Alternative Payments

Here are more alternative payments options for customers without credit (cards).

PayNearMe.com

GreenDot.com

Review of PayNearMe

Review of Green Dot

Among others, Rixty and Coinstar offer similar services.

500 Startups

These might be the coolest super-angel investors on the planet. Dave McClure, the founder, seems to know what he's talking about. I've been reading about him on Fast Company and it's very good stuff. Keep an eye on them if you have a great idea.

500Startups.com

Look in Wikipedia for other super-angels.

The Andreessen Horowitz Fund

Seems like this fund in Silicon Valley would be good to pursue because they will educate you to be a great CEO.

Andreessen Horowitz
NYT's Andreessen Starts 2nd Fund to Invest in Tech Start-Ups

The One Sentence Pitch

Here is the perfect template for making your own one sentence pitch, to be ready for when you bump into that multi-millionaire.

Madlibs For Pitches: How To Perfect The One Sentence Pitch

It was constructed by the Founder Institute's Adeo Ressi

The sFund

I hope I can use the sFund some day.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/kleiner-perkins-and-partners-create-250-million-social-fund/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Excerpt from NYT: Kleiner is creating the sFund at a time when investing in social is hardly new. Several prominent venture capital firms like Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and others, have been heavy investors in social start-ups. And several companies, like the game makers Playfish and Playdom, have already been sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Touch Books for the Little Ones

Upcoming touch books for the iPhone and iPad.

http://touchoo.com/

Webydo: From PSD to HTML

You might want to keep track of this upcoming service.

It takes a PSD and generates all the HTML, less tables  - meaning CSS-style layout.

Pass it along to your peers or otherwise keep them grinding at the mill the old way.

http://www.webydo.com/

My Kids Need Drawing Pad

A drawing pad for little picassos built as an iPad app. This is exactly what my kids need.

DrawingPadApp.com
NYT review

myGengo: Translation API

A service called myGengo.com has an API for human-powered translations. I'm not sure what that all means but this is one service to keep track of.

TechCrunch news

TechCrunch review

Location-Based Advertising

There are some big players involved in this arena and here is a small list of them to help you keep up.

First are the actual providers of the location-based check-in data:

1. Foursquare
2. Facebook Places
3. Twitter
4. Gowalla

Then there are the ad-campaign services that use the above data to pinpoint your marketing:

1. Context Optional, 
2. SnackSquare, 
3. Geotoko, 
4. Sprout Social 
5. PlacePunch

PeopleSmart: Look for Anyone

The new way to look for anyone is to use PeopleSmart.com

U Like Clear Wireless?

So u like Clear's 2 year commitment and excellent broadband service ey?

Well once my contract runs out with Clear, look at what I can get now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/technology/personaltech/02pogue.html

The Virgin Mobile MiFi.....about the size of a credit card.

$40 a month, no contract, unlimited data

FutureAdvisor: Invest Like This

If you currently have a 401K and other investments and are confused or clueless about how best to allocate your investments and get the most bang for the buck, here is a new service who can help. Instead of hiring your own investment adviser, just use FutureAdvisor.com.

TechCrunch review

5Min and Answers

Answers.com has teamed up with 5Min.com to show appropriate videos for every question that is asked. I hadn't heard of 5Min before but they have a ton of videos and worth remembering.

TinyChat With Real-time Translation

This nifty chat system is fully browser-based (no download required) and features real-time language translations so people you chat with don't have to chat in your language for you to understand.

http://tinychat.com/

Grasshopper

Grasshopper.com pitches itself as the entrepreneur's phone system. They may be right.

Medical Industry Pioneers

Here is a list of some innovators in the medical industry. By reading about them you will either partner with them, know who your competitors are, or learn something from them for your benefit.

http://www.tech50.org/companies.html

Cool Video Messages

Send a cool video message of your choice to get your point across and to make a good impression.

Mogreet.com

Social Networking Training for Kids?

Do kids need help stepping up to a social network like Facebook? Some people think so, and they've come up with Togetherville.com to help them learn some valuable skills before embarking onto a full-blown social networking site.

For Children, A Social Nework With Training Wheels

Online Bookings

If you service needs to take online bookings from your customers, here are some service providers I found:

Bookd.com
Rezgo.com
Clickbook.net
Libersybooking.nl