About the company

Black Bear Ideas (BBI) is an Atlanta based privately held technology company that focuses on aggregating real-time content from numerous websites and automatically categorizing it based on geographical location, language and genres. This resolves the current frustration that people have of having to visit multiple sites daily to find out what is happening in their city. By aggregating all this data we can easily answer the question of “What’s going on” in any given city around the world and be able to target them directly based on geo, events, job, and other demographic data. We have been building a Real-Time Geo Location Based System (LBS) for over a year and will be ready as an API release soon.
 
The BBI engine will be released as an API for developers to enable social websites and mobile applications the capability of building real-time geo based functionality into their applications. More information about this service will be posted soon.
 

Ron Conway's take on social media and the future of geo based applications:   "Social media is here to stay and the social phenomenon that is bringing this about is consumers' willingness to share more about themselves, share more about what they're doing...people are even willing to disclose where they're at. And this phenomenon is going to create HUGE commerce opportunities on the web."... Read more

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Michael Comm - CEO Michael offers more than a decade of accomplishment-laden experience in the Technology and pharmaceutical industry, driving achievement of the highest priority sales growth, brand development, product launch, market share distribution expansion, and operations efficiency goals. A key strategic and tactical contributor in efforts that drove 10-fold growth for RBTI, Internet Security Systems, MAGNO Humphries and Bergen Brunswig- Amerisource brand to millions in sales. Michael brings valuable insight and knowledge regarding the leadership and management challenges faced by startup and growing a companies and brand.Built organization from the ground up. Identified top talent and formed a team consisting of logistics, operations, purchasing, and engineering staff. Secured key relationships with over 500 major customers, including Fortune 500 companies. Forged key partnerships more than 50 leading companies in the security industry. Positioned the organization favorably to gain major recognitions such as Inc 5000 List and multiple times as Top 5000 growth companies. LinkedIn		Daniel D. Escobar Daniel is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Maestro.fm, a fast growing social network build around your music. He has been designing and developing software applications including Internet applications, content management solutions, and digital media applications for over 13 years. One of Daniel's specialties is understanding how all content works and how to provide the user with a more efficient and secure content management solution. In his effort to push the envelope of Content Management software, he founded Aquiva, an innovative Enterprise Content Management software company designed to provide media companies a more robust and flexible solution than Vignette, Interwoven and Documentum, while seamlessly integrating advanced networking and mobile technology. Daniel also built Cox Radio's first Web Content Management (WCM) system, which is shared by over 80 radio stations. This first-of-its-kind project was successfully deployed in 2001 and still in use today seamlessly integrating Cox's WCM systems with its Internet needs. LinkedIn		Paul Goggin Paul is CTO of Free All Music, a platform for delivering no-cost music to fans. Founding his 1st startup in 1993, Interweb, Atlanta’s 1st interactive agency. Paul has been involved with technology solutions for 17 years. As a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has participated in many successful exit events. Paul has held leadership roles at THINK New Ideas, Answerthink Consulting Group, and THINK Interactive. During this time, Paul has delivered business-critical work for many organizations such as ABN AMRO, ALLTEL, Citibank, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Fannie Mae, IBM, Mars, McGraw Hill, NCR, SAP, Sears, Siemens, Time-Warner, UPS, and Windstream. Paul serves on the Georgia Historical Records Advisor Board (GHRAB) and is very active with his alma mater Georgia Institute of Technology, serving on several boards, The College of Sciences Advisory Board (CoSAB) and on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees. LinkedIn
Fred Tanzella Fred is a veteran technology executive with a track record of starting and growing companies to successful acquisitions. Fred has led strategy, development and operations of large scale enterprise and commercial applications across multiple industries. Fred's experience in software development gives Colocube a distinct advantage over other managed hosting companies in the ability to understand the requirements of managing and scaling applications at the application layer. In addition to heading up Colocube, Fred also founded and oversees Glick Interactive, an award-winning software development firm that provides development resources and expertise to Colocube. Prior to Colocube and Glick, Fred was the EVP at Kaneva, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game platform and video distribution company, and has been successful in a wide variety of senior management positions at EAS, Critical Logic, i2Go, Air2Web, BEA Systems and AirDefense in roles that included CTO, Chief Security Officer, VP of Engineering, and VP of Product Management. LinkedIn		Abhi Goel Abhi leads the professional services organization and works closely with clients and developers to ensure projects are delivered on time and exceed client expectations. Abhi has extensive experience managing complex enterprise projects in a wide variety of technology environments and platforms for major solutions integrators. His broad experience and deep understanding of leading edge technologies gives him the ability to quickly understand client environments and requirements to recommend innovative solutions. In addition to co-founding Colocube, Abhi has held senior professional services positions at Accenture, IBM Global Services, Axelerant, and Core Concept. Abhi has managed large projects for clients that include MCI / Verizon, General Electric Power Systems, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Sikorsky Aircraft, Cousins Properties, BellSouth, and Roche Pharmaceuticals. Abhi holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Georgia. LinkedIn