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Is NC Startups Sweepsjobs.com Urberizing the Summer Job? via @Curagami

Is NC Startups Sweepsjobs.com Urberizing the Summer Job? via @Curagami | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.curagami.com - June 30, 2015 8:43 PM

Sweeps Urberizing the Summer Job
Yes and making finding and getting summer work done will benefit students and employers. Cool NC Startup Sweepsjobs.com is Uberizing the summer job and it's all good. 

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Float Like A Startup Butterfly & Sting Like A Bee: Levels Launches 12 Startups in 12 Months | WIRED

Float Like A Startup Butterfly & Sting Like A Bee: Levels Launches 12 Startups in 12 Months | WIRED | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.wired.com - October 2, 2014 7:52 PM
Can’t get enough of that animated GIF where Oprah unleashes a swarm of bees on her studio audience? Or the one where some guy gets hit in the face by a trashcan? You’re in luck. Soon, a new startup called Gifbook will sell you some flip books that recreate your favorite animated GIFs, so that…

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Levels is cool. I added Durham, NC to his Nomad List of great places to be work "in the wild". Love the idea of FAST and then FASTER startup creation. Reminds me of a lesson Alton Pickens taught before we realized what a bad painter I am (lol). }

In college Pickens had me line up 50 sheets of paper and create with a timer. Fast became faster. He was trying to destroy THINKING TOO MUCH. Levels is doing the same by floating like a startup butterfly and stinging like a bee.

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SOAR Helps Female Startups. We Are IN, What About YOU?

SOAR Helps Female Startups. We Are IN, What About YOU? | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.soartriangle.co - March 20, 2014 1:51 AM

SOAR is an important project. Glad we have a chapter in the Triangle ares of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). We want to support SOAR anyway we can including putting our startup @CrowdFunde into the mix and writing some checks. This initiative is long overdue and we are all in. 

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Lori Wilk's curator insight, March 21, 2014 9:26 PM

I want to interview everyone about their efforts at SOAR. It's great to know that there's support for this project. 
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, March 21, 2014 9:44 PM
I think our CrowdFunde startup is going to set up a fund, ask for matching donations of time and money and do whatever we can to help SOAR @Lori Wilk since its long overdue. Marty
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Startup Trends 2014 II - via Curatti

Startup Trends 2014 II - via Curatti | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From curatti.com - January 13, 2014 9:41 PM

Startups are fun, creative & may be our best hope. This second of a two part Curatti series covers startup trends from digital homes to wearable tech.

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No sooner than I finished writing this second post in a 2 part series for http://www.curatti.com Editors of Chaos than one of the featured "Smart Home" startups sold to Google for $3.2B. Amazing.

If that doesn't make you want to fire up a startup and start tinkering nothing will :). M

This 2nd post in a two part series covers more than 25 cool startups from Smart Homes to wearable Tech:
http://curatti.com/startup-trends-2014-ii/

Be sure to share your favorites if we missed them.

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Start ups focusing on the internet of things, in-memory computing and location based services will dominate the news in 2014.
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Cool Aggregate the Aggregators: List Hunt #8 - New Startups Millennials Care About - via UpStarted

Cool Aggregate the Aggregators: List Hunt #8 - New Startups Millennials Care About - via UpStarted | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.content-base.co - March 17, 2015 12:22 PM

There are literally hundreds of new products released every day from every corner of the web. With that many ideas being marketed and released daily it is hard to keep up with everything. Even with great aggregators like Product Hunt, StartupLi.st, Gadget Hunt  and Beta List it is easy to get

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Great Idea. You can never have too much aggregation in this world and UpStarted is right - too much cool stuff happening all over to keep track. Put some personal filtering (Digg like) on this bad boy and HUGE WINNER.

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Shyp | The Best Shipping In The World [Because THEY do it for YOU] Packs NYC

Shyp | The Best Shipping In The World [Because THEY do it for YOU] Packs NYC | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.shyp.com - October 1, 2014 8:05 AM

Shyp is the easiest way to ship anything. The mobile app provides an easy on demand shipping experience. Shyp is transforming how you send items by replacing the traditional hassles with a delightful experience.

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Imagine a "Shipping Hero" coming to your place and handling your holiday shipping FOR YOU. What would that be worth? Shyp is betting its worth a lot and I agree.

I used to run a distribution business with Janet McKean called Found Objects. This time of year we were hunkered down shipping wholesale orders for the holidays. I've probably packed and shippped over 10,000 packages and it SUCKED.

Shipping is also a GAME played by giants on a field you can hardly understand or imagine. Shyp packs your package and secure the most secure and cheapest way to ship. DONE, where do I sign? Shyp launched in NYC and it may be a bit before they head to Raleigh / Durham. When they are here I'm there since the "joy" of shipping wore off long ago.

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Mapillary: See The Map, Add Photos To the Map, Be The Map | MIT Technology Review

Mapillary: See The Map, Add Photos To the Map, Be The Map | MIT Technology Review | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.technologyreview.com - March 4, 2014 5:47 PM

Mapillary is a cool idea. Why run up and down city blocks taking pictures when your customers, advocates and contributors could do that for you. What it means to be a MAP is changing fast.

Maps used to be those things you couldn't fold back up. Now maps are evolving into evolving stage sets. You need one "map" when its six pm and time for dinner.

You need another map when you need groceries or toys for Christmas. As the line between virtual and real world collapse "map" is going to take on many new meanings.

With GPS "Map" means place, time and tribe. Why tribe? Because, as FourSquare proved our phones are smart enough to know when our friends' phones are around us.

Phones become living avatars walking a digital landscape by proxy, roads we wold walk if we could TRON-UP and jump into the machine. Since we can't become digital just yet MAP will take on many new meetings.

Extend our new "map thinking" a little further and maps become games, commerce and content. These new "digital maps" will be how we tell time, know and relate to our friends and understand PLACE.

Mapillary sees the future. They know maps are more than those things we used to not be able to fold back up :).

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What Stuff Do You Miss? - Set New Trends By Sharing Old Ones [cool idea]

What Stuff Do You Miss? - Set New Trends By Sharing Old Ones [cool idea] | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
From www.imissthisshit.com - April 23, 2013 1:54 PM
Set new trends by knowing the old ones
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Open With A Question

A friend, Brian Chiou @Brian_Chiou, just shared his http://www.imissthisshit.com/ website where visitors share stuff we miss like these green army men, GI Joe and Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. 

Great example of the power of a question in website design too. When the site opens asking why you miss your mind can't help but begin to answer. I suggested Brian make his call to action bigger, and more like a button with high contrast. 

It is easy to walk right by the Share What You Miss CTA (upper left in text). Bet a GREEN button would outperform the gold text, but I love the placement. Hard to beat upper left CTA placement especially in a Pinterest inspired design like this. 

What Stuff Do you Miss? Share your nostalgia for STUFF here
http://www.imissthisshit.com/  

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