Eve Peters
Founder & CEO
MIXTT, Inc.

Best of luck on other things…remember people recognize other peoples work so don’t legitimize the obvious with irritant heckling.

Also – calling people “haters” for their comments clearly shows that the respondents are MIXTT as well. You should absorb the realty and then go from there.

Did you WATCH the presentation? I was AT TechCrunch50 and can tell you that everyone there was a-buzz about how great their presentation was. It’s obvious that you have a connection to TeamDating and ulterior motives in writing your negative post.

No one I know has heard of TeamDating, and the branding is so lame that the second I mention it I get critical looks. MIXTT has an innovative, smooth UI and additional events-based and calendar functionality that TeamDating does not.

You and your TeamDating friends need to accept the fact that “group dating” is not such a brilliant idea that anyone had to “steal it”. It’s pretty intuitive, and whoever succeeds in this space will depend on execution. But seriously, get over yourself and your “proprietary” idea.

My compliments and best wishes to the women running Mixtt.

Secondly, they should come up with their own idea as there already is a site based in SoCal called http://www.teamdating.com, which has received amazing media since they launched, but, have not been able to gain millions and millions of members yet. I spoke to their Founder last month to try and understand why, and Brady, you hit the nail on the head. He said good luck trying to raise any VC, that won’t happen, and unless you have several million dollars worth of marketing behind this, it will not scale simply by word of mouth. The TeamDating guy figured this out, and so he said he just sold a TV show based on the site concept that will be coming out on a major cable network soon, with a pretty populat star attached and some huge production company. If that happens, it will be time for the Mixtt girls to steal someone else’s idea, as that will crush them.

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This is definitely not the most innovative piece of technology, but that’s not the point. They are trying to fill a legitimate gap in online services as opposed to many other startups with some sweet technology, yet not very practical for the common folk.

And yes, their technology has been built before, but the success of this company will be based on their ability to execute marketing to make it popular, keep it authentic/safe/etc, and ultimately create an experience that is fun for people.

I don’t know what the criteria was for acceptance into tc50, but I certainly appreciate that they brought in Mixtt (along with many others) that have the potential to impact my offline life.

It’s a bit like twitter but focusing on the future, focusing on what could or will happen. What is key for mixin, is to let people easily share information, so for example if you already use twitter, you can directly push activities to your mixin agenda from twitter. Just tweet “who’s up for a drink tonight?” and mixin will place it at the right place in your agenda. The same works by IM, SMS, Email or you can just import your gCal (or another ics) if you prefer. On the other side, you can share your agenda in various formats too. What is important for us to is to let you friends get the information and be able to discuss or join directly. Among other things, we are also working on a Facebook application so that it should be easier to share your agenda with your Fb buddies too.