Techstars : Presentations

Vacation Rental Partner

1. saves time and organize the rental, like booking a hotel.
2. same ad on multiple sites
3. various tools, mobile stuff

why : into travel, love start up
what : front end (jquery), social media(facebook, twitter)

Rezora
email marketing system. corporate sales team.
templates for advertisement
have a business model
work out of home, geo disperse
national brand name client

look for : Mobile Developer:
backend developer, front end developer, sales, Account manager
paul@rezora.com


statsmix

dashboards, data scattered everywhere. aggregates data and builds dashboard. REST api. works with tons of data form different apis. areound teh web
Visualize the data. in various graphs. and tehn generating reports, automated analyze the data

why work : define the product

looking for : designers, front and back end developers : Ruby & JQuery, MySql and nosql
(cassendara , mangodb)

looking for people who can do multiple things.
tom@statsmix.com

graphicly
looking to change comic industry
air/iphone/ipad/windows7 app

looking for dreamers. can you impage? can you believe ?

looking : Ruby developers, designers,

micah@graphicly.com
@micah

scriptpad
liam@scriptpad.net

mobile apps for doctors iphone/ipad
3rd app : for prescriptions coming soon

40% of handwritten prescriptions lead have errors

final stages of federal approval

looking for iphone developer & android developers
mono, monotouch
artist : ui uix developer
bizdev : sells to drs

use .net for writing crossplatform native apps


liam@scriptpad.net

orbotix

robotic balls controlled from your smartphone

new game platform.

looking for : firmware engineer, api designer, android & iphone developers

jobs@orbotix.com


snapabug

snap engage: live chat with website visitors as they visit the site.

work from home ok.
self funded and profitable

looking for sales partner.

sendgrid
email delevery

raised $6millon
12,000 clients, growing from 18 to 30 by year end

need : support engg, web engineer, marketing director, inside sale rep

omniar
"we make real world clickable"

visual search api for smartphone.
best at recognizing 3d objects.

software engg : build and scale apis, clould experience, visual recognition
founders@omniar.com, zach@omniar


blipsnips
social + video = blipsnips

web and mobile platforms.

engineer: ruby , hadoop
marketing


spotinfluence
reach + relevance + = influence

searching teh social media for finding people that influence on any topic
apis to lots of company to make money. search free

need: front end developers, PR, marketing/sales,

people@spotinfluence.com

onetruefan
84% traffic comes back one a month or less, only 6% weekly
that 6% does majority of page views
objective : to make websites more engaging by integrating social media
-> auyto checking in people

need : UX engineer.

nextbigsound
online music analytics. work with massive amount of data. quick iteration.
great angel investor. self starter.

passion of music and java

looking for front end developer.

jobs@nextbigsound.com












sendgrid.jobscore.com

Techstars: Demystifying working of start ups

1. Panel discussion : eric (founder and ceo onestart), Alex (founder and ceo next big sound), Paul (ceo or orbatics)

Paul : personality type: (no 9-5 job), ready for abuse, underpaid, overworked and should love it

Eric : "starting a startup is mental illness".

Alex: Should live with your coworkers. work life balance is zero


Q. Why is your product disruptive ?
Alex 1. speed , 2. quality :
Eric: core mental illness is optimistic. world issues dont matter. you have an idea that you keep working on it. no matter what happened.
Paul: Changed direction for raindance from voip to video conferencing to meet impossible revenue target

Q. what can new employee expect
Eric : over work, underpay, no benefits :
- every employee can redefine what the company does. employees learn the ropes so that they can fulfil their dream. you get to employee # 1-50, not employee #13232. you can make a difference. gauranteed to fail in big company
Paul : autonomy , drive and purpose is the main motivation

Q. what kind of jobs for the non technical
Paul :business developer, sales, product manager after technical
Alex: first 3 hire technical then sales ( tech first and then sales
Eric : core team : technical+product , but also need a UI skillset, it matters

Q. what type of mentoring activity does startup provides
Paul : no handholding, might go to conference, no training
- what you learn : how to prioritize, how to work togather,

Q. what should student, FTE expect, why should they join startup
Paul : startup should be attached to your life. startup shuld become your life and that way they would be happy. its a different lifestyle, its not 8 hr job. if you want to put in 8 hrs and then do something else. startup is not for you
Eric: if you are in abig company couple of levels above you have no idea of whats going on in your life. a=in startup you knhow everything. you know how much money is in bacnk, its all transparent
Alex: the earlier you join, the bigger your equity stake will be.

Geeks Guide to CWG 2010

1. Official web sites : www.cwgdelhi2010.org/
2. twitter hash tags : #delhi2010, #cwg
3. follow official twitter account : @commonwealthdel
4. Smart phone apps : Zoomi (iphone, android, black berry etc) :
5. Best place to watch it online : BBC iPlayer
6. Watch Live TV coverage on wwii
7. Check Justin.TV for possible live streaming
8. In US TV Asia will show one hr highlights every day

Do no evil

wow google has done an about turn on its do not evil mantra. does these mantra even make sense now. There are 2 main objections I have with the google-verizon deal (or a non-deal/pact/arrangement/MOU).

1. wireless is excluded : we all know that mobile internet is the way forward. It is explictly excluded by saying that it applies to "wireline" internet. Verizon is the biggest android carrier. Google is betting heavily on android. thus google sees a huge revenue potential by creating a fragmented internet experience on the mobile users. internet is internet on every device. no differentiation. Google you are in bed with the devil

2. The wording of "public internet" didnt raised as many eyebrows as i thought. Internet is internet. there isnt an "private" internet or an non-public internet. looks like they are trying to carve one out. They reference "differentiated" services now. Looks like they will offer some kind of "paid" internet model where stuff would run faster. they want to create different class of internet, free and paid. the internet does not look "neutral" anymore. google sold itself out!

Apple Mail issues - ATT00001.txt , missing incoming attachments

Apple mail has been a big pain in the ass for sometime for me. Occasionally it will drop incoming attachments. no rhyme or reason. It seems to prefer dropping the larger attachments, but it has dropping smaller ones too. The attachments show up ok in webmail. I am using snow leopard and use exchange imap.

this thread suggests trying to set the prefered format to html always to avail the issue. it kinda sorta worked on some cases for me. I am still loosing attachments but less frequently

Permanent solution:

Quit Mail
Open Terminal,
Enter "defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE"
Open Mail.

second issue i have is when sending attachments, my friends often see an extraneous blank attachment. The solution for it seems to me to check the following options

 Edit->Attachment-> Send windows Friendy Attchment
 Edit->Attachment-> Insert attachment at the end of the message

iphone does NOT charge via usb if connected to apple keyboard

I have been having this problem for last few months. I have the original iphone dock connected to my apple wired keyboard USB port. It used to charge without problem for the for two years and then it stopped charging midway. I thought the battery had gone bad.

I bought the new iphone 4 and it HAD the same problem.

I ran into a few articles online about this. one from apple : which specifically say that low-powered usb ports might have an issue. They also say that the battery will actually drain if the computer is turned off or sleep. I have definitely noticed that. I leave my iphone docked to my compyter every night and i have woken up to a totally drained iphone instead of finding a flly charged iphone.

wonder cant Itunes/iphone detect it and report it ?

comcast really cares about your account

here is the email one of my buddies got after he opened an account with comcast. look at the password

Thank you for taking the time to register with Comcast.

Below is your login information.

       User Name: ##########
       Password: uAxk+K~ZwjT=QEl2+c45M(Lzxp&4Tonb(#ezb7Hf

To update your profile, track applications or apply for further 
positions at  Comcast, you can access the login page at 
www.comcast.com/careers and click on the "Login or Register" 
button.

If logging in for the first time, you can cut and paste the user name
and password provided above into the login page; you will then 
be prompted to reset your  password. Once you have logged in, 
you can change your user name by clicking onthe "Change User Name" 
link.

Thank you for your interest in Comcast. We wish you the very best in
your career endeavors.