.Congrats to Dogster Angel Joshua Schacter - MIT Media Review Innovator of the Year
Each year, MIT Media Review picks the 35 top innovators under the age of 35. This year they selected Joshua Schacter, founder of the bookmark tagging and sharing service Del.icio.us, as the 2006 Innovator of the Year.
This honor comes as of no surprise to us. Since the day we met Joshua he’s shown a profound understanding of human usage of the Internet and the technologies required to make that happen.
Many have asked why we, Dogster, Inc., raised money recently when we are already profitable. One answer is that the funding enables us to grow at a much quicker pace than organic revenues would. Now we can hire faster, add more servers and capacity, take advantage of our early market position and even begin to get our name out there with a marketing strategy. Yet, an equal compelling reason is that with this round we have added some brilliant, talented, successful minds to our team in our Angel syndicate.
What an honor for Joshua and I cannot tell you how honored we are to have an MIT “Innovator of the Year” as an investor on our team.
Furthermore, we’d like to congratulate Joshua on Del.icio.us’ upcoming third birthday and surpassing 1,000,000 registered site members. Wowie Zowie!
I’d like to make a careful comment.
Dogster at the moment still has a feeling of the person who founded it, and a closeness to the people who put in their dogs, and, one can have an feeling experience by giving a bone to a dog who has a moving story to tell.
However I was shocked yesterday to see something about “owing it to my dog .. vetinary advice” and today I see “canine-inclusive living”.
Also, believe me, dogs are anti-scientific.
The scientists don’t even know that we dogs have a language!
So MIT is not the way to go.
What moves us is, for example, to see the truck full of pigs go past on the way to the slaughter house - it is not canine-inclusive living but real life.
So you are drifting away from us.