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1. Robert Dewey
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 11:47 am

   Certainly sounds interesting… The Fatlens site seems pretty cool.

2. Innovation Zen
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

   Dot.com investments are catching up, looks like every web 2.0 company out there has at least some millions of venture dollars backing it up.

   I wonder if the fuzz is justified with real business opportunities.

3. Nick Pang | Wii Preorder
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 12:28 pm

   will have to see if their algorithms are good for things other than tickets and how they will compare to shopping.com, bizrate, froogle, etc.

4. JamesM
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 12:45 pm

   All that technology just to get some commission from linkshare. I wonder how much they can make?

5. Bigmuzz
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 4:18 pm

   Founded 3 years ago and they’re not even beta yet???

6. Dave
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 6:22 pm

   I always find it so pathedic when companies are able to score VC’s, let alone 8mill and they have such poor designs, the home page is horrible, the layout, useability (who only uses javascript validation?).. and the copyright “new site comming soon..” like, give me a break.. and the Fatlens, has the nice clever message “We are experiencing a server problem. Please try your search again later”. What are these VC’s thinking!! Not to mention that the concept is STALE!

7. MOose
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

   Funny, I could of developed and launched the site under $1,000.

   AND made the same amount thru affiliate commission. Yup, that’s their business model. Commissions… NICE!

   Wish them luck.

8. Nick Gavronsky
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 7:38 pm

   Zen, not every dotcom has millions behind them (at least my start up doesnt). Interesting idea, but dont really know if there is much of a market/model for this. Three years seems a long time already to get something like this live.

9. 3putt
   

   July 24th, 2006 at 9:56 pm

   hey MOose,
   you think you can develop this for under $1000? So why don’t you pitch the VC’s on Sand Hill? Get a life - or an idea of your own!

10. Siva Kumar
    

    July 24th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    Just wanted to clarify that our company was venture funded in February of 2005. We launched our technology for the event tickets category in June 2005 as http://www.fatlens.com. This was the first example of anyone doing a live search site for event tickets. About a year later we are launching our technology to power search for shopping across all of the e-commerce catgeories as http://www.TheFind.com.

    While many consumer start-ups can be launched much much quicker than this, building a search engine is not that easy. Applying search technology to e-commerce is also a different problem than crawling and indexing web content. The scale of this problem is very different from the other vertical search areas like real estate, jobs and classifieds.

    When we roll out our new site, TheFind.com - you will see a much richer shopping search experience than anything that’s out there today. Think of what you’d like to see when searching for something new - you want to see results that cover as much online ground as possible, and that show you supporting information that helps you find what you need. We welcome your feedback now, and will welcome it when we launch so you can see what we’ve been working on that’s needed this level of technology.

11. MOose
    

    July 25th, 2006 at 4:11 am

    Hey 3putt :

    That’s the whole idea!.. Why would I need VC’s money if I can start a company with lunch money?

    All these companies are way ahead of themselves..

    Silly putty..