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We are excited to announce that AProofed, a startup in our accelerator program, has launched the beta of its writer-editor online marketplace today! AProofed allows writers and editors to collaborate with each other in a marketplace environment. The cloud-based platform, which now is live and is ready for user registration, will soon display profiles of all Editors and support submission of papers or assignments. Writers can then select any editor they choose to proofread and polish their paper, for a fee that is set by the editor. Any college student, English-as-a-Second-Language(ESL) student, job-hunter, small business owner, engineer, CEO or any person…

We had a chance to sit down with Monica Cowan (CEO) and Ben Weinberger (COO) of Cursiosidy, a FlashStarts startup, and find out how their summer at FlashStarts has been so far. Ken Gardner (CCO/co-founder), Monica Cowan (CEO/co-founder), and Ben Weinberger (COO/co-founder) Curiosidy is a storytelling intranet for businesses. Employees can easily post stories that represent them and share with their peers – all on a beautiful, intuitive and secure platform. curiosidy.com. What attracted you to the FlashStarts accelerator? Ben: We actually submitted a profile on Tech Stars' website, and Jen, the managing partner, saw it and messaged me! We liked FlashStarts,…

Position: Intern Coordinator/Marketing Intern, co-manager of the intern blog School: The College of Wooster, Class of 2014  Linkedin Profile An Unforgettable Experience Wow—what can I say? This summer at FlashStarts has been unlike any other experience I’ve ever had before, and I absolutely loved every minute of my internship here. It’s hard to believe that this summer is coming to a close, and I will be back in Wooster in a couple short weeks and will be starting my senior year. However, now I know what I want to do after I graduate in May—all thanks to my wonderful internship…

Today we interviewed Isaac Yoder and Alex Kotlikoff, the co-founders of FlashStarts startup Smooth, to learn about what they have been working on throughout the summer. Isaac Yoder and Alex Kotlikoff (Co-Founders) of Smooth Smooth is a sophisticated, yet simple, personal finance app currently in development. The program generates personalized recommendations that help users improve their standard of living and offers incentives for users to follow the recommendations. What attracted you to the FlashStarts accelerator? Isaac: We had been planning on dedicating all our time to developing Smooth on our own this summer. But then one of our closest mentors, John…

Position: Marketing/Social Media Intern, co-manager of the intern blog School: Ashland University, Class of 2014 Linkedin Profile Why is FlashStarts a unique opportunity? 1. The People You Get to Work With 2. The Variety of Tasks and Industries You are Exposed to 3. It’s Paid! 1. The People You Get to Work With It’s not every day that you get to work with not one, not two but three very successful business people. Not only is working with Charles, Jen and Jodi a great experience, it’s a great way to learn about how business works outside the classroom. Along with…

Position: Developer Intern School: Colgate University, Class of 2015 Linkedin Profile Bouncing Back! Before I applied to this internship, I had just failed in a business competition (my friends and I were working on a project). Rather fortunately, I got this great chance to work with startups and have learned a lot this summer! During this amazing internship, I’ve learned to use Wordpress and Rails to build websites, as well as research in brand strategy. It was hard for me in the beginning, when I was just thrown into this new environment. Meeting new people and the worst thing—trying to…

How appropriate that this week is Shark Week, and today we had one of our “Shark Tanks” where the teams do their customer/investor pitches in front of some of our expert mentors!

To celebrate Month 3 of our program (and the fact that the Indians are playing well!), FlashStarts took everyone out to the ballgame!  We started off by enjoying a patio picnic before the game and then moved to our seats in the lower box on the third baseline. We picked a great game to go to: it was 14 innings long in overtime! Even though the Indians lost in the end, we all had a great time over at Progressive Field (which will always be “The Jake”!). 

We sat down with Rick Arlow, CEO of RegulatoryBinder.com and talked with him about his summer at our accelerator. Rick Arlow with RegulatoryBinder.com RegulatoryBinder.com, a product of Trailhead CFR, is a web application for managing regulatory documents of physician-sponsored clinical trials. The app is the only platform that instantly enables physicians to coordinate a clinical trial without additional procedures or risk. Rick and RegualtoryBinder.com were recently featured in an interview with Nibletz. What attracted you to the FlashStarts accelerator? Initially I wasn’t really looking at doing an accelerator program, I was closing clients and managing the workload myself. I was like a…