Brave Tech World

SAT 3 FEB 2007

Any Startup looking for funding in Seattle? By Marcelo

 

    I've been contacted by O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). They are coming to Seattle to look for a few good Startups to invest. Check out their website for what kind of investment they usually make.

 

    If you are interest, feel free to contact them directly or shoot me an email and I'll forward to them.

 

 

SAT 3 FEB 2007

I'll be presenting at Ignite Seattle on Feb 13th. By Marcelo

 

    I've been giving a very short talk (5 minutes) at Ignite Seattle on February 13th. My talk, so far, will be about tracking errors on AJAX-based sites. Very geek!

 

 

 

 

WED 7 FEB 2007

My hats off to Flixster By Marcelo

 

    Flixster is just another social network, except that they are not.

 

    Most social networks focus on you, while Flixster revolves around movies. A lot of people love movies. Just check how many people go to RottenTomatoes and IMDB.

 

    I have no idea how they did it, but in less than 1 year they have millions of users. Their growth is closer to YouTube growth more than any other company I seen before.

 

    But...

 

    This is a niche/vertical play. They can even add blog, and photo albums and other things to compete more with MySpace and Facebook, but they are branding themselves as a social network for movie buffs, and that has a lower ceiling.

 

    I won't matter much because they will be bought soon by some studio or major media outlet.

 

    By the way, their content is a bit addictive for the first 30 minutes. Can't talk about more than that because I wouldn't sign up for such a service.