500 Startups Adds 21 New Companies

Post by fido » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

arepb wrote: post #8

Volta is the one on here I'm most interested in checking out when it's up. They are doing AB testing for outbound phone.

Post by parane » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

cglee wrote: post #13

samstokes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed: HelloWorld?

That was one where I thought it made a lot of sense.

Post by seto28 » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 8:28 PM UTC

Post by dotBen » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 10:14 PM UTC

arfrank wrote: post #9

scottkrager wrote: post #6

AppGrooves - personalized app discovery BugHerd - site down update:js embed widget for website/design changes/feedback Cardinal Blue - photo/chat collaboration Culture Kitchen - cooking classes targeting lower-income immigrant women DailyAisle - online wedding planning HelloWorld - auto-generated Github resume Kibin - online editing marketplace (essays, resumes, etc) LaunchBit - interactive ebook to launch a minimum…

Bugherd, last time I used it, did a js embed widget for website/design changes/feedback. May have changed, but it was a neat idea then.

Post by friendstock » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

jjm wrote: post #7

teh wrote: post #5

Roughly 1/3 of them are a front page with an email box. Nice way to check for interest.

This tells me that they're still in the problem/solution discovery process. Which further tells me they don't have 'traction' or any of the metrics Dave McClure usually looks for (pirate metrics, http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir... ). Would that be 'Idea stage'? I could be 100% wrong and then some, but would very much like to know, and how they got funding...