Website: www.triviafix.com

Interview with: Dani Waxmin

How many founders does Trivia Fix have and what are their names?

TriviaFix was founded by Dani Waxman and Marc Tobin in February 2007.

What are the founders background and qualifications?

Formerly VP Product Development at 2AM Games, Dani has many years of experience in gaming, community, and user experience.

Marc is a self-described sports trivia genius whose capacity to store sports knowledge can only be described as part of his genetic make up. Marc has been involved in founding and selling several start-ups.

What does your website do?

TriviaFix.com serves as the core of our B2C product which also includes a mobile WAP version and social network applications such as Facebook. On the site users can answer and submit questions as well as challenge friends. There is also a feature which generates trivia questions from RSS feeds of current sports news.

When did you launch?

The website launched in August of 2007. The Facebook application in November of 2007. A mobile WAP application will be available December. We also have a B2B sports trivia widget which went live in November.

Has it been easy or difficult to build your community?

We underestimated the work in getting the word out there. We were so focused on features that we slipped on our usage estimates. We are no in the midst of a major PR and membership drive.

What types of marketing have you done?

Google AdWords, banner advertising, Internet based radio ads.

Do you have any revenue streams besides advertisement? Who is your ad provider?

We currently use Google Adsense for our web site and we are talking with advertising partners for our widget product which has built in advertising space available to publishers.

Funding: Self funded, Angel Investment, or Venture Capital?

We are currently self funded.

Are you currently looking for funding?

We are in early stages of putting together an Angel round of investment.

What is your favorite feature on your site?

The user submitted questions which gives the players the chance to show off and challenge other players.

What type(s) of technology do you use?

We are developed on the LAMP platform

Any bold predictions for sports and technology in the future?

I believe that many advances in technology will enhance the sports fans enjoyment of the game at home. HDTV, 50+ inch LCD’s, etc. will all make the game much clearer and enjoyable to fans at home. Commentators will get a new suite of tools to use on screen and technology such as FIOS will finally bring much hyped converged TV and data into play making features such as stats on demand a reality.

STN’s Take:

For any of you sports trivia buffs out there this is a great site to visit. We created an account and went in and started answering questions. It seems like they have a great database of questions and we like that there is a timer so you can get more points for answering faster. That way no one has a chance to Google the question. To get going one has three options for questions; one can select a sport, division or team. I went pretty deep on the general sport questions but it seems like the questions may be never ending. You can pretty much stop at anytime and go look at your stats page and you can move up on the rankings list the more points you get.

I have one issue with the site though. I think there needs to be more options when you login. Right now your options are to submit a question, challenge a friend only with a question you create, and just go start answering questions in for your favorite sport or team. I would like to see an option for a daily or weekly contest possibly with some prizes, a way to challenge a friend with questions already on the site, and an option to set up a private trivia league that you can invite friends to join and answer questions on a daily basis.

All in all I think they are off to a good start.