Smart Startup | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/smart-startup/RSS feed for Smart StartupenFri, 29 Sep 2017 18:21:31 +0000Want to Learn Cherokee? How About Ainu? This Startup Is Teaching Endangered Languageshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/want-learn-cherokee-how-about-ainu-startup-teaching-endangered-languages-180965076/Tribalingual founder Inky Gibbens explains how saving languages is a means of preserving different worldviewsFri, 29 Sep 2017 18:21:31 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/want-learn-cherokee-how-about-ainu-startup-teaching-endangered-languages-180965076/This Invention Makes a Gardener Out of Anyonehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/invention-makes-gardener-out-anyone-180963299/Seedsheets founder and CEO Cameron MacKugler designs the garden. You just have to water it.Mon, 15 May 2017 15:20:38 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/invention-makes-gardener-out-anyone-180963299/There's No Snoozing in Class With This Chemistry Apphttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/theres-no-snoozing-class-chemistry-app-180963080/Chem101 allows professors to push out exercises for students to do on their devices, increasing classroom engagementFri, 28 Apr 2017 17:19:56 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/theres-no-snoozing-class-chemistry-app-180963080/In an Emergency, You'll Want This Hi-Tech First Aid Kithttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/in-emergency-youll-want-this-hi-tech-first-aid-kit-180963062/Ram Fish, founder and CEO of 19Labs, talks about developing his clinic-in-a-boxThu, 27 Apr 2017 12:33:55 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/in-emergency-youll-want-this-hi-tech-first-aid-kit-180963062/This One-Year Alternative to College Promises to Land Students a Well-Paying Job, Debt-Freehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-one-year-alternative-college-promises-land-students-well-paying-job-debt-free-180962742/Adam Braun is launching MissionU, a program that cuts to the chase and disrupts the higher education industryMon, 03 Apr 2017 16:54:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-one-year-alternative-college-promises-land-students-well-paying-job-debt-free-180962742/Where Should You Live? This App Will Tell Youhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/where-should-you-live-app-will-tell-you-180962588/Enter your budget and a number of your preferences and Teleport will match you with some fitting citiesMon, 20 Mar 2017 14:51:12 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/where-should-you-live-app-will-tell-you-180962588/What If You Could Take a Vitamin 3D Printed to Meet Your Personal Nutrition Needs?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-if-you-could-take-vitamin-3d-printed-meet-your-personal-nutrition-needs-180962190/Fred Parietti, CEO and cofounder of Multiply Labs, wants personalized nutritional supplements to start a whole new movementThu, 16 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/what-if-you-could-take-vitamin-3d-printed-meet-your-personal-nutrition-needs-180962190/Will This App Turn More Readers On to Serialized Fiction?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/will-this-app-turn-more-readers-on-to-serialized-fiction-180962163/Releasing a chapter at a time, Radish could have us binge reading romance and mystery novelsTue, 14 Feb 2017 17:11:11 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/will-this-app-turn-more-readers-on-to-serialized-fiction-180962163/These Flowers Come Straight From the Farm to Your Doorhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-flowers-come-straight-farm-your-door-180962151/By cutting out the middleman, this startup is aiming for better bouquets and a greener flower industryMon, 13 Feb 2017 19:09:10 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-flowers-come-straight-farm-your-door-180962151/Forget Substitute Teachers. "Parachute Teachers" May Be the Future.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/forget-substitute-teachers-parachute-teachers-are-the-future-180961989/When the teacher is out, why not have a local chef or engineer lead a lesson?Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:02:30 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/forget-substitute-teachers-parachute-teachers-are-the-future-180961989/