Update — Startup questionnaires go out this evening (Monday, May 17th). If you don’t receive one and think that you should have, please contact ma@cringely.com or courtney@cringely.com to that effect. The list of MIA nominees below is current as of Monday afternoon. — Bob
Nominations for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour are officially closed.
The next step is distributing to a designated founder or executive at each nominated company our festive questionnaire.
Despite the hard work of Mary Alyce Cringely and Miss Courtney, we still have more than 100 nominated companies for which no official contact e-mail address yet exists. We have written to all these companies and called all of them but for some reason we don’t yet have the proper information to distribute to them our very enlightening questionnaire.
If you recognize one of these companies listed below or have a friend there, please let them know that unless we can get a proper e-mail address by the end of day Monday, their company will be dropped from the competition, losing its chance to shine on TV.
E-mail addresses can still be submitted to ma@cringely.com or courtney@cringely.com until the end of the day Monday. DO NOT submit e-mail addresses in the comments for this column. That space is reserved for clever and taunting remarks, primarily about Miss Courtney’s search for true love.
Still MIA Startup Companies (as of Monday afternoon)
Bio Tech
Allylix, Inc.
BioSignia, Inc
Geologix, Inc.
J & J Solutions
New Wave Surgical
Energy
Axion Power
Electronic Vehicle Technologies
Ever Cat Fuels
Ix-Neox
Maglev Wind Turbine Technologies
Sapphire Energy
Semprius
Southwest Windpower
Sturman Industries
Entertainment
451 Degrees
Learn Vest
Materials
Bandals Footwear
ExfoliationgMinerals.com
Nanorex
Ron’s Restoration
TZ Limited
The Shepherd’s Mill
WSI
Transportation
AFS Trinity
Aptera Motors Inc
Coomes Trucking Inc
Crowning Touch Senior Moving Services
Sky Vantage
SynkroMotive
Tripit
Information Technology
Achorix
Brinex
ChaCha
CircleBuilder
City Gates
Clarion Care
Cleversafe
CollegeNoteShare.com
Comvigo, Inc.
Critical Signal Technologies
DartFiles
Dwolla
E Space Communications
Fit Technology
Fizpro
FlexRadio
Fordela Corporation
GWai
GraphLogic, Inc.
Grubhub
InZero Systems
Inexo
Invite Media, Inc.
Khan Academy
KnowledgeTree, Inc.
Life360
M-Via, Inc.
Mathmaster.org
Matrix Solutions Corporation
MoneyDesktop
New Relic
PRIVY
PTY, Inc.
Pedigree Technologies, Inc.
Perfect Search Corporation
Qik
QuietAgent
Quojax
sixis
The Mudoc Corporation
TownFlier
Tynt
Validus
VoIP Spear
Volunteer Spot
Wave Integrated Marketing Solutions
WePay
WebGreek
Bob, I can’t believe you used the Stargate for this post. You have now risen ten levels in geek cred. 🙂 If the Startup Tour brings you anywhere near Philadelphia please let me know as I have to buy you a beer or other such libation!
Geek cred…just because he used “stargate” in a jpg title:
wp-image-1721″ title=”stargate” src=”https://cringely.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/stargate-300×225.jpg” ?
Gosh, is that what it is, the Stargate portal. I thought it was the entrance to Bill Gates’ secret stash of Superman comics.
Great to see you moving ahead with your start-up nominations.
Err… yes Geek cred for the Stargate portal except for one thing. The image of your Stargate is open. The closed Stargate has an iris extended over the portal.
Nice try … ;-D
I think Bob is trying to say the portal is not just closed, it’s completely deactivated so you can see the back wall. Also, there may be a difference between the movie and the TV show (the latter used an iris).
I’ll have my people call your people.
Six comments and no one has made taunting remarks about Ms Courtney’s search for true love. Who says chivalry is dead?
Bob, time to teach the family how to use a search engine…
By cutting and pasting the names in your cloumn into Google, I managed to get addresses, phone numbers and a contact email for the first 7 I tried at random in under 5 min.
May not get every address and might not be the exact email you want but surely worth the effort rather than throwing 100 nominations in the bin!
Thanks for the suggestion. That is exactly what we did weeks ago for the companies without given contact info. However, when you are trying to reach a CEO or founder, rarely does the 1-888 number or the info@ email address get you to the right person. Even local numbers land you a secretary who assumes you are either (a) trying to sell them something; (b) applying for a job or; (c) trying to scam them. I guess it’s not often that people get contacted to be in a TV show.
If a company is clueless enough to submit an application without an e-mail address, shouldn’t that automatically exclude them from the competition?
That is, unless this is like most reality shows where a few truly idiotic entries are chosen just to create drama. I hope not. Startup life is dramatic enough without the need to spice it up artificially.
Anyone could have submitted the application on behalf of the company. I submitted one on behalf of http://www.oqo.com even though they are currently out of business. I did all I could to get the people in the know to respond. Rather than revive the company, it appears that they may only want to sell the IP. Perhaps they’d be a good example of a company that’s been through it all and has decided it’s not worth the trouble.
Yeah, thanks for that one. I got all excite there for a moment.
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