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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped developers write View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
tools are usually just a way to get something online quickly, provided it fits one of the use cases that the tool covers). But Bubble is very open-ended. It requires some learning, but it lets people build exactly what they want, as they can control their website or... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
at the i-lab are open to students from across Harvard as well as from Tufts and MIT. Course projects have ranged widely, but most solved problems through the innovative use of technology. One team, for example, developed an app that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
the markets get jumpy, as they did in March, Chapman can unlock the app with his fingerprint to see, within seconds, the state of his investments. (He can also avoid the app for months and maintain a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
launch of Risher’s nonprofit, Worldreader, an organization that uses technology to reach children all over the world through its foundational app. Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage company is much more along the lines of “I just don’t know if any of my assumptions are correct.” Use very simple words when describing your company. As an investor, I find myself asking founders all the time, “Are you a website, or are you an app?” “Is it... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
will offer a starter pack that contains all the electronics. A $25 refill includes four disposable patches, which Cass estimates to be a one-month supply for an endurance athlete. The data and the app are free. Although there’s a bit of a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
phone, see your bill, and pay in seconds with SplitNGo. No app required. When your workday ends: When it finally gets slow at our pilot restaurant, and we get to head home after busing tables and talking to customers all night. Your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
mobile-app taxi-hailer that allows riders to find and summon the nearest available cab using GPS. There's also an added security benefit for riders, says Schroeder. "They've come up with a very simple app that helps you find something you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
magazine, to no avail. Knowing that kids do this stuff, I called over my 12-year-old niece Julia, who told me, “I bet there’s an app for that.” She downloaded the free “Scanner” app and faster than you can... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
companies to turn their sensors into weather data and created an app that can send alerts to people in flood-prone areas. Last year, ClimaCell predicted major floods in India—in Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’ phones are within 30 feet of one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
supporters to donate and volunteer to one where they can persuade undecided voters. At Snapchat, the mobile app known for its ephemeral messaging, prospective targets are likely to be much younger than those who can be reached elsewhere... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
lyrics, soaring harmonies, and finely tuned choreography. More importantly, it had an average view time of over two minutes, far beyond the usual five-second skip time allowed on YouTube. More recently, a project for e.l.f. Cosmetics on the video-sharing View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
constantly seeing at what point in the mediation app it is working or not working,” Breyer said. “It starts with great content and with people who deeply care about meditation. Marrying that with the data analytics makes the meditation... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
showing that vibration at a precise frequency stimulates bone growth and improves bone density, OsteoBoost will be coupled with an app to track daily use and encourage good nutritional habits. The Why: One in four American men and half of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Editor’s note: You can now download the Bulletin on your smartphone, too. As with the tablet edition, just go to your preferred app store and search for “HBS Alumni Bulletin.” Credit Due Re: Creating Change On page 14 of the June issue,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
competition, even at the infrastructure layer and in terms of all the smaller tokens that are used for very specific use cases. We’ll have lots of them. People will have digital wallets to manage them, in the same way that you have a phone full of View Details