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Profitably slays need for Excel, streamlines business planning

Profitably slays need for Excel, streamlines business planning

Cloud app for business Let’s face it, as a small business, entrepreneur or startup team, measuring, planning for and executing business is difficult, and Excel can be downright frustrating and requires a lot of knowledge to get set up and running. New York City based Profitably automates a great deal of this process to save you time and money and ...

AGBeat | 2012/02/09  | 17 Comments Finance

New York startup aims to save renters money

New York startup aims to save renters money

RentJolt enters live beta The New York City real estate scene is far different than many other markets in America, with renting being the common option and renters paying brokers out of pocket for services – it’s the wild west of real estate that operates on different rules, although all licensees that carry the Realtor brand are bound by the ...

Tara Steele | 2012/02/05  | 14 Comments Business News

New York City startup brings transparency to apartment search

New York City startup brings transparency to apartment search

Naked Apartments launches new features What do you get when you combine the talent of a Harvard graduate living in New York City and a geeky LAMP and Ruby on Rails engineer that are sick of the wild west environment of apartment hunting in New York City? They get frustrated and launch nakedapartments.com. This week, the disruptive company launched an ...

Tara Steele | 2012/01/20  | 19 Comments Business News

NYC startup InsideDigs’ peer to peer rental site to expand

NYC startup InsideDigs’ peer to peer rental site to expand

InsideDigs showcases off-market rentals Much like a pocket listings site for residential listings prior to being publicly listed through the MLS, InsideDigs is a free peer to peer community for apartment hunters that are looking for information on rental listings prior to their hitting the market. The New York City based startup was launched by renters “who were tired of ...

Tara Steele | 2012/01/16  | 20 Comments Business News

Curly Cable for iPad and iPhone

Curly Cable for iPad and iPhone

Curly Cable to be funded All iPhone and iPad users know that battery life is a problem and for the most devoted device users, an afternoon without your device can be not only upsetting but unproductive. As a throwback to the spiral cords on phones of yesteryear, Curly Cable connects iPhones and iPads to the charger while solving the problem ...

Marti Trewe | 2012/01/07  | 9 Comments Gadgets

BestVendor is the Yelp of vendor services

BestVendor is the Yelp of vendor services

BestVendor – useful social network With new startups launching every day to service business professionals, it can be difficult to keep up with what matches your personal needs and it can become tiresome to continually ask your Facebook friends what you should buy and how much you should spend (and to be asked), so New York startup, BestVendor has launched ...

AGBeat | 2012/01/07  | 10 Comments New York

CompStak crowd sources office lease comparables

CompStak crowd sources office lease comparables

Crowd sourcing lease comparables Crowd sourcing lease comparables site, CompStak was founded by 29 year old Michael Mandel because “commercial real estate information should be available and transparent, and because most commercial real estate technology is from the Flinstones era.” The video above demonstrates the site which is a marketplace for commercial real estate lease deal information currently launched in ...

AGBeat | 2012/01/05  | 11 Comments Commercial

Accompl.sh – social network all about setting and meeting goals

Accompl.sh – social network all about setting and meeting goals

Improve your chances of meeting your goals There is nothing more rewarding that making a task list in the morning and checking off menial tasks, but our new year’s resolutions or our life goals often go ignored because they’re not front and center – not because they’re not important but because how do you include a bucket list in your ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/29  | 19 Comments New York

Speed Roommating coming to New York from London – fabulous concept

Speed Roommating coming to New York from London – fabulous concept

Speed Roommating on its way to the states SpareRoom.com was launched in 2004 in the UK and with roughly 800,000 visitors to the site monthly, it is the largest British roommate website. They have taken that size offline by offering Speed Flatmating, an event that brings together people looking for roommates. SpareRoom has worked so well that it has now ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/11/29  | 18 Comments New York

Possibly the sexiest underground blogging platform online – Jux

Possibly the sexiest underground blogging platform online – Jux

If you’re easily distracted, avert your eyes It is not often that we come across something that we feel stingy about and like so much that we don’t want to share with anyone, but Jux.com made us feel possessive in just that way. It’s everything we’ve always wanted a blog to be and although it takes a second to get ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/11/26  | 29 Comments Marketing

New York apartment hunting simplified, each apartment given a score

New York apartment hunting simplified, each apartment given a score

The New York apartment scene In New York City, apartment hunting is much more complicated and competitive than in other markets, requiring a lot of money up front and a long list of other New Yorkers interested in the same apartment. We’ve shared tools for agents and consumers in NYC to use to simplify the process, but today, we are ...

Tara Steele | 2011/11/25  | 20 Comments New York

Movable Ink innovates by adding live streamed content into open email messages

Movable Ink innovates by adding live streamed content into open email messages

Email marketing just got a major makeover New York startup, MovableInk received a round of funding of $1.3 million last month and are already changing the world of email marketing. Their new service offering is “Movable Ink Streaming Server” as demonstrated above which allows companies to stream live content into emails while they are open. The service “could dynamically change ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/11/10  | 13 Comments Marketing