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- Pitch Us - Y Combinator Lays Out The Startup Ideas They'd Like To FundJuly 21
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I've been a big fan of Paul Graham's Y Combinator for a while now. Ryan Junee and his team at Omnisio (Y Combinator Jan-Mar '08) had great things to say about their time at the quasi-incubator. While they haven't yet had their blowout hit from an investment standpoint, Y-Comb alumni firms are quickly becoming names in the social web landscape: Disqus, iminlikewithyou, Justin.tv, and Reddit to name a few. Now Paul is laying out what he'd like to to have pitched, aptly dubbing his list, "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund." It's a refreshing and pretty candid post. Take for example #11 on the list:
11. Web Office apps. We're interested in funding anyone competing with Microsoft desktop software. Obviously this is a rich market, considering how much Microsoft makes from it. A startup that made a tenth
- 11 Startups Show-Off at Twiistup 4 Tonight in Santa MonicaJuly 17
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Heading over to Twiistup 4 tonight in Santa Monica and looking forward to catching up with some fellow entrepreneurs. I'll second Brady Brim-DeForest in saying a big congrats to Mike Macadaan for pulling this all together and showing that the LA Tech community is alive and well.
Some intriguing startups showing off tonight, including Twiddla, which I wrote up a few months back.
From the Twiistup site:
Showing Off at Twiistup 4
Keeping with Twiistup tradition, we were going to select ten local start-ups. Due to the overwhelming interest, we expanded the list of featured companies to 11, including seven of Southern California’s best and brightest and four ‘crashers’ from Texas, Vancouver and the Bay Area.
South Pasadena - Big Stage is a media company whose breakthrough technology allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3D avatar of themselves into everything from famous movie scenes, TV shows and video
- Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond EngagementJuly 11
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Excellent slides on the value of discovery as a critical component of your site. It's human nature.
- Rolf Skyberg and the Web 2.0 Petri DishJuly 2
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For those who haven't caught this one yet, here are Rolf Skyberg's slides from his eBay Developer’s Conference ‘08 presentation, “Web 2.0: Lies, Mystery and Opportunity.” Key takeaway: solve problems that your potential customers have and they won't look at paying for your service as a cost, but as an investment.
And here are Rolf's slides from last year in case you missed those too.
- 5 Web 2.0 Services I'd Like to See (and I'd actually pay for)June 30
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Some more thinking about Fred Wilson's musings that he's Bored with Web 2.0. While I certainly get excited when I find a new tool or site that becomes part of my web ecosystem, there's sadly a glut of tools that really have no role in making my life any better. There's a lot of me-too lately, and not a lot of actual problem solving. I can think of at least five problems that haven't been solved yet for me on the web. Figure out a way to do so, and you'll have me not only as a loyal customer but a loyal evangelist.
(To the best of my knowledge these don't exist, or at least haven't launched in any real way yet. If you know of a team working on them, please let me know.)1. Human Blog Translation Network
We're all aware of the echo chamber effect in the blogosphere, especially
