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Published October 21, 2013 at 12:00PM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

His bootstrapped company consisted only of him and one other employee when he moved to Arlington and decided to poll his visitors, asking, “how many of you are learning Spanish right now?”

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Rosslyn’s Gusto Aims to Make Restaurants’ Lives Easier

By Ethan Rothstein

Published October 14, 2013 at 11:30AM | Updated October 15, 2013 at 1:43PM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

Brett Guidry has been investing in restaurants for years, and he, with his co-founders Bill Schafer and Bill Draper, knew that the “point-of-sale” (POS) systems in restaurants were ripe for new ideas. So Guidry, Schaffer and Draper launched Dovetail, now known as Gusto, a POS system beginning to roll out in Washington, D.C., restaurants.

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Family Business Bringing Homemade Gin to Your Doorstep

By Ethan Rothstein

Published October 7, 2013 at 10:30AM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

Arlington resident Joe Maiellano’s mind, however, goes to high-quality juniper berries and botanicals, a strainer and a funnel.

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Ballston’s Changecause Connecting Brands and Charities

By Ethan Rothstein

Published September 30, 2013 at 11:30AM | Updated September 30, 2013 at 4:22PM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

“Everyone assumes that San Francisco is a more fertile group for startups,” he said. “I don’t think that’s true. It’s such a dense marketplace that it’s really hard to stand out. Plus, in the D.C. area, the talent and access to capital and mentors blows that out of the water.”

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GiftRocker Seeks to Make Gift Certificates Easier for Local Businesses

By Ethan Rothstein

Published September 23, 2013 at 11:30AM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

One by one, he would walk in and see every restaurant, every coffee shop, every boutique had a different method for gift certificates; Some took as long as 15 minutes to provide one.

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Arlington Startup GovTribe Taking Headaches Out of Contracting

By Ethan Rothstein

Published September 16, 2013 at 11:30AM | Updated September 16, 2013 at 1:18PM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

CEO Nate Nash, CFO/COO Marc Vogtman and Chief Technology Officer Jay Hariani, while working for Deloitte, traveled to, among other places, Saudi Arabia and Iraq as technology consultants. Compared to working on a laptop in the middle of the desert, working on an iPhone app in a basement doesn’t sound too bad.

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Rosslyn-Based LiveSafe Aims For a Safer School Year

By Tom Risen

Published September 9, 2013 at 3:00PM | Updated September 10, 2013 at 11:03AM

Editor’s Note: Sponsored by Monday Properties and written by ARLnow.com, Startup Monday is a weekly column that profiles Arlington-based startups and their founders. The Ground Floor, Monday’s office space for young companies in Rosslyn, is now open. The Metro-accessible space features a 5,000-square-foot common area that includes a kitchen, lounge area, collaborative meeting spaces, and a stage for formal presentations.

Rosslyn-based LiveSafe’s free mobile app is designed for college students to use geo-location on their phones to anonymously report incidents or suspicious behavior on campus, or even to request college security to monitor them late at night. More than 20 law enforcement agencies and schools have used LiveSafe as pilot programs since the app launched in April. The company is transitioning those trial periods into sales of the GPS map dashboards, which allow security officials to follow LiveSafe’s crime and safety alerts.