How to Manage Your Board of Directors

Tom Kellerman & Scott Karchmer of Morgan Lewis, Marc Galletti of Longitude Capital, and Jad Dunning of DriverSide Read More...

As part of our Startup Spotlight, we’re featuring the mytweetmark and its founder, Bilal Ahmed.

Pitch:

mytweetmark is a platform of web 2.0 technologies and services.  Create and measure tweets.  Measure through analytics.  Gain social media marketing influence on twitter.  Promote your local food business and farmers’ markets with homecookme.  mytweetmark platform is currently being used for local business in over 130 farmers’ markets in Northern California where we have the first mover advantage.  We will be expanding in Austin, Texas in March, 2011. We are also planning on a East Coast tour of Boston, MA and New York, NY farmers’ markets in summer 2011.  mytweetmark and homecookme products are ready for use, @ $30/month subscriptions, to help small businesses with social media in United States.

Company:

mytweetmark was founded in January 2010 by CEO/Founder, Bilal Ahmed.  Social media advertising and spending is on the rise.  mytweetmark utilizes advanced twitter techniques to market local businesses with tweets.  Promote your local food business and farmers’ market with homecookme.  We have proven growth in Northern California; signed up local businesses in over 130 farmers’ markets. We are now looking to grow and sign up businesses all over United States. Read More...

This week we’re featuring Bushi-go in our Startup Spotlight series.

The Pitch:
Our company is a mobile gaming startup called “Bushi-go, Inc.” here in the SF Bay Area.  We are working with building long-form entertainment products into an episodic format for delivery onto mobile devices.  Up until now we have been primarily self-funded because the concept we are floating is very new for mobile gaming and as of yet untested, the publishers are still looking to the social games.  On top of that, part of our mandate is to find a way to produce these high-value products quickly (8Mo dev cycle) and on a tight budget (100k or less).  We have spoken with a couple of VC’s and Angel investors in the past and the key comment that has come back every time is that we are just dealing in numbers small to be interesting right now.  To finish the product and prove our concept we need around $20k total, 10k is already being put up by the founders, and we have gone to Kickstarter to try and crowd-source the rest.

About Company:
Bushi-go, Inc. was founded on the idea that waiting just a little bit can be a good thing.  It lets you get your entertainment fix the the kinds of bites that fit into your schedule, waiting for the kids to get out of soccer, waiting for the school-bus to drop you at the very last stop on the line.  You don’t lways have the time or the inclination to burn through 15+ hours of game content in a weekend and the twitch-game action of puzzlers and matchup games just isn’t going to satisfy your love of a good story.  Ten minutes a week, we can fix all that. Read More...