This spring we’re featuring profiles of selected companies that participated in the Winter 2011 session at Mountain View, CA-based venture incubator Y Combinator.
March 21: Taskforce—the Y Combinator Startup With a Solution for E-mail Overload
March 22: Noteleaf Seeks to Sync Up Online Calendars, Contacts, For Meeting Prep On-The-Go
March 30: HelloFax Lets You Ditch Your Fax Machine and Sign Everything Electronically
April 7: GiftRocket Seeks to Take the Pain (and Loss) Out of Gift Cards
May 5: SwipeGood Works to Make Giving So Easy, It’s a Rounding Error
May 12: Lanyrd: Twitter Meets LinkedIn Meets IMDB for the Conference Circuit
May 31: Grubwithus Hits Boston On Its Quest To Bring Group Meals for Strangers to 30 Cities This Year
June 1: Convore, Rebooting IRC, Brings Group Chat into the Social Media Era
Also see these related stories on Y Combinator and YC alumni companies:
Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 Demo Day: The Definitive Debrief (March 24, 2011)
Anyleaf: Putting an End to the Old Supermarket Circular
Cloudkick Founder Alex Polvi on the Experience of Getting Acquired by Rackspace in Startup Year One
Order Your Next Burger on a Tablet Computer from E la Carte
Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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