We review 15+ internet startups per working day. Vote for the one you think will be a killer.
About Us
KillerStartups.com is a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers are staying informed on up-and-coming internet startups using our blog platform, where internet entrepreneurs submit their startup to see what others think about it.
Our vision:
“Tapping the wisdom of crowds to find the next internet big thing.”
We deeply believe in the power of crowds, and we want to put it to good use by detecting in an early stage what’s going to be big.
History and Development:
After acquisitions such as the ones of MySpace and YouTube, and success stories such as Kayak, PriceGrabber, Facebook and many others, everybody started looking for “the next big thing” on the internet.
A new wave began!
We believe “the next YouTube” is going to be somewhere here, on KillerStartups.com. That’s our goal. We aim to provide you with that info right at the birth of the startup, when it’s only a promise. It will be up to you to detect it and do something with that information. We believe our community will be able to spot “the next YouTube”, and in order to achieve this goal, we are providing what we believe to be the right tools for this kind of discovery.
It doesn’t take a lot to realize that in universities around the world, young entrepreneurs have started talking compulsively about creating “the next big thing”. In New York, San Francisco and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it.
Something is clear: entrepreneurs want to hit it big with “the next big thing” and investors want to finance it.
KillerStartups.com aims to help them both by reviewing up-and-coming internet startups right on the spot, right at their birth.
We saw a lot of things going on, so we decided to do something about it. We came up with the idea to create a space for a community where members could go and give their opinion, vote, and participate in order to get a feeling for what’s going to be big. We thought that if we put together a large enough group of the big internet players, with VCs, entrepreneurs, and suppliers all coming together to share a vision, something extremely powerful would have to come out of it.
We follow blindly the belief that the wisdom of crowds will be able to determine who “the next big thing” on the Internet will be. That’s why we want KillerStartups.com to tap into that wisdom, so that all of us as members of this community can benefit.
KillerStartups.com is a property of Startups.com Network, a network of business sites focusing on offering services and content for a business and start-up audience. Other properties of the Startups.com Network are Twingr.com and Dataopedia.com.
About us:
Gonzalo Arzuaga (36) - Co-founder, KillerStartups.com.
Gonzalo has written 5 books about the internet in the areas of business and marketing. He started a search engine in 1996 in Argentina, GauchoNet, which rapidly became one of the most visited sites in the country, and finally was acquired in 1999 by Terra-Lycos. Gonzalo's latest creation features TheBlogCompany.com, which has already reached 1.8 million unique users with its link2blogs.com service.
Matias de Tezanos (27) - Director, KillerStartups.com.
Matias was one of the two principal founders of ClickDiario, a Hispanic online advertising network that grew to a user base of 45 million per month before being acquired by internet conglomerate LiveDoor (Japan). Now he focuses his efforts on new internet startups, such as Wamba.com - a fast growing social network in Europe reaching 1 million visitors per month, and HealthCare.com, a healthcare information portal created for English speaking internet users.
Fernando Arzuaga (38) - Co-founder, KillerStartups.com.
Fernando is an entrepreneur with a long career and expertise in the internet industry. He has founded a few startups and also is an angel investor focused in technology startups. He believes in the power of entrepreneurship and in order to encourage entrepreneurs, he wrote the book CasosDestacados.com, where he tells the story of 7 prominent internet entrepreneurs.
Pepe Amorin (26) - VP Marketing, KillerStartups.com.
Pepe has spent the last few years of his life making a career in the Internet industry. After working several years for different e-commerce websites, in 2005 he co-founded LedonWest.com, a Los Angeles, CA based company that focuses on advising and co-managing Internet startups, as well as helping traditional businesses go online. In October 2007 Pepe joined KillerStartups.com as its full time VP Marketing.
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