September 8, 2011

  • Quick Pitch: Shoplr seeks to serve as local radar for shoppers

    If the team at Shoplr has its way, people won’t venture anywhere without scanning their radar — not for ominous storm fronts or looming low-pressure systems, but for deals. Shoplr, which derives its name from “shopping” and “Doppler” (as in the weather-tracking radar) is a mobile application for discovering real-time offers from local businesses. …

  • Kauffman Foundation’s Schramm on ‘Three Things’ entrepreneurs do

    Lest entrepreneurs toiling away on nascent ventures begin to lose hope or start to doubt the importance of their undertakings, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today supplied a nice dose of motivation — and reminder of the importance of entrepreneurs — in the form of a three-minute video. Sure, the video is intended less as…

  • Quick Pitch: Skowty strives for friction-free home-buying

    Location, location, location. The age-old adage in the real estate industry suggests it’s a business all about the “L” word. But Josh Cowman and Jon Kettler know there’s plenty more to it than that: timing, too, plays an important part in the buying and selling of homes. “We know,” Cowman said in his Dream Big…