Visualization of Bill Gross’ July 2009 Investment Outlook: “Bon” or “Non” Appétit?

Bill Gross, Managing Director at PIMCO, released July’s Investment Outlook. Bill Gross’ articles are one of the most entertaining and informative pieces on the market. Obviously, I strongly recommend reading the entire piece here. To summarize, though, Gross reasons that “Greed will come again. But for now, the trend is the other way and it [...]

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“Yazzem” — Microblogging With a Topical Twist

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Microtopicing website that allows each member to create topics that they enjoy or would like to talk about http://www.yazzem.com One line pitch Yazzem is a Microtopicing website that allows each member to create topics that they enjoy or would like to talk about. Team The Yazzem team consists of two 14 year olds one from [...]

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The New Venture Capital Model

As you probably know, a wiki is an unusual communication mechanism that enables the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. The current VC model is closed and to VC’s, their process cannot be edited. Each VC is running on a different program. To counteract this, I wrote about the [...]

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A Big Picture Look at Venture Capital’s Transformation

It seems that every other day there’s a new story that surfaces regarding the venture capital model. The argument can range from the completely pessimistic point: “Venture capital is dead,” to an optimistic look, “Venture capital isn’t dead, entrepreneurs just aren’t performing.” Usually the optimistic view is hammered with data and angry individuals declaring this [...]

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“TownSync” — Cutting Edge Social Calendar

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A social calendar that connects you with your local town. http://www.townsync.com One line pitch TownSync is a social calendar that connects you with your local town. Team Sven Kvinlaug – C.E.O. Micah Hawes-Sivitz – C.O.O. Pain People like social networking and events sites but want a better way connect with people and find what’s going [...]

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Investment Fundamentals: A Look at The Yield Curve

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Fixed-income. A topic not widely covered in the blogosphere, but very important to understand. Defined: The Yield curve is a line that plots the interest rates, at specific time points, of bonds that have different maturity dates. The two metrics being calculated are: (i) the interest rate, and (ii) time.  You may have seen this [...]

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“Tender Warehouse”- Online Job Auction

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A free and easy-to-use online job auction service that connects customers with contractors. http://www.tenderwarehouse.com/ One line pitch TenderWarehouse is a free and easy-to-use online job auction service that connects customers with contractors. Team We can make things done. To the table we bring mature and successfully tested product already launched on the US and on [...]

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“ApplyHQ” — Job Application Software For Freelancers

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ApplyHQ.com is a web application providing freelancers services to apply for jobs and projects in a easier, faster and professional way. Its purpose is to simplify project and job acquisition for freelancers. http://applyhq.com One line pitch ApplyHQ.com is a web application providing freelancers services to apply for jobs and projects in a easier, faster and [...]

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“Fuze Meeting” — Meetings in HD and on your iPhone

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Share everything you see in high definition with anyone, anywhere, on any device. http://www.fuzemeeting.com Fuze Meeting from Patrick Moran on Vimeo. One line pitch Fuze Meeting lets you share everything you see in high definition with anyone, anywhere, on any device. Team The Fuze Meeting team is a healthy mix of serious software engineers with [...]

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“whos.amung.us” — Real Time Analytics

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Real-time stats for your website or blog. http://whos.amung.us One line pitch Real-time stats for your website or blog. Pain There aren’t many interesting stats services, and even fewer real-time ones. Solution We address this problem with our real-time stats. Technology Real-time stats for websites developed by us. Market Millions of websites Business Model Freemium model [...]

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