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Stealth Y Combinator Opzi Gets Serious Angel Attention

71 points by yurisagalov 16y ago

RealGeek 16y ago
Opzi is a Q&A and networking website with private groups based on School or Company. Think Quora + Yammer Euwyn Poon tells about Opzi in a interview. http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_cornell_sta.shtml http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_c...
- vegashacker 16y ago
  Sounds like a really good cut on the Q&A problem. Looking forward to checking it out.
rxin 16y ago
Congrats, Euwyn! The enterprise space needs some serious disruptions. Especially in the area of knowledge dissemination, it is a huge barrier to pass knowledges around in medium/large businesses. This could be very useful in unleashing the knowledge buried in the myriads of corporate repositories (human resources, databases, etc).
- Frocer 16y ago
  Congrats!! Always great to see another Cornellian entrepreneur :)
  - rickyyean 16y ago
    Cornell's got a good showing in the valley. Nice! Congrats Euwyn! Now impress me with your reality distortion on the Disrupt stage.
  - yosho 16y ago
    Werd. GO BIG RED. Tho I think Cornell Engineering is starting to get better and better. I just wish they had a CS program that was better tailored for startups instead of like quant trading and stuff.
mickdj 16y ago
Good work Euwyn!
jw84 16y ago
Two thoughts: - I giggled like an immature schoolboy. - Linkbait.
- jackowayed 16y ago
  This is one of the rare TC headlines that isn't linkbait. He raised a ton of money, with basically every great angel in on the deal. Any deal of that size with both Ron Conway and Paul Buchheit involved counts as "serious angel attention."
  - jw84 16y ago
    It's 127 words saying someone, somewhere, is popular. No explanation for what Opzi does, just a plug for the TC event next week. I'm all for YC loving and Euwyn is definitely impressive but really? Let's raise the bar just a skosh.
    - sudonim 16y ago
      "Tune in at TC disrupt for the exciting conclusion of.... Opzi" I really like Euwyn and I'd give him a lot of time as an entrepreneur, but this article really does Euwyn and Opzi a disservice by being so vague.
tehdik 16y ago
Yeah Cornell!!
vaksel 16y ago
http://www.euwyn.com/ Opzi : www.opzi.com Q&A redefined. his site gives some idea of what it is. my guess is that it's something like yammer merged with quora
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- dillydally 16y ago
  My money is on "Quora for enterprise." Yammer is also launching a Q&A product. There was a question on Quora (can't find it now) about whether Quora itself was going to build an enterprise product, and they said no, there weren't any immediate plans.
keyle 16y ago
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daveambrose 16y ago
congrats euwyn! way to bring that nyc hustle to the valley!
widgetycrank 16y ago
So this is a single-founder YC company?

71 points by yurisagalov 16y ago

Opzi is a Q&A and networking website with private groups based on School or Company. Think Quora + Yammer Euwyn Poon tells about Opzi in a interview. http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_cornell_sta.shtml http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_c...

vegashacker 16y ago
Sounds like a really good cut on the Q&A problem. Looking forward to checking it out.

rxin 16y ago

Congrats, Euwyn! The enterprise space needs some serious disruptions. Especially in the area of knowledge dissemination, it is a huge barrier to pass knowledges around in medium/large businesses. This could be very useful in unleashing the knowledge buried in the myriads of corporate repositories (human resources, databases, etc).

Frocer 16y ago
Congrats!! Always great to see another Cornellian entrepreneur :)
- rickyyean 16y ago
  Cornell's got a good showing in the valley. Nice! Congrats Euwyn! Now impress me with your reality distortion on the Disrupt stage.
- yosho 16y ago
  Werd. GO BIG RED. Tho I think Cornell Engineering is starting to get better and better. I just wish they had a CS program that was better tailored for startups instead of like quant trading and stuff.

mickdj 16y ago

Good work Euwyn!

jw84 16y ago

Two thoughts: - I giggled like an immature schoolboy. - Linkbait.

jackowayed 16y ago
This is one of the rare TC headlines that isn't linkbait. He raised a ton of money, with basically every great angel in on the deal. Any deal of that size with both Ron Conway and Paul Buchheit involved counts as "serious angel attention."
- jw84 16y ago
  It's 127 words saying someone, somewhere, is popular. No explanation for what Opzi does, just a plug for the TC event next week. I'm all for YC loving and Euwyn is definitely impressive but really? Let's raise the bar just a skosh.
  - sudonim 16y ago
    "Tune in at TC disrupt for the exciting conclusion of.... Opzi" I really like Euwyn and I'd give him a lot of time as an entrepreneur, but this article really does Euwyn and Opzi a disservice by being so vague.

tehdik 16y ago

Yeah Cornell!!

vaksel 16y ago

http://www.euwyn.com/ Opzi : www.opzi.com Q&A redefined. his site gives some idea of what it is. my guess is that it's something like yammer merged with quora

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dillydally 16y ago
My money is on "Quora for enterprise." Yammer is also launching a Q&A product. There was a question on Quora (can't find it now) about whether Quora itself was going to build an enterprise product, and they said no, there weren't any immediate plans.

keyle 16y ago

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daveambrose 16y ago

congrats euwyn! way to bring that nyc hustle to the valley!

widgetycrank 16y ago

So this is a single-founder YC company?