Rethink the term “Young Entrepreneur,” folks, because Cole is an 11 year old man-with-a-plan. This past weekend, Cole took his and his brother’s idea for a musical instrument tutorial site to the 48 Hour Launch. Now, he has a domain, a Facebook page, Twitter (@bandtutor), and some real momentum behind his clever idea. Listen in [...] [...more]
We’ve given this start-up a lot of attention in recent weeks, but rightfully so. Our February Breakfast guest was Aaron Prather, CEO of stiQRd and QR Code know-it-all. When we last spoke to him for our Social Expedition podcast, his team was preparing for 48 Hour Launch. If you missed the podcast, StiQRd is a [...] [...more]
Coming to an app-store near you: StiQRd! Founded right here in snowy (at least for today) Memphis, Tennessee, StiQRd is a location-based check-in service (like Foursquare or Gowalla), but it’s unique characteristic is in the program’s marriage of QR codes and GPS location. Aaron Prather, the CEO, is the real expert though, so we’ll let [...] [...more]
Well if you’re referring to the Verizon iPhone? Hot. If you’re referring to buying your girlfriend a virtual bouquet for Valentine’s Day… most definitely not. This week’s podcast explores the ins and outs of these topics, but (as usual) we can’t stay on topic too long. So you’ll also get a smattering of… Resolution-assisting apps! [...] [...more]
Today’s breakfast had a great crowd, which was fantastic because we crowd-sourced our topic! To kick off the year, we decided to ask Expeditioners for their Predictions for 2011 in social media and technology. It seems many of the members are placing their bets on QR codes and mobile devices. Of course it’s all speculation, [...] [...more]
It’s show No. 23 and we’re sans Dave — at the time of recording he was en route to Texas for SxSW Interactive and the preceding unconference on social media and health care, SXSH. (You can hear more about all both on this week’s Core Conversation podcast, Friday at 11:30 a.m. In Dave’s absence, we [...] [...more]
It’s show number 22, and we’re starting to show our age around here — we spent at least the first few minutes of this episode debating the ins and outs of daylight saving time. We never quite landed on whether we’re currently in daylight saving time or if we’ll be in daylight saving time in [...] [...more]