CouplesSpark Makes Relationship Counseling Social


by Elias Shams
Last week, I handpicked and covered five out of eleven DC startups presented at the Social Matchbox event. Not that the other six weren’t any good. It’s just that I am more familiar with the space the five selected startups are going after. I think most of them have a clever and promising products, but tough competition.

Based on the feedback I received from a few local VCs about the new rising stars, as a loyal and passionate Washingtonian and serial entrepreneur, I’d like to give a little bit more educational coverage to each one of them starting with CouplesSpark which I  had the pleasure of meeting its founder, Kunmi Ayanbule over coffee at Cosi in Dupont Circle early this week. see more…

DC Startups on the Rise


by Elias Shams

Social Matchbox, the Washington DC-based organizer of events for startups held their Spring 2010 Launch Series event at the  US Navy Memorial Heritage Center in downtown DC on Thursday night.  Out of sixty five  DC, VA, MD based startups, they had selected eleven to present to a 235 handpicked attendees representing the East Coast’s leading venture capital firms, angel investors, startup executives, software engineers, designers, startup industry professionals, and tech industry bloggers. I had the pleasure to be one of the evaluator. see more…

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