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Wireless technology is not new. At the beginning of the 20th Century, wireless technology began with the advent of radio and later television. Furthermore, toward the end of the 20th Century, wireless technology came to the phone industry and by the late 1980s almost everyone already had a cordless phone. Through the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st Century, however, wireless technology has taken new bounds with WiFi, Bluetooth, and other signals. Adimos is just another example of how far has come in this century.

Adimos is not just another wireless company, but a wireless company that makes wireless transmitters and receivers that will connect just about anything, from video and audio equipment to your television set. Adimos even has technologies that lets you connect your iPod wirelessly to your home entertainment system.

If you browse over the Adimos company website, you can see all the types of applications that Adimos technology can apply. You can look at the company’s applications overview and see exactly Adimos offers. You can buy different devices that can even connect your computer and its peripherals to your TVs or other electronic equipment.

One of the unique applications that Adimos offers is the ability to connect your plasma screen TV with a digital media player, such as a DVD player or a DVR wirelessly. The way this works is that Adimos creates top boxes, which you can set throughout your home and some of these boxes will transmit a wireless signal, whereas others will pick up the signal. The receivers are wired to your TV and the transmitters are wired to your different video players.

Another innovative application that Adimos offers is a many to many wireless connection. This is a special wireless system that is designed to connect multiple devices that make up a home entertainment system. This setup allows you to connect all kinds of components to an entertainment system, such as your radio tuner, DVD players, DVR, satellite tuners, and different audio players. These devices can be wirelessly connected to your plasma screen TV and to speakers positioned throughout your house. The way this application works is that the different components of the entertainment system are wired to a small transmitter that transmits the wireless signal to a wireless hub, which is both a receiver and a transmitter. The wireless hub picks up the signal from the individual devices and then transmits it to either the television or speakers. What is the most amazing thing about this system is that you can even connect your different components of the wireless system to more than one TV set.

You can set up multiple video devices and even stream multiple video streams to different TV sets throughout your home, using the Adimos Set Top Box.

This does not stop there. Adimos, believe it or not, even has devices that allow you to connect your portable music player, such as your iPod, MP3 player, or other devices. This is a device that has a dock that your iPod can dock into. The dock has a wireless transmitter that can transmit the wireless signal to a receiver that is wired to your TV set.

Adimos also has devices that can connect any older device that was never designed to be a wireless device. Using the Adimos pair box, you can connect VCRs, DVD players, and other units to older TV sets and have them connected wirelessly. The way the pair box works is that one box is a transmitter, which is wired to your video source and the other is the receiver, which is connected to your TV set.

Adimos was founded by both Eran Igler and Dr. Michael Genossar, who are currently still working with the company.

Eran Igler, besides being the cofounder of Adimos, is also the company’s CTO. Mr. Igler has a great deal of experience in leading high-tech communications projects. Before founding Adimos, Mr. Igler worked for several technology and wireless companies, which include Floware Wireless Systems and Alvarion. When Mr. Igler worked for those companies, he was in charge of chip and development, which include HW and SW technologies. Mr. Igler graduated from the Technion Technology Institute with a BS in Electronic Engineering and then went on to graduate from the University of Tel Aviv with an MBA cum laude.

Dr. Genossar also works at Adimos as the company’s chief scientist. Dr. Genossar also has deep experience in the tech industry. His experiences include 20 years of research and development and led different technological groups who were involved in wireless signal processing, modem design, and wireless systems. Before founding Adimos together with Mr. Igler, he was in charge of the modem development group at Floware. He later went up the corporate latter at Floware, by becoming the company’s CTO in 1999. After holding that position, Floware merged with Breezecom, Dr. Genossar became the CTO of Alveron. Dr. Genossar graduated from the Technion Technology Institute in Israel with a BS summa cum laude in Computer Engineering. He then went on to graduate from Stanford University with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Other achievements that Dr. Genossar has on his belt include winning the Philip Merlin Award and a Fulbright grant.

Adimos’s investors include JVP, Benchmark Capital, Gemini Israel Funds, and Genisis Campus; which invested $12 million in series A funding in August 3, 2009.

Founded in 1995, Benchmark Capital is a vc firm that is devoted to helping entrepreneurs build major companies in the tech industry and are in for long term growth. Currently Benchmark Capital has over $2.3 billion in committed capital and the vc firm believes in taking a labor intensive team approach when investing in a company. Other companies in Benchmark’s include 1-800-flowers.com, AllPosters.com, AOL, LogoWorks, ebags, eBay, Ofoto, Open Table, and others.

Gemini Israel Funds is one of Israel’s top vc firms that is dedicated to helping startup companies get their feet on the ground. The people at Gemini believe in helping talented entrepreneurs build successful companies in the tech industry. Some other companies in Gemini’s portfolio include Contextream, Massive Impact, Schema, Outsmart, and others.

JVP is a large international vc firm that primarily invests in early stage companies who are in the enterprise software, communications, communications, and mobile infrastructure industries. JVP currently has over $670 million under its management and has offices in New York, London, and Jerusalem. Some other companies in JVP’s portfolio include Allot Communications, Altair Semiconductors, CyOptics, Double Fusion, Infinite Memories, and others.

The Genesis Campus is a vc firm that takes a personalized approach to investing in early stage companies. The Genesis Campus likes to invest in entrepreneurs who are energetic and have both a vision and experience. Furthermore, entrepreneurs who are candidates for an investment from Genesis must have the desire to change the industry they are in. The Genesis Campus is different from other vc firms because unlike other vc firms, the Genesis Campus is made up of entrepreneurs itself and understands the stresses that entrepreneurs go through when they start up their own business. Other companies in Genesis’s portfolio include Arrowping, Inner Wireless, NA Solutions, 10C Technologies, and others.

Adimos is a privately owned company that is based in Mountain View, California. Currently there are no major competitors that provide a serious threat to Adimos.

For more information about Adimos, click here.

The most amazing thing about the internet is that it is a medium where anything goes. You can do all kinds of things on the internet, from watching TV and listening to the radio to playing sophisticated video games, but did you know that you can learn foreign languages on the internet as well? Yes, you can, with Babbel, a company that offers online courses in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Founded in 2007 and based in Berlin, Germany; Babbel has a playful and interesting way to learn a foreign language online.

To get started with a course on the Babbel website, you need to first register with the program and it is free. Furthermore, the registration process is rather simple. First, you need to type in your first and last name, type in a username, type in a password and reconfirm it, and your email address. You also need to select the language that you want to learn. There are a few pros and cons about Babbel, however. One of the biggest pros that Babbel has is that they have a system where you can connect with people who speak the language that you intend to learn and you can greatly improve your language skills by communicating with native speakers. The biggest con that Babbel has is that, unlike some of the bigger offline language software packages available, like Rosetta Stone, the number of languages that you can learn on Babbel is rather limited. Right now you can only learn five languages of Babbel, but the company is still rather new, launching its service just two years ago.

Once you have finished the registration process, you can start the language that you want to learn. Babbel has many tutorials to show you how to use their program. You can then choose different courses that are available on Babbel, depending on the level of knowledge you have on the language that you are willing to learn. For example, the first course that you will see, this is especially the case if you do not know the language at all, but want to learn it from the very beginning, is very basic. For example, suppose you want to learn Italian, one of the languages available on Babbel. The first lesson you will see is about getting acquainted. These courses have some of the most basic phrases, such as saying “hello” or “How are you.”

The beautiful thing about Babbel is that the language courses are not just in text. They have voice recordings on the site that are recorded by native speakers. This is very important to learn how to speak in that language. You can see how it is written with all the proper accent marks on the accented letters, and if you want to hear how that phrase is pronounced correctly, you can click on the little orange circle with the play symbol to the left of the written phrase.

At the bottom of each learning page is a grey circle with the play symbol. When you click on that circle, it will take you to the next lesson. The following lessons show how you can express greetings both formally and informally. The second lesson also shows how you tell someone “good morning, good day, good evening,” etc. Toward the middle or the end of each lesson, the Babbel website will even quiz you on a 24 point scale. The way the quiz works is not exactly the best. It is a mix and match. There are six images that are labelled A to F. Each image is a photo of someone or people doing something together. Below the pictures are phrases that you can also listen to. To the left of these phrases, you see a line, on which you click and a drop menu appears with the letters A to F. You need to decide which picture corresponds with which phrase.

Following the first quiz, the lessons go on and you can learn and make more progress. Here comes another question. Suppose you are finished learning Italian or don’t want to learn Italian anymore. Can you change the language that you want to learn? Yes, you can. Suppose you want to learn German instead of Italian. At the top right hand corner of the website, you will see the flag of the country in which the language you are learning is spoken in. If you were originally learning Italian, you will see a circle with an Italian flag. If you click on that flag, you will see a pulldown menu, and you can choose from the rest of the languages that are available. You can use Babbel to learn one language after another.

Babbel is a privately owned corporation that employs 14 people and four people on its management team, who are Markus Witte, managing director; Lorenz Hein, managing director; Thomas Holl, technical director; and Toine Diepstraten, R&D and IT director. The four people on the management team also founded Babbel.

Babbel’s investors include KIZOO Technology Ventures, and VC-Fonds Berlin.

KIZOO Technology Ventures is a vc firm that is dedicated to the internet services industry. Some other companies in KIZOO’s portfolio include MegaZebra, Fun&Smile, and others.

Babbel does have many competitors. Some of these competitors include Friends Abroad, Lingus TV, and Live Mocha.

Friends Abroad advertises itself to have up to over 80 languages and provides a service similar to that of Babbel. The only thing is that is competitor must have gone out of business or acquired by Babbel, because when you click on its website you get redirected to the Babbel website.

Lingus TV has a service that is similar to Babbel, but incorporates video as well as audio. Lingus TV, however, is much more modest than Babbel, with only the ability to learn Spanish. Lingus TV is still undergoing beta testing.

Live Mocha is a language learning website that is also undergoing beta testing. This company has become one of the top Web 2.0 companies and Live Mocha can pose some serious competition for Babbel because it has over 200 languages available to learn.

For more information about Babbel, click here.

Many of you probably have had a computer that crashed. The likelihood of Windows is phenomenal, but Macs can also crash from time to time. Computer crashes can happen to any computer user, whether a PC or a Mac user. In some cases computers can crash severely and you can loose everything that is on your hard drive. Been there, done that? You probably have. Well the internet, believe it or not, can be a great tool to save a backup of all your files to a remote server. This is exactly the service that Nomadesk offers. Though there are other companies which offer similar services, Nomadesk claims to offer one of the most user friendly and secure file backup and sharing network.

In order to use Nomadesk, you have to download its special software. Nomadesk has a new software for you to download and is currently in beta testing. The software is free of charge, but the service that Nomadesk provides does have a cost. Nomadesk has a software version for both Windows and Mac Leopard. Nomadesk offers two services with different fees. The first service package that Nomadesk offers is the Team File Server, and the Personal File Server.

The Team File Server costs $15 per month and is oriented more to the business community. This service package would bill out yearly to $180 per year. Some of the features in the Team File Server package are synchronization for an unlimited number of PCs, allows for file sharing for an unlimited number of guests, secure storage, secure file server backup, email2 folder, has both free live chat and phone support, file link, and theft guard protection.

The Personal File Server package is much cheaper, costing only $50 per year. This service is much more modest than the Team File Server. This particular service package offers only synchronization to five PCs, no file sharing capabilities, secure file storage, secure file backup, no email2 folder, file link, free live chat and phone support, and theft guard protection.

On the Nomadesk site, there are many testimonials posted by small business owners, who use the Nomadesk software and services. The testimonials are on the whole positive. Many small businesses like the Nomadesk software and service, because it allows their management to share files from anywhere on the globe. People can store files on the Nomadesk File Server and be assured that these files are not only secure due to technical glitches, but from theft as well.

This service is especially good for freelancers. Freelancers are always on the go and Nomadesk allows them to access files from any computer and save files from any computer and access those files from other computers.

Nomadesk was founded by three people. These people are Philip Tack, Peter Geldhof, and Miguel De Buf.

Besides being one of the cofounders, Mr. Tack also works at the company as its CEO. Nomadesk was founded in 2004, and before coming to Nomadesk, Mr. Tack held some key positions in some major telecom companies. Mr. Tack also has experience in the IT industry. Mr. Tack graduated from Ghent University with both a BS and an MS in Bioscience. He then went on to receive his MBA from Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School.

Another cofounder of Nomadesk is Peter Geldhof. Besides being one of the three cofounders of Nomadesk, Mr. Geldhof is also working at the company as its COO. Mr. Geldhof has deep experience in IT service management and in other areas of communications, including quality assurance. Mr. Geldhof also graduated from Ghent University with a Bachelor’s Degree. Mr. Geldhof is an IT specialist and clearly understands the value of IT products.

The third cofounder of Nomadesk is Miguel De Buf. Mr. De Buf also works at the company as its CTO and has deep experience with project management and IT service management. Mr. De Buf’s experience is very crucial to Nomadesk, because his area of expertise is client-server application design and development. Mr. De Buf also graduated from the University of Ghent with a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology.

Nomadesk’s investors include the three cofounders, Business Angels, IWT, and Participatiefonds; which invested $450,000 in seed funding in August of 2005, and then were joined by GIMV for a $4.5 million investment in series A funding.

Founded in 1992, Business Angels was founded to match successful entrepreneurs with angel investors who have both the money and the expertise to make a business successful. Business Angels is not necessarily a vc firm, but connects angel investors with small to medium businesses. The people at Business Angels believe that small business and business ventures are key to a healthy economy.

Based in the Netherlands, Participatiefonds is a federal financial institution of the Netherlands that finances self-employed professionals.

GIMV is an independent investment company that is located in Belgium. GIMV primarily deals in both venture capital and private equity and primarily invests in European companies. GIMV is on the Euronext list in Brussels. The investment company searches for active participation and an enterprise environment.

Although there are some different companies that are similar to or provide slightly similar services to Nomadesk, the company does not have any noteworthy competition as of yet.

For more information about Nomadesk, click here.

Business can be tricky sometimes. Many successful businessmen fail many times over before they become successful. This is especially true with Cafe Press. What is Cafe Press? Cafe Press is a combination of an advertising company and a printing company. Cafe Press prints T-shirts, coffee mugs and other ceramics, stickers and buttons, cards and calendars, and arts and posters. Cafe Press also offers gifts for sale as well. When you first pull up the Cafe Press website, you will see many different T-shirts that Cafe Press has printed for different people and business. Many businesses use Cafe Press for their marketing as well. There are many products that Cafe Press has to offer, and what is even better, Cafe Press offers reasonable prices for custom printing on just about anything.

The top product from Cafe Press, however, is T-shirts. On the website, you can see some of the hottest T-shirts that Cafe Press has printed for various businesses, organizations, and social groups. If you own a business or want to sponsor a fundraiser, Cafe Press might just be the right thing for you. Cafe Press has some T-shirts that are humor of all sorts, ranging from political to geek to other types of humor. Not only does Cafe Press sell all kinds of different T-shirts, and other accessories, the company also allows you to make your own T-shirts. By clicking on the hyperlink that is at the very top of the website, “Make Custom T-shirts and More,” you can see a broad range of T-shirts, sweatshirts, and other articles of clothing that you can have Cafe Press customize just for you. You create the design and Cafe Press will print it. Cafe Press also even has T-shirts for dogs that you can have something printed on.

It does not even stop there. Besides T-shirts, Cafe Press also offers a wide range of other different customizable products for you to choose from. Perhaps you want to place your business logo on a coffee mug, or on some other type of article. Well, Cafe Press has something for you too. Cafe Press also has a wide range of different cards, stickers, bumper stickers, and calendars that you can customize for yourself or your business or charity. Cafe Press also makes banners, yard signs, greeting cards, posters and more.

Cafe Press also has a small variety of different drink ware that you can customize for yourself or your business or charity. These include water bottles, coffee and beer mugs, keepsake boxes, and tile coasters for hot pots on the table.

In a nutshell, Cafe Press will practically print on anything for you. Other things that Cafe Press customizes are mouse pads for your computer, wall clocks, dog and cat food boles, buttons, refrigerator magnets, and much more. If you want Cafe Press to customize a large quantity of items for you, they even offer a bulk price and the company also has no minimum limits. This is great for the individual who wants a T-shirt for him or herself.

Cafe Press is a true success story. As the title of this article mentions, the founder of the company has had many failures before he succeeded with Cafe Press and not only is this company successful in the United States and in the area where it was founded, on the West Coast, but internationally as well.

Besides the company’s main website in the United States, Cafe Press also has websites for the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. The US website is also the website that Cafe Press uses for doing business throughout the world. Cafe Press also accepts several other currencies, besides the US Dollar, which include the British Pound, the Euro, the Canadian Dollar, and the Australian Dollar.

The cofounder of Cafe Press is Fred Durham, who also works at the company as its CEO. When you click on the About Cafe Press hyperlink on the Cafe Press website, you can watch an interesting video that has Mr. Durham explain everything about the company and how it was founded. In the video he explains that he came to the Bay Area in southern California, because that is in his view “the Hollywood for Geeks.” He also states in the video that he had ten business plans about two types of businesses, helping businesses sell their products on the internet and providing a medium for businesses to print their advertising material on. Nine of these ten business plans failed, so Mr. Durham came up with the idea to combine the two things together and change them a bit. This idea became the core idea that grew into the successful Press Cafe. In the video, Mr. Durham was doing most of the narrating and explained that he could create a company that allows businesses to sell something on the internet and have something that can be customizable and be generated on demand. This is the main idea that is behind Cafe Press.

The company video also features some of the customers that Cafe Press has acquired. Cafe Press has acquired a unique variety of different customers who have different ideas about their products and have turned to Cafe Press to produce their ideas. One of these customers, featured in the video is Matt Jervis of Kulture Hero Designs. According to Mr. Jervis, Cafe Press is a neat place for him to express himself. This is also another unique thing about Cafe Press. You can also sell your creativity on Cafe Press and many T-shirt artists sell their T-shirts on Cafe Press and make a profit.

Another Cafe Press customer featured in the company promotional video is Jolene Sugarbaker, of Jolene’s Trailer Park. The business plan that Ms. Sugarbaker is to “right the trailer park name,” which she has been doing with not only her products, but also through the internet and hope shows. Mr. Sugarbaker further went on to explain that though her theme is the trailer park, she wants to turn a negative into a positive. She went on to say that there are many people whop either do not like something or are anxious about something, such as going to the dentist. She will use these anxieties or dislikes that people have about certain things, such as going to the dentist. She comes up with all kinds of shirt designs, such as “sexy waitresses” and other ideas. Ms. Sugarbaker also believes that many people are on the internet begging for money, and she says that there is something wrong for that. Ms. Sugarbaker further stated that she feels fulfillment, since she knows that when someone buys her product, she knows that someone is helping her cause and at the same time she knows that her images, slogans, etc. are being worn by real people around the world.

A third Cafe Press customer featured in the company promotional video is Lisa Spodak of Lisawalks.com. She runs a charity against breast cancer, which she started when her mother was diagnosed with the disease. Ms. Spodak has a walking fundraiser where she walks and raises money, from which the proceeds go to help fight breast cancer. She goes on in her video to explain how she started with this fundraiser where she needed to raise a minimum of $1800 but with her first walk she managed to raise over $4400 and then in her second walk she managed to raise $7800. She noticed that she was being successful with her fundraiser and wanted to reach out to people who were not her close acquaintances, so she turned to Cafe Press for help. Along with walking 14 Avon Walks to help fight against breast cancer and wearing T-shirts that were printed by Cafe Press, Ms. Spodak was able to raise over $110,000. Lisa Spodak further stated that social expression can be very important and when she wears one of her T-shirts people can see what is important to her.

The video closes with Mr. Durham again explaining that Cafe Press is at the heart of the trend of people wanting to express themselves and this is one of the reasons that the company is so successful.

Cafe Press was founded in October of 1999 and is based in San Mateo, California. The company currently employs ober 300 people.

Cafe Press’s investors include New Millennium Partners, PacRim Venture Management, and Staenberg Venture Partners who invested $1.2 million in series A funding in March of 2000. These investors added another $300,000 to the series A funding in May of 2001. These investors were later joined by Sequoia Capital for a $14 million investment in series B funding in 2005.

New Millennium Venture Partners is a vc firm that primarily focuses its investments in angel and seed and first round companies who are in the internet industry. The vc firm believes in turning entrepreneurs and their ideas into great companies. Some other companies in Millennium’s portfolio include CodersLife, WildTangent, Kana, LookSmart, Four11, and others.

Based in Seattle, Washington, Staenberg Ventures is a vc firm that is committed to the companies that it invests in. Staenberg Ventures primarily invests first in the early stages of the company and co-invests together with other institutional investors in later stages in the company’s life. Some other companies in Staenberg’s portfolio include Aprimo, Blue Marlin, Care2, Corrigo, Intrepid, and others.

Serquoia Capital is a vc firm that invests in early stage companies who are in the healthcare, energy, internet, outsourcing services, and tech industries. A typical investment from Sequoia Capital ranges from $1 million to $10 million per round. Some other companies in Sequoia’s portfolio include A123, Achates Power, AdBrite, AdMob, FireEye, InfoBlox, and others.

Though Cafe Press does show signs of success, it does have a few competitors that it has to deal with. A couple of Cafe Press’s major competitors include Zazzle and Spreadshirt.

Zazzle was founded in 1999 and provides a service that is similar to the service that Cafe Press offers. Zazzle prints and sells everything from T-shirts to postage stamps and pays artists commissions to sell their designs on the Zazzle site.

Spreadshirt is also a company that has a similar service to the service that Cafe Press offers. Spreadshirt was founded by a German graduate student who later built the company and based it out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Spreadshirt’s service allows anyone, to be either an individual or a company to design and market their T-shirt with the company.

For more information about Cafe Press, click here.

About 15 years ago, a new dynamic way of obtaining information was born. First called the information super highway, now more popularly known as the internet, this information super highway has not just become a new means to get information about practically anything, but has become a new marketplace as well. Over the past years, many different businesses have come onto the internet and people have been buying things on the internet. Another thing that has come on the internet are internet auctions, pioneered by eBay, which has become the largest internet auction. However, since eBay, many other internet auctions of all different kinds have also appeared on the internet. BidRodea is one of the many internet auctions that has appeared on the internet since eBay.

BidRodeo was first thought of in August of 2008 by people who enjoy the internet, and then it was launched by AMPP LLC in the spring of 2009, BidRodeo is one of the newest auctions to appear on the internet. BidRodeo is different from eBay, in that it is a penny auctions, so bids can be as low as 70 cents. In order to use BidRodeo, you must first sign in. The signing in process is quick and easy, unlike some other online subscription sites. First, you need to type in a username, which has to be three to thirteen regular characters, such as letters on your keyboard, with the exception of the “@” character. Then you need to type in and confirm a password, and your email address. You also have the option to type in a coupon code, if you have one. To finish up the process, you need to decipher letters and numbers in a coded image. Once you have done all that, you are in and you need to wait for a confirmation email to come into your email account.

Once you have signed up onto the auction, you will notice as a new member, that BidRodeo offers five free auctions to new users. Unlike, eBay, however, to be able to bid on something on BidRodeo, you have to buy bids. There are several bid packages that you can choose from. The premium package that BidRodeo offers is known as the “Grand Bargain,” and this bid package costs $140 and gives you a total of 200 bids on the site. The next package is the Mega Deal package, which costs $72 and offers 100 bids. The bidding package below that one is the Special package, which costs $37 and offers 50 bids. The bidding package below the Special is the Value package, which costs $16 and offers 20 bids on the auction. The lowest and cheapest package offered by BidRodeo is the Basic package, which costs $10 and offers ten bids on the auction. You get a coupon code that allows you to get ten free extra bids upon the purchase of your first bid package. Bidrodeo also offers rookie auctions for those people who never won an auction.

To win the 10 extra bids in the auction, you must type in the coupon code when you buy a bid package.

BidRodeo is owned by AMPP LLC and its investors are not disclosed to the general public. The two people who are in charge of AMPP LLC include Weronika Cybulska and Chrystian Cybulski.

Mrs. Cybulska was born in Poland and when coming to America, she originally had a career in the jewelry industry where she was a product development specialist. Later on she decided to change her career plans and decided to go into internet marketing. Since the conception of BidRodeo in 2008, Mrs. Cybulska had been on board and worked diligently on concentrating on usability, operation, and on marketing the site online. One of Mrs. Cybulska’s personal hobbies is world travel and has traveled extensively throughout the world; including riding camels in India, swimming with sting rays in Belize, and fishing for trout in Mongolia. Mrs. Cyburska also traveled throughout Asia and Europe by rail, car, and bus; and enjoys the local culture of every country she visits. Mrs. Cybulska received her Masters in Business Administration from the Warsaw School of Economics in 2007.

Mr. Cybulski is also an avid world traveler and that is how he met Weronika Cybulska. At AMPP LLC, Mr. Cybulski is in charge of building all the websites. Mr. Cybulski has always been interested in computers and the internet ever since the <blink> tag was in fashion. Mr. Cybulski is also experienced in computer animation, graphic design, and web design. Later on, Mr. Cybulski began more serious work in the computer industry, such as designing applications for desktop computers and the internet. Before Mr. Cybulski started to work on BidRodeo, he worked at Blue Tie, Inc. since 2001. He started his travels around the world in 2005.

Though, BidRodeo is a new website from AMPP LLC, it does have some competition. BidRodeo’s major competitor is Swoopo, which was originally known as Telebid. Swoopo is also an online auction of the same type and style as that of BidRodeo. Swoopo offers low bids, but the only difference is that Swoopo has an international market. Swoopo was first launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 and then by 2008, it was launched in Spain, the United States, and Austria. Swoopo’s investors include Wellington Partners, who invested in the company in series A funding and August Capital, who invested in Swoopo for series B funding.

For more information about BidRodeo, click here.

In the past few years, the internet seems to be replacing all the conventional media of entertainment, such as TV, radio, magazines, and newspapers. More people are turning to the internet for their news, entertainment, shopping, and communication. In this revolution and the constant evolving entertainment industry in the 21st Century, the newest entertainment website has emerged, Masher Media. Masher Media is brand new, being founded only this year.

When you first get onto the Masher Media site, you will see that it begins like a Looney Tunes Cartoon with all the same sound effects. Then you will notice two cartoon girls appear on either side of the top of the browser’s viewing area. Furthermore, with a delayed loading on the middle toward the bottom of the browser’s viewing window you will see a cartoon-style town with different cartoon characters going back and forth.

The one question is, how does this interface work? There are no instructions on how to use Masher Media. This could be because it is a new website and might not be completely finished. When you click on any of the moving characters on the homepage, nothing happens and instructions are not to be found anywhere. If you look at the company profile, however, you can read what exactly Masher Media is really up to. According to the company profile, Masher Media is dedicated to build a highly creative and high quality media platform for entertainment.

The company’s founder has quite a unique history herself. Masher Media was founded by Sherry Gunther, who is an Emmy Award winning producer and entertainment executive. Ms. Gunther produced some of the most watched cartoons in the United States and the world, which include the Simpsons, the Family Guy, Edith Ann, Dexter’s Laboratory, and other well known cartoons. Masher Media is not the first endeavor that Ms. Gunther has delved into with the new internet media. Before founding Masher Media, Ms. Gunther was a cofounder of ZooKazoo.com, which is an online entertainment site for children from ages six to twelve. ZooKazoo.com received rave reviews since it was launched and was named as the Best Kid’s Destination on the Web, which was put out by the Real Simple Family Magazine in 2008.

Masher Media will also come out with an entertainment interface for children from ages six to 13 in a safe internet environment. This prototype interface, which will be coming out soon, is known as the Myminipeeps.com. This interface will include the ability to make movies, have mini locations, parent control, and My mini page. This interface will allow children to be able to have their website, make their own cartoons, have their own virtual world, and more.

Masher Media’s sole investor is Tech Coast Angels, who invested $300,000 in seed funding in August of 2009.

Tech Coast Angels is a group of angel investors who solely invest in the geographical location of southern California. Tech Coast Angels has some criteria for investing into a company. The primary criteria include having a market opportunity large enough to generate at least $50 to $100 million in annual revenue, a strong and compelling strategy, proprietary technology, strong management, and an exit strategy for the investors. Some other companies in Tech Coast Angels’ portfolio include Inlustra, Eefuf, Soda Head, Nine Head, EZ-Apps, Transcepta, and others.

Masher Media is a new company and does have some small competitors, but none of its competitors are noteworthy enough to pose a threat to the company. Furthermore, Masher Media’s founder’s credentials show great promise for the company’s future.

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Founded in 2004, Redfin is a new website that is dedicated to the real estate industry. Redfin advertises that its way is the better way, however, after trying out the website, you will find that some of the features might not work properly. The first thing that you notice with Redfin, is that its search area does not cover wide areas throughout the United States. What makes Redfine unique is that it is a real estate brokerage firm, like some of the major real estate brokerages, such as Century 21, Remax, Coldwell Bankers, and others. The only difference is that Redfin is completely online.

How does Redfin work? Redfin has a search engine which promts you to type in a zip code or a city. The only problem is that Redfin’s search area is limited and you will not be able to find a home everywhere. If you type in a zip code, unless it is within the Redfin search area, you will get a dialogue box that tells you that says “We are unable to find 46360. It may be outside of our search area.” Search area is in hyper text and encircled in an outline like a button. Below that phrase, you will see several choices where you can use Redfin to find a home. These areas include the Boston area, the Chicago area, the Long Island & Westchester area, the Sacramento area, the San Francisco Bay area, the Seattle area, Southern California, and the Washington, DC area. If you type in a zip code that is in the Chicago area but outside of the search area, you will get the above mentioned dialogue box. For example, if you type in the zip code 46360, which is the zip code for Michigan City, Long Beach, Duneland Beach, Michiana Shores, and surrounding areas in Indiana. This area, though in Northwest Indiana, it is still considered to be part of the Chicago area, but it is outside of the Redfin search area. The only option that you have left is to click on the on the hyperlink that indicates that you want to search in the Chicago area.

After you click on the Chicago area hyperlink, you will find that the search area for the Chicago area stops right at the Indiana line and not even Gary, Indiana is covered in the Chicago area as far as Redfin is concerned. The counties covered in the Chicago area are Cook, Du Page, De Kalb, and some of the other surrounding counties. This is fine if you want to be close to Chicago, but if you want to be in Indiana, Redfin cannot help you.

Redfin also offers other services as well. Besides allowing you to search for homes online, Redfin also has certified real eastate brokers which can organize open houses or a private showing for you. You can use Redfin not only to buy homes, but to sell your home as well. Furthermore, for those of you who feel uncomfortable with communicating with a broker by email, you can also talk to a Redfin agent by calling a toll free number.

Redfin is based in Seattle, Washington and is a privately owned company that employs over 80 people. Redfin has three people on its management, who are Glen Kelman, Scott Nagel, and Michael Young.

Redfin’s investors include Madrona Venture Group, which invested $770,000 in series A funding in September of 2005. In May of the following year, Madrona Venture Group was joined by BEV Capital and Vulcan Capital in a $8 million investment in series B funding. The three vc firms were later joined by Draper Fisher Juvertson or DFJ in a $12 million investment in series C funding in July of 2007.

The Madrona Venture Group is a vc firm that believes in funding the passion behind the idea. In other words, the Madrona Group funds ideas that revolutionize the way people work. The Madrona Group was founded in 1995 and primarily invests in the Pacific Northwest and in early stage companies in that region who are in the IT industry. Some other companies in Madrona’s portfolio include Animoto, Borrow or Steal, BuddyTV, PayScale, ExtraHop, Intrepid, and others.

BEV Capital is a vc firm that is a specialty firm and specializes its investments. BEV Capital primarily invests in companies who are in the consumer industry or companies who create products that support the consumer industry, such as marketing software, internet based technologies, analytics, etc. Some other companies that are in BEV Capital’s portfolio include 1-800-Diapers, Alloy, Classmates Online, Cool Cuts 4 Kids, Outpost.com, Waterfront Media, and others.

Founded in 2003, Vulcan Capital is a private investment firm that invests in all stages of a company’s life. Vulcan Capital primarily invests in companies who are in the media, communications, energy, natural resources, life sciences, and tech industries. Some companies in Vulcan’s portfolio include Plains Resources, Icat, Makena Capital Management, Intrapace, Dreamworks Animation, Radar Networks, and others.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, is a vc firm that has been around for over 24 years. The vc firm invests in extraordinary entrepreneurs who have the desire to build great companies. Currently, DFJ has over $6 billion in committed capital under its management. Some other companies that are in DFJ’s portfolio include 4 Info, Achex, Abuzz, Aniboom, AppStream, and others.

Redfin does have a few competitors, however, two of Redfin’s most noteworthy companies are LakePlace.com and HotPads.

LakePlace.com is a company that offers a service similar to Redfin, but is strictly devoted to lakefront homes and properties that are for sale. LakePlace.com has a search area which is much smaller than that of Redfin. This is because LakePlace.com is an online recreational real estate firm that solely searches for homes for sale on lakes in Wisconsin and Minnesota. LakePlace.com is a privately owned corporation which is based in Richfield, Minnesota and was founded in 2003. The company has two people on its management team.

HotPads is a company that is building a comprehensive online real estate marketplace. HotPads has the belief that finding your next home should be easy to find and HotPads also advertises itself as having an innovative web interface that makes choosing your next home a piece of cake. HotPads is a privately owned corporation which is based in Washington, DC, and was founded in 2005. The company currently employs 12 people and its primary investor is Meakem Becker Venture Capital.

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For the past ten years that the internet is growing with new social networks popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm, so has the video game industry. The internet has opened a whole new world of interactive video games has been opened. One of the newest websites that has opened is Zynga. Zynga offers video games to some of the major social networks out on the web.

As you go onto the Zynga homepage, you will notice a series of choices from which to choose from. You can click on the about link to find information about Zynga and you can also see what games are available on Zynga. The homepage has featured games and other games that you can play with. You do not need to sign into Zynga to play its games. The one thing, however, is that you need to be a member of a particular social network to play the games that are on Zynga. If you click on one of the featured games on the website, you will notice the picture of the game and a paragraph which explains what the game is about and what the object of the game is. Also, you can see on what social network you can play a particular game on. Some games will only allow you to play on one particular social network, such as Facebook or MySpace, whereas other games can be played on several different social networks. For example, one of the current featured games on Zynga is FarmeVille, which is a game that is intended for the whole family and allows you to have your own farm; where you can have your own farm animals, fruit trees, and grow your own vegetables. This game can only be played on Facebook. On the other hand, another game that is featured on Zynga, called YoVille, is a game that is aimed at the teen community. This video game is playable on three social networks, which are Tagged, Facebook, and MySpace. Other games can be played on all the social networks that are available.

Though Zynga is dedicated to online video games, playing video games is not the only thing you can do on Zynga. Zynga also has a forum where you can talk or ask about different games that are featured on Zynga.

Zynga also offers certain games which can be played on your iPhone. Currently, Zynga only has a limited selection of games that are apps for your iPhone, but as the website continues to grow, there will be more games available for the iPhone. Some of the video games that are made for the iPhone on the Zynga site include Mafia Wars, Pirates, and Dragon Wars.

Zynga was founded in 2007 by Mark Pincus, who still works at the company as its CEO. Mr. Pincus created Zynga out of two of his greatest passions, competitive online gaming and entrepreneurship. Zynga is not the first company that Mr. Pincus successfully founded. Other social networks that Mr. Pincus founded include Tribe.net, which he founded in 2003 and was one of the first social networks. Mr. Pincus was also the founder of SupportSoft, where he stayed as the company’s CEO until he founded Tribe.net. Mr. Pincus was also a cofounder of Freeloader.

Zynga’s main investors include Avalon Ventures, Clarium Capital, the Foundry Group, the Pilot Group, and Union Square Ventures, which invested $10 million in seed funding in January of 2008. Then, in July of 2008, KPCB and IVP joined the above mentioned investors in a $29 million investment in series B funding for Zynga.

Individual investors who helped lead the investment in the company include Bing Gordon of Kliener, Perkins, Caufield & Byers or KPCB, which is a vc firm that is passionate about helping its portfolio companies. The people at KPCB are dedicated to have their portfolio companies succeed and know that it takes much more than just financial sponsorship to make a company succeed. Mr. Gordon is widely known in the video game industry as one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Pincus work and think together and do some of their best thinking on long bike rides in Marin. Other companies in KPCB’s portfolio include Amazon, Google, Aerohive Networks, AOptics, Kodiak Networks, and others.

Clarium Capital is a vc firm that is based in San Francisco, California and pursues global macro strategy. The key person who led Clarium Capital to fund Zynga is Peter Thiel, who is the vc firm’s managing partner. Mr. Thiel runs a large macro hedge fund and was also one of the leading investors of Facebook.

Based in Monrovia, California, the Pilot Group is a manufacturer of small electronic components. The main people of the Pilot Group who led the Pilot Group’s investment in Zynga are Bob Pittman and Andy Russell. Mr. Pittman was the founder of MTV and also has experience in running some major consumer franchises; such as the large real estate franchise, Century 21; and America’s largest internet provider, AOL.

The Foundry Group is a vc firm that primarily invests in early stage IT companies which show great potential for market success. The main person who was behind the Foundry’s investment into Zynga is Brad Feld. Mr. Feld is also a friend of Zynga’s founder, Mr. Pincus. The two met when Mr. Feld worked at SoftBank. Some other companies in the Foundry’s portfolio include AdMeld, Brightleaf, Gist, Gnip, Lijit Networks, and others.

Based in New York City, Union Square Ventures is a vc firm that primarily invests in early stage companies who are in the IT enabled services, media and marketing, healthcare, financial services, and telecom verticals industries. The key person who led Union Square’s investment into Zynga was Fred Wilson, who knew Mr. Pincus for a long time and encouraged him to become an entrepreneur in 1995. After Mr. Pincus took Mr. Wilson’s advise, he went on to found Freeloader, which Mr. Wilson backed with funding.

Zynga does have some competitors, however, the most noteworthy competitor of Zynga is Playfish, which is an online gaming social network that has a product which is similar to the product that Zynga offers. Playfish is a privately owned corporation which is based in London, England and was founded in October of 2007. The company has four people on its management team and three people on its board of directors.

For more information about Zynga, click here.

In the United States and other parts of the world, the love of animals is abundant. What is especially abundant is the love of dogs and cats and, especially in the United States, people will practically do anything for their dogs. Now what happens when you mix this immense love for man’s best friend with the internet? Well, you get Dogster. Dogster advertises itself as a website for dog lovers and for “dogsters.” Furthermore, when you read the About Dogster page of the website, you will discover that the creators of Dogster are both dog lovers and computer geeks. That is quite a combination, but what does Dogster do and how does it benefit animal lovers? Dogster provides a service that any animal lover can sign onto and find out anything or even everything about dogs, from how to care for them, tips from veterinarians, and even buy dog toys or other dog supplies.

You can become a member of Dogster and it is free. What you need to do to register with Dogster is simply go into the My Account tab and you will see an option to create an account with Dogster. Once you click on that link, you will be prompted to type in your email address, your name and last name, a password and to retype your password. Once you have done that, you have the option to invite some or all of your friends to join Dogster. Dogster will discover all the friends on your email’s address book. You can also uncheck all the checked boxes by clicking on uncheck all link. Once you have done all that, you need to check your email and find the email from Dogster, which will provide you with a link to confirm your account. Once you have clicked on that URL, you have completed your registration process.

Once you have registered yourself into Dogster, you have several options. Assuming that you registered into Dogster because you are a dog owner, you can create your own doggie page. In order to do this, you need to first type in your dog’s name. After you have written your dog’s breed, you will need to select your dog’s breed and you can also select a secondary breed. You can also say that your dog is a mixed breed. You can also write a story about your dog. To do this you need to click on the story link and you will see several fields open up, where you can write a story about your dog. You can also click on a check box that states that your dog is no longer with you if you are writing about a dog that you had and passed away. Furthermore, you can type all kinds of different other things about your dog. You can add some of your dog’s personality traits and other fun things that your dog does. Dogster also lets people know that this is a family oriented site and language needs to be suitable for a child of as young as seven years of age. In order for your doggie page to be published, you will need to upload a photo of your dog. Uploading your dog’s photo can take some time. Once your photo is uploaded, you can go back to your account page.

Once your doggie page is finished, you can see it and how it looks. When you log into your Dogster account, you will see your doggie page link and you can click on the picture of your dog and that will take you right to your doggie page. Once you are in your doggie page, you can see how everything is and Dogster will even give you a number of different stars depending how good your doggie page is.

Another thing that Dogster offers is an adoption service. If you click on the “See the dogs!” link, you can click on adoptions and view all the dogs that are put up for adoption. Your search for dogs on Dogster is not just limited to the United States and Canada. You can choose from practically any country in the world.

Other services that Dogster offers include gifts for dogs and dog lovers, tips about veterinary care and much more. You can buy things from Dogster and also share questions and answers about dogs with other dog owners on Dogster.

Dogster is a privately owned company that was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California. Dogster has three people on its management team, two people on its board of directors, and two advisors. The three people on Dogster’s management team consists of the three founders of Dogster, who are Ted Rheingold, John Vars, and Steven Reading.

Ted Rheingold is the man behind the idea of Dogster. Mr. Rheingold also founded Catster for cat lovers. The reason for founding Dogster was to unite people who love dogs and cats, and offer a place where people can share tips, ask questions, write biographies and buy things for their pets. Mr. Rheingold also serves as Dogster’s CEO and is also one of the people on Dogster’s board of directors.

Besides being one of Dogster’s cofounders, Mr. Vars is also at the company as the CPO. His major role in the management is to search for new products to sell on the Dogster site. Mr. Vars has a background on software engineering and before taking part in the founding of Dogster, he worked as the product manager for Preview Travel, which is a major global travel site.

Besides being the third cofounder of Dogster, Mr. Reading is also working at Dogster as the company’s chief business officer. Mr. Reading has an extensive background in tax law and was born and raised in London, England. Mr. Reading came to San Francisco in 1994. Mr. Reading graduated from the University of London with a Law degree and then went on to study at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he received a degree in Tax Law.

Dogster’s investors include Jeff Clavier, Adam Baguelin, and Michael Arrington, who invested $1 million in series A funding in September of 2006.

Jeff Clavier is the founder and Managing Partner of SoftTec VC and is one of the most active seed stage investors in the Web 2.0 industry. Mr. Clavier has been investing in Web 2.0 for a while and in 2007, he was named in Business Week as one of the 13 Web 2.0 King Makers. Mr. Clavier has also been active in both North American and European markets.

Mr. Arrington is a serial investor who has invested in many entrepreneurs who are in the tech, software, and internet industries. Mr. Arrington is also no stranger to entrepreneurship, founding several different internet startups himself. One of his biggest successes is TechCrunch, which is an information site that gives reviews about new technologies and companies in the tech industry.

Dogster does have a few competitors. Two of the most noteworthy competitors are Leashes and Lovers and United Dogs and Cats.

Leashes and Lovers is an online social network for dog lovers and provides a service that is similar to the service provided by Dogster. Leashes and Lovers is a privately owned LLC that was founded in 2003 and is based in New York City.

Like Dogster and Leashes and Lovers, United Dogs and Cats is also a social network that aims to unite dog and cat lovers all over the world. United Dogs and Cats is a privately owned LLC that is based in Estonia.

For more information about Dogster, click here.

Founded in 2004, B-Side is a unique entertainment technology company that creates websites for over 250 independent film festivals throughout North America. As you first open the B-Side website, you are greeted with a headline that reads “The audience is never wrong.” The way that B-Side works is by connecting with different independent film producers who want publicity for their films and allows them to feature their film on a website on B-Side’s domain and then either individual viewers or entertainment companies and radio or TV stations can go onto those sites and view and critique the films.

When you first go onto B-Side’s website, you have several options to choose from. The homepage tells you who the people at B-Side are and what they do. There is also information about the films featured on B-Side and a schedule for upcoming film festivals. At the very top of each page, just beneath the headline, there are several links that you can click on. The first link after the home link is the films link.

The films link will bring you to all the films that are featured on B-Side. You can scroll down the list of the different films that are available for screening and next to the film’s thumbnail is a short story about what the film is about. You can either click on the thumbnail or on the more link after the brief paragraph of the film and you can view the film yourself using the Adobe Flash Player. You can even click on the full screen button to view the film on the entire screen of your computer’s monitor to have as much of the cinema effect as possible. Next to the film featured on the site, you can even schedule a screening of the film if you choose to do so.

The link after the films link is the festivals link. This link shows you when festivals are coming up and you can schedule to go to those film festivals if you choose to do so. Under this link, you can even view a video about the various film festivals available on B-Side.

The link after the festivals link is the blog link. Under this link, you can read several different blogs about upcoming film festivals and stories or critiques about the various films that are featured on B-Side.

B-Side is a privately owned corporation that is based in Austin, Texas and employed nine people. The company is managed by its founder, who is Chris Hyams; who also serves as B-Side’s CEO.

B-Side’s investors include Silverton Partners and Maples Investments, who invested $3.1 million in series A funding in October of 2006 and $4.25 million in series B funding in November of 2008 with Valhalla Partners joining the above mentioned investors.

Silverton Partners is a vc firm that primarily invests in early stage companies who are based in the Austin, Texas area. According to the team at Silverton Partners, the culture that is represented at the vc firm is a people driven culture that leads the partners at Silverton to partner up with exceptional entrepreneurs. Other companies in Silverton’s portfolio include Chicory Systems, Crimson, Crossroads Systems, Matrix Services, and others.

Maples Investments is an investment firm that was founded by investor and entrepreneur, Mike Maples, Jr. and the firm invests in all sectors of the tech industry. Other companies in Maples Investments include 750 Industries, Aggregate Knowledge, Bazaarvoice, Business Connect China, Ghegg, and others.

Valhalla Partners is a vc firm that has over $240 billion of capital under its management and mainly invests in companies who are in the software, internet, digital media, mobile, storage, and infrastructure industries. Other companies in Valhalla’s portfolio include Advertising.com, B2e Markets, BlueStripe Software, and others.

For more information about B-Side, click here.

As the internet keeps being a growing marketplace for just about anything, the music industry has also taken a hold of the abundant market opportunities on the internet. Music, however, has not been a stranger to the internet. Napster was actually the first music file sharing network on the net, but was later forced to shut down because of the complaints of artists and record companies who thought they were loosing profits from everyone sharing music files on Napster. Once Napster got started, however, the gene was out of the bottle and both artists and record companies saw the potential for profit on the internet market. Many online music companies have emerged ever since Napster was shut down. One of these happens to be Amie Street, which advertises itself as a website that allows artists to upload their music for publication.

Anyone can sign up to use Amie Street’s services and you do not necessarily have to be an artist to use Amie Street. All you need to do is to type in your email address, a username, and a password that has to be more than four characters long. You also have the option to subscribe to Amie Street’s online newsletter, but if you do not like to have all kinds of junk email, the subscription is not necessary and you can uncheck the box that asks if you want to subscribe to their newsletter. The process takes a few seconds and then you are ready to browse over the collection of music that is available on the Amie Street website. Amie Street membership is free.

Once you have signed into Amie Street and are ready to look up music, you can select from several different genres. The genres that Amie Street offers are pop, rock, folk/country, electronic, hiphop/rap, soul, classical, and more. You can go on the genre pulldown menu and choose the genre of your particular taste. If you do not see the genre of your taste in the menu, you can click on more genres. When you click on the more genres option, you will find a huge variety of different genres ranging from music that comes from all over the world. You can even select from such genres such as polkas and other rare genres aimed at select tastes.

What makes Amie Street stand out from other music sites in the industry is that many of the songs and albums on the site can be downloaded for dirt cheep. You also have the option of listening to the music before you buy it. The only thing about Amie Street is that you have to pay a minimum of three dollars when you buy a music file or album from the site. You will get this notice as soon as you pay for a song or album that is under three dollars. You will also find a list of options from which you can choose from each option will cost more. Prices can range from three dollars all the way to above $90. Click on the option that you want and then you can proceed on to checkout. At the checkout, you have three different payment options. You can pay either with Amazon Payments, your Paypal account, or your own credit or debit card. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card, Amie Street takes MasterCard, American Express, Visa, and Discover cards.

Amie Street is a privately owned company that is based in Long Island City, New York, and was founded in 2006. The company currently employs twelve people and the company’s management team consists of the three cofounders, who are Elliot Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch.

Amie Street’s sole known investor is Amazon.com, which invested an undisclosed amount of money in series A funding in August of 2007.

Amazon.com is the pioneer in e-commerce and originally started by selling books online, now Amazon.com sells anything from books to records and other things as well and has become a multimillion dollar business. Amazon.com also invests in companies that could be of interest to Amazon.com

Because the online music and entertainment industry is such a fast growing marketplace, that it comes to no surprise that Amie Street does have a few competitors. One of the company’s most noteworthy competitors is GarageBand.com.
Founded in 1999, GarageBand.com is a subsidiary of iLike.com and offers a service that is similar to the service provided by Amie Street. GarageBand.com is managed by only one person and has seven people on its board of directors. The company is based in Seattle, Washington and its investors include Khosla Ventures and NEA.

For more information about Amie Street, click here.