Author Archives: Virginia

TimeBridge Plays David to the Meeting Waste of Time Goliath

TimeBridge wants to play David to the meeting waste of time Goliath. I hope it succeeds and has the tools in place to at least eliminate meeting excuses. Can’t find a time? Handled. Don’t know if the agenda impacts you? Handled. Need constant reminders to remember a meeting? Handled. Like to play with your iPhone [...]

MokaFive & Ocarina on InformationWeek’s Startup 50 List

This week InformationWeek published its Startup 50 – a list of the most promising business technology companies to watch – and two LaunchSquad clients, Ocarina Networks and MokaFive, made the list! At LaunchSquad, we love what we do because we get to work with innovative and cutting edge companies that have developed technology that could [...]

Ocarina Networks Secures $20 Million

Exciting news for our client Ocarina Networks who has closed $20 million in Series B funding. As we wrote when we started working with them last spring, Ocarina provides an online storage optimization and compression solution that allows companies to use existing storage more efficiently,  delaying or altogether eliminating the need to buy new storage [...]

LaunchSquad’s 4th Annual Pie Bake-Off: The Results Are In!

Just before Thanksgiving our San Francisco and New York offices hosted the Fourth Annual LaunchSquad Thanksgiving Pie Bake-Off, and it was out most advanced competition to date by far. Our San Francisco winner was the simply named pie with extraordinary taste, Zoe Vandeveer’s “Classic Pecan Pie.” (A pecan pie has now won two of the [...]

TimeBridge Announces New Apple iCal, Mobile Integration

Last week TimeBridge – makers of the super useful Personal Scheduling Assistant – announced a few milestones, highlighted in this TechCrunch story. First, TimeBridge is now the first and only scheduling application to fully integrate with the three main calendar applications: Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar and now Apple iCal. Of course you can still use TimeBridge no [...]