Now Wong has racked up a laundry list of investors from big brands including True Ventures, SimpleGeo CTO Joe Stump (in his first angel investment), CMO Rohan Oza of Vitamin Water, PopChips CEO Keith Belling, Doug Chertok and Paige Craig in a round of funding conspicuously bereft of the usual Super Angel suspects.
Washington, D.C.-based attorney Dan Backer, a proponent of super PACs, suspects that much of the money flowing to these nascent groups will come from "the same folks who've always contributed," though he also argues that super PACs will allow more people to get involved and have their voices heard.
Third parties that claim super discounts are suspect.
This morning we wrote about Hipmunk raising a $1 million angel round, but the super angel usual suspects (other than SV Angel) weren't part of the deal.
We suspect some super connectors in Europe started inviting friends and that was the spark there.
One company that's gotten a lot of attention in the last year is Viisage, the Littleton, Mass.-based business whose technology was used to snare some criminal suspects at Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Fla. Cameras using its technology can compare faces against a database of wanted suspects and try to pick them out of a crowd.
Those who suspect that the Super Bowl is a little less super this year don't have to look far for proof.
Cynical bargain hunters suspect that super-low fares apply only to one seat on a single flight, but some companies are starting to reveal the amount of inventory they make available for each offer.
Whilst the NFL's attention at this stage of the season tends to be focused on the usual suspects for Super Bowl contenders, look for the Cardinals to gradually turn heads.
They are not the super-rich, who I suspect would queue for nothing – not willingly, anyway – but the comfortable, who spend their money on experiencing things they have read about.
