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Moo.com stops by Curious Office

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Had a nice visit here in the Office of Curiousity with the founder of Moo.com Richard Moross. If you haven’t yet had a chance to check out their products, you really should. They are the coolest Custom Business Cards, MiniCards and Postcards with personality.

August 27, 2009 | Filed Under Inspiration | 2 Comments 

Curious Office takes a bite out of Rouxbe!

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We are pleased to announce our latest project! Rouxbe is a company targeting a big market – home cooks of all ages who are motivated to become better cooks. We all know there are lots of hit-and-miss recipe sites. Unlike other online cooking sites that focus on recipes, celebrity chefs and short technique videos, the, Rouxbe School mirrors an actual culinary curriculum, complete with instructional cooking video lessons, practice video recipes, culinary chef exercises, progress reporting, cooking quizzes, and personal chef support.

Rouxbe is for those who want to learn actual technique. The company is also backed, in part, by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

August 14, 2009 | Filed Under Start-ups | 1 Comment 

Need a set of icons? Look no further than Helveticons

Helveticons - icons for any graphic design project

Just found these today – Helveticons are extremely cool. Should you need icons for wire-framing, presentations, Web applications, buttons, promotional material, or something to put above your desk – Helveticons got you covered. Seven file formats of which six are in scalable vector format. The set contains a lot of different file format, such as .gs for Omnigraffle icons, and .chs for Photoshop shapes. All in all, this is a nice set of graphic design resources. Even if you dont actually use the icons, sometimes its great to have inspiration for common icons.

August 7, 2009 | Filed Under Design | Leave a Comment 

See us at StartupDay 2009 by Seattle 2.0

Kelly Smith at Seattle Start-up Day 2009 by Seattle 2.0

We are flattered that Marcelo Calbucci has invited us here at Curious Office to speak at the Seattle StartupDay 2009 hosted by Seattle 2.0. StartupDay is the conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup. Meet one-on-one with advisors. Learn how to pick the right idea, build your team, fund the business, build your product, bring it to market and make a profit. Learn what’s important for creating a tech business from scratch.

Here at Curious Office we are all about startups and that’s why we think this event is going to be great for any aspiring entrepreneur. StartupDay is a conference for people who are interested in learning about startups so they can better prepare themselves when they decide to found or join one.

August 5, 2009 | Filed Under Start-ups | 1 Comment 

  • Curious Office Companies

    The companies below represent current Curious equity holdings.

    Inkd

    Inkd Marketplace for Print Design

    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.

    Read the TechCrunch article.

    Visit the Inkd website!

  • CafePress

    CafePress Funny and Custom Tee-Shirts 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

    Imagekind The First Market to Buy and Sell Artwork 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

    SEOmoz is unparalleled seo link performance. 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.

    Seattle PI: SEOmoz raising funds from Ignition, Curious Office

  • Shelfari

    Shelfari: The World's Leading Online Book Community. 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

    CoolSpotters is Celebrity Brands, Fashion, Styles and more 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

    Wishpot is your online wedding, baby and shower wishlist registry.

    Wishpot is a free social shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find in stores and online. Items are easily collected online or from stores and organized using simple online lists. Lists and items can be kept private or shared with others. You can collect and discover products you like, recommend your favorite stuff, share and explore gift suggestions or ask for opinions and advice.

  • netConcepts

    netConcepts develops the gravitystream seo platform for retailers and enterprise.

    netConceps removes Internal technical constraints, resource issues and knowledge barriers are removed with their gravitystream product. gravitystream works seamlessly with any current e-commerce or website technology platform to provide the ultimate SEO test platform and continuous updating for the most competitive SEO environments.

  • Rouxbe

    Rouxbe is the first online video cooking school.

    Rouxbe is the first online cooking school- the next generation food and cooking site focused on teaching home cooks the skill and technique behind great recipes. Rouxbe is currently teaching home cooks in 180 countries around the world.

  • RocketVox

    thePlatform is the leading online video management solution.

    Curious Office co-founder Kelly Smith launched RocketVox in 2000 as one of the earlier video content aggregation platforms. In May 2001, RocketVox was acquired by thePlatform. Today, thePlatform is the leading online video management and publishing company for broadband, mobile and TV. Media companies use thePlatform's media publishing system (mps) as the open, central hub for managing, monetizing, and syndicating billions of professionally produced video views annually. Comcast acquired thePlatform in June 2006.

  • FeedDigest

    FeedDigest turns RSS into dynamic content for your website.

    FeedDigest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds originally built by Peter Cooper. In August 2007, Feed Digest was sold to its new owners, Informer Technologies, Inc., and in 2008 rebranded to Feed Informer.