Advice Wallet plans for big expansion in Eastern Europe with its Settle mobile payments and loyalty app
A Q&A with Advice Wallet co-founder Stas Matvienko. The Kiev, Ukraine-based startup, which offers a combined payments and loyalty app for...
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Featured Startup Pitch: By tapping into unused call center agent time, LiveAnswer offers small businesses access to live, 24/7 customer support
By Adam Boalt, LiveAnswer founder and CEO ELEVATOR PITCH LiveAnswer improves small business customer service and sales by answering their...
Recently-launched Tracksmith is a niche fashion brand for serious runners
A Q&A with Tracksmith co-founder and CEO Matt Taylor. The Wellesley, Massachusetts-based startup, which produces premium clothing and bags for...
Featured Startup Pitch: FirmPlay is out to upset the online job search paradigm by giving job seekers insight into companies’ cultural ‘DNA’
By Vasilios Alexiou, FirmPlay co-founder ELEVATOR PITCH FirmPlay is a new job search platform that takes job seekers behind-the-scenes at...
A dozen reasons why startups, and their investors, seek federal trademark registrations
By Timothy Engling, partner, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP StartUp Beat readers are visionaries who appreciate entrepreneurship and...
Featured Startup Pitch: dough has built a mobile financial trading platform with an eye on Millenials
By Kristi Ross, dough co-founder and co-CEO ELEVATOR PITCH dough is a free interactive mobile app for do-it-yourself investors of all ages and...
With a fresh round of funding in the bank, Thinknum seeks to wean Wall Street off of ad-hoc spreadsheets with its Cloud-based financial analysis platform
A Q&A with Thinknum co-founder Justin Zhen. The New York City-based startup, which is a Cloud-based financial analysis and research platform for...
Featured Startup Pitch: With a focus on customer service, Wagepoint wants to take the pain out of payroll for small businesses
By Shrad Rao, Wagepoint co-founder and CEO ELEVATOR PITCH Wagepoint is an online payroll software built just for small businesses in the USA...
How to know when it’s time to scale your startup
By Scott Brandt, vice president of marketing, SurePayroll The startups we hear about in the news make it look easy. But the men and women running...
WriteLaTeX has built a Cloud-based collaborative paper writing platform for academics
A Q&A with WriteLaTeX co-founder and CEO John Hammersley. The London-based startup, which offers a Cloud-based collaborative academic paper...
Vakast raises $1.3M for its vacation rentals booking site
Vakast, an aggregated vacation rentals search and booking site, has announced that it has raised $1.3 million in Seed funding. Investors include...
Advice Wallet settles on $1.5M in funding for its restaurant payment app
Advice Wallet, a mobile payments startup that has built a payments app for consumers called ‘Settle,’ has closed a $1.5 million venture funding...
