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Kanye West (@kanyewest) Launches Design Company DONDA

 

Kanye West took to his twitter account to make an announcement about him Launching a design company called DONDA. I have started a new company and I’m so excited about the name…. it’s got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!!” he wrote. “The name of the company is DONDA.”

Named after his late mother Dr. Donda West, the startup will be comprised of creative individuals from different fields. “DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce their dreams and ideas,” he explained.

“I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts, app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist, doctors, scientist, teachers.”

Taking inspiration from Michael Jackson, Alexander McQueen, and Steve Jobs, Kanye laid out his mission. “DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford,” he said. “We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel. To dream of, create, advertise and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need.”

If you’ve got what it takes to join the team, you can email contactDONDA@gmail.com. “I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me,” said ‘Kanye West

Hot App: AntiMap

AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your iPhone or Android phone. Originally developed as a way for snowboarders to record their movements and play the data back like a video game, the toolset was generalized for all outdoor activities.

Simply collect data with your mobile, and then use one of the simple visualizations to see your data or do whatever else you want with it. It's your data. You get latitude, longitude, compass direction, speed, distance, and time, along with an optional input field to mark significant spots.

Thanks Ken!

AntiMap Video application: Unofficial snowboard edit

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Celluon Magic Cube – World’s only virtual projection keyboard and multi-touch mouse

 

A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO

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Very very quietly (there is almost no Google footprint), investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas. During the two-day conference, which lasted from November 29-30th, a gaggle of companies presented their business models to an elite audience composed of bankers, investors and peers.

Attendees listened to talks given by A16Z‘s Marc Andreessen and Square’s Keith Rabois (who gave the keynote on Tuesday night). SV Angel’sRon Conway was also there, being himself. All in all the experience was very, very fun I heard. Makes sense.

So why hold a conference for early stage companies if you’re an IPO underwriter? Well, the event basically functions as an extremely foresighted form of lead generation. According to multiple people I spoke to, these are the 30 or so startups Goldman has designated as potential IPO candidates. And it wants to make a relationship as early on as possible, in case some of them actually do and need Goldman’s services in the process.

So who are these white-hot startups then? Well here you go! (I might be missing one or two, so if you’re on this list or know of someone who should be on this list, please email me and I will put you/them on if your story checks out.)

In alphabetical order:

• Airbnb
• Beachmint
• Beauchamp
• Birchbox
• Bluekai
• Badoo
• BOKU
• Box.net
• BranchOut
• Cloudflare
• Coupons.com
• DropBox
• Eventbrite
• Gogobot
• Hipmunk
• Instagram
• Jawbone
• Klout
• Narrative Science
• Ness computing
• Pinterest
• One Kings Lane
• Peixe Urbano
• Polyvore
• Quantcast
• Quora
• Rent The Runway
• Rue la la
• Rovio
• Shopkick
• Specific Media
• Survey Monkey
• Square
• TrialPay
• Trunk Club
• Tumblr
• Uber
• Warby Parker
• WePay
• Xoom
• ZocDoc
• Zoosk

 

Facebook Will IPO as Early as April 2012

 

Facebook will make its long-anticipated move to go public between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The report, which cites “people familiar with the matter,” says that Facebook is considering raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value it at more than $100 billion. This is consistent with a report in June that used the same eye-popping number of zeros to describe Facebook’s expected valuation.

If realized, the valuation would make Facebook’s IPO one of the largest in history — more than four times as big as Google’s $23 billion IPO in 2004, and likely one of the 10 largest IPOs of all time.

While the first rumors of Facebook’s impending IPO predicted that the company would go public during the first quarter of 2012, recent reports had suggested that the offering had been pushed back to “September or later.”

The Wall Street Journal‘s sources cautioned that Facebook has not made any final decisions in its internal discussions about the timing of its filing — and that market conditions will ultimately determine how much money the company seeks and the value of the company.

Mashable has contacted Facebook for comment and will update this article with any additional information.

 

StealthArmor iPhone Case

 

Laser-cut from a 0.01-mm-thick polymer film originally designed to protect race car paint jobs from flying debris, the StealthArmor iPhone case might be overkill. Good! You just signed over $300 and two years of your life to that new iPhone. You might as well take care of it. 
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Hot App: Stamped

We'll be the first to admit that the idea of signing up for yet another social network sounds about as fun as a dinner date with a dead man, but Stamped (Free) might just be cool enough to make it worthwhile. The idea is that you put your stamp of approval on, well, just about anything — books, restaurants, music, games, movies, and more — and share your stamps with your friends, who likewise share their stamps with you. The nice part about the whole thing is that there are no 1-5 star reviews or anything like that. You simply stamp something you totally love (so they're all basically 5-star recommendations), and you're initially limited to 100 stamps. So you can't go on a crazy stamping spree, recommending every single one of your Usher remixes.