We have been getting a lot of tips lately about startups we need to check out. Today we receive a nice comment to check our Startup Hire a new job board for venture backed startups.
Startup Hire is a very simple job board in which focuses on venture backed startups and allows users to search for jobs either via location, keyword, job title or company. Startup Hire has partnered with some of the leading startup companies so you are bound to find a huge amount of jobs in a variety of areas. This is a great place to start if you are looking for a secure job that has full backing by venture capitalists. However, please remember that venture backed startups arent always 100% secure.
There are so many different types of blog directories out in the market at the moment. Today we received an email from Invesp who have created their own blog directory and it seems to be more comprehensive than most others. Additionally it is great to see Crenk already in the directory and doing well. In the term “startups” we are already in the top 10 blogs, with many other top sites including Techcrunch, Venturebeat, TheNextWeb and Killerstartups.
I know that most of these directories aren’t really comprehensive and they don’t tend to include all blogs in the right areas, but who really cares, it is just a bit of fun.
Ten years ago, who would have thought that most of our work would depend on the internet? The internet allows us to have easy access to our files, anywhere, anytime. We chat face to face with friends, meet clients virtually, process payments in a flash and much more. The internet is huge and you can’t get enough of it. It has no end.
While on the topic of the internet, you can call the current scenario, the Web 2.0 revolution, the next dot com boom. Web apps are torrenting the internet with their numbers and new ones pop-up everyday.
Today, I will talk about the latest additions to the pool, of course; the ones you probably don’t know about.
So, without further ado…
With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. Chat rooms are disposable and can be created within seconds.
With KeepHD, you can download the high defintion version of youtube videos and also fetch the FLVs and 3GPs for your mobiles.
With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.
With Wix, you can create stunning flash websites for free, all from your internet browser! It offers you a simple powerful online platform to make flash websites, MySpace layouts and more. No downloads or programming needed.
NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. It is ajax powered, so you get the translations on the fly!
A to-do list with a twist. It streamlines tasks in an elegant calendar view
Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. You get a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles and much more.
Need to receive a message by email, but can’t (or don’t want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.
WobZip is an online tool which lets you uncompress compressed files online. It supports many formats including the major ones as Zip, RAR, 7Z, Gzip, TAR, ISO etc…
Create an invitation in seconds, add entries from mobile, twitter, email, iCal, gCal or Outlooks. And of course, send them with ease from withing the app.
Fliggo is an out-of-the-box, all-in-one, solution for creating your own video website. It can be a video blog, a YouTube-like community or a private site for your company or family.
Yidio combines over 200 million videos and offers one of the largest video search engines on the Web.
SlideRocket is an online, flash based tool for creating slides and presentations. It brings together a complete package of online slide making with features such as an intuitive interface, themes, flickr integration and much more
Ziddu is a new free file hosting solution with features such as unlimited storage space, fast uploads and downloads, file management, a sharing community a referral program and the ability to earn money with your downloads.
Mufin is your music discovery engine, that will let you easily discover new music among millions of tracks. With the sound that you dig!
YoutubeReloaded creates an embeddable playlist of YouTube videos that can be added to any website. Simply choose a playlist type to create your free youtube playlist.
FriendPaste is a an online tool where you can paste code snippets of many different languages to share with friends. It sports and intuitive interface with support for syntax highlighting.
Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, deploy and analyze online surveys. With a great user interface, Survs is currently in private beta, though a single request fetched us an invitation.
With SendPhotos Mobile, Web and PC you can upload photos, edit them, create photos albums and share them online with whoever you want. Also available for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry.
BackupURL creates instant cached copies of web pages. The content of a web page stays the same while you share the link provided. The cached page can also be used for referencing or even mirroring data. The cached page will always be online (html,css,images) no matter whether the original site is up or down.
Rapidstack is a realtime Rapidshare link searcher. It scans the links before they are displayed as results and only working links are displayed.
CC Betty organizes your message and its contents – photos, addresses, documents, links – and create a mailspace where everyone can track replies, view and add content. You just CC your messages to her!
Make your emails pop with signatures that reflect your personality and change with every email you send! Create signatures with your twitter status, flickr photos, blog entries, youtube stream and much more, all realtime.
Create your own RSS feed by combiningRSS feeds from your favorite websites, and use filters to choose what you want in it!
Twe2 is a service which sends you your twitter replies, direct messages and custom searches that you specify free to your mobile as SMS. Available in more than 230 countries.
Markkit is a web2.0 text highlighter. Drag’n’Drop the markkit yellow pen into your browser toolbar. Whenever you want to highlight text in a web page, click on the markkit bookmarklet.
So which ones are your favorites? Discuss in the comments, and dont forget to give it a digg 
(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.
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Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of talk about conferences, and with all this talk I have been thinking, do these conference actually work for startups?
Right at this very moment there are two major conferences being held, Techcrunch 50 and Demo 08. The style of these conferences are total the opposite, but do they provide any real value for startups who attend and present?
All the startups that present at these conferences tend to get a lot of support straight off the bat from PR companies, blogs and other news sources. However, once the conference is finished I really dont 
think these startups get any more coverage from PR companies and blogs, and then they have to really start to fight for market share within their niches. Thus, spending thousands and thousands of dollars to attend and present at these conferences, does it actually pay off for the startups to actually become a household name in their niche?
Here at Crenk we are keen to help as many startups as possible to get their voices heard. Crenk will now be offering a new form of free advertising.
In the sidebar on every Crenk page we now have some free advertising spots to give away to startups every month. I’m not too sure currently how many spots we will be offering, but will probably be around 6.
Who Can Submit To Get A Free Ad Slot: Any startups (doesn’t matter how big or small)
Slots Available: 6
How Often Do They Change: Monthly. 1st of every month we will have some new startups to try
How to Apply: Send us an email (tips@crenk.com). Subject: Crenk Startup Promotion. Add a link to your startup and a review of approx 50-100 words. Additionally, an Ad that is 125×43
The aim of this promotion is to allow startups some free advertising, while promoting useful services to our readers.
We hope you like this new idea, and we look forward to bring you some great startups you have never heard of.
Crenk Team
Crenk has joined forces with TradeVibes which will see all of the Crenk articles directly syndicated into the TradeVibes database.
TradeVibes is an ever growing company database. The companies posts information about vairous companies, and detailing everything from their address to competitors to its management. In each profiles in the right column it allows the user to stay up-to-date with the news about that specific company. The news is currently being gathered from a variety of sources, such as Techcrunch, RWW and now Crenk.
We have previously written about TradeVibes when they came out of beta. They have since made some big improvements and im looking forward to seeing their site improving in the future.
This is a guest post from Ashraf Mansoor who is the founder of Twffaha.com, a job site intended for women in the Middle East.
Not A Luxury
Everyday we run into hundreds of web applications, be it clones for already successful businesses (Mixx to Digg) or original creative ideas. The potential of growth on the web is overwhelming, that’s why a lot of entrepreneurs seek to involve in creating startups, with the hope of being the next Google.
However, most startups fail to develop there ideas into cash generating machines. The reason is because of the lack of a solid, rational, business model. Startups and entrepreneurs get consumed by there ideas and hopes that they overlook the economical feasibility of their projects.
Startups should be profitable in order to guarantee it does not cease to exist. Even a VC backed startup will be under fire if it failed to turn a profit and award the VCs with a feasible rate of return on their original investment ( anyone?)
Plan Early
As an entrepreneur it is your job to plan a solid business model at the early stage of your project. Building an application and hoping to come up with a business model later is not a smart move to make. YouTube has been a great success, and revolutionized the way we think about the web, but in reality YouTube failed to cash on there huge traffic (#3 in the US according to Alexa) because of the absence of a business model initially, leaving Google to experiment with different business models that all but failed to reduce the search giant hefty bill of costs.
Size Does Not Matter
Once you have an idea that you believe can help you to generate money, study the business model. Services like 37Signals have done their homework early, and came up with a subscription based model that helped them to be profitable from day one. The fact that 37Signals is very small when compared to YouTube is insignificant, as long as they turn a profit and a very good one too.
Final Thoughts
1. Do not leave it till the end.
2. Do not depend on being acquired. The chances of you being acquired is slim, plus giants will look to acquire startups they know are profitable.
3. Conduct a market research to ensure that your figures are realistic.
4. Do not hesitate to change your business model, in case you found a more lucrative model – be flexible.
