RunMyErrand is a very interesting venture serving an unmet need, offering an online clearinghouse where busy people can recruit temporary helpers to complete tasks around town.
Founder Leah Busque has been hustling to prove the the business concept working out of the ZipCar offices in Cambridge. Looks like the proof point might be coming along nicely [...]
The Daily Grommet is a site that I learned about earlier this year. I really liked their approach to discovering new products, letting the product developer/merchant tell their story with the Daily Grommet team adding their views and facilitating the purchase. Add in the most contemporary social media tools to allow all of us to [...]
I am a believer in the power of social networking to connect people – friends, family, long lost friends, alumni, co-workers and new acquaintenances.
Once you are networked I am even a more fervent believer in these networks powering the sharing of valuable information – where you are, what you are doing, why you bought that [...]
HubSpot is a very cool company that is the brainchild of Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. The goal was to build a platform for the many disparate elements of inbound marketing so that small and medium sized busiensses could be more efficient. HubSpot today integrates all of these services in a unique SaaS suite of services. [...]
At NameMedia we sell lots of domain names to small businesses (SMB’s) from our domain marketplaces BuyDomains and Afternic/DLS. We offer these SMB’s the opportunity to related business services to complement the domain name like hosting and design so they can get their sites up and running. For this reason I was really interested [...]
Two sites that I like alot are SwapTree and DailyGrommet. Both of these sites have been featured as “cool sites” on this blog.
Great to see both of these emerging companies working together. DailyGrommet has featured SwapTree as it’s Grommet of the Day.
I attended last weeks inaugural TEDxBoston event, check out the cool video that was used to introduce the session.
I am really pleased to be joining the conversation at the Inbound Marketing Summit. I will join a number of key inbound marketing experts and practitioners at the summit that include Chris Brogan, Justin Levy, Bernie Borges (author Marketing 2.0), Neil Creighton (CEO RatePoint), Jason Falls (author of SocialMediaExplorer.Com), Brian Halligan (Co-Founder & CEO HubSpot), [...]
Runkeeper is a cool app for the iPhone and web site, I featured it recently in a post right here on this blog. I think these Boston guys have done a great job leveraging the GPS capability, function and community building that is possible with the iPhone.
Just heard today that RunKeeper was named a Top [...]
