Look who closed a Series A!
It’s been awhile since my last blog post and in fact this week I’m in Hawaii. But, I wanted to congratulate Max and Alexis over at Wishpot on the closing of their round. As a side note, I got a chance to meet with another firm involved in this project – H Farm in Italy. Very cool company, nice guys and beautiful work.
Well orchestrated energy policy
An interesting data point about entreprenuers using Macs
I’ve been in Palo Alto for the last few days meeting with a bunch of investors to help out Imagekind. One thing I noticed is that people saw me pull my Mac out onto the conference table and they all kept asking me if I needed an adaptor for use with the projector. I thought it was rather interesting that all these VC’s kept proactively asking this question as they knew that my DVI video output was not going to be immediately compatible with their VGA input for the projector. At the last meeting of the day, I asked one of the partners why all these VC’s kept offering an adaptor before I even had a chance to get settled. Were there really that many people pitching deals on Macs?
In their estimation, approximately 40-45% of all entrepreneurs pitching deals on Sand Hill Road do so on Macs. 40-45%! That seems pretty astounding huh?
Famous Sand Hill Road
Traveling down in the Valley today! Oh, you can feel the energy in the air…
Guess how long ago 1998 was?
The math can get kind of tricky.
Great SEO links going around the Seattle tech community
Ok, I didn’t originate this list. I’m just sharing it. This list fell out of a great post by Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz titled “I’m Getting Pretty Tired of Startup Advice that Doesn’t Include Any Mention of SEO“. I posted some comments as I thought the right conclusion is more about perspective around ALL the things that make a start-up work (and not just SEO). But the conversation got lively and Justin M. Laing of MerchantOS subsequently shared some of the SEO feeds he follows regularly. It’s a good list and I hope he doesn’t mind me posting the list here:
SEO Book.com – http://www.seobook.com/rss.xml
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/seomoz
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feed/
–others–
Graywolf’s SEO Blog http://www.wolf-howl.com/feed/
:: Link Building Blog :: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LinkBuildingBlog
BlogStorm http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogstorm
Blue Hat SEO-Advanced SEO Tactics http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/feed/
Copyblogger http://www.copyblogger.com/feed/
Dave Naylor a UK SEO http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/feed/
EricWard.com – Content Publicity and Link Building Expert Commentary and Tips http://www.urlwire.com/articles/ericward.rss
Greg Boser – Search Marketing Consultant – aka WebGuerrilla http://www.webguerrilla.com/feed/
Jennifer Slegg – An SEM Consultant http://www.jenniferslegg.com/feed/
Jim Boykin’s Internet Marketing Blog http://www.jimboykin.com/feed/
LinkJuicy http://www.linkjuicy.com/feed/
Linklove http://www.vdgraaf.info/feed/
Scoreboard Media Group http://feeds.feedburner.com/scoreboard
Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com/feed/
SEM Seattle http://feeds.feedburner.com/semseattle
SEO Class http://seoclass.com/feed/
SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/feed/
Shoemoney – Skills To Pay The Bills http://www.shoemoney.com/feed/
Stuntdubl Business Search Marketing Consulting http://www.stuntdubl.com/feed/
The Funnelholic http://funnelholic.com/feed/
Tropical SEO http://tropicalseo.com/feed/
Wiep.net – SEO & Link Building blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wiep
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Curious Office Companies
Inkd
Inkd is our latest internally developed concept. We raised our $1.7 million seed round on September 22 and are backed by Second Avenue Partners and a variety of tremendous angel investors. We are developing the World's First Market for Original Print Design.
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CafePress
Cafepress acquired Imagekind in July 2008. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. -
Imagekind
Curious Office started Imagekind in 2006 and it is the world's fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale. Imagekind gives consumers limitless options to purchase museum-quality framed and poster art from over 50,000 domestic and international emerging and established artists. -
SEOmoz.org
Curious Office invested in SEOmoz along with Ignition Partners in 2007. SEOmoz serves as one of the largest online hubs for search marketers worldwide by providing education, tools, resources and paid services to help make every SEO the best they can be. -
Shelfari
Amazon.com acquired Shelfari in September 2008. Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers -
Fanzter
Fanzter is headquartered in Collinsville, Connecticut and are the creators of the wildly popular celebrity style and entertainment platform Coolspotters.com, which launched in May 2008. Fanzter secured $2 Million In Series B Funding Led By Steamboat Ventures in March 2009. -
Wishpot
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netConcepts
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Rouxbe
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RocketVox
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