Empire Avenue is barely a week old and people are already talking about us. Let me give you some insight into what’s happening. We’ve had about 250 people active in our closed beta over the last week – well within the numbers that we wanted to get feedback from. There are a lot more folks [...]
Read more →Wow. We launched our closed beta for “Friends and Family” on Tuesday, February 23rd, and we are extremely impressed! We currently have about 250 people on the site, testing and working through the system, who have provided fantastic feedback that we are starting to act on. We’ve learned quite a bit about how our [...]
Read more →Hey all… hope you’re enjoying the beta so far! If you aren’t in yet, be sure to sign up, and we’ll get you in as soon as we can. Today’s a big day for us: it’s the day our first press release goes out to media! After our awesome launch event last night at Transcend [...]
Read more →“He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.” – Elbert G. Hubbard. Today is a day I’ve been looking forward to with great anticipation. It is with great pleasure that we announce the opening of The People’s Market on Empire Avenue. Now, granted, it is currently only open to a [...]
Read more →Well, the invites are out for our launch event at Transcend Coffee, lists of Beta Invitees are being prepped for their site invites next week, and the press releases are being written. I don’t even know what else to write! We’re going to open up the site to a Friends and Family Beta on February [...]
Read more →Announcing that we will soon be announcing our Friends and Family Beta (Woah, we’ll actually tell people what the hell we’re doing). But yes here are some instructions on getting to be a part of that Beta, even if you might not strictly be a “Friend” or “Family”… yet!
Read more →Thinking about starting a company? Going after Investors? Empire Avenue’s Chief Operating Officer, Robert Kallir, shares some of the insights that he has learned in his 30+ years in business.
Read more →Physical offices are a thing of the past… or so is the case here at Empire Avenue. We’re a new breed of company, casting off the cold and oppressive shackles of costly office space in favor of the warm, liberating embrace of remote working. Not that we would oppose any of the team choosing to work in an oppressive office. We’ll happily provide a nice pen mug for your cubicle. Here are some of the tools we use to make working remotely easy!
Read more →One of the beauties of creating a startup in the early part of this century is the ability to prototype and create your application rapidly and at almost no cost other than some elbow grease. Really, the best friend of any startup these days is the world of Open Source.
Read more →Looking at technology evolution and how what we look at has changed in the post-Google world and how things have not changed. Ideas on technology, applications and gaming. Did I say games? Yes games.
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