gun assembly, which he has used to build and fire a pistol and assault rifle.
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Kinesis Brings Gesture Control To App Developers
BY: Jon ChristianIndian startup Kinesis is working to build a native framework to bring gesture and depth-based modeling developers, on the Kinect and likely soon other platforms.
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Innovative Self-Replicating 3-D Printers Could Wipe Out Factories
BY: Irina PapucToday, emerging 3-D printing projects such as RepRap, Fab@Home, and UltiMaker could soon unleash a second industrial revolution, this one rendering many factories obsolete. Instead, the bulk of manufacturing could be done in the comfort of one’s home, and a broken piece is just a download and print away.
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‘Feel Me’ Smartphone App Creates Digital Intimacy
BY: Lindsay ONealFeel Me is a smartphone application that believes the kind of communication that breeds true connection is just as much about the content shared as is it is about connecting with the presence of the other person.
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Refugees From The Etsy Police Flee To Storenvy
BY: Jon ChristianCoverage has unearthed an uneasy underbelly to handcrafted and vintage e-commerce monster Etsy, where a team of “young detectives†play cat-and-mouse with peddlers who blatantly disregard the site’s authenticity requirements.
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The Voice Of The Network: Douglas Coupland’s Audio-Visual Representation Of Online Data
BY: Corey CummingsIn a pairing with telecommunications company Alcatel Lucent and musician Paul Humphreys, tech conscious author Douglas Coupland has created an artistic audio-visual representation of internet traffic data.
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