A recap and wish for 2009,

As another year turns the page, fundfindr.tv has been pleased to present some of the top minds in investment, entrepreneurship and events for your viewing pleasure this past year.  Our mission has always been to democratize venture capital and venture success.  Key to this goal is sharing great content - over 153 posts - with you, our viewers.  Herewith, some of these Top posts and videos from the past year.

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Interviews:  Over 45 exclusives including highlights from The Funded’s Adeo Ressi.

Adeo was definitely one of the amazing people we met - no bullshit and committed to  helping leveling the playing field between the ideas and money.  In his New Year’s message he announced great plans for Thefunded.com next year - ping us and we’ll send you his message.  We also highly recommend you check out and register for the site if you are a CEO.

Other no nonsense types with valuable advice, we had the pleasure of featuring included: Robin Chakrabarti who started the year as a key man in The Dragon’s Den, Bootup Lab’s Danny Robinson, Super blogger John Chow and Miss 604 Rebecca Bollwitt. Robin shared some success snacks with our viewers and ended up joining Boston Pizza International CEO Mike Cordoba in launching a new Investment company targetting mid-market firms with high growth potential.  No doubt, we’ll hear much more from Robin in the coming year.

Danny launched his latest venture Strutta as a destination video competition’s site, transformed it to an API licensing model all while launching an exciting new Vancouver-based incubator Boot-Up Labs geared to build real companies first and attract VC later.

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Straight from the investor’s mouth: We gathered pearls and nuggets from leading Angel Fund managers and investors like Basil Peters, Mike Volker and Yaletown Venture’s Ralph Turfus.  The video thumbnail above  features Part III of the exclusive fundfindr.tv interview with Mike Volker on Angel funds and how they are structured for success.

Webisodes and Features: Our first Webisode set the tone on our mission to educate entrepreneurs and our many features including a growing roster of top expert speakers like Dr. Geordie Rose, Barry Jinks and Eric. T Petersen ended the year with a big finish.  Look for their excellent knowledge sharing and upcoming presentations by Darrin Barefoot at IMC, Mossadiq Umedaly at VEF and many more on backbonemag.com and fundfindr.tv.

Can’t miss Events: Way too many to cover them all but fundfindr.tv was there capturing the excitement at: New Ventures BC, New Media B.C’s Fusion Forum, Small Business BC, Enterprize 2008, VEF Momentum, VANTEC, Massive Tech Show.  Riiplay some of the excitement here and look for much more in 2009.

fundfindr News: Like many of our subjects, fundfindr Media also transitioned through the year.  Stay tuned for much more Knowledge on Demand, top opinion leaders and experts captured on video as we put finishing touches to the upcoming launch of the Riiplay.tv Alpha - covered here on Techvibes.

We are convinced that in today’s economy Knowledge is Power and we’re committed to helping you get it.  Register for an Alpha invite at www.riiplay.tv today.  Just hit the riiplay button and provide your email.

So, set your goals high, attack the year with optimism,  reflect on  hits and misses from the past year and learn as much as you can to prepare yourself for success.  Make 2009 your best year ever!  We will.

Thanks for watching,

Bret Conkin and the fundfindr.tv team

Boot strapping your business or thinking you need some direction in accounting, marketing, IT, web design, or any other day to day task of running your business? Well fundfindr’s The Pitchies competition is coming into its second month with over $20,000 to offer our finalists. We’ve teamed up with some cool local sponsors to give you the goods:

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Jouta Performance Group provides services to both companies and individuals, including all levels of HR support to help businesses create infrastructure to attract and retain quality employees, and personal coaching to help individuals excel in their personal and professional lives.

QCDocs Systems Inc. delivers a comprehensive process and accounting document management solution designed specifically for small to mid-sized companies. Our team comes from a wide range of backgrounds, including professional accounting, IT, software and web development. We combine our different areas of expertise to build the best solution for automating and streamlining business and accounting processes.

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Analytics Marketing provides sales, marketing and other business development coaching for early stage businesses. We take responsibility for not only creating the marketing roadmap, but for making sure it is implemented. We focus on insuring the most important first sales are completed, best practices are implemented, and the best permanent sales and marketing hires are made.

Tandem is part of a new breed of accounting practice that takes a hands-on role with its clients to address accoutning and administrative requirements when and where you have them. Tandem’s services are tailored to each client’s needs whether that entails bookkeeping or contract controller and CFO services.

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Webnames.ca is Canada’s original domain registrar and a one-stop convenience for the online needs of individuals, small businesses, nonprofit organizations and corporations. Pitchies competitors can save $25.00 at Webnames.ca by simply entering the code word ‘Pitchies’!

Techvibes.com provides an easy-to-use platform for technology professionals to share ideas, recruit key employees, and build stronger industry alliances.

Vancouver: July 21, 2008

fundfindr Media is very pleased to announce the addition of Boris Wertz, CEO of Nexopia.com and W Media Ventures to the roster of star investors providing pitch review on fundfindr.com. Nexopia.com is a rapidly growing youth-oriented social networking site based in Edmonton. Boris also heads W Media Ventures, a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focusing on Consumer Internet opportunities in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada together with long-term partner Burda Digital Ventures / Acton Capital Partners.

“Together with Basil Peters, Boris will be providing a monthly feature including scoring and comments on hot new pitches by innovative entrepreneurs as part of our Pitchies competition,” commented fundfindr CEO, Bret Conkin. “Basil and Boris direct two of the most prominent early stage investment funds in the Pacific Northwest. We recommend all entrepreneurs submit their pitch to fundfindr.com for the opportunity to be selected to receive this invaluable feedback.”

“We are interested in startup ideas and investment opportunities in the Consumer Internet space,” commented Mr. Wertz. “I am pleased to collaborate with fundfindr to utilize their platform as an effective way to identify hot new ventures and provide some of them with the critical feedback they need to nurture their ventures and increase their prospects for funding.”

Mr. Wertz is an experienced Internet entrepreneur and investor with a broad international background including with AbeBooks. W Media has a dynamic portfolio which currently includes: Suite101.com (Vancouver, BC); Tripsbytips.com (Berlin, Germany), Conducive Corp. (NYC), Techvibes.com (Vancouver, BC), TeamPages (Vancouver, BC) and Indochino (Victoria, BC).

Look for an exclusive interview with Boris coming soon on fundfindr.tv!

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Basil Peters is well known locally as a veteran Angel Investor, frequent presenter, fund manager of Fundamental Technologies II and star blogger including as guest contributor on Techvibes. In this exclusive interview, Basil shares need to know nuggets on how to impress and what investors are looking for. Find out what is the most critical factor in getting married to an angel investor, the biggest sin in PowerPoint and why honesty is always, always the best policy. fundfindr.tv highly recommends this interview as some of the best content we’ve featured over the last 6 months, so tune in and look for Part II coming soon.

Plus we are very pleased to announce that Basil will be one of the Expert Pick judges for The Pitchies, our exciting new business pitch competition where you can win your own Start Up - $20,000 in Start me Up prizing! So upload your pitch, get some expert advice on secrets to the vault, compete for prizes and get noticed by investors today at fundfindr.com. We were also pleased to see fundfindr debut in position #39 with a bullet on Vancouver’s Start-Up Index at Techvibes - tell your fellow entrepreneurs, investors and service providers to check us out.

Having just launched Strutta, a website bringing competitors together from around the globe, I felt this was a perfect opportunity to share Danny Robinson’s thoughts on “going it alone.” Having founded 2 internet companies and raising an impressive $100M in venture capital through 8 rounds of financing, it is no wonder he was tagged as one of TechVibes Digital Media People to Watch in 2008. Danny delves into ideas on maintaining ownership and how the business model is constantly evolving. He touches on how technology has been one of the key factors in revolutionizing a company’s strategic model: it can improve your business and help you retain ownership as long as possible. Check out our ‘uncut’ with CEO Danny Robinson.

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