Review Startup

Square has the potential to be a game changer. It allows anyone with an iPhone to accept credit cards. The founders, who previously founded Twitter, realized that while just about everyone has credit cards, only 2% of credit card holders had the ability to accept them. From…

I’ve never written a post solely telling readers to read someone else’s work, but Paul Graham’s newest essay called “What Startups are Really Like” is so good I’ll break my rule. Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, a company that funds startups and gives…

Yesterday, I reviewed Alice.com, a Madison-based startup that launched earlier this week. Today, I’m looking at GeoBuzz, a new product by the Madison-based startup PerBlue. PerBlue was founded by a few UW students last year and already have had some good success with its mobile device…

I had read about the power of crowd surfing over the last few years, but had never gotten a chance to actually try it out. My partner from ExchangeHut, Corey Capasso, introduced me to CrowdSpring, a cool new startup that is crowd surfing for graphic design. Its a simple idea, but it…

It’s a tough question, especially if you are trying to schedule a meeting with more than two or three people. My friend Jason Strutz, who also wrote ExchangeHut, just completed a new project aimed at answering this very question.