Victor Caballero

Interesting article in SmartMoney April 2007 about P2P lending sites. Here's the sites mentioned.

www.Prosper.com
www.ZOPA.com
www.KIVA.org
www.CircleLending.com
www.LoanBack.com

These are good solutions for small business that have trouble with receiving financing and loans.
Many people have used them successfully.

Labels: loans, p2p lending, prosper.com

March 17 Caltech Enterprise Forum:

Online Commerce and Collaboration Opp's - Search, Community and Markets

Saturday, March 17, 2007at the California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, CaliforniaRegistration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Baxter Hall Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture HallNetworking: 11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture HallCost: Early Registration - $40 (before Monday, March 12th)Late Registration and at the door: $50; ($10 for students with full-time student ID; free to Caltech students)
Is Web 2.0 real or merely a prelude to Dotbomb 2.0? Happily, today's e-scape differs radically from the past. Hyped IPOs are replaced by acquisitions ranging from Pricegrabber and Bizrate to MySpace and YouTube. Amazon, eBay and Google are deeply entrenched. Most notably, unlike the '90's attempt to push technology and content, now the market -- in large measure consumers -- is pulling with extraordinary strength. Device makers hurry out features to ride and enhance trends which content purveyors seek to recognize and monetize. Even the enterprise CIO is yielding, forced by the employees to grapple with the likes of wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and podcasts. Meanwhile, "big guys" like eBay and Amazon encourage 3rd party developers to build on their empires. Against this background, today's program seeks to get up close and personal, eliciting and probing the perspective of our panelists, successful entrepreneurs who not only are building funded ventures in the current space, but also have deep experience with prior ventures. To aid in delineating where we are and are going, our speakers as well as the audience will have the opportunity to play gadfly-commentators.
Please join us on March 17th and find out, first hand, from industry experts, entrepreneurs and venture capital firms where online commerce is really headed.
Commentators
Kevin JacquesPartner Palomar Ventures
Louise WannierFounderwww.myshape.com
Entrepreneur Panelists
Craig OggCo-founder/CTO www.thisnext.com
Siva KumarCEOwww.thefind.com
Touraj ParangFounderwww.jaxtr.com
Joel ToledanoFounder/CEOwww.krillion.com
Producers/Moderators
Richard C. HsuPartnerTownsend & Townsend & Crew LLP
Michael Krieger, Ph.DWillenken Wilson Loh & Lieb, LLP
DateSaturday morning, March 17, 2007
LocationRegistration and Continental Breakfast:8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall Networking: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech

Friday March 9, 2007

Joost Beta Impressions

I have been very impressed with the Joost team and the beta. Everyone has been very professional and expeditious in responding.

Having been on the beta for several weeks now I can say that this is going to be something everyone wants. We all know there are concerns of bandwidth, but that concern is going away little by little.

The target audience is people at home or on the road who want to watch quality programming. Joost has deals with Warner Brothers(WB), Viacom, CHUM, National Geographic, and countless other content providers. So the depth of video content is good. I would like to see a news feed with localized news, weather, sports, etc Maybe a show like Stern, Oprah, or one of the celebrities would seal the deal for Joost.

Installing the software was fairly straight forward, although on Vista you have to make some settings with the compatibility and how the program runs, once that is done you are set. In the last the Joost team deposited two tokens, which I quickly send to friends. Waiting for more.... I really do believe based on what I have read that this is going to be HUGE, regardless of the players entering the market.

This is the wave of the future and Joost has the money and knowledge to make it happen.

Posted by: Victor Caballero

Labels: Joost