Last night Cameo attended Silicon Valley Bank’s Open House in downtown Seattle.  We didn’t realize what we were walking into, but it was quite the who’s who of Seattle start ups, VCs, and angel investors!  John Cook was even there and blogging about it.

First, a little word about our involvement with SVB.  We’ve been working with SVB for several months now as our strategic banking partner.  It’s like having a VC and bank together in one.  The benefit is they carry a presence of a VC with multiple offices up and down the West Coast, but surround it with banking services.  We are not funded by SVB, but we are utilizing all of their banking services from regular checking to full merchant (ACH) account services.  Tip: if you are a Seattle start-up looking to establish presence in the Bay Area, using SVB as a strategic partner is a no-brainer.

Back to the party…with the wine and food flowing…the Open House, by default, became a sorta coming out party for Cameo.  We’ve held our concept pretty close to our chest for the last 3 months as we’ve been building the product; however, last night the intros were flying with the help of the SVB team.  And to our surprise, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive!  Everybody in the room was clamoring to begin using our service for their own personal needs. 

Now, we just need to get it out the door.

First, we’d like to thank you for accepting the Cameo Media WebBlog into your busy day!  We realize how busy your day is and having you spend a few minutes with us makes us feel very fortunate.

A little about our WebBlog.  We set this blog up to reach out to family and friends who can help us gather some market research for our first web serivce scheduled for release in June.  More specifically, we would love feedback on how the general concept of our service sounds, would you use it, how would you use it, in addition to some thumbs up/thumbs down input on our screen designs, and our go-to-market name (a la brand).

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated and we’ll take whatever feedback we can get!  Our hopes are we can put an exciting new internet service out and have it be embraced!

On to the questions…