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 [...]
I am at AlphaLab this morning, and I will try to get a short blurb off on each presenting company – looks like a great set of companies and nice audience.
Last up today is Sonya Labs, the creation of Rodrigo Guzman, Nathan Collins, and Walter Chen. These three Pittsburgh imports are creating the “Google of legal research.”
The legal profession today uses LexisNexis and Westlaw to find legal information to buld cases, but these resources are old-school, mostly manually based sources of legal information. SonyaLabs is [...]
Founder Felix Lloyd used to be a school teacher in Washington DC, and he hopes his startup, Skill-Life, willl be able to help school-aged children learn about personal finances. He likens his idea to “SIMS meets Quicken.”
Felix is a great salesman, and his entertaining walk through the Skill-Life online virtual world, Cents City, showed off [...]