The Wasatch Girl » companies http://www.wasatchgirl.com Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:18:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Doostang Hiccups? http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2008/03/03/doostang-hiccups/ http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2008/03/03/doostang-hiccups/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:51:42 +0000 WasatchGirl http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2008/03/03/doostang-hiccups/ PhotobucketI have used the career networking site Doostang for two years. It has become one of my favorite sites and I have suggested it to many people seeking jobs, sending out a good handful of invites to the invitation only site. The network is still small, but the companies that post jobs and the job listings themselves are impressive. Most listings seem to be technical and / or business related, making it a perfect resource for me if I were ever to be looking for a job.

Over the years I have built up a crew of contacts and have continued to keep an eye on the listings that were being posted, logging in probably once a month. Yet, all of a sudden the site no longer recognizes my log-in information and my email is mysteriously not on file. I asked a friend of mine to send me a new invitation, but that never reached me either. I have reached out to the company through three different email addresses and have not heard a response.

Hello… hello… hello… Doostang founders, are you out there? Don’t make me find you through VentureSource, Twitter or LinkedIn. =)

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Needless to say, I checked out CrunchBase, a listing of web2.0 company profiles. Out of curiousity I looked up some of the Wasatch companies to see what information was listed.

  • The Generations Network – listed under MyFamily.com, The Generations Network and Ancestry.com. Information was different on every page, even though each page mentioned the others and how they were all interrelated. The acquisition news was only listed on The Generations Network.
  • Mozy – information on company and acquisition were accurate. For some reason Tim Draper and Drew Majors were listed as the only investors even though Wasatch was the only one listed under the financing information.
  • Lignup – not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch
  • BungeeLabs – not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch
  • Medsphere – not included, but I don’t believe it has even been covered on TechCrunch

Hmmm… definitely not perfect… yet, I can’t be too hard on the author Mike Arrington as there are a bazillion (note that this is not an actual count) web2.0 companies out there. If anything, Crunchbase can be a good starting point to find companies already noted by Arrington as movers and shakers, as his viewpoints result in a definite increase in site hits. Then perhaps researched on one’s own after that.

]]> http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/12/05/the-techcrunch-umbrella/feed/ -1 Nano Invisible Shield http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/22/nano-invisible-shield/ http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/22/nano-invisible-shield/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:21:00 +0000 WasatchGirl http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/22/nano-invisible-shield/ I applied the invisible shield to my nano the day after receiving it. At first there were little bubbles in the back, which the directions said would ease themselves out within a 24-hour period. Sure enough… today there are no bubbles and I have a completely protected nano. I love it!

Here is a picture taken from the camera on my Mac.

]]> http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/22/nano-invisible-shield/feed/ 6 Shout out for Invisble Shield http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/19/shout-out-for-invisble-shield/ http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/19/shout-out-for-invisble-shield/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:53:00 +0000 WasatchGirl http://www.wasatchgirl.com/2007/03/19/shout-out-for-invisble-shield/ I heard about Invisible Shield from a friend of mine who lives in Dublin (nickname H.I.P #1). When I went to the Slopecast Luncheon approximately two weeks ago I sat by the Invisible Shield founders and the story came out that I had heard about this local company from my friend across the pond. They found it to be hilarious as they had never done any international marketing.

If you have never heard of Invisible Shield, they are a company located here in Salt Lake and create plastic “shields” or wraps that are customized for each gadget. The shield is clear and completely unnoticeable, but protects the gadget from any scrapes (even a key scraping against the LCD panel).

I recently bought a shield for my nano as my mini got really scraped up from snowboarding. Not only was the website easy to use and the product selection great, but my purchase came within days of ordering.

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