Congrats to Alexa Andrzejewski and her 10-person team at Foodspotting on the OpenTable acquisition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mobile app Foodspotting announced today an acquisition by OpenTable. Foodspotting CEO and co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski explains on the blog: “We’ve already been working closely with the OpenTable team as partners: In addition to [...]
Posts Tagged "Mobile Startup"
Mobile Startup Foodspotting, Founded By CEO Alexa Andrzejewski, Acquired by OpenTable For $10 Million Today
January 29, 2013 – 9:20 am
Tips For Pushing Your Outer Limits To Reach Goals
February 13, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Carrie Chitsey (Founder & CEO, 3Seventy) For me, I think the entrepreneurial spirit began when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Growing up, my dad owned several businesses, so my weekends were filled working at them. Looking back, this is likely why I work 7 days a week; I didn’t know what [...]
Health Startups: Opportunities In Pocket Sized Health Care
December 8, 2011 – 10:18 am
By Dr. Pamela Cipriano (Contributor, Disruptive Women in Healthcare) We use smart phones to manage most of our social life — calendars, communications, coupons, you name it. Why not health care? Perhaps you are already taking advantage of some amazing mobile health applications, or wireless monitoring devices that not only take measurements but can also [...]
Interview With Mobile Matchmaking Startup RndVoo Founder Sophie-Charlotte Moatti
November 17, 2011 – 11:00 am
Editor’s note: Sophie-Charlotte Moatti is Co-Founder and CEO of Rendez-Vous Labs, creator of RndVoo. The a mobile service encourages people to connect with friends of friends and find activities to do together offline. RndVoo open beta is available free on most smartphone browsers here. Women 2.0: How did you come up with the idea for [...]
New Face of Tech: A Young Female Immigrant Entrepreneur in LA
October 4, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Araks Khachatryan (Co-Founder & COO, CornerBlue) Editor’s note: Araks Khachatryan is hosting the Founder Friday Los Angeles on October 7, 2011 in Santa Monica — Join Women 2.0 and Araks by registering for free here. As the proud co-founder and COO of CornerBlue, a technology-driven mobile marketing company in Santa Monica, I regularly find [...]
Skimble’s Backflipping Presentation Earns Top Score
September 30, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Shana Lynch (Assistant Managing Editor, Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal) Heavy-hitting health venture capitalists and professionals were on hand for the DC to VC: Hit Startup Showcase event, organized by Morgenthaler Ventures. And one startup founder was doing backflips for their attention. Literally. Maria Ly, co-founder of Skimble, which makes exercise applications [...]
Mobilizing Farmers: M-Farm Turns Obstacles into Opportunities
September 19, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Jamila Abass (Co-Founder & CEO, M-Farm) After reading non-stop complaints aired by farmers through newspapers, I realized I could design a software application that would assist Kenyan farmers with some of their major problems, especially related to the sale of produce. I enlisted the help of an IT friend, Susan that I had met [...]
Boston-based Doctor Launches Mobile Startup Appguppy
September 1, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Ashwini Nadkarni (Founder, Appguppy) “A doctor, huh?” That’s the usual response I get at a startup event before I’ve even pitched my business. It’s generally followed by, “So what do you contribute to a startup that lets people create their own mobile app?” Entrepreneurs are a diverse species. Some major in computer science in [...]
11 Lessons Learned from Mobile TV Startup TheChanner
July 25, 2011 – 3:00 pm
By Nina Alastruey (Founder & CEO, TheChanner) It was on a trip to MipTV, a TV conference held in Cannes, while contemplating a wi-fi enabled PocketPC, when the first idea about theChanner came to me. Mobile, Internet.. That meant to me the way for people to discover a new world of content and news wherever [...]
