Leslie, aka budholly101! Congratulations you are the lucky winner of Pastaio, the devilish little Tokidoki chef. I wonder what Pastaio will think of chocolate covered bacon?
We wanted to be dramatic and bring you the winner by video but we had technical difficulties. Thanks to all who participated in the contest!
Meet Julie Penner a Graduate Student at the University of Colorado. Julie has a strong passion for entrepreneurship and has completely immersed herself in it. She co-facilitates the Boulder New Technology Meetup that is held monthly at the Wolf School of Law. Julie is also a member of the university’s 2008 Venture Capital Investment (VCIC) team and is a member of the CU Entrepreneurial advisory board. Before moving to Boulder Julie worked for Axon Labs, a startup formed by classmates from Brown. You can learn more about her by checking out her blog that she calls At Full Tilt. Welcome to the party Julie, Fling On!
This Beta Girl has taste! Meet self proclaimed food snob Emily Olson of Foodzie. Emily was a chemistry turned communications major at Virginia Tech. But ultimately her love for food took over. Emily began witnessing so many small food producers who were struggling to get their specialty foods on shelves. This is where her idea for Foodzie came about. She started Foodzie with two of her friends, now they are all in Boulder participating in TechStars. Here they will be fine-tuning their startup before unleashing it to the world.
Our newest Beta Girl is Emily McDonnell, who is Fuser’s Community Advocate. Fuser is a cool website that allows users to manage their online activity (email, twitter, facebook) at one centralized location. Emily is a CU graduate who happens to love sports. She was a community relations intern at Kroenke Sports Enterprises and is a key player on the Fuser Softball team when she is not getting hurt:)
Disclaimer: We use Fuser for our numerous email accounts.
Let’s give out a Mimobot! Beta girls and guys for every submission or comment you leave on Fling it Girl your name will be entered to win Pastaio, the usb flash drive by Tokidoki. Pastaio is a little devilish but is hungry for your files! So start Flinging away from now until June 17th. We will be drawing old school out of a hat and revealing the winner on June 18th by video.
Not a beta participant? If you want to be one, hit us up and we will see if you are Fling Worthy:)
LaLaFuFu wins the padded underwear contest, with a line that made us laugh the loudest. All were very funny and creative. We appreciate everyone taking part in this poll.
Everyone recommended that we check out The Shoppe, Denver’s first boutique Pastry Cafe. It lived up to the hype with it’s sweet vibe and off the chain cupcakes. It is a great place to chill, they have free Wi-Fi or you can thumb through one of their art & design books, drink coffee, watch old-school cartoons + artsy flix, listen to live music, play board games, enjoy a nice cold bowl of cereal and tasty cupcake for lunch or at 2 A.M. They also have Cheetah Couriers Bike Messengers to make deliveries, very cool!
The Shoppe was started by Tran, co-owner of The Fabric Lab (which features handmade items crafted by local designers) and pastry chef Emma Skala owner of Emma Rose Cakes(warning when you click this link you will start craving a cupcake!) Both tired of the same old hangouts and craving a place to relax and be creative they founded The Shoppe. Great job girls, mission accomplished!
Give me an A, give me a N, give me a…ah forget it. Friends just say hello to startup junkie Andrew Hyde, the freshest Beta Dude. Why do we call him a startup junkie? Well, Andrew is the co-founder of Venture Capital Wear (a t-shirt company that started as a joke), founder of Startup Weekend (a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects all over the world), currently in charge of developing a community at TechStars, and a couple of other projects that are in ultra secret mode. Not enough startup stuff? Then check out his blog, where he shares his thoughts about startups, communities, and coffee. We are excited to have him check out our start-up in its early stage. Thanks and welcome to the party pal!
Disclaimer: I participated in Startup Weekend, have VC Wear t-shirts (around $400 worth), and love what TechStars is doing.
With our site in private beta I occasionally test out the site and Fling Up a product I come across. I Flung this product for men that made me laugh out loud and I would love to hear what the guys and girls think of it. Padded underwear for men….hey the girls have padded products…so is this Fling Worthy?
***Contest*** Comment on your reaction to men’s padded underwear for a chance to win a Fling it Girl shirt. (i.e. the one that makes us laugh the hardest) KEEP IT CLEAN. Contest closed Friday at Noon MST.
Don’t ever say a girl can’t code! Meet Sara Olive, a self proclaimed Technology Sorceress who has all the skills to back it up. Everything she does is magic, just take a look at newly launched dandyid.org, a startup that Sara Co-Founded. DandyId is a free service that connects all of your online identities and makes them globally accessible. Finally one place to mange all your social identifiers! Check out some of Sara’s past work and be further impressed. We are so happy to have Sara in our Beta Girl group!
Disclaimer: When DandyId was launched we were all over it like an all you can eat buffet.
Mimobots are collectable USB Flash Drives that are down right adorable! Mimoco has combined the USB Key with pop culture to bring you adorable characters preloaded with goodies. Check out all their collections that range from Halo to Japanese influenced art. We instantly fell in love with them. Hey who wouldn’t trust their files with Luke Skywalker (the Force will be with your data always) or with Meletta, as long as you don’t ask her how she got that monkey on her head. Our friends over at Mimoco graciously gave us 6 mimobots to give away when we launch. Stay tuned as we will roll out details soon on how to win these cute data storing bots!
Inhabitants embrace the man and the legend Micah Baldwin as our newest Beta Dude. Micah (pronounced meeha) is currently the VP of Business Development at Lijit and author of the Learn To Duck the learn to duck blog. If you are craving a blog with substance, then you gotta check out his blog where you will uncover some serious advice about the hard knocks of life and the start up life. Quoting Micah, “To get, one must give, and trust that the gift is compelling enough to have the other give in return.” We here at Fling it Girl are quickly learning how vital it is to grasp and apply this principle. We can’t wait for his feedback.
Disclaimer: We use Lijit, like Lijit, and recommend Lijit.
Yo, meet fiery Samantha Harms and welcome her to the Fling it Girl menage. Samantha is a Product Manager over at PublicEarth, a start up that is changing the way people create, use and share information about the world around them, using the Internet and location-aware devices. (stole this from her LinkedIn page) Samantha’s blog highfire Danger 2.0 (i am a fire starter, a twisted fire starter…sorry we had Prodigy playing as I wrote this) chronicles her journey as a web startup junkie. If your into startups, it’s a must read. We have a feeling that her Fling Worthy finds will be HOT! (was that too cheesy?)
