Click A Taxi: A Worldwide Taxi Booking Service Mobile Transport App That will Cater to More than 5,000 Cities by End of 2012

http://www.clickataxi.com/

Click A Taxi is global taxi aggregation service providing you with a hand-picked quality taxi in just a few clicks, anywhere in the world.

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Start-Ups.Co had an insightful and content rich interview with Mr. ‘Søren Halskov Nissen‘; Founder and CEO of the Denmark (Copenhagen)-based start-up “Click A Taxi”.

Click A Taxi“ is the world’s largest network of quality taxi companies and the industry leader in providing next generation digital tools for the global taxi market.

Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Halskov Nissen’ regarding his start-up company “Click A Taxi”;

1. What is it exactly that you do and what “Click A Taxi” is all about?

Click A Taxi is global taxi aggregation service providing you with a handpicked quality taxi in just a few clicks, anywhere in the world. The company’s primary user interface is our consumer app, but the system is designed to integrate with any number of back end systems to help businesses book a taxi.

2. When has “Click A Taxi” been founded? And what stage is “Click A Taxi” currently at?

Click A Taxi was founded in 2010 and went live in Denmark in October 2011. We are currently live in the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. We expect to expand to all of Western Europe and Australia this autumn. Click A Taxi will cover the Americas and major cities in Asia by the end of 2012. So we are in an exciting stage of rapid expansion.

3. What is “Click A Taxi”‘s business model and how does it work?

Our business model is based on a pay per booking arrangement with our taxi partners. Click A Taxi users are not charged anything extra for booking through the app. The taxi company they ride with simply pays us a small referral fee (+/- 40 Euro cents) for each booking they receive. The arrangement is good for both taxi users and businesses because it minimises costs on both ends.

4. How did your team meet? And who in your team does what?

Søren Halskov Nissen (CEO and Founder)
Nikolaj Køster (Director of Marketing and Communications)
Peter Theill (Senior Developer)
Michael Vivet (Director of Development)

We have an additional fourteen employees based at our Copenhagen office. We are divided into an Operations Team, Marketing and Communication and a Development team.

5. What, exactly, makes you different from existing options, what will make your product and/or service stand out in the marketplace? In other words what’s unique about you and what’s new about what you make?

Click A Taxi is the first taxi service aggregator with the potential to provide truly international service for our users. There are a lot of taxi apps and aggregators on the market. But only Click A Taxi provides global or even nation-wide coverage. We provide the kind of coverage that allows our users to throw away the five different taxi apps they have for several different cities and be confident that they can use one app to get a high quality taxi service wherever they happen to be.

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Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch

http://www.ubooly.com/

Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy.

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Mr. ’Carly Gloge’; CEO of the US (Colorado)-based start-up “Ubooly” has been kind enough to give us some more insight into what his company is all about.

According to Mr. ‘Gloge’; Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world’s smartest toy.

Many children receive their parent’s old phone as a hand-me-down gift. In addition, the iPod touch has become one of the most popular gifts for children. We built Ubooly turn these devices into a magical friend.

Ubooly’s uses wifi to get smarter each day. Ubooly can comment on the day of the week, the weather, and news.

Our vision is to create a toy that has long-term engagement and focuses on creativity and social responsibility.

Our games and stories expect kids to respond back verbally and encourages them to us their imagination through choose-your-own-adventure stories, and “play pretend” games.

In the future, we’ll allow parents to purchase educational content such as: language packs, Ubooly roadtrip (Ubooly will use GPS to become a tour guide on roadtrips), and other educational content.

Ubooly launched to the public in August 1st, and has over 1000 active users. Expect to see Ubooly on store shelves this October. [Read more...]

Rumgr.com: A Free Location Based Marketplace iPhone Mobile App that Brings the Garage Sale Experience to the Palm of your Hand

http://www.rumgr.com/

Rumgr is a location based marketplace. It is as easy as taking a picture, and your item is for sale to everyone around you.

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Mr. ‘Dylan Bathurst”; Co-founder & CEO of the US (Las Vegas, Nevada)-based start-up “Rumgr”; has given us a much better idea about his flagship product; a location based marketplace mobile app.

According to Mr. ‘Bathurst’; Rumgr is a garage sale for your phone. To de-clutter your home and earn extra cash at the same time, simply take a picture of what you want to sell.

No descriptions, no tags, and no location details are needed. Rumgr uses the features endemic to mobile (camera, GPS, messaging, push notifications) to make posting an item for sale quick and easy.

The buying experience is just as seamless, and can even be fun. Just as you would browse a garage sale, users “rummage” in the app in their spare time, while waiting on line or hanging out at home.

Items appear in the image feed in order of proximity, so the top items could be as close as 200 feet away. And since buyer-seller communication takes place within the app, it’s not just convenient, it’s also safe.

Founded in fall of 2011 by the top mobile and web development talent at Zappos, and backed by Tony Hsieh among other angel investors, the company has quickly grown a vibrant community of 5000 loyal buyers and sellers. [Read more...]

Triposo.com: Makes Travel Guides that Know Who you are and Where you are and Use that Information to Come Up with Fresh and Inspiring Ideas on What to do while you Travel

http://www.triposo.com/

Triposo makes smart travel guides for mobile devices. Travel guides that know who you are and where you are and use that information to come up with fresh and inspiring ideas on what to do while you travel.

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We had an enjoyable and intuitive interview with the fantastic entrepreneur Mr. ‘Richard Osinga‘; CEO of the Germany (Berlin)-based start-up “Triposo” regarding his company.

“Triposo” makes travel guides using algorithms. They crawl data from the web, apply some clever algorithms and fully automatically generate travel guides of high quality that cover the entire world.

Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Osinga’ regarding his start-up company ”Triposo”;

1. What is it exactly that you do and what “Triposo” is all about?

We make smart travel guides for mobile devices. Travel guides that know who you are and where you are and use that information to come up with fresh and inspiring ideas on what to do while you travel.

Of course our guides also contain detailed descriptions of everything to see and do, places to eat and drink and offline maps. 

Our apps are available for Android and iOS work offline and are 100% free to use.

2. When has “Triposo” been founded? And what stage is “Triposo” currently at?

We started in May 2011 and raised a seed round from a number of investors.

With that money we started developing the product described above.

After one year we had 1.5 million downloads of our apps and a great plan to make them even better. 

In June we closed a Series A round. So currently, we are busy growing our team.

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StoryMarkLife.com: A Mobile and Tablet Applications Company for Lifestyle and Business that’s Redefining the Way we Capture and Share Experiences

http://www.storymarklife.com/

StoryMark Life is a mobile and tablet applications company for lifestyle and business that is redefining the way we capture and share experiences.

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Today we had a very nice interview with the lovely entrepreneur Mrs. ‘Dana McIntyre‘; Co-Founder & Social Media Director at the US (Georgia)-based start-up “StoryMark Life”.

“StoryMark Life” is a mobile and tablet applications company for lifestyle and business that’s redefining the way we capture and share experiences. Their flagship product is “StoryMark”; an (iOS & Android) app that enables users to add up to 30 seconds of voice and ambient sound to images with innovative compression technology, known as StoryMarks.

Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mrs. ‘McIntyre’ regarding her start-up company ”StoryMark Life” and their flagship product “StoryMark”;

1. What is it exactly that you do and what “StoryMark Life” and “StoryMark” are all about?

StoryMark Life is a mobile and tablet applications company for lifestyle and business that’s redefining the way we capture and share experiences.

StoryMark is an (iOS & Android) app that enables users to add up to 30 seconds of voice and ambient sound to images with innovative compression technology, known as StoryMarks.

With StoryMark, you can give a new meaning to the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words”.

2. When has “StoryMark Life” been founded? And what stage is “StoryMark Life” currently at?

Although the idea for StoryMark was created years ago, development actually began in January 2012.

We officially launched in May 2012 at three conferences that month: Mom 2.0 Summit in Miami, which is a community of women bloggers; Digital Summit in Atlanta, and Internet Week and AppNation in New York City.

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Emotish.com: An iOS App that Enables Users to Snap a Self-Portrait and Tag what they’re Feeling in the Moment

http://www.emotish.com

Emotish is an iOS app that enables users to snap a self-portrait and tag what they’re feeling in the moment.

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Today we had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. ‘Ryan Wegner‘; Co-Founder of the US (New York)-based start-up “Redrawn Labs” about their flagship product ”Emotish”.

“Emotish” is an iOS app that enables users to snap a self-portrait and tag what they’re feeling in the moment.

We are really happy here at Start-Ups.Co to see this kind of wonderful “human-touch” concepts finding their way into the tech sphere. Our world has become very materialistic and we are desperately in need for similar apps to remind us of our creativity, emotions and above all our humanity.

Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mr. ‘Wegner’ regarding his start-up “Redrawn Labs” and their product “Emotish”;

1. What is it exactly that you do and what “Emotish” is all about?

Emotish is an iOS app that enables users to snap a self-portrait and tag what they’re feeling in the moment.

For brands, we are developing a specific platform through which they can launch an interactive, exciting, and beautiful mobile-social campaign built right into the user experience. In this way we aim to become the intersection where photo-sharing, brands, and consumers meet.

2. When has “Redrawn Labs” been founded? And what stage is “Emotish” currently at?

Redrawn Labs was founded in January 2012. We are currently in public beta, and Emotish is available for free in the App Store.

Its feature set includes taking photos, tagging the feeling, and sharing on Facebook and Twitter.

We will be launching an enormous update to the app in the coming weeks, though, which will enable users to follow each other, tag the context of the photo, and win exciting prizes from our brand partners.

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