Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

My friend and former colleage Ron Feldman publicly launched his service today.   It’s called Kwiry - and it allows you to text any message to K-W-I-R-Y (59469) - which you can then retrieve later to see all the things you wish you had done but forgot to do.

So all those great things you want to remember - restaurants you walk past, songs you hear on the radio, or stock picks you want to research - can now be stored in your own account and shared for the world to see, or stored privately, if you prefer.  If you text “P” before any message to K-W-I-R-Y, that note is then private, so others who are tracking your KWIRYs won’t be able to see your note.

They’ve raised about $1 million in a Series A from Hummer Winblad.

Anything you text to K-W-I-R-Y will show a search results page (powered by Yahoo!) based on the keywords you texted, when you go to retrieve your message.  So you’ll be able to research whatever idea you texted to yourself with a matter of a few clicks.

The data is unstructured, but that doesn’t prevent future products to structure the data in K-W-I-R-Ys.  One interesting application would be to build a plug-in to a stock portfolio tracker.  So imagine if you wanted to track long ideas and short ideas (while watching CNBC’s Fast Money, for example).  I think it would be neat to text B CSCO or S WAMU, for buying Cisco or selling Washington Mutual.   It would be neat to see a history of your buy and sell ideas (as well as a market price at the time of your texting) - to look back and see how much money you would have made if you actually traded those ideas.   There are so many things this platform could power - I’m fascinated by all the opportunities that lay before them.

Congratulations Ron and team on the launch of a great service.