City bike sharing programs have been expanding across the country with big fanfare. Recently Seattle inaugurated their own bicycle-sharing program with non-profit organization Pronto Cycle Share with the launch of 500 bikes and 50 stations around the city. We sat down with Holly Houser, the executive director of Pronto, to see how they’re encouraging cycling to […]

For many startups, a human resources department can feel like a final frontier, a distraction, and a niggling detail in the way of their product. It hasn’t helped that, according to ZDNet, even “as the recession fades away and businesses have been rehiring, expanding and rediscovering their pre-recession chops, HR departments are still starved for […]

“There is no ShoutEm app,” says Viktor Marohnić. It’s an unexpected thing for him to say, considering how he is the CEO of ShoutEm, a company that launched a new app of their own dedicated to consumer loyalty. But part of ShoutEm’s mission has always been to be invisible, to create an experience so seamless […]

Storytelling is as old as time. And in business, a good story can give you a great advantage. Next to the fireplace at my mother’s house, there are seven photo albums neatly arranged in chronological order. If I want any photo from my childhood, I know exactly where to find it. Personally, I have taken more […]

If you ask entrepreneur Ajay Yadav about any given stage in developing his app, chances are, he’ll mention Twitter as an important tool to his business. He’s used it to do everything from recruiting users to meeting his mentors, and he thinks you should, too. Yadav is a New York City-based India native and founder […]

From the beginning, Anna Clements, Hannah Judge, and Isabel Shaw, all bonded over the same majors at Middlebury College in Vermont. Who knew that the intersection of their two passions in Geography and Global Health would lead them to start a business together? They all realized that geographic tools and analytics are extremely underutilized in […]

When you start a company, you have the benefit of a clean slate. It is the perfect time to define what you want your company’s culture to be. Be thoughtful and proactively take steps to foster that culture. As the founder of a startup, I have come up with a few tips for first-time entrepreneurs […]