Viraload http://www.viraload.com Technology & Start Ups that are Viral and Infectuous Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:44:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en The American Dream Gets Crowded http://www.viraload.com/2012/07/04/525/ http://www.viraload.com/2012/07/04/525/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:39:30 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2012/07/04/525/  4thstatue

 

The only thing I can think of more American than Apple Pie on the 4th of July is the American Dream.   Kickstarter literally kick started the crowd funding movement as many smaller contributions are invested in projects to get funding.   Kickstarter…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2012/07/04/525/feed/ facebook at face value http://www.viraload.com/2012/02/03/facebook-at-face-value/ http://www.viraload.com/2012/02/03/facebook-at-face-value/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:38:39 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2012/02/03/facebook-at-face-value/ The facebook IPO has arrived with the company filling with SEC to raise 5B  in the public offering.  Most startups  achieve the IPO milestone to raise funds to fund growth.  In the case of facebook, the company may have reached…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2012/02/03/facebook-at-face-value/feed/ Tech and Entrepreneurs: Changing of the Guard http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/12/tech-and-entrepreneurs-changing-of-the-guard/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/12/tech-and-entrepreneurs-changing-of-the-guard/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:06:30 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/12/tech-and-entrepreneurs-changing-of-the-guard/

Venture Capital was a small world in the earlier period of venture funding.  Large families like Rockefellers started their private funds through into highly risky ventures.  The East coast and Boston was the center of venture investing largely Boston area…

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MakerBot's Thing-O-Matic 'prints' in 3D by building up layers of plastic. Photograph: David Neff

 

MakerBot is a revolutionary 3D printing machine that allows users to design physical products. MakeBot is making 3D printing and design affordable and will unleash the creative…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/07/makerbot-enables-you-to-make-something/feed/ Quirky Social Crowd Making Products http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/03/quirky-social-crowd-making-products/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/03/quirky-social-crowd-making-products/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:10:25 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/03/quirky-social-crowd-making-products/  quirkylogo

Quirky is a very smart business model that engages the crowd to produce products that other may want.  Quirky takes advantage of the community based development of product to test, produce, and market.  Besides selling directly to consumers the company…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/03/quirky-social-crowd-making-products/feed/ Greplin Grabs Your Personal Content http://www.viraload.com/2011/09/23/greplin-grabs-your-personal-content/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/09/23/greplin-grabs-your-personal-content/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:33:21 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/09/23/greplin-grabs-your-personal-content/ greplinlogo

A few years ago, Daniel Gross was on his way to a party in his native Israel when he pulled out his smartphone to look up the address. The invitation could have been buried in his e-mail, on Facebook, or…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/09/23/greplin-grabs-your-personal-content/feed/ Make More Kabbage Online http://www.viraload.com/2011/08/26/make-more-kabbage-online/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/08/26/make-more-kabbage-online/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:58:39 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/08/26/make-more-kabbage-online/ kabbagelogo kabbpic

Kabbage provides financing to allow merchants buy inventory by innovative techniques to analyze credit based on metrics determined by social media and gaming.  Kabbage uses a variety of metrics as ranking sellers, on time delivery, and other metrics related to…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/08/26/make-more-kabbage-online/feed/ Ness Being More Subjective on Search http://www.viraload.com/2011/07/19/ness-being-more-subjective-on-search/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/07/19/ness-being-more-subjective-on-search/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:46:21 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/07/19/ness-being-more-subjective-on-search/ nesslogo

Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors.  Vinod Khosla  of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.

The Alsop-incubated company is…

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BitCoin is the ultimate currency in the modern and well connected world.  BitCoin has recently been in the spotlight to news of being tied to the nefarious purposes.  The growing interest in the currency offers a real the validation on…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/06/10/bitcoin-the-new-currency/feed/ Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others http://www.viraload.com/2011/06/06/social-networking-falling-under-the-influence-of-others/ http://www.viraload.com/2011/06/06/social-networking-falling-under-the-influence-of-others/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:38:09 +0000 Azam http://www.viraload.com/2011/06/06/social-networking-falling-under-the-influence-of-others/ american pimpkloutpeerindex

 

Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network.  I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft.  In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…

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