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
Finding a Co-Founder
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
Funding