Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Lemur Retail co-founders are the entrepreneurs in residence at Arlington Economic Development.
Will Fuentes and Cary Scott want to help businesses out-Amazon Amazon.com. The two co-founders of the Arlington-based tech startup Lemur Retail, who are serving as the inaugural entrepreneurs-in-residence at Arlington Economic Development, have developed software to help salespeople move products and companies maximize the return on the products they stock. Inspired by the idea of the "long tail of retail" — the line on a graph of product versus sales that extends indefinitely — Fuentes originally wanted to call the company Salamander. Scott told him people like lemurs better. "Really, it was about being able to capture the last little pieces of your inventory," Fuentes recently told Patch in his office space at Arlington Economic …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Business Improvement District, too, will announce new LaunchPad program for area entrepreneurs.
The Ballston Business Improvement District, or BID, tonight will kick off a major new marketing campaign that highlights the hub of innovation in that community — plus a new program designed to help entrepreneurs take advantage of that talent. The invitation-only event in the former Chevy's Fresh Mex space at Ballston Common Mall serves multiple functions. It will highlight Ballston as a place "where minds meet," a core focus of the new branding campaign. It will introduce Ballston LaunchPad, a new program for startups that has the support of Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Capitals and a nationally renowned entrepreneur. The LaunchPad program itself will announce a new challenge designed to find the next big idea in Ballston. And…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Developers see project evolving to have civilian applications.
Virginia Tech's Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research has been awarded a contract to develop a field smartphone for military medics, the school announced Monday. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command awarded the $2.2 million, three-year contract to the center thanks, in part, to the years of combat casualty care research by the center's director, Seong K. Mun, and the graduate school's associate dean for the National Capital Region, Kenneth Wong, according to a news release. The center, at 900 N. Glebe Road, has partners in Seoul National University in South Korea for its Android expertise, and Irvine, Calif.-based Starix Technology for ultra-wideband communications interfaces between the phone and field medical …
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Decision Lens weighed access, amenities and other factors in Ballston against those in Clarendon, Rosslyn and other Arlington County locations.
A Ballston-based business that develops decision-making software turned its product on itself in recent years when looking for the best place to relocate — and ended up deciding on Ballston. Decision Lens' collaborative software virtually brings together people and information so that every stakeholder has a say in developing criteria for a decision and determining priorities, said John Saaty, the co-founder and chief executive officer of the company. "Everybody in the company can get involved and have a voice," he said. Saaty and his brother founded Decision Lens in Falls Church in 2005. The business moved to a small office in Ballston a couple years later. Soon, it had grown to about 50 employees and needed bigger space. The company …
Sandra Murillo
2:23 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012
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