Author: timbatchelder

  • Startup Blender: Entrepreneurship, startups, strategy & marketing

    Pretty nice blog about entrepreneurship and related things.. Startup Blender | Entrepreneurship, startups, strategy & marketing. Related articles Fifty Top Startups to be Recognized in Startup Open Competition During Global Entrepreneurship Week (kauffman.org) Kauffman Foundation Partners with Startup Weekend to Help Educate Entrepreneurs (kauffman.org) Startup Weekend: Solving the Jobs Crisis Begins With Empowering One Another…

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  • EnerNOC Energy management solutions for demand response, energy efficiency, energy procurement, & carbon management

    EnerNOC – Energy management solutions for demand response, energy efficiency, energy procurement, & carbon management. EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC) looks like a pretty solid venture into the new world of combining IT efficiencies with clean, renewable energy. According to their site they are transforming the way the world uses energy. They help commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations use…

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  • Future Perfect: Ethnographic approaches to technology R&D

      Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists,…

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  • Farmigo: Bringing the Internet to organic agriculture

    Farmigo Nice new startup created by an anthro major who was VP of user experience at SAP and then decided to do something more sustainable and went on to start a web 2.0 company to help organic farmers expand their reach. Related articles Online farmer’s market enables local, subscription-based food communities (springwise.com) Farmigo takes the farmers…

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  • Sell, trade in and recycle electronics on Gazelle instead of throwing them into a landfill

    What a great idea. A dedicated, professionally managed portal for selling all of the endless electronic gadgets that accumulate around the house so they don’t end up in a landfill. Sell Used Electronics, Trade In and Recycle Electronics – Gazelle. Related articles Boston Start-up Gives Cash For High End Electronics (forbes.com) [News] How companies keep…

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