Shout-outs
Cooler Planet
Cooler Planet is the first company funded (and co-founded) by Founders Co-op. The company specializes in matching pre-qualified residential and commercial customers with local alternative energy suppliers on a pay-per-lead basis. With dozens of participating suppliers and a national service footprint, Cooler Planet is an early and leading entrant in this fast-growing market, and reflects Founders Co-op's commitment to achieving social good in the process of creating business value. Cooler Planet was created by a two-person founding team: Tom Staples and Danny Vo.
Orange Line Media
Orange Line Media is a market-maker in the exploding global market for niche stock photography. Contrary to the prevailing trends in digital music and video, innovation in the stock photography market is driving growing demand and increasing seller pricing power. Orange Line is exploring innovative sourcing and analytical methods to participate in this emerging market. The company was created by a two-person founding team: Rahul Pathak and Casey Zednick.
Askablogr
More project than company, Askablogr is a blog Q&A web service created by Founders Co-op partner Chris DeVore as an experimental testbed and demonstration project for some of the firm's core theses in social media, search engine optimization and search engine marketing. The "company" is entirely virtual; the application was conceived and designed by Chris and built by Craig Huizenga.