Seattle 2.0 Blog

August 2, 2007

    Every month, just after we publish the Seattle Startup Index, there is a few email of people congratulating on the list, on the blog or asking to add their company to the list. This month is not just a few. On the last 48 hours I received about 50 emails. All kinds of suggestions, ideas, congratulation messages, people that just want to say hi, and, of course companies requesting to appear on the list.

    We received 10 requests and 9 were approved (we declined one because the company was 6 years old. Not a startup on our criteria). The companies added on the last 48 hours are: MyTypes, Fyreball, nPost, Postacrima, imaPodHead, PeepCode, Intelius and Zumende.

    Of all of those, Intelius was our (err, mine) biggest oversight. They will debut next month in third place on the list. They are pretty big. It just seems they are not heard as much on the blogosphere because they are doing some, well, quite boring (yet useful) on the people background check space. It doesn't sound as exciting as Zillow and Redfin on real-estate, or iLike and BuddyTV with media, but hey they do get quite a bit of traffic with all the scare about people stealings other's identity, but I'm pretty sure much of their business comes from large corporations HR's.

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