Archive for the ‘WiFi’ Category

Free Food, Free WiFi

Monday, August 17th, 2009

After years of providing free WiFi to the masses, we love going to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) Soutwest Food Expo because we get free food.  The expo is a perfect trade show for us because it helps us meet partners and prospects in our target market.

Toss the ingredients of Smart WiFi into the Crazy Chef's mouth

Toss the ingredients of Smart WiFi into the Crazy Chef's mouth

This year’s booth was designed by our newest team member, John Toole.  The concept was to pitch the ingredients of Smart WiFi to prospects as they pitched bean bags into the Crazy Chef’s mouth.  It’s amazing how popular this corny carnie concept was and how successful it was in producing leads.  This year, we met Joe Aguilar of Bullrito’s and were delighted to discover that Smart WiFi  is a great fit for their WiFi and social marketing needs.  We were also delighted to see the booth of our channel partner, Time Warner Business Class.  Their’s wasn’t as fun as ours!

WIRED Mentions Less Networks

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

We’re in WIRED!

In an article titled “Secure Your Wi-Fi While Traveling,” WIRED mentioned Less Networks as a good resource for finding free WiFi while out and about and unwired.

Tiny reference, but we’ll take it!

Less Networks Named Most Promising

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Did you you know that Less Networks was named Most Promising I.T. and Web 2.0 Company at the 6th Annual Rice Alliance Technology & Entrepreneurship I.T. and Web 2.0 Venture Forum? This recognition was awarded in December 2008.

Read more at RiceAlliance.edu.

What’s Smart WiFi?

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Less Networks combines a network of WiFi hotspots with social networking and mobile advertising.  Smart WiFi users are able to find out who and what’s nearby, when they are out and about. The quality and quantity of this kind of information is getting better and better. Today, there are over 300,000 WiFi users who benefit from Less Networks Smart WiFi.

Too hot? Too cold? Too Far? Too Bad.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Beginning in January, we made a concerted effort to get out more.  Our first and possibly most pivotal not so random encounters were with Fish & Richardson partner Rick Horning and AnchorFree co-founder Eugene Malobrodsky. Rick and Eugene made some introductions, shared contacts and recommended trade shows, all of which led to more introductions and meetings in the months leading up to this Schmooze letter.  We also bumped into Sputnik and anticipate a great friendship in the making. In a really random twist, we attended a Stanford panel discussion on European Entrepreneurship and Innovation, where we learned that Austin companies are as hot as Scandinavian companies are cold, and that all of them are located too far from Silicon Valley. The message? Silicon Valley schmoozin’ can’t be beat.