The government has bailed out banks and mortgage companies, and it's most likely going to do something for the auto industry. How about my early stage internet startups who are also in desperate need of cash to survive through this economic downturn? Or...how about my all time favorite startup Pets.com?
Angel Investing/Venture Funds: November 2008 Archives
Some teams from Seedcamp from London were in town this last week and I managed to get a private pitch session. Here is a video of uberVU pitching me, shot from a mobile phone:
uberVU - betaworks pitch from Vladimir Oane on Vimeo.
I don't look too good without makeup, do I?
Favorite Links
- Alan Tien, Maeling Tien's Site
- betaworks - next generation media company
- David Shen Ventures, LLC
- Chuckakung
- Amazon.com
- Fabulously Green - be green, read this blog.
- Google - Where I now know more people in their cafeteria than at the Yahoo! cafeteria
- Ravi Dronamraju
- Keish "Keishman" Doi
- AdNectar - ad network of virtual branded gifts.
- The Advanced Marketing & Media Group - helping marketers manage their data
- bit.ly - shorten, share, and track your links.
- Cucina Media - and its publishing platform, Public Square
- Dizzywood - virtual world for kids
- Edufire - live, streaming learning.
- Goodrec - social recommendations.
- Lefora - build your own Web 2.0 free forum, from the guys at Meetro now known as Team Awesome
- Ideeli - buy luxury women's purses and accessories
- UserVoice - feedback from your customers, managing it, generating ideas from it.
- Voyij - meta search engine for travel deals.
- Yotify - access, share, and publish information from your favorite websites.
- VoxPop.tv
- Yahoo! - Where I used to work
- covestor - social investing
- daylife - news platform
- OMGPOP - social entertainment
- Liquor.com - the best in mixology
- Lotame - social media behavorial targeting
- outside.in - location based content
- Songkick - music applications and analytics
- Stocktwits - real investors, real ideas, real time.
- Tweetdeck - best dang Twitter desktop client ever.
- tumblr - personal publishing platform
- Whatsapp - smartphone messaging
