PINGTAG vs Startup Science

The emergency contact QR tags for your car and personal items

A PingTag is a printable tag with a QR code that you attach to your car and your personal items, so that people can scan it to message you in case of an emergency, without revealing your phone numbers to each other.

Each PingTag you create and attach to an object acts like a dedicated phone number that privately relays messages to your phone and/or email, while keeping your actual phone number private.

Location: Los Angeles, United States

Giving founders an unfair advantage

To help startups design their success, 1 founder at a time.

Why? Because wealth inequality is directly tied to entrepreneurship. 95% of people who get out of check-to-check living do so by selling a business.

It started with researching why, how, and when startups fail. We did 1,200 interviews and spent months reading the research to understand the 90% failure rate. We learned that founders keep making the same mistakes and these mistakes can be avoided. And the problems that lead to these mistakes center around people, knowledge, and financial resources.

Accelerators are designed to help startups solve these problems. But only 2% of startups who apply, are accepted into accelerators. 60% of rejected founders “failed to complete the application due to lack of knowledge.” And 70% of those startups who are accepted, came through a referral. So if you don’t know the language or are not connected into the ecosystem already your chances are slim.

Location: Santa Cruz, United States