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This great conversation with Scott covers his vision for textPlus, how they are working to make communications seamless for the consumer, why they are attacking the stack instead of building on top of it, what the transition was for him from a product to sponsorship revenue model and where he sees the disruption happening in his space.

This is as much a startup story about using your iPhone and Android devices to find out where your family is as it is about finding your way as a startup in the mobile industry. Life360 turns your phone into the ultimate family safety device and was co-founded by Chris Hulls and funded by Dave [...]

If you’ve ever purchased a daily deal or two you’ve quickly realized a few challenges that, in hindsight, are obvious. The first is that you need to find the one service you want from the hundreds of daily deal services that are operating today. Second is you need to be on top of the deals [...]

Can you create serendipity from your social network based on your location? Can you use all these great tools like LinkedIn, Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter on the road and to create new – but related – contacts? Is there a value in connecting people who happen to be in one location over a smartphone? Sonar [...]

If ever there was an idea that marketers, consumers and businesses should like it is Forecast. A small Austin-based mobile startup with a ton of experience and a clarity of thinking that is mature beyond their months in business. Forecast is a play on the check-in: Instead of telling people where you are or have [...]

There is a first time for everything – and this time around it is the first time I’ve had someone on the show for a third time. Ken Seto is the first to crack the trifecta and his story is worth it. My first interview with Ken was in April of 2010 right around the [...]

How many times have you helped your friend move or do a favour and hear this: “I’ll buy you a beer” but never collect? Well, thanks to Travis Todd, your mobile phone and the innovative idea behind his company Buddy Beers, collecting will no longer be an issue! Berlin-based Buddy Beers allows you to send [...]

The promise of location based marketing is that it will drive foot traffic to retail locations. The question we’ve all been struggling with is how can we use mobile to drive that traffic without giving away your shirt. Enter Eli Portnoy and his company, ThinkNear. I asked Eli to come on to UNTETHER.tv to walk [...]

How does a company differentiate itself in a very crowded discount and coupon market dominated by companies like Groupon, LivingSocial and Facebook? That’s why I asked Mike Davis, the co-founder of Ringleadr.com on to UNTETHER.tv. Ringleadr is a reverse Groupon where consumers decide what discount to what company they would like and propose it to [...]

What is the state of the mobile advertising world today? That’s what I set out to answer when I invited Anne Frisbie, VP and Managing Director for InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising network on for an episode. Anne’s insights in this industry are incredible and this is a rolling, high-octane 40 minutes where [...]

What kind of idea does it take to win TechCrunch Disrupt? It would have to be disruptive in a space that people get and also one that adds value. Well, Getaround did win TechCrunch Disrupt in the spring of 2011 in New York, have been labelled the Air BnB of the automotive industry and are [...]

Can a mobile application stimulate job development? And if so, what kinds of jobs would companies be willing to offer to a mobile workforce and what would that mobile workforce be willing to do on spec. This is where the conversation started with Ariel Seidman, co-founder of Gigwalk. Gigwalk is a mobile application that marries [...]