Toktumi (pronounced “Talk-2-me”) is a new startup aimed at the VOIP market and competes with Skype but with additional features of a service like Gotvmail. Toktumi is targeted toward small businesses and is first downloaded to a PC and setup with features like autoattendent, mailboxes, call forwarding, conferencing etc… If gives a budding new business [...]
I came across a great resource for designers and creative boutiques that are starting out and struggling with the business-side of a creative business.
Being in the creative design industry for some time I found this to be a great asset for entrepreneurs trying to stretch a legal dollar or keep a burdensome customer off [...]
We all have social identities such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Myspace and other social profiles. We’ve also have discussed how new startups are becoming aggregators of your various profiles and organizing multiple identities into a more cohesive whole that updates across all social networks. So the question begs what if you would like to show one [...]
I Posted on The Funded in 2007 shortly after initial launch. The company that lets entrepreneurs rate VC’s based on their various experiences has yet again raised the ante. The new service from The Funded will allow entrepreneurs access to the elusive term sheet. If you are unfamiliar with a term sheet check out three [...]
I’m back from Costa Rica, rested and ready to take on 2008. Among the several books I read, “My Startup Life” by Ben Casnocha is worthy of mention because of the extraordinary similarities to the Startup Addict mantra and message “Dream Big. Be Great”. One would think the reason the book stood out was the [...]
I will be unable to post until next Sunday January 27th. Feel free to scan Startup Addict’s blogroll for a quick fix in my absence.
MySQL sold for $1 billion big ones…this is huge news. 2008 is officially the year of open source. The open source database startup MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1 billion. MySQL was originally funded $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP.
TechCrunch stated:
Startups with similar business models – managing a free [...]
According toemarketer
video and social networks are among the hottest new ad formats today, they will account for $2.9 billion, or about 10% of total online advertising dollars projected for 2008.
The total online media buy or ad spending accounts for $27.5 billion in 2008 with growth reaching $42 billion by 2011. If the same growth percentage [...]
Check out the the Facebook interview on 60 minutes last night with founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark is still writing code and living in a 1-bedroom apartment with the mattress on the floor. Gotta love it.
Imo.im is an instant message social aggregator that turns your social network friends (Facebook, Myspace) into IM friends. This will allow instant messaging to occur through Imo.im instead of through a single IM service like AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk. VentureBeat makes an interesting case of a possibly bigger trend:
if services that pair social network [...]
