Momentum Blog: Momentum Startups

Jun252011

Converati-Getting Going

By cofounder, Seth Samuels

Propping up a startup is no easy task. All too often it seems folks talk about going from idea to IPO, skipping over the trials and tribulations that make up a majority of the journey. Well I’m experience them first hand has I progress Converati- my love for the last year and a half that started as research and matured into a product that kept me up at night.

Since being accepted into the Momentum seed accelerator program, I’ve learned and experienced so much on multiple fronts, from networking to biz dev to pitching+selling to team management to trust, and even the constant need for balance (probably the toughest to achieve of them all!). There have undoubtedly been a fair share of times where things seem just too difficult and too much adds up into what becomes a frustrating mass of insurmountable challenge, and yet one just keeps going, working (smarter) towards that light, that vision, that belief.

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Jun252011

Chexting Along

By cofounder, Jeff Bell

The Chext team is really proud and excited to be a part of the Momentum 2011 class of companies. Chext is a financial awareness platform for the text generation. With the popularity of debit cards and online banking, most of us have stopped tracking our spending and opted instead to just log in to our bank and check our balance. The problem is that since we aren’t proactively tracking our spending, we lose track of over $2300.00 a year from our accounts! With our busy lifestyles, checkbook registers just don’t cut it, are inconvenient, and they don’t give us the awareness that’s necessary today.

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