Todd Lyden

Part 2 ( see the first half here ) Yesterday, I talked to George DeCarlo about his online incubator, Hatchable.com and the latest idea to spring out of his head: Woobox.com This serial entrepreneur had two other unique ideas that got their start through Hatchable. George, first tell us about FreeAppAlert.   FreeAppAlert.com shows you all the paid iPhone and iPad apps that are temporarily free.  It's a very simple concept but has turned into a very popular site. How popular would you say it is? T he web and mobile versions combined get over a million visits a month. What was the genesis for your idea? I was browsing the iPhone app store one day and saw a $15 app that was running a free promotion for a limited period of time.  I grabbed the app, and thought, wouldn't it be nice to know whenever a paid iPhone app runs a free promotion?  So I built FreeAppAlert, sent it to a few blogs and watched the usage grow.  Every day I update fans and followers with the ...

I was lucky enough to grab George DeCarlo , formerly of Dotster , to sit down and talk about his latest online venture, called Hatchable.com.  Crunchbase 's profile of George: "George is a serial entrepreneur who currently incubates and launches new web startups through his company Hatchable . Prior to Hatchable, George founded the internet services company Dotster in 1999. One of his most recent ventures is iAte , a company that tracks and makes discoverable restaurant reviews that Twitter users share in their status updates."   George, how did you come to start Hatchable? I've always found the launch and early stage of business the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding.  I created Hatchable to focus on launching interesting web businesses from the idea stage. The site lists it as "web ventures" to incubate web startups and turn ideas into businesses. What does that mean to you?   "Hatchable is an incubator for my ideas currently. I...