Localmind was the second company we funded at Year One Labs. Localmind leverages check-in services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places to make powerful, real-time location-based Q&A the best way of discovering a city. When you have a question you want answered about a specific place (often in real-time), Localmind is the right service to […]
How To Run a Business Model Hackathon
A tech hackathon is typically a half-day to two-day event where teams get together and build a product in a very short period of time. They’re always fun and interesting, often organized around specific platforms (like Foursquare), and a great way to meet new people, get into a community and test your chops. At Year […]
Localmind Available on the iPhone
Localmind is now available on the App Store. Please go download it. And then feel free to come back… Localmind (which I invested in through Year One Labs) is all about getting answers to questions you have around you. You can ask questions of anyone checked-in at a location. Currently, Localmind supports Foursquare, Gowalla and […]
Year One Labs Invests in Assemblio
We’ve just made our fifth and final investment through Year One Labs. The startup is called Assemblio, founded by Jonathan Abrams and Elan Dubrofsky. Assemblio is in the event planning space; but we don’t have any additional details to share at this time. We met Jonathan and Elan through the Google Hackathon that we ran […]
Year One Labs Invests in Customer Support Startup by Dov and Mitch Amihod
We made the announcement yesterday on our blog – Year One Labs has completed its fourth investment in a new customer support startup founded by Dov Amihod and Mitchell Amihod. Yes, they’re brothers. And strangely enough this is our second investment in a brother team (previously we invested in Garry and Ken Seto, Please Stay […]
Get Early Access to Localmind Today!
Localmind (one of our investments at Year One Labs) is starting to open its doors! Access is limited, but you can sign-up on the landing page and then get a priority invitation by sharing Localmind with friends. Just click the screenshot below: What is Localmind? Localmind is a service that lets you get quick information […]
Please Stay Calm – New Location-Based Game Coming from Endloop X
At Year One Labs our first investment was in Endloop X. We haven’t shared a lot of details about the company to-date, but Garry and Ken Seto have just launched their landing page for Please Stay Calm – their location-based game. As you can see from the screenshot below it involves zombies. The guys are […]
Check out Localmind
Localmind hasn’t quite launched yet, but it will quite soon (at least in closed beta/testing). In the meantime, you can sign up to get an invite and learn more. The current tagline is “Know what’s happening. Anywhere. Anytime” which should give you some idea of what Lenny is up to with the project. Lenny is […]
Year One Labs Needs Tech Startup Founders with Python Experience
At Year One Labs we’re not waiting around for startup opportunities to come to us — we’re actively out there looking for them. In some cases that means attracting individual people, putting them together, and creating new teams & startups. That’s what we’re doing right now with a project that we’d like to see emerge […]
Year One Labs Invests in Ken and Garry Seto (and Endloop X)
Year One Labs is the early stage seed accelerator that I started with three Montreal-based entrepreneurs – Raymond Luk, Alistair Croll and Ian Rae. We announced Year One Labs in early September. Since then we’ve been busy recruiting the best people we can find to join. It’s quite the experience, and something I hope to […]
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