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Want to take part in an accelerator in KY?

Posted by Adam Fish on May 24, 2012 at 11:52am 0 Comments

Well you are in luck. The Brandery in Cincinnati has closed its applications, but Awesome Inc based in Lexington is still looking for a few more startups to take part in their summer program. Here is what they are looking for:

Early stage companies that are fully committed to their startup.  We want teams that have a shown some traction and are looking to reach that next inflection point quickly (ie. initial customers, prototype developed, funding, etc.).  Teams accepted into the program are expected to make the program and their startup the top priority for the summer.

The program will offer:

  • free office space: including internet, printing, conference room, ever so important ping pong table, etc.
  • a mentor network that is readily available for the teams: mentors…
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Impulcity the next Facebook?: Louisville entrepreneurs launching mobile app designed to revolutionize America’s night out

Posted by Adam Fish on May 17, 2012 at 4:57pm 0 Comments

Published with permission from Insider Louisville

How is this for timing?

Just as Facebook goes public at an anticipated valuation of $100 billion, a Louisville duo is preparing to launch a smartphone application/website they hope will revolutionize the way people socialize.

Hunter Hammonds and Austin Cameron are putting the final tweaks on Impulcity, which they created to make a night out a seamless experience from deciding what band to see to buying tickets, meeting up and ultimately sharing the experience with friends.

A select few of friends and investors including Forecastle Festival founder J.K. McKnight are testing the beta version of Impulcity, built for Apple’s IOS smartphone operating…

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Cloud Photo Sync Chronicles Adventures of Snatched iPhone [VIDEO]

When Katy McCaffrey’s iPhone turned up missing at the end of her Disney cruise, she feared she’d never see it again. Soon, however, phot…

F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference

576412_10100506495056656_1511936_49637897_571008016_n Faster than you can say "Can I borrow your copy of 'How To Win Friends And Influence People,'" it's tech conference season again. There hasn't been a week during the month of May where I haven't attended a tech conference or traveled to something tech conference-related. And judging by Techmeme's events calendar the state of affairs only gets worse as we get deeper into summer. Between Disrupt NYC last week, D10 tomorrow, NY Founders and Le Web London in June, Allen & Co, Sun Valley in July, the CrunchUp in August and TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September, the tech community is pretty much spending the next couple of months checking in and out of airports on Foursquare, Path, Instagram or whatever their social/mobile/local drug of choice currently is.

Work At A Startup: Weebly, Codecademy, And Stripe On Startup Recruiting [TCTV]

recruiting Earlier this month, Y Combinator held its Work At A Startup Event, where many of its alumni took the stage — not to pitch investors (as is the case at the incubator's enormous demo day), but instead engineers who might be lured to work at the startups in question. After the presentations, I grabbed some one-on-one time with a few of the presenters (Weebly's David Rusenko, Codecademy's Zach Sims, and Stripe's John Collison) to answer some basic questions: Why should someone work for your startup? And what's it like to recruit right now?

Facebook in Talks to Acquire Face.com for ‘Tens of Millions’ [REPORT]

Facebook may be about to acquire facial recognition tool Face.com, according to multiple reports. Israeli business publication Calcalist, which…

June Movie Preview: Summer Blockbusters Get Social

The summer movie season is already off to a bang, thanks to the success of The Avengers and Men in Black 3, but the action on the silver screen…
 
 
 
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