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Cute Startup Alert
Get Satisfaction all about customers pleasing themselves
Cra-zazy customers hardly need to be told where they can take their complaints: They just need an outlet. Get Satisfaction aims to automate the bitchfest. Bonus: Its president is Lane Becker, one of Valleywag's most lovably lubricated crush objects — clothed, bespectacled and interviewed in this clip from Web 2.0 in New York. Becker's founding cohotties are Thor Muller and Amy Muller. The "frictionless" solution to demanding customers, who will blog about your inadequate service as soon as look at you, was hatched out of the mayhem caused by their mail-order grab bag business for previously free conference tchotchkes, Valleyschwag. -
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Venture capitalists, they're just like us
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures carrying his own lunch order from Shake Shack in Manhattan's Madison Square to a group of tables where he was entertaining wantrepreneurs in New York for the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo. Not pictured: Lane Becker, president of online customer-service startup Get Satisfaction, who kept his distance from the assembled nerds, pacing around a tree and chatting on his cell phone.
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By Jackson WestComment by kimbjo: Where is this ass kissing coming from VW? Try as they might, we all know VC's are the rubber neck... more » | Other threads
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The cure for the common hangover
AUSTIN, TX — I almost didn't sleep last night. At 4 a.m., after posting party reports foryou ungrateful bastardsmy gorgeous, intelligent readers, I considered just powering through until my breakfast meeting with the boss, who was flying back to New York in the morning. Instead, I caught a disco nap. Even so, I arrived at the PureVolume ranch looking more rested than the weary souls shuffling in for free breakfast tacos. If you haven't had an Austin-style breakfast taco — soft tortilla with eggs and bacon or chorizo — then you should reflect on the direction your life is taking and what you can do to amend your ways. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TravisDee: Owen, Owen, Owen. A disco nap is what you take *before* you go out to party till dawn. more » | Other threads
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Julia Allison crashes SXSW, explains it all
Professional funnylady and amateur gossip Heather Gold just invited Julia Allison, professional gossip and amateur tech event crasher, onto her panel on — ha, ha — Gossip. "Explain to Shaila [Dewan, New York Times correspondent] what you do again," asks Heather, "since her coverage is of real disasters and not the Internet." Her response? More »
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Comment by Tnuc: @MarkTheMarketWatcher: Get him a Hello Kitty shower cap, ASAP! Oh, and considering we're on the subject of Perez. FIRST, BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /gets coat. more » | Other threads
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Secrets of the worst websites — revealed!
Andy Baio created Upcoming.org, a plausibly good group-calendar site he sold to Yahoo. Shirt-doffing VC David Hornik of August Capital has funded some plausibly good companies like Six Apart and Splunk. The two served as judges for "Worst Website Ever," a gag panel at SXSW where entrepreneurs gave their all to the worst startup pitches they could come up with. The ideas were funny enough — Sickr, Image Search for the Blind, My Happy Netbox, and the like. (See the photo gallery, after the jump.) But there was something sour about the whole business. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DaveMcClure500Hats: @DonV: are you serious? you're claiming douchbaggery about a panel that was making fun of itself ALREADY? you are a completely, redundantly,... more » | Other threads
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SXSW: Battledecks!
Come see Battledecks! More »
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