Penske Truck Rental and SpareFoot Team Together for Moving Season

Posted Tue, 05/22/2012 - 17:00 by kevin

READING, Pa., May 23, 2012— Just in time for the busiest moving weekend of the year and the start of moving season, Penske Truck Rental and self-storage startup SpareFoot are teaming up to bring do-it-yourself moving and storage into the 21st century.

The collaboration launches ahead of Crazy Tuesday, the self-storage industry’s unofficial biggest day of the year, which falls right after Memorial Day. Through this relationship, customers of either company can now easily find and reserve a storage unit and moving truck together, in just a few clicks or via one phone call.

Don't miss Startup Office Hours with SoftTechVC's Jeff Clavier, Tuesday May 22 from @VLAB

Posted Tue, 05/15/2012 - 08:16 by asaxena

VLAB Founders' Series: Startup Office Hours With SoftTechVC's Jeff Clavier

Tuesday, May 22
Palo Alto, CA
6:00 - 7:00pm Registration / Networking
7:00 - 8:30pm Program and Office Hours

Founder of a startup? Not in an incubator? Have questions or need advice from an experienced Silicon Valley luminary like an exited startup founder, high profile CEO or VC?

Tuesday May 15 - MIT/Stanford VLAB Presents, NoSQL & Big Data: Scaling the Enterprise into the New Age

Posted Fri, 05/11/2012 - 23:50 by tansybrook

0 to 50 million users in 50 days? Disruptive scaling is painless with NoSQL.

Even enterprises have taken notice. They are using the same technology that propelled Google, Facebook and Amazon to massive success by analyzing petabytes of data from sensors, social media and commerce demographics.

NoSQL ("Not only SQL") enables queries and analytics against "unstructured" data, which allows for rapid prototyping and agile development of business intelligence applications. This is in stark contrast to the case where IT has to approve, fund, and develop every change to their "structured" database applications, and where scaling up requires a lengthy budgeting process.

Saltbox Enterprise Social Learning Application Exits Private Beta

Posted Thu, 05/03/2012 - 01:35 by alishahrazad

Seattle, WA, USA - May 3nd, 2012 - A bootstrapped startup focused on disrupting the $68 billion eLearning industry emerges from a successful private beta. Saltbox promises an end to long corporate sales and product training by putting employees in control of building their personal learning environments. This is especially true for salespeople, because they learn differently and can't afford time away from their customers.

Planwise Launches Mint Competitor

Posted Tue, 05/01/2012 - 08:32 by planwise

SAN FRANCISCO – MAY 1st, 2012 – After a successful initial private beta, Planwise has made its personal finance planning tool available to the public today.

More than just a snapshot of your current finances or an online rate calculator, Planwise overlays financial insights with real-world situations that drive consumer plans and purchases. The tool includes dozens of scenarios based on major life stages and events: making a career change, buying a car or home, taking a vacation and more. Simply add your own scenarios and instantly view your available cash and net worth change over time. The interactive graphs change as your plans and finances do.

New Northwest Houston Coworking Center to Provide Business Development Resources

Posted Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:08 by officeconnexion

The Office Connexion to provide business development resources to entrepreneurs and startup companies at its new facility in northwest Houston.

The Office Connexion recently signed a 3-year lease on a 13,000 square feet building at 11920 Walters Road in northwest Houston. The building will function as a community coworking facility and business resource center for solopreneurs and start up companies.

Admazely closes funding round led by SEED Capital to bring retargeting to small online retailers

Posted Tue, 04/24/2012 - 00:57 by Peter Schlegel

Admazely, a Copenhagen-based startup claiming to deliver ’retargeting for the masses’, have raised seed funding for its self-service retargeting product. The round was led by SEED Capital with business angels Martin Bochineck and Christina Rind participating. Niels Vejrup Carlsen of SEED and Martin Bochineck will join the board.