Nerd Stalker

Nerd Stalker interview with ScrumNinja co-founder David Lowenfels at the 2009 FailCon conference in San Francisco. ScrumNinja is an elegant, intuitive, easy to use agile project tracking web or server application. From the ScrumNinja site: "Deliver the goods ScrumNinja empowers you to deliver the goods. Your management, product owners, and customers get what they want, and you get what you want—an elegant, intuitive tool that doesn’t create obstacles for your creativity and flow. Wield the sword of simplicity ScrumNinja was designed with conceptual integrity as its foremost goal—it does simple things very well. It retains the intuitive simplicity of index cards while providing the benefit of real-time updates and automated metrics. Engage your people Collaboration and interaction are the heart and soul of agile. ScrumNinja’s intuitive user interface makes your team’s contributions instantly visible and understandable to each other, as well as to mana...

WINNERS : Startup of the Year - 99designs (See the Nerd Stalker interview here ) An awesome solution for a business or individual looking for a logo, twitter design, or website design. It's one of those great ideas that you kick yourself for not thinking of. The idea is simple you commit to paying x amount for a design, then the 99designs community is able to submit designs for you to choose from. Once the selection of designs is made so is the transaction. We selected 99designs as our startup of the year for having everything a web application should a great user experience, business model, team and execution. A very big congratulations to 99designs for being selected as the first ever Nerd Stalker startup of the year for 2009. Best Cloud Backup - Backblaze (See the Nerd Stalker interview here ) The best kept secret in the online backup space, Backblaze is hands down the best solution out there. The pricing for the unlimited backup space is extremely competitive and the se...

Nerd Stalker interview with Julian Cash, Geek Executive Officer of Creative.ly at the FailCon conference in San Francisco. Watch out Flickr and Corbis this new crowdsourced way of bookmarking photos could make a run for the money. Bookmark Images. Collect the best images from the web Creative.ly is a fun place to find and collect the best images from all over web. Catalog your favorite photos from flickr or other great websites. Show off the images you love and discover new images from people who share your taste. Share with friends Follow people who's taste you appreciate. Make friends with the people who love the images you collect and import. Create Collections. Enjoy other peoples collections By building your own image collections you can access images from across the net that inspire and thrill you with one simple click. The more images and collections you add, the more people will discover your collections and the artists that inspire you. Promote artists you appreciate Whe...

Interview with the CEO of Fido Factor, Justin O'Neill at this years FailCon conference in San Francisco. From the Fido Factor site: "The goal of Fido Factor is to: To make dog friendly policies the norm rather than the exception. It's our magical little dream that dogs will eventually be welcome everywhere! Provide dog owners with information on which places are dog friendly and how to visit each safely. Let the community determine which dog friendly spots are the best of the best. Here is what you can do on Fido Factor: Find local dog friendly restaurants, stores, bars, parks, lodging and attractions as well as pet stores and dog services! Use your iPhone or smartphone to find dog friendly locations on the go and submit reviews and add locations through our free iPhone/iPod Touch application. Learn important dog policy information for each location, e.g. permitted dog size, leash policy. Become a local ambassador and add to your city's dog...

Nerd Stalker interview with CEO of Caduces, Lydia Sugarman at this years FailCon conference in San Francisco. Caduces is in pre-release (Nerd Stalker scoop!) looking for a 2010 first quarter alpha launch. Caduces is looking to be the secure web application for you to store your families health information and history.

(5 mins) Nerd Stalker interview with Business Development Manager, Jagat Bhuyan of Sun Startup Essentials . The Sun Startup Essentials program delivers an affordable infrastructure that can be put into service fast, backed up by world-class support. The program includes hardware discounts, free support and training, and other ways to get your startup flying high in no time.

Nerd Stalker interview with Cassie Phillipps founder of the amazing FailCon conference happening on October 27th 8:30am - 6pm . We talk startup stories, amazing speakers, lessons learned. “SNAP Summit: FailCon” is a full-day conference focusing on the trials and tribulations of successful entrepreneurs. You aren’t a real entrepreneur until you’ve had to deal with failure and recovering from it - financially emotionally and practically - can be challenging. Hear how some major players in the industry have dealt with startup troubles recovered and kept a positive tenacious and energetic attitude through it all. The conference will debate questions such as: * How do VCs handle failing investments? * How NOT to build a social app * What are some social web branding failures and how can you avoid them now? * How do you financially prepare for the possibility of failure: legally fiscally and in your team? * What have some of the leading executives today learned from their past experiences? ...