Imagine drawing an organ in a CAD-style program and printing it. Organovo, the innovative San Diego-based medtech company founded in 2007, has its sights on this possibility.
Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question ‘What’s the most exciting new technology you invested in for your company in 2012 so far, and why?’
Family court judge Judith “Judy” Sheindlin has built a successful television career settling arbitrations in a mock court. Now, a startup called Judge.me is offering the same service in 146 countries, targeting freelancers, designers, and other online professionals.
Desperately need to check your email, but there’s no WiFi to be found? Maybe there’s a good samaritan in the area whose phone is operating as an open hotspot. That’s the vision, anyway, for Open Garden, a San Francisco-based startup that wants to crowdsource connectivity.
In what sounds like a page out of science fiction, Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp has his sights on sending the first humans to the Red Planet in 2023.
Urbanist and author of the iconic city commentary The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs once said, “Design is people.” This philosophy of collaborative planning towards common goals resonates with IBM’s laterst philanthropic project, CityForward.com.
With limited access to investor capitol and bank loans becoming harder and harder to come by, entrepreneurs can have a hard time getting off their ideas off the ground.
E-Commerce and startup veteran Mark Lehmann, who recently signed on as CEO of mobile ad network Todacell, called the potential for mobile marketing “tremendous†in the face of new mobile technology and better-targeted advert campaigns.
Researchers at Microsoft are developing a new system that will provide highly accurate GPS-like mapping indoor environments.
Techli caught up with two emerging social enterprise projects aiming to bridge communication with the developing world.
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