<a target="_blank" href="http://www.openbucks.com/">Openbucks</a>, a startup creating a gift card-based payment network (and a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/openbucks-buy-digital-goods-on
It's sort of ridiculous how huge gift card programs are — Americans spend some $100 billion on them each year, and they're now offered by myriad physical stores and online companies (like Zynga) ali
Below are the 29 startups that were chosen, out of roughly 650 applicants, to pitch their business ideas over the next few days at the <a href="http://disrupt.beta.techcrunch.com/SF2011/startup-battle