Truveo's elevator pitch
Search is the No. 2 activity on the Web behind e-mail. As every searcher knows, it's not perfect, especially when it comes to video search. Truveo is a new video search engine. Truveo founder Tim Tuttle gave me his elevator pitch recently while we were at the Dow Jones Consumer Venture Technology conference.
I also caught up with Ron Conway, an angel investor who was lucky enough to invest in Google when the company was just $70 million. Ron said that he's looking at companies that are creating services/software that enhances the services already provided by Google, Yahoo, MSN and InterActiveCorp's Ask Jeeves. He believes it's better to sell to those big established Net companies than burn millions creating a competitive offering.
1999?? No. It feels more like 1996 or 1997... Feels like real entreprenuers starting real interesting exciting businesses... 1999 was full of ME TOO wanna be's from out of state that messed everything up...
Posted by: Alex Popov | November 16, 2005 at 08:10 AM
The internet market matured a little but business model based only on ad revenue will still fail. Truveo is a great search engine; however, i do not know if they will be influent enough to convince major website to use their search engine. The google style is only 1 in a million.
Posted by: Geoffroy Raby | November 17, 2005 at 11:41 AM
You are so...so..hot..
Bambi Hot. Now GOOG is going to "go up"
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Posted by: gem-x | November 22, 2005 at 02:49 PM