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Affordit helps customers purchase popular products using affordable weekly payments.

Customers purchase popular items by submitting a down payment and making subsequent weekly payments. Purchases are made using a customer's debit card or checking account information tied to their regular bank account. Each week a payment is automatically withdrawn until the purchase period is over. There are no hidden fees or obligations. Affordit customers own their products completely.

Affordit was founded by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter. Wil has launched 6 Internet companies prior to Affordit, including Swapalease.com, the world's largest auto leasing marketplace, the Go BIG Network, the largest community of startup companies and investors, and Blue Diesel, one of the first interactive ad agencies, which he founded in 1994 and is now part of Inventive (VTIV).

Circle Street is where consumers go to aggregate and subscribe to their favorite local and national merchants to receive and share exclusive promotions and rewards. Circle Street has developed tools for merchants to more efficiently message, promote and reward their loyal customers through social and mobile networking.

Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents with all the world, and serves as a vast repository of documents in variety of categories including legal, business, financial, technology, educational, and creative. All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.

Docstoc also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media. You can learn more about embedding documents by clicking here

Docstoc, Inc was founded by Jason Nazar (bio) and Alon Shwartz (bio). The company was selected in September of 2007 to debut its product at the prestigious TechCrunch40 Conference. The product was subsequently launched to the public in November 2007.

GumGum is an analytics and monetization platform for content online. GumGum has developed several applications for publishers that make the best content in the world accessible to publishers of all sizes.

Since its launch early 2008, GumGum has had its monetization applications adopted by more than 1500 web publishers including Gawker, Glam, B5Media, NewsCorp and TimeWarner.

Pulpo Media is a technology enabled marketing services company targeting the growing U.S. Hispanic, Latin American and Spanish and Portuguese Internet populations and the advertisers looking to reach them. The company delivers marketing and publishing tools & services to improve targeting, messaging and advertising effectiveness--resulting in increased performance for advertisers, higher revenue for publishers and a more relevant online media experience for consumers. Pulpo was founded by Justin Kuykendall, a former executive at Tribal Fusion.

ShoeDazzle is the premier online women's shoe society. After taking an online fashion survey, members have fashion experts recommend five of the hottest shoes for them every month based on the client's personal style. At affordable pricing, ShoeDazzle members can look fabulous without breaking the bank. ShoeDazzle intends to bring its "mass-personalized push shopping" model to a wide array of products and services, including handbags, accessories, and other fashion products.

ShoeDazzle was founded by Kim Kardashian and Brian Lee. Brian Lee was Co-Founder of LegalZoom.com, Inc.

Verve Wireless is the leading mobile web technology platform for local media.  Our technologies enable local publishers and advertisers to connect with people anytime, anywhere, filling a unique niche in the world’s fastest-growing medium.  From sports updates and classified ads to restaurant reviews and movie listings; consumers now have access to the most timely and authoritative information wherever they go.  Verve Wireless provides the publishing platform and ad monetization for the AP's Mobile News Network.  The AP's MNN (www.ap.org/mobilenews/) is a multimedia news portal providing anytime access to international, national and local news content from an unrivalled network of trusted sources.

Zadspace has created a new form of highly targeted, dynamically generated direct marketing that places ads on the boxes that are shipped to consumers. The company is working with some of the leading advertisers in the world. The company’s equityholders include DFJ – Frontier and Lester Wunderman. Mr. Wunderman is an advertising executive widely considered as the creator of modern-day direct marketing.