Finding the right employees: The key to a successful startup
By ALEX COTRAVIWAT, MARENDO GROUP PRESIDENT AND CEO For many of my clients, we start the hiring process for them, helping to get their businesses...
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Stockholm-based Sqore looks to disrupt corporate recruitment through online skills-based challenges
A Q&A with Sqore co-founder and CEO Niklas Jungegård. The Stockholm-based startup, which has built an employee recruitment platform around...
Featured Startup Pitch: Simplifying the process – Content BLVD matches brands and content creators for product placement deals
By MIKE SOBOL, CONTENT BLVD CO-FOUNDER AND CMO ELEVATOR PITCH We make it dead simple for brands to get their products placed inside the content...
Lightning Pitch: LyfeLens – Your car, smarter
COMPANY: LyfeLens ELEVATOR PITCH: Your car. Smarter. PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION: LyfeLens turns any car into a connected car. It does...
Lightning Pitch: Kikr – Personalized shopping that pays you
COMPANY: Kikr ELEVATOR PITCH: Personalized shopping that pays you. PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION: Kikr is a new social commerce platform...
Building a startup within a large company
By ADEBAYO ONIGBANJO, ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES When people think of startups, they imagine a small group of people innovating and building something new...
Featured Startup Pitch: Mentio’s accounting app monitors finances and provides proactive guidance for small businesses
By Sean Wilson, Mentio co-founder and CFO ELEVATOR PITCH Mentio monitors your business finances, lets you know when something is wrong and what to...
Lightning Pitch: helloSprout – Premium garden kits
COMPANY: helloSprout ELEVATOR PITCH: Premium garden kits. PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION: Our seed kits are made by experts in all of the major...
Old and new: Global startup activity continues to thrive
By Justin Cina, Gust marketing director Early-stage investment activity in the United States continued to remain strong in the last quarter of...
Lightning Pitch: Street Stream – Deliveries on demand
COMPANY: Street Stream ELEVATOR PITCH: Deliveries on demand. PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION: We have just launched in London and we provide a new...
Lightning Pitch: CANDY HOUSE – Your key, reinvented
COMPANY: CANDY HOUSE ELEVATOR PITCH: Sesame. Your key, reinvented. PRODUCT/SERVICE DESCRIPTION: Sesame allows users to lock and unlock their...
Featured Startup Pitch: Loyalzoo wants to enable local merchants to create loyalty programs that rival those of their big brand competitors
By Massimo Sirolla, Loyalzoo co-founder and chief executive zoologist ELEVATOR PITCH Loyalzoo is a loyalty app designed to help independent...
