The land of the rising sun, Japan is a country that possesses an inviting modern image mixed with a rich, distinguished history. Work in Japan, and you can boast being a part of the world’s third largest economy. The Japanese office has its own distinctive culture, complete with its norms and stereotypes—who doesn’t have an […]
Who’s Your Candidate? Figure It Out With Pollenize
The 2014 Toronto municipal election draws near, and within 30 days the city will find itself awarded (or, depending on your political views, saddled) with a new mayor. With publicity stunts, dramatic drop-outs and one very malignant tumour, the race for the next chief magistrate has taken turns at the bizarre, the ugly, and the […]
Toronto Transit Appsplosion! Part 2: Best in Show
On Thursday, we at New-Startups.com presented our roundup of 46 transit apps in use in the Toronto area. Now that each app has given its proper breakdown, it is time to hand out the awards! Since every user has their own specific need or something they value, we have created nine different award categories each […]
Blazing New Paths: Pathgather and the future of LMS
Can the company you work for also be a classroom? Imagine going to work on any given day, and at the same time know, alongside your typical tasks and responsibilities, you will also be learning how to paint. Could be with Adobe Illustrator, or could be with a brush and easel. Or maybe you would […]
IdeaCloud Helps Event Planners Improve Engagement
While IdeaCloud isn’t a new start-up, it is a new tool that software consulting company Ideanotion created with event organizers in mind. IdeaCloud fuses Twitter and Instagram activity to make a “real-time animated mosaic of tweets and pics”, as founding partners Bryan Xu and Raymond Tsang call it. IdeaCloud is mainly intended for event and […]
Career Meets Life Overhauls The Online Job Search
As founders of Career Meets Life, Sahar Nasseri and Mike Cook, began planning for their own futures and discussing business ideas that would support their personal situations, they eventually realized that there was a largely neglected market of people looking for flexible options. In short, they said, “job searching needed an overhaul”. And so they […]
Shoptagr Competes For Place As Price-Watching Tool Of Choice
When Shoptagr co-founders Jonathan Friedman and Ronen Yuval-Hoch met in 2012, they both had experience building and launching startups. But Friedman credits his fiancé for the inspiration to develop Shoptagr: “One day I told Ronen about how my fiancé could spend hours checking back and forth on price drops [of items] she wanted in her […]
Savvy Online Shoppers Use Price-Watching Apps Like Pricify
If you’re an online shopper, you probably know how it feels to encounter a discount on something you bought at full price days earlier. Your heart plummets. The self-loathing begins. Buyer’s remorse ensues. Lucky for you, gone are the days of incessantly revisiting online stores to check whether prices have dropped. Price-watching apps do it […]
Building a strong author platform
Your author platform is essential to your success as a writer. Along with connecting with your audience, you will be able to sell your eBooks directly from your site. The more work you put into your author platform, the more fans you will gain, ultimately allowing you to sell more books. And being able to […]
5 Tips on making your new business stand out from the crowd
These days it is rare to find a business niche that is not already oversaturated. However, that said are you sitting reading this thinking ‘but, my idea is different, mine will work’ if the answer is yes, then keep reading as I know how you feel. I remember talking to my uncle, who started The […]