Here’s a look at the new breed of social travel sites and apps taking part in the Startup Battlefield at TechCruch Disrupt San Francisco. Some of the notable new sites include Triptease, Outtrippin, Tripsidea, Locish, Spotsetter, Diveboard and Flights with Friends.
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How to create a Social Startup
At Bitspiration: An inspired gathering for European startups Target audience: Entrepreneurs, startup teams, marketing professionals, social media strategists, businesses. I‘m spending the week in Krakow, Poland, and gave a presentation yesterday as one of the featured speakers at Bitspiration, the second annual conference for entrepreneurs, startup teams and investors, chiefly from Eastern Europe. About 300 […]
Launch Festival: ‘We live in the future now’
The panel of judges/venture capitalists at the Launch Festival (Photo by JD Lasica). Conference brims with innovative tech startups Target audience: Entrepreneurs, startups, businesses, tech sector executives and employees, anyone interested in innovation. After three days of the Launch Festival, where 5,000 attendees jammed into San Francisco’s sprawling Design Concourse, one can be forgiven for […]
Up-close photos of TechCrunch Disrupt 2012
In the past two years, TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has become the single most important technology conference on the planet. And so it was this week, as entrepreneurs and startup founders and marketers came out in droves at the SF Design Concourse for three days of preening, schmoozing and, yes, showcasing of cutting-edge technologies, many of them social tools.
TaskRabbit: Crowdsourcing comes to your neighborhood
Have you seen TaskRabbit’s iPhone app? Sign up for free and outsource small jobs and tasks to “TaskRabbits”. In a phrase, TaskRabbit is about service networking rather than social networking.