Company: Causes
Funding: More than $7.3 million from The Founders Fund
While his former Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, was off running Facebook, Joe Green was busy studying and drumming up online support for the causes he found most compelling. As an organizer, Green’s main hurdle was getting do-gooders to raise consciousness about a cause among friends and […]

 
Company: StumbleUpon/eBay
Funding: Acquired by eBay in May, 2007, for $75 million
Co-founder and chief architect Camp created StumbleUpon as a social search tool bar that plugs into an Internet browser and recommends Web sites based on the shared interests of other users. It now helps more than 5 million people find all manner of interesting sites […]

 
The movie Field of Dreams gave us the famous line “if you build it, they will come.” In the field of ecommerce, that phrase could describe the dream of entrepreneurs to carve out a thriving online auction business despite the looming shadow of the Really Big Gavel: eBay.
Mark Wilkinson was repeating a variation on the […]

 
Zannel Inc.
The company: Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging platform lets users network from their phones with videos, pictures and text. It’s positioned to take on textcentric social networking and micro-blogging leader Twitter.
The founders: CEO Adam Zbar, 38; CTO Braxton Woodham, 36; and vice president of technology Harry Evans, 32
The difference: Multimedia is key to Zannel’s success. Its service takes advantage […]

 
START-UP: MIND CANDY (ONLINE GAMES)
Mind Candy is the creation of Michael Acton Smith, 33, who in 1998 set up the e-commerce site Firebox, which now has a turnover of around £11m. ‘Our latest game is Moshi Monsters, which is like an online Tamagotchi. It’s aimed at 7- to 12-year-olds, who can adopt and care […]

 
MarketClusters founder and CEO Nick Gregg has got his eye on India as a market to sell into and recruit from.
MarketClusters’ flagship product is a digital media intelligence offering called StrategyEye. It provides real-time information on the changes ocurring across the sector.
Gregg says: “India is one country we want to go into. We can remotely […]

 
George Berkowski and Steve Stokols had a brainwave last year. What if they created an online version of speed dating, but took away the sad, lonely heart, dating bit? Now, Woome.com is the latest social craze to sweep the internet.
“The site isn’t pink. There are no love hearts scattered on the homepage. This is not […]

 
Being a great football fan, I travel regularly all over the UK watching my favourite team (won’t say here for fear of comments!). But one issues that really annoys me is parking. Roads are closed around the ground, and even expensive NCP carparks are full. I got 3 tickets in one month alone last year […]

 
Entrepreneur Crispin Thomas’s TMTI has become one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies by teaching customers how to work the bewildering features on their mobile phones and other gadgets.
He had the “eureka moment” for his new business at the launch of Vodafone Live: “I asked a salesperson to show me how to send a picture message. […]

 
I have heard a lot of talk about YouTorrent.com- the acclaimed world’s first real-time torrent comparison search engine. The site helps Web surfers more easily find down-loadable content such as music, movies, games, and software and the site has achieved amazing growth, for example within 3 months of launching YouTorrent saw 2.7 million unique visitors in February […]