Celebrity backed startups

Wannabe technology entrepreneurs hail Ron Conway, John Doerr and Fred Wilson gold investors than celebrities. Berlin Sergey Brins and mark Zuckerbergs hang, every word they write blogs or utter conferences.

Now an overall view of the second, as the case may be, a powerful class celebrity startup backer: traditional celebrities. list includes sports stars, actors and musicians.

The label may be in a position to guarantee the brand-name celebrity. again to ensure that it does not hurt, especially when you try to carve out a niche in the field of the Max-quickly and multi-faceted ruuhkautuu--social networking.

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The future Hall Of Fame guard, Steve Nash, click the part of the diversification of his briefcase. in addition, his production company, Sports Club and the charitable foundation Nash announced in August that he will now start the Consiglieri, marketing advice and the provision of risk capital according to the company's e-commerce, sports and consumer durables sectors.

"DVR world people do not carry information about the many things which are not just live, we do not think enough has been done in that area," says Mike Duda, the Fund's co-manager of the Consiglieri. supporters are so far the Zig Capital and Deutsch Inc. hopes to raise the entire war, Nash, presence of 20 million dollars.

Duda says Nash name is definitely helped with fundraising, although "ultimately it will be our performance," he adds. Duda says the first investment of the Fund will be closed over the coming weeks.

Here are a handful of other celebrity backed startups-tech-area 10, photos, and the stars behind for a complete list, click here.

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