| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.12.2015 | Can these apps really cure you of holiday stress? | The Post’s deputy fashion editor challenges three personal assistant apps to take on her most daunting holiday tasks.Photo by Brian Zak/NY Post (2); Styling by Brice Gaillard/thepropstylist.com
Even though I consider Instagram and Uber some... |
| 25.08.2015 | “Desksourcing” Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World | Spencer Lazar Contributor
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| 20.12.2014 | Online Tools that Help You Start a Business without Breaking the Bank | Many people dream of starting their own business, but they fear they don’t have enough resources or that their idea is not good enough to ensure a company’s success. While you remain in charge of the idea behind the business, you should kno... |
| 15.08.2014 | How People Are Filling In When AI Can’t Do The Job | Since Siri became a part of iOS in 2011, the idea of having a digital assistant that can help us get things done just by asking has been a central thrust of the big smartphone platform owners.
Less than a year after Apple rolled out its AI ... |
| 10.06.2014 | Amazon to wrangle babysitting, home repair startups into a marketplace | Thomas Hawk reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating
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Amazon has plans to start a "marketplace for local services," according to a report from Reuters Tues... |
| 23.05.2014 | Personal Assistant Startup Fancy Hands Taps New CEO To Focus On Growth | Fancy Hands, the New York City based startup that lets you book a remote personal assistant to complete tasks for a flat fee, has hired a new CEO to focus on business partnerships and growth, founder Ted Roden tells TechCrunch.
Roden has ha... |
| 19.02.2014 | Trumaker, The Made-To-Measure Men’s Apparel Startup, Closes $6.5 Million Series A | Technology has a way of making things that have historically been accessible to the wealthy and connected a bit more within reach to the rest of us. Uber’s done it with limos, Fancy Hands with personal assistant services, Everlane with luxu... |
| 12.02.2014 | How I Work: Jess Gartner, founder of edtech startup Allovue | One of six graduates of the 2013 AccelerateBaltimore class, Allovue is a web tool for school administrators to track budgets and appropriate funding founded by 27-year-old Jess Gartner. A Teach for America alumna, Gartner spends her time at... |
| 06.11.2013 | My week with a virtual assistant | This is a guest post by entrepreneur Cheryl Yeoh, who tested a virtual assistant for a week. VentureBeat asked for a write-up after hearing her review of the service.
We all wish we had more hours in a day. As a startup founder for almost f... |
| 27.10.2013 | Fancy Hands Enhances Mobile Search In Novel Ways | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
This weekly column has been focused on mobile lately and will likely stay th... |
| 07.04.2013 | 10 Startups That Turn Complexity Into Simplicity | Here’s the thing about simplicity. It’s all relative. A developer’s idea of simplicity is different from a finance chief or a customer service agent.
I run across a variety of startups in my daily work at TechCrunch. But few have that innat... |
| 28.03.2013 | Fancy Hands Now Has An iPhone App, So You Can Book A Personal Assistant Anytime | Sometimes the smallest, most mundane tasks are the things you really dread — and put off for weeks. Like booking an oil change for your car, or finding a nice play for an anniversary date and buying tickets, or finding a good dentist in a n... |
| 13.02.2013 | Salesforce’s Do.com teams up with Dropbox, Google Drive, & others to help your team ‘do more’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Salesforce-owned productivity app Do.com has part... |
| 13.02.2013 | Salesforce’s Do.com teams up with Dropbox, Google Drive, & others to help your team ‘do more’ | Salesforce-owned productivity app Do.com has partnered with big-name services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Harvest to improve its offerings and build an even-better app to help teams accomplish tasks.
“A lot of our customers don’t have a... |
| 14.01.2013 | Zappos CEO invests in Zirtual, a virtual assistant service | Personal assistants or PA’s are considered a luxury for the rich and famous — the type that routinely say, “Have your people talk to my people.”
Zirtual wants to make it easier and more affordable for busy professionals to retain an assista... |
| 14.01.2013 | Zappos CEO invests in Zirtual, a virtual assistant service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Personal assistants or PA’s are considered a luxu... |
| 17.05.2012 | We Talk To Two Exciting New NYC Startups: Fancy Hands And Stamped [TCTV] | Last night, Time Inc. threw a pretty badass party in Manhattan to celebrate “Ten NYC Startups To Watch.” Among the ten were Fancy Hands, a site that offers up a personal assistant for every and any need you might have, and Stamped, a social... |
| 01.05.2012 | Startup News: Time’s NYC 10 in Tech, Rx Sunglasses Online and Amazon’s Hot Sister | (Source: Warby Parker)
PERFECT TEN. Last Wednesday Time Inc. brought together editors from many of their news properties to bestow upon us the “10 NYC Startups to Watch.” Only in the startup picking game since lat year’s Internet Week, Time... |
| 25.02.2012 | When Bots Go Mad | There may or may not be robots that are truly “good” someday, but there will probably be bad robots, if there aren’t already. If not bad robots, then bad robot situations. You can catch a taste of the feeling of what might go wrong in the r... |
| 31.01.2012 | The secret to finding business jobs in StartupVille | Have you noticed that there are very few job listings for business development, marketing, operations, and other business-related functions at startups? It seems like all the non-technical jobs get snatched up before they are even made publ... |
| 30.11.2011 | Brother, Can You Spare Some Time? Zaarly, TaskRabbit and the Rise of the Convenience Economy | Chad Miller likes to think of running errands for strangers on TaskRabbit as a quasi-religious experience—or at least as close to spiritual as a gay former Southern Baptist from West Texas is likely to find in New York. Mr. Miller is a 38-y... |
| 12.05.2011 | 2WAY Q&A: Fancy Hands’ Ted Roden on “Going it Alone” in the Startup Game | Ted Roden is part of our impressive lineup of speakers at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit. As part of our ongoing series of interviews with those speakers, we fired off a round of questions at Roden to learn a little more about who he is, what... |
| 08.02.2011 | Inexpensive Virtual Assistant Service Fancy Hands Gets Even Fancier | Today was Ted Roden’s last day at his job working in the R&D Department of the New York Times, as the company’s Creative Technologist. Roden is leaving what many would consider a dream job to focus on Fancy Hands, the low-cost virtual a... |
| 05.04.2010 | Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style | “It’s not about the value of the task, it’s about the value of me not having to do it, or even think about it anymore.” That’s how Ted Roden describes Fancy Hands, his new side project that provides virtual personal assistants in the cloud ... |
