• Great coffee convo with @stp this AM; there is a spark of startup life in BFLO (but we got sports out of the way first… go pens) #
• Success by staying small and growing w/out VC: Bootstrapping and the infinite runway http://bit.ly/ynBfy #feedly #
• Me too RT @Scobleizer: I love feedly.com — it is how I read my Google Reader feeds now. Requires FF but if you have it: http://ff.im/4lkgy #
• RT @alMoo: SO HANDY! Make any website easier to read by removing the clutter around what you're reading. http://bit.ly/6yBSE #
• HotPads Daily : Love it when PARENTS of startups are passionate! Introducing The HotPads Mobile http://bit.ly/LH8Nr #
• Happy Nativity of St John the Baptist RT @pauldawalibi: Wearing a red polo and white pants today in honor of Quebec's St. Jean Baptiste #
• Watching to Pirates beat up on the Indians 7-1… #
• Make that 9-1. #
• http://twitpic.com/8bzfx – And the winner of the pierogie race… Oliver Onion! #
• Pirates win one on a great night at the ballpark – thanks @keithinpa for the invitation! #
• Or on the lighter side… http://budurl.com/pg8l RT @chrisszymansky: Best song ever: http://bit.ly/17k1Pj #penguins #stanleycup #
• GReader Share Implement Advanced "Siestas" for Improved Sleep [via feedly]: A poor night'.. http://tinyurl.com/lrb8cn #

• “Something Called The Internet” – http://shar.es/r0jG #
• In NYC headed down to the Digital Sandbox (only sandbox in city, I think) for NY Venture Summit… looks like nice lineup of speakers. #
• Peter Thiel keynote: Fin Engr, Glbzn tapped out; dev world needs true sci/engr innovation – revolutionary, not incremental startups #
• http://twitpic.com/7o6eq – Love GW #
• #helpiranelection – show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click – http://helpiranelection.com/ #
• RT @vabio: #helpiranelection – support democracy in Iran add green overlay to your TWT avatar with 1-click – http://helpiranelection.com/ #
• You bet – around noon? #
• RT @atainter: Next Pittsburgh OpenCoffee Club is Thursday, July 9 – 9am. More info here – http://bit.ly/V8n1r #occ #
• Retweet @TheOnion Sports: Pirates Want Everyone In Pittsburgh To Stop Staring At Them http://bit.ly/iZhbV #

• RT @legalriver Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs — HBS Working Knowledge http://bit.ly/HiN7Q #feedly #
• RT @Figliuolo: Advance Your Career With Strategic Planning http://bit.ly/11uJzk (via @tweetmeme) #
• GReader Share Open Platforms and Innovation [via feedly]: I love Steven Johnson's cover story in th.. http://tinyurl.com/pk2lh7 #
• HILARIOUS! : VC Non Admissions http://tinyurl.com/nxs95y #
• RT @ericries @maples_invest Great post by Founder of Freshbooks what to do before raising VC: http://bit.ly/3QQBhn #
• LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! #
• SORRY@NickSeguin I guess my finger got stuck on the LETS GO PENS! button… #
• RT @fredwilson: the “money slide” from @pkedrosky’s report on “Right Sizing The US VC Industry”. “cause and effect”? http://bit.ly/li4Lw #
• RT @michellemalkin: Don't turn around, uh oh. Der Kommisar's in town, uh uh oh: http://bit.ly/CsQ54 #
• RT @cshirky: Dear Newspaper Folk: Young people didn't "abandon" newspapers. Readers have to be earned; by not adapting, you abandoned them. #
• RT @mcrisp: SF passes law that you must sort you trash correctly or be ticketed. Got to get out of this city #
• LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! LETS GO PENS! #
• (it worked last time!) #
• RT @priyacmu: Simply beautiful. What #Pens fans feel. RT @Sean_Leahy: Year in the life: Through the eyes of a Pens fan http://bit.ly/Coe59 #

Next interesting company at Early $tage East (I notice that’s it’s E$E and not ESE, very clever) is ListenLogic.

ListenLogic brings enterprise and business intelligence solutions to the desktop. Their Software as a Service platform helps large companies and brands listen-in on what people are saying about their products, brands, and competition. For large consumer brands looking to take a more active approach to their online presence, ListenLogic is the solution. The platform (I saw a demo of their product which looked very nice) gives companies statistics on what people are saying about their products, provides analytics on competitive product buzz, and allows the company to follow-up with consumers that have posted positive or negative reviews.

Speaking of competitive products, I’m curious how this products stacks up against BuzzMetrics (Nielsen). This concept of measuring online consumer feedback is not new, but there are many large corporate brands that do not adequately address what people are saying about them on the web. ListenLogic hopes to serve these customers.

PhindMe Mobile is a developer of hosted technologies that automate the design and publishing of mobile web applications. Their core product is a design tool that generates “iPhone quality” websites for every Internet-enabled cell phone.

The screenshots look very slick and “mobile” is a great space to be in right now. In a way, these types of “mobile development” companies look a lot like the traditional web development companies of the 90’s. The web development industry gave way to much competition and many “almost as good” free or near free alternatives. However, it looks like PhindMe has achieved some initial traction with some impressive local (Philadelphia) companies. They will be an interesting one to track.

FlyCast gives smartphone owners free access to over 1500 channels of music, weather, talk, and video, delivered wherever and whenever they choose. FlyCast aggregates entertainment content from a variety of existing sources, processes it, and delivers the media to iPhone, Blackberry, and Android based call phones.

The company competes with Pandora and Last.FM. FlyCast claims that these competitors are “broadcasters” of content where FlyCast is just aggregating and pushing content “through the pipe”. The company claims to avoid paying royalty fees because they do not own or store the content. Besides some of the potential legal risk, I am an avid iPhone Pandora user, so it would take a lot to get me to change services. The product is free so they will have to achieve a ton of downloads in order to become a large venture business.

I’m looking forward to giving the product a try. I’d also love to get your thoughts on FlyCast – the product is currently available in the AppStore.

I am at Early Stage East, an early stage venture capital conference in Wilmington, DE. Today I will hear many presentations from up and coming companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. While listening in, I’m going to briefly summarize a few of the more interesting businesses at the event. Hopefully the wireless connection will cooperate better than most venture events I’ve attended in the past.

First up, Scorelogix-

Scorelogix is a credit scoring company. Its Job Security Score product is sold to credit card issuers, mortgage lenders, and direct marketers for pre-screening and credit risk scoring. While FICO scores look at previous credit history, Scorelogix product predicts consumers’ ability to pay as a function of economy, income risk, and many other factors. While this is a fairly interesting concept, they are trying to sell to their target market on a “per score” basis which I predict will be very tough. Credit companies surely have similar technologies devloped in-house that accomplish a similar result. I’d have to be convinced that what Scorelogix is truly gamechanging and not just incrementally better than existing in-house credit assessment algorithms.

I have been invited to speak on a panel hosted by Pittsburgh Gateways and the Entrepreneurial Thursdays crowd – any readers have specific questions they would like to see addressed?

I hope to see you there!

• Wisdom from a German friend: “Everything has an end; but a sausage has two ends.” #
• http://twitpic.com/6g6ij – Sunset in Maui – PARADISE^2 #
• http://twitpic.com/6gcsb – Ever opened a beer bottle with a butter knife? I learned this trick at Nemacolin… #
• GReader Share Gogii debuts Kleiner-backed chat app: What’s group chat? It’s an SMS conversation inv.. http://tinyurl.com/q7458q #
• http://twitpic.com/6safr – 2 baby fawns in my bkyd… I hope mama doe remembers where she left them, I already have 4 kids! #

• Anybody know of an abbreviation substitution app (ala Texter) for Windows Mobile? It is great on PC, but mobile is killer app… #
• RT @Figliuolo: RT @JohnnyWallace: I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades #
• RT @hotpads: Matthew Corgan presenting at the AWS Start-Up Tour : http://tinyurl.com/mtyy5q #
• RT @CatholicNewsSvc: Pittsburgh bucking media trends – New Catholic magazine debuts http://tinyurl.com/ndjysw #
• Wheels up on the short flight to Chicago – can I pick up any Blackhawk kharma to feed to the Penguins? LET’S GO PENS! #