Quoted: I will be in San Francisco next week and several companies have requested interviews. My goal is to interview as many startups as possible on September 11th and 12th. If your company would like to be interviewed and you are willing to do a video interview, submit your company information, address and pick your 1st and 2nd choices from the available

Quoted: Next week is a big one for the technology startup world. Both DEMO and Techcrunch50 will be held from Monday-Wednesday; DEMO in San Diego, Techcrunch50 in San Francisco. We've received press passes to both events and I thought it would be interesting to share how both conferences differ in the way they handle the press before the conference begins.

Quoted: Video hosting service Viddler has announced the launch of a new service today, 15s. The idea behind 15s is to create videos using a webcam of 15 seconds or less. The videos are then instantly sent to your Twitter buddy list. The videos also appear in your Viddler video stream. Assuming this service becomes popular, it might be good for Viddler to allow

Quoted: Yesterday I traveled to Philadelphia to attend the DreamIT Ventures Funding Day. Eleven startups presented their ideas and pitched their concepts for funding. Several hundred people attended the event and the event went off without a hitch. Most of the presentations were very good and I was actually quite impressed with many of the company ideas. Here

Quoted: SCVNGR is one of the companies in the DreamIT startup incubator. SCVNGR describes their service as an "on-demand interactive mobile platform". What this really means is that they help companies and other groups create scavenger hunt games. The actual game works very similar to any scavenger hunt but with more intelligence. Because everything

Quoted: InterviewBest is one of the DreamIT startup incubator companies. InterviewBest helps you created a printed, bound presentation to take with you to an interview. The idea is that the presentation is stronger than any resume and helps sell you better to the hiring manager. Since it will be left behind with the hiring manager, it can help show why you

Quoted: Sleep.FM was one of the companies presenting today at the DreamIT Funding Day in Philadelphia. Sleep.FM says they are the "social alarm clock" and they basically provide a new wakeup call. I've had the opportunity to meet founder Ryan Spahn at several events and he really believes in the Sleep.FM concept. So many of the reviews and comments

Quoted: Tapinko is one of the startups to come out of the DreamIT startup incubator. Tapinko President Peter Groverman opened the presentation by explaining that there's currently no place to purchase multiple offline ads (e.g. to purchase in every newspaper in Philly). My initial thought was that Google provides this type of offline newspaper ad buying already.

Quoted: Today I spent time at the DreamIT Ventures Funding Day in Philadelphia. The first company was Vuzit presented by founder Brent Matzelle. Vuzit is an online document viewer similar to Docstoc and Scribd. Vuzit can protect documents by preventing unauthorized copy and download functions. Vuzit appears to be focused on the enterprise business market. Vuzit