Foodspotting CEO: It’s About Discovery, Not Food Porn

As Foodspotting founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski prepared for the launch of the company’s third-generation app last month, she had an interesting challenge: making potential users realize that the service is... Read more »

FaceCash Founder Claims New Regulation is Unconstitutional

For months, Aaron Greenspan, the founder of the now-defunct mobile payments service FaceCash, has been getting deeper into a legal battle with the State of California over the way it... Read more »

Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Helps Users Track Their Online Purchases

Slice, the online purchase-tracking site backed by heavy hitters including Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Playdom founder Rick Thompson, started as a research project. While looking for a new... Read more »

Edmodo’s K-12 Social Network Helps Teachers Connect with Students

Back in 2008, when Edmodo co-founders Nic Borg and Jeff O’Hara were still working in IT for Chicago-area school districts, they noticed a big problem. Teachers were increasingly trying to bring... Read more »

CrowdOptic Taps Smartphones to Track the Crowd’s Attention

The idea behind CrowdOptic, a service that allows event organizers to figure out what a crowd is looking at by tapping their smartphones, came to CEO and co-founder Jon Fisher... Read more »

Fandor Launches Indie Movie Rentals—Sundance Meets Netflix

The inspiration for Fandor, an online movie service for independent and international films, came in late Spring of 2009, as two of its cofounders were bemoaning the fact that neither... Read more »

Catch: The Online Notekeeping System for the Non-Organized

Steve Brown, co-founder and CEO of Catch.com, a cloud-based personal content management system, says he’s the only dad at his daughter’s end of the season pizza party who remembers every... Read more »

StudentMentor Matches Mentors and Protégés Online

[Editor's note: due to an editing oversight, this story was originally published under the byline Wade Roush. It was actually written by freelance contributor Elise Craig. Sorry Elise!!]

When... Read more »

At Beautylish, Three Men and a Beauty Editor Build a Community Around Cosmetics

When Beautylish co-founders Vu Nguyen, Sameer Iyengar and Nils Johnson started raising money for their beauty-focused social network last July, they turned to angel investors who could give them more than... Read more »

LawPivot: The Google-Backed, One-Stop Shop for Startup Legal Advice

For startups, getting good legal advice can be costly and time-consuming. And for new lawyers, building up a client list also takes a big time commitment. Now there’s a Web Q&A... Read more »

FaceCash’s Aaron Greenspan Is Out to Kill Plastic with Mobile Payment System

For Aaron Greenspan, president and CEO of Palo Alto, CA-based Think Computer Corporation, it’s been a long road to FaceCash. The mobile payment system, which next week launches a new... Read more »

Inkling Reinvents Textbooks for the iPad

Throughout the two years Matt MacInnis spent working as senior manager in international education at Apple, he had plenty of opportunity to watch teachers integrate technology into their classrooms as a... Read more »