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Entries from November 2007

Slatecard Raises $75k for Republican Candidates

November 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Slatecard.com is a utility to support and enhance Republican activism and was created by David All, a well known DC interactive strategist and Sendhil Panchadsaram.
Slatecard PAC is an independent, federally registered political action committee (PAC) which acts as a “conduit” to raise money online to help Republican candidates for federal office in compliance with the […]

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Tags: startups

DC [2.0] Rising

November 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

While the event was titled “The Rise of Citizen 2.0: Radically Rethinking Democracy in the Digital Age,” I think there was a sub-text to the event that was as interesting, if not more so, than the idea of a Citizen 2 dot oh (which is how the Yahoo!s were saying it. And yes, they call […]

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Tags: News

Bye Bye Web 2.0

November 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

On the same day that DC seems to finally be getting some attention for being a bastion for web 2.0 style startups…

Articles in today’s Washington Post:
Bulding a Community Byte, By Byte
and
Web’s New Field of Dreams Emerges in DC

…Kleiner Perkins has indicated that they’re not at all interested in funding any more Web 2.0 ventures.
“We have […]

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Tags: startups

Washington Post Covers Startup Weekend

November 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The Washington Post’s Kendra Marr has an article in today’s paper about HolaNeighbor and DC Startup Weekend.  The article does a good job at capturing the excitement and enthusiasm that went into the weekend, both in respect to building a new company and product, and in seeing the DC tech scene come alive.  My favorite […]

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Tags: News · Social Networks · Web · startups

Litman Joins WashingtonVC as Managing Director

November 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I ran into Eric Litman at the nclud Halloween party and we chatted a bit about his plans for WashingtonVC (WVC). As of November 1st, Litman joins WashingtonVC as their new managing director.
About WVC:
WVC intends to establish itself and promote its parts in 6 major US cities, DC, NY, BOS, SEA, SF, LA, and […]

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Tags: News · startups

Qloud Launches on Facebook with One Million Users

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Silver Spring-based Qloud has formally launched, with their myMusic application. myMusic allows users to upload their iTunes library and play it back anywhere, as well as share their music profile and listening history with friends. Qloud’s myMusic app is available only on Facebook, but plans to launch on other platforms soon. Qloud […]

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Tags: Music · News