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Congratulations Kris, Jeff, Kelly, and the rest of the team at ComicWonder.com, they’ve officially left beta and are entering the world of online joke telling full-speed ahead. It’s been fun to play with the site for the past couple of months. I can’t wait to see it take off as the press machine starts rolling now.
For those of you not familiar with ComicWonder, it’s a website for joke telling far beyond the bland forwarded email. Think “forwarded email jokes meet You Tube” and you’ll start to get the idea. Users submit their own audio jokes to the site in a variety of ways and from there are voted on by the rest of the community.
Most importantly, Comic Wonder is a shining star in the Milwaukee startup community, and hopefully their success will become contagious.
You may or may not be a victim of excessive spam from a company by the name of Web Coast Ventures, LLC, but we’ve been getting plenty of phone calls asking us if we’re Web Coast Ventures, LLC. You can reach Web Coast Ventures (not Fresh Coast Ventures) at…
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Web Coast Ventures, LLC |
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sales@webcoastventures.com |
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1005 Terminal Way |
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Suite 110 |
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Sam and Jeramey will be in Chicago all weekend at the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization. If you’re in the area and want to meet up or happen to be at the conference, make sure to say hi.
As always you can get in touch with them by calling (608)-774-0704.
BarCampMilwaukee2 will be this coming weekend, October 13th and 14th, at the Schlitz Park Center on the north side of downtown Milwaukee.
BarCamp is an un-conference; An open format event where programmers, designers and business owners can network and learn.
A BarCamp conference is unlike any other technology conference. Rather than being planned by a committee in advance, each community works together to create its own event. A BarCamp generally has an underlying theme, but the individual topics and sessions are organized shortly before or even at the event. This enables BarCamp to be much more than targeted to the needs of the Milwaukee community.
Hundreds of BarCamp events have been held in cities around the world. Milwaukee and Madison’s BarCamp events attracted over 130 people each and the attention of Wisconsin media. Learn more…
Best of all the event is completely free!
Fresh Coast Ventures is a sponsor, which means we will be in attendance all weekend long.
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has proposed a $2 million center in Wisconsin dedicated to companies moving past the angel investment stage. A public-private partnership would fund the center.
Any improvement in the Wisconsin business climate, especially for small and new businesses is a big help to us. Consider Fresh Coast Ventures on board the band wagon for the new venture center.
I’ll be speaking at the Web414 meeting on Thursday night in downtown Milwaukee. My presentation will revolve around online photo sharing services, but more importantly the folksonomies that live on top of them and how you can participate and improve them.
As described on the site “the Web414 group consists of amateurs and professionals interested in building and improving the web today and in the future. We are a diverse group including designers, programmers, publishers, and entrepreneurs – all with a common interest in creating the new web.”
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