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9 Resources for Women to Quickly Pick Up Technical Skills

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question, “What are the best resources, on or offline, for female founders to brush up on technical skills?”

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StartupStay Lets Entrepreneurs Crash On Each Others’ Couches

A new project aims to find places for traveling entrepreneurs to stay, in exchanges that it says will trade in ideas, connections and social capital rather than cash.

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Rocket Lease Propels Apartment Applications Into The Modern Age

Have you ever wondered why the process of applying to an apartment in the age of the internet still requires so many paper forms? The team at Rocket Lease has been wondering just the same thing.

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Snapclass Connects Online Influencers With Their Audience

Chicago-based startup Snapclass wants to help online experts connect with their main audience, enabling them to easily organize and even make some cash off of scheduled web seminars or one-on-one counseling sessions.

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Meteor Secures $11.2 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz

This week, Andreessen Horowitz led an impressive round of funding that garnered $11.2 million for Meteor.

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Ubooly: iPhone Sock Puppet Plays Games With Kids

A Boulder-based startup will soon ship a cuddly stuffed animal built to hold an iPhone or iPod, with the display serving as the creature’s face and a custom app that interacts and plays games with young children.

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Planana Makes Sure Your Event Has Guests

Planana is a social events promotion tool that leverages guests’ social networks and rewards them for sharing to their social networks.

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Flowtab Brings Express Checkout To Bars

Flowtab is a mobile app that allows bar patrons to order and pay for drinks directly from their phone. But will bartenders be able to keep up?

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Chicago’s Analyte Health Raises $22M To Expand Online Health Services

The online healthcare network is aiming to specialize in new forms of healthcare consultation, and has already established websites specifically for sexual health, including SexualHealth.com and STDTestExpress.com.

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HealPay: Making Debt Collection A Little Less Miserable

The system, the co-founder said, is “designed to make it easier for consumers to pay their bills.” If all goes well, more people choose to (and are able to) pay up.

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