U Score: Live Play by Play Real Time Video for Amateur Sports

Website: www.U-SCORE.net and www.U-SCORE.tv

Info: U-Score Demo (We highly suggest you watch it)

Interview With: Johnny Richardson

Is there more than one founder? If so who are they?

No.  Scratched and clawed to get it here.  But had some “friends and family” that came on to help along the way.

What is your background and qualifications?

Well, I had a technology background since before high school.  However, I started a design and engineering firm back in the mid 90″s and sold it and started this company in 2003.  Mainly been under the radar, during that time perfecting our technology and platform.  Basically, we have built something pretty great and scalable.

What does your website do?

In a nutshell, our platform/website provides users, fans, parents, student-athletes, coaches and scouts with real-time play-by-play video of 6 seconds after it happens of each play by a specific player (video, and stats) to our website and to any mobile phone.

How have you marketed your site?

We are planning on marketing in a big way this football season, nationally (grass-roots approach)

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

Self-funded and angel investment

Are you currently looking for funding?

Yes,  we definitely looking for strategic and equity partners

What type9s) of techonology do you use?

LAMP, linux, PHP, MySql and Flex

What is your favorite feature on your website?

Our real-time capability of finding any specific player and just looking ONLY at that players video through the game or season, seconds after it happens

Any Bold Predictions for Sports and Technology in the future?

Well, my strong belief is people will  shift continually to consuming video content online, the more relevant and personal the better.

Sports Tube: Youtube for Sports

Website:  Sports Tube

Interview With: Sion Davoudi

Is their more then one founder? If so, who are they?

The founders of sports-tube.com are Sion Davoudi and Michael Arakian.

What is your background and qualifications?

We are both graduates of California State University- Northridge and we have been involved in web design for years. Our passion for the internet and sports led us to create SportsTube.

What does your website do?

With SportsTube you can view the latest sports-related videos. Publicly share your videos to the world. Securely and privately show your videos and photos to your friends and family around the world. Chat with friends, communicate, watch video clips… and much, much more!

How do you generate revenue? If through ads, what ad network do you use?

We currently use Google Adsense, but are planning on branching out in the near future.

How have your marketed your site?

Word of mouth, other sports-related websites, and newspapers.

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

Self Funded

Are You currently looking for funding?

We are looking to find an angel investor in the near future.

What type(s) of technology do you use?

Ajax, PHP, JAVA, and FFMPEG for video conversion.

What is your favorite feature on your website?

Personally, I love the categories feature. I can watch videos of all the different sports.

Any Bold Predictions for Sports and Technology in the future?

With technology and sports growing by the day, I would say the future for both is bright.