Bureo designs and manufactures a unique line of sustainable skateboards. Bureo’s innovative boards are manufactured in Chile through the team’s initiative, ‘Net Positiva’, Chile’s first ever fishnet collection & recycling program. Net Positiva provides fisherman with environmentally sound disposal points, while Bureo receives highly recyclable and durable raw materials. By offering recycled high quality products,…
Ideapod: New York City
Ideapod is a social media platform for ideas. Express your passions and moments of inspiration with others to find like minded people making your ideas a reality. Ideas are limited to 1000 characters and can contain pictures or videos in communicating your thoughts and concepts. The platform launched in invite only beta in February and…
Shira Shimoni: Los Angeles
Security Check: Shira is a Strategic Account Manager at Magento, an ebay company, who also happens to love burgers, cupcakes, and hiking. What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? I moved to NYC at age 19 for school and then life, it was a long trek from NJ. I never imagined living anywhere…
Nestdrop: Los Angeles
Pretty clear from it’s explanation, no longer will you have to frequent the neighborhood bodega or liquor store. Nestdrop is company started by two guys who believed in it enough to drop everything for it. They met on a trip overseas. A year later the Nestdrop mobile app, to help provide an alcohol delivery service,…
Gaggyl: New York City
Gaggyl removes the pain points of going out with a large group – from the reservation to the bill. Gaggyl.com is a marketplace for consumers to find, book, and organize experiences for larger groups – like birthday dinners, bachelor party open bars, or private rooms for guys / girls night out. Their goal is to…
Leslie Berger: Los Angeles
Security Check: Leslie is a micro-developer of Westside bungalows, an anti-aging skin care consultant, and Fortune 500 Executive Coach. What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? My grandfathers! When I came to LA for the first time, I got off the plane from Chicago, I said, “Why didn’t anyone tell me about this…
Washio: Los Angeles
It’s simple. Select your pickup and drop off times and start planning how you’ll spend your newfound free time. A ninja armed with sustainable bags will arrive at your door to pick up your dry cleaning and laundry. Your order will arrive ready-to-put-away the very next day. Your account will be charged automatically upon delivery.
Songza: New York City
Songza is a music search engine and internet jukebox, built and based in NYC. Relaxing? Working? Throwing a party? Songza plays the right music for any situation thanks to their human curated playlists. Using 7 data points (time of day, day of week, device, weather, IP address, your past behavior, and the entire community’s behavior…
Joe Magee: Los Angeles
Security Check: Joe Magee is the VP at RallyBound, a social fundraising technology company in Los Angeles. He’s also the co-curator and co-founder of 2462(miles) and a new dad! What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? My mother was born in Queens and my father migrated to Manhattan from Northern Ireland when he…
Twigtale: Los Angeles
Storytelling is a tool that helps children understand themselves and their world. Twigtale believes that when we provide children with words for the experience and the feelings they may have about the experience, we can empower them to calm unsettled emotions. The Twigtale Starting Preschool book allows the child to make sense of a new, and…
Social Rank: New York City
SocialRank is a simple tool that help brands and individuals find out more information about the people that follow them on social networks, starting with Twitter. In January 2012, Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld built a small tool called MVF, which stood for Most Valuable Follower, which revealed your most valuable Twitter followers. The tool…
Steph Yee: New York City
Security Check: Steph is a Development Assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York. What’s your historical Los Angeles and New York connection? I’m a third generation native New Yorker. Both of my grandfathers immigrated to the United States from China around the 1930s/40s and served in World War II, on the American…
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