Welcome to the #startups wiki

The official wiki of the #startups channel on irc.freenode.net

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What is #startups?

#startups is a place where people involved in startups can hang out and discuss anything startup/hacker related.

How to connect

Use a IRC client like Colloquy (Mac), Pidgin (Linux), mIRC (Windows), ERC (Emacs) or the irssi+screen lovely combo (*nix). Then visit the channel #startups on IRC server irc.freenode.net. More info & clients

Members

• a-priori - Guelph, ON
• acoyfellow  - Philadelphia, PA. Jordan Coeyman, Founder SendGrowth, OptKit, Twitter: @acoyfellow
• aiyyomaan -  Chennai, India. CEO and Founder, Contracts.io. Twitter: @vdurai
• alanthonyc - Los Angeles, CA; 
• axod - Suffolk, UK 
• bemmu - Candy Japan
• bjensen - Aarhus, Denmark. Twitter: @bjensen 
• blueace - Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
• blueadept - Los Angeles, CA - Twitter: @coreyrecvlohe, Front-End Engineer @Ad.ly, Founder EkkoEngine
• Camrun - Florida, USA @camrunlewis Co-Founder at CrossPing
• ckj - Co-founder @GetSentry. Previously designer at GitHub and Director of Design at DISQUS 
• CisSovereign - Bay Area, CA. Founder BasketballDNA and AliensDesign. Recent college graduate. 
• c0sin - SF, CA
• DaveCP - Liverpool, UK. Working on Submarine, also built Hackerbuddy and Hoverboard. Twitter: @sharkseo
• dawson - Cambridge, UK. CEO and Founder of Cambridge Healthcare 
• David Blumenstein - Managing Partner and Co-Founder- The Hatchery Web: hatchery.vc Twitter: thehatchery 
• davidw - DedaSys 
• devaholic - Thomas Blobaum - Twitter: @tomblobaum 
• diN0bot - Boston, MA 
• DTrejo (David Trejo, github) - Studying Computer Science at Brown in Providence, RI. Back in the Bay during Summers. Cloudera '11 intern woo!
• dublindan - Dublin, Ireland. news.yc: dkersten, Co-Founder of PrescienceAI
• dryicerx - Janitha from Austin, TX - Homepage - Software Engineer at Cisco, Founder at Artevolve and Picsna  
• enki (Paul Bohm) - San Francisco, CA, Engineer at Dropbox 
• enra - Helsinki, Finland. Design / UX at Shadow Cities - Co-founder:ArcticStartup, RailsGirls 
• exel - Rotterdam, NL. Working on Openpanel. new.yc: pim. 
• flaritycat - Hardanger, Norway
• flypunk - Kfar Saba, Israel. Web operations expert. Co-founder of SimplCloud
• geoffw8_ - Geoff Wright, London, Founding www.weartolook.com 
• gianp - Copenhagen, Denmark (PhD student in Programming Languages and Concurrency Theory) 
• Gordon Guthrie - hypernumbers, Edinburgh, Bonnie Scotland 
• guruz - Oslo, Norway and Stuttgart, Germany 
• Hates_ - London, United Kingdom. CTO and Co-founder: Publisha 
• illustir - Alper Çugun - Delft, the Netherlands - Founder of http://tipit.to
• iion_tichy - Munich, Germany, news.yc: Tichy 
• ivanst - Zagreb, Croatia. Startup targetted at local IT problems - Algis, doing consulting to fund it myself. 
• JangoSteve - Ann Arbor, MI. Founder www.ratemystudentrental.com. RoR developer and business consultant for www.alfajango.com 
• JayNeely - Boston, MA - Startup founder, marketing consultant. I maintain a filterable list of Boston startups, including which are hiring.
• Jefs - SF, CA
• karthikm - San Jose, Founder of resu.me 
• kenhty - Melbourne, AU 
• KevBurnsJr - Menlo Park, CA 
• KevinCA - San Francisco, CA. Founder of WeLike. I write about entrepreurship at sheeptrader. 
• KyroBeshay - Originally hailing from Mumbai, India. KyroBeshay is the oficial #startups troll 
• lbrandy - Pittsburgh, PA 
• Louis Marascio - lrm242 - Austin, TX Linkedin @marascio about.me 
• Malte - Muelheim, Germany 
• MarkBao - Boston, MA, USA - hs entrepreneur, founder of Avecora. news.yc: markbao - linkedin  
• marknyc - New York, NY
• maxhodak - Durham, NC / New York City. startup: http://www.quantios.com & http://www.acceptedge.com 
• micrypt - London, United Kingdom. 
• migpwr - Miguel, from Jacksonville, FL 
• mindCrime (Phillip Rhodes)- Chapel Hill, NC. Founder: Fogbeam Labs / OpenQabal 
• Mutru - Helsinki, Finland. CTO and Co-founder of http://www.flowdock.com/ 
• mw - Mexico City most of the time; occasionally Massachusetts 
• nuba - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
• osaunders - Edinburgh, Scotland 
• perezd - Berkeley, CA.
• petercooper - United Kingdom. Editor: rubyinside.com Founder: coder.io 
• PTPells - Founder of Yog. Living in New York, NY.
• picasso - Orange County, CA 
• PigDude - Alexandria, VA. Owner of Oinksoft.
• podman - New York City, USA. Founder of SproutVideo 
• raybr - San Jose, CA. Am currently a grad student in Computer Science. 
• relix (David Verhasselt) - Belgium 
• riffplay - Calgary, Canada. My site: Riff Play. news.yc: riffplay 
• rms - Kevin, from Pittsburgh, PA: HIV Gene 
• rottle - Baltimore, MD. news.yc:yan 
• saikatc - San Francisco, CA. Co-founder of http://gomockingbird.com 
• samuelclay - New York City. Developer at DocumentCloud. Founder of NewsBlur. @samuelclay 
• SeanGrove - California
• seanstickle - Washington, DC. IT turnaround specialist. 
• sebg - New York City. Founder - Acheevmo.com 
• shuaib - Islamabad, Pakistan. 
• Smaug - Boston, Massachusetts 
• sodio - Sam from Charlottesville, VA: website / news.yc: Sam_Odio 
• speeder - São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil - Tech co-founder of Kidoteca 
• sr3d (Alex Le) - Chicago/Texas. Single founder of Marrily.  
• teralaser - Copenhagen, Denmark - Currently mostly electronics/hardware
• themgt -  Asheville, NC. co-founder, Pogoapp
• tomh  - Utrecht, the Netherlands Profile
• tooz - LA, CA: website / news.yc: mk
• troymg - Washington D.C. 
• uniwiz - Boston, MA 
• wensing - West Palm Beach, FL. twitter: mattwensing, news.yc: wensing. Co-founder, Stormpulse 
• wheels - Berlin, Germany. Co-founder of Directed Edge (Twitter)
• vipintm - Vipin M, Chennai, T N India : My Profile 
• viraj_shah - Berkeley, CA , About Me
• yanbe - Berkeley, CA. Am currently a ph.d candidate in Social Informatics. My site: yanbe.org. My blog: yanbe.log 
• zby - Zbigniew Lukasiak, my blogs: Perl Alchemy, Brudnopis - programmer looking for contracts 
• zorglu_ - founding UrFastR a video streaming service where you can stream yourself

Useful resources

Startup Communities

• YCnews - Hacker news
• Answers.OnStartups - Startup community Q&A, built on the Stack Overflow platform.
• Entrepreneur Meetups - Local meetups.
• BarCamp - Local self-organized unconferences.
• Startup Weekend - Go in with a team, go out with a startup. Travelling bootcamp/conference/seminars; vote for it to come to your city here. 

Finding a Co-Founder

• TechCofounder.com - Online directory of developers interested in launching a new startup.
• HackerBuddy.com - Connection tool for people interested in small skill swaps. 
• Meetup.com - Startup Meetups & Web Development Meetups can be good places to meet potential co-founders.
• BuildItWith.me - Designers collaborating with Developers to build apps 

Web Tools

Domains

• LeanDomainSearch.com - You enter a keyword, it pairs it with 1000 other keywords and tells you which .coms are available.
• InstantDomainSearch.com - Checks domains as you type for .com, .net, and .org availability. 
• Domize.com - Checks multiple domains at once; tools for using external word lists, regex, rhymes, & more. Can also check for TLDs other than .com, .net, .org. 
• BustAName.com - Takes provided words, checks for synonyms, creates possible combinations, and checks for domain availability.
• PickyDomains.com - Paid human brainstorming service: $50 deposit to find you an available domain you like, or your money back.

Collaboration 

• Dabbleboard - Non-real-time, but awesome whiteboard. Built by Hacker News (where it was previewed) member zhyder.
• Google Docs - Seriously, why aren't you using this?
• Flowdock - real-time team collaboration, free for pre-revenue startups.

Funding

• TheFunded.com - Ratings and other data for VC firms.
• The Venture Capital DB - Nationwide Mappable and Searchable Database 
• http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/best_questions