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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TheResumator, founded by Don Charlton, aims to make the process of collecting resumes and tracking a standard hiring process much, much easier.
Don has a great looking site – his strength is clearly on the design and branding side – and this simple idea has been equally simply implemented into a clean, compelling application. Anyone can [...]
Jack Colletti, Dan Davis, and Aruna Endabetla present StockCastr – where “American Idol” meets Jim Cramer.
The simple idea here is to give the at-home amateur a platform to provide rich video and data content around stocks and investments that they believe in and want others to access. In essence, this allows anyone to create their [...]
Next up is bitblinder, presented by Josh Albrecht and Matt Kaniaris. These two compelling founders out of Pitt are creating a way for consumers to access the internet in a private, secure, and unrestricted way.
This business looks a whole lot like a proxy server, or other basic anonymizers, but these guys have thought through some [...]
Rebecca Gaynier is presenting iTwixie – billed as a clean social network for tween girls (ages 8-14 years old).
The pitch is a good one – girls in the tween ages don’t like what the little kids do (Club Penguin, WebKinz), but aren’t quite ready for the older girl sites, even though they are targeted at [...]
Next up is John Carman (and his co-founder, Scott Connolly) talking about their startup, Ajax Street, and their first product, exactbrand (you can find more information at their blog post here).
Still in the early stages of development, the basic idea behind their company is to develop technologies to make consistent branding more effective and efficient. [...]
First up is Bueda, a CMU spinout headed up by Vasco Pedro. The idea behind Bueda is to better monetize ads on user-generated content (UGC) sites using tags and tighter semantic matching.
Certainly a very large market, but also quite crowded, and one that hasn’t necessarily delivered the technology promise as much as the hype. Vasco [...]