ROIKOI Exits Beta And Takes Their Employee Ratings Tool To The Corporate World

roikoi When I first wrote about ROIKOI in 2014, I found it to be a pretty fascinating concept; a Facebook-fueled leaderboard based on a single criterion—”who [in your social network] would you love to work with.” After significant piloting and consultation with many corporate recruiters, the charismatic Austin-based team at ROIKOI have found what they consider to be their specialty as… Read More

PicoBrew’s Zymatic Beer Making Machine Made A Brewer Out Of A Noob Like Me

Zymatic by PicoBrew PicoBrew is a beer-centered startup in Seattle, founded by brothers Bill and Jim Mitchell and Avi Geiger.
The machine at the heart of their operation is The Zymatic—an apparatus that simplifies beer-making by reducing the need to monitor the cooking process of creating Wort (unfermented beer).
Did their device turn a beer drinker like me, with zero brewing experience, into a beer maker? Read More

Flyp Lets You Add Multiple Numbers To Your Smartphone

flyp3 Flyp is a new iOS/Android app that lets you have up to six different phone numbers simultaneously active on your smartphone. The first number is free and each additional “premium” phone number (a maximum of five) costs $2.99 per month (or $29.99 per year) to maintain. The Flyp app manages all the numbers, voicemail, text messages, and notifications. The app is live in the iOS store… Read More

Four Japanese Startups Visit Me At The Bates Motel During SXSW 2015

exiii Operating out of Room #4 at the Bates Motel at SXSW 2015 (this is another story), I got the opportunity to interview a few fascinating startups that traveled from Tokyo to Austin, TX over the weekend to show their hardware-based concepts. During a rapid-fire demo session, I was able to see eight different startups and four really struck me as doing some novel work. Read More