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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 Each week a payment is automatically withdrawn until the purchase period is over.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 has developed a promotional publishing platform to helpmerchants create and distribute coupons to our aggregated online, social andmobile network partners. One simple online and mobile interface formerchants to create and distribute a promotion in real-time. CircleStreet's feed-driven platform enables merchants to automatically triggerpromotions based on relevant external events, such as weather, sportingevents and other influencing factors. Circle Street's team has spent thelast 10 years working with merchants of all sizes developing technology andmedia solutions.

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.

GameCrush enables the monetization of online social interactions. Launching with multiplayer gaming, GameCrush users can create profiles that include a wide variety of content tools such as text chat, interests, pictures, blogs, video clips, and more. The GameCrush platform enables a class of users to choose who and what to play while offering another class a way to financially benefit within the social context of gaming. Users can also play for a charity or social cause. Upon the completion of a game, users can rate their experience with those who receive higher ratings being rewarded with increased site visibility.

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.

Playfeed is a stealthish startup based in San Francisco, CA

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.

Exploring the world on Trazzler is like window shopping. Skip the trips that don't appeal to you, but save the ones you like. As you do, your one-of-a-kind taste for travel will inform smarter recommendations tailored to your Travel Personality. While you will certainly find exotic getaways and the stuff of travel fantasies while exploring Trazzler, most of Trazzler's recommendations are within reasonable driving distance, fostering investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. Trazzler partners with CVBs and hotels for getaway travel deals and writing contests.

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.

Ze Frank Games is a social games company that is still in super secret stealth mode