# Things Are Looking Good At Startup Schwag - Host: [techcrunch.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/techcrunch.com/) - Saved: January 13, 2008 (2008-01-13T20:47:24Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb7648be8472/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb7648be8472.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Youll either think this is lame (not target market) or so cool youve wet your pants (target market) and act accordingly. The first attempt at the model by Valleyschwag didnt scale and folded. Startup Schwag isnt relying on the companies to produce the stuff, though (thats where Valleyschwag ran into trouble when they got too big), they do it themselves with the companys permission. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Twitter Downtime On the Upswing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3d81d909b373/) (techcrunch.com, December 20, 2007) - [Need a Baby Name? Nymbler Has A Hunch About What You Might Like.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/995154b9169a/) (techcrunch.com, December 28, 2007) - [Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/11e857ee9a51/) (techcrunch.com, January 1, 2008) - [The Truth That Dare Not Speak: The CES Keynote Sucked](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/36b32ee9b7c2/) (techcrunch.com, January 7, 2008) - [The OpenID Train Steams Ahead: Google, IBM and Verisign Said To Be Joining](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/77ec45cea308/) (techcrunch.com, January 8, 2008) ## Saved the same week - [Indie Fever](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/43d26ce01e62/) (red-sweater.com, January 10, 2008) - [A Plan For Minnesota](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b51d115d6138/) (unpossible.com, January 10, 2008) - [Vecsys-Research, speech processing, speech recognition home page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1361e9723cff/) (vecsysresearch.com, January 11, 2008) - [Doonesbury for Sunday, January 13, 2008](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/30d05ada0042/) (ucomics.com, January 13, 2008) - [Wallstrip Host Lindsay Campbell Leaving Show, Staying With CBS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/527e84204d77/) (businessinsider.com, January 13, 2008) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/13/things-are-looking-good-at-startup-schwag/