Viraload http://www.viraload.com Technology & Start Ups that are Viral and Infectuous Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:38:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/10/12/tech-and-entrepreneurs-changing-of-the-guard/ MakerBot Enables You to Make Something Makerbot Thingomatic and Cupcake

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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/07/19/ness-being-more-subjective-on-search/ BitCoin the New Currency bitcoin

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/ 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…

]]> http://www.viraload.com/2011/06/06/social-networking-falling-under-the-influence-of-others/ Groupon is a lot like Group Sex letrapeze

Everyone wants to have some fun at first and things get too messy and ultimately you are disappointed. You do not want to let others know you caught up there in between all of it.  Groupon was fun in the beginning…

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