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| Hoppit Helps You Find Restaurants Based on Your Mood | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:59 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| | Name: Hoppit One-Liner Pitch: A restaurant search tool that helps users find what they are in the mood to eat. Why It's Taking Off: Hoppit lets users search for restaurants based on their current moods and the people they are with at the moment. For some restaurant-goers, the menu comes second to the vibe of the restaurant itself. That's where Hoppit comes in to play Hoppit lets you search for restaurants nearby based on your current mood and the people you're with at that moment. So, for example, you can search for a "swanky" restaurant to go on with your date, or a restaurant that is good for kids by indicating that you are "with your two-year-old," or just a quiet place when you are with "a good book."
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| 7 Stocking Stuffers for the Entrepreneur | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 5:49 PM | Nellie Akalp |
| | Nellie Akalp is the CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, where she helps entrepreneurs incorporate or form an LLC for their new businesses. Connect with Nellie on Twitter or visit her free resource center. Struggling to think of the perfect gift for the entrepreneur in your life? Sure, a new MacBook Pro, Herman Miller chair or high-res monitor always make great gifts. But try one of these budget-friendly alternatives, sure to please any hard-working, enterprising small business owner on your gift list.
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| How Does a Company Change After It's Acquired? | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:26 PM | Jesse Draper |
| | Jesse Draper is creator and host of the Valley Girl Show, through which she's become a spokesperson for startups and helped pioneer the way of new media content distribution. Formerly a Nickelodeon star, Draper is now CEO of Valley Girl‚ where she oversees the show and runs the technology blog Lalawag.com. Acquisitions happen all the time in the tech world. But how do they change a business? Amazon acquired Zappos and didn't change a thing -- the company still operates out of Las Vegas, while Amazon is located in Seattle. On the other hand, when Google acquired Wildfire, it moved the company to its large campus
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| Likeable Founder Dave Kerpen Answers Reader Questions via Live Chat | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 2:54 PM | Scott Gerber |
| | Got a question for Kerpen? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. Dave Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm comprised of communications and consultancy agency Likeable Media, and software platform Likeable Local. Kerpen and wife Carrie lead a team of over 60 people in working with brands, organizations, governments and small businesses to better leverage social media to become more transparent, responsive, engaged and likeable. Likeable was named to both the 2011 and 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S.
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| Robot Travels 9,000 Miles Across the Pacific Ocean | | Thursday, December 06, 2012 1:41 PM | Eric Larson |
| | An autonomous robot has completed a record-breaking 9,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco to Hervey Bay, Australia. The robot, Papa Mau, is part of a series of Wave Gliders manufactured by Silicon Valley-based startup Liquid Robotics. The group sent four of them to sea on November 17, 2011 -- two to Australia (Papa Mau included), and the other two to Japan SEE ALSO: Wave Riding Robot Survives Sandy's Wild Waters [VIDEO] The overall purpose of Papa Mau's year-long journey was to collect "unprecedented amounts of high-resolution ocean data" that's "never before available over these vast distances or timeframes," according to a Liquid Robotics press release
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