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(Zilker Ventures, LLC manages ChooseWhat.com- see Company Information at bottom of this page)
ChooseWhat is the entrepreneur's startup guide. Entrepreneurs can follow the steps in our guide to build a strong foundation for their business. Each step includes an actionable "How To" that provides a simple overview, detailed steps, tips and warnings. Many of the steps also include relevant product comparison and STARTicles to help entrepreneurs select the right tools and design the best processes for their businesses. Finally, ChooseWhat offers a forum where entrepreneurs can post questions or comments and receive feedback from the ChooseWhat staff and the entrepreneurial community.
In 2007, ChooseWhat Founder and CEO, Leo Welder, first developed the idea of building a Consumer Reports style website focused on business products and services rather than consumer goods. In order to test the idea, Leo with his then partner, Gaines Kilpatrick, created the entity, Zilker Ventures and proceeded to build a website to test the market's reaction to the idea. Because of their own frustration choosing an online fax service, which they intended to use to help with sending and receiving contracts with investors, banks, etc, the partnership decided to launch FaxCompare.com at the start of 2008, a simple, straigtforward comparison and review of online fax services. In order to generate revenue from this site, Zilker Ventures entered into affiliate relationships with several of the most popular online fax companies. Using paid search advertising on Google, Bing (then MSN) and Yahoo to capture relevant traffic, the website became profitable within the first three months.
After developing several other single purpose websites, the partnership decided to launch ChooseWhat.com in early 2010, which initially was only a collection of comparisons and reviews of business products and services. Struggling to create an identity for itself, ChooseWhat relaunched the site in early 2011 with it's first Startup Guide (then called the "Business Checklist"). This list was extremely well received and became the primary focus of many of ChooseWhat's visitors. Therefore, the company continued to bolster this list with better and deeper supporting content.
In early 2015, the company relaunched ChooseWhat.com using the Startup Guide as it's primariy navigation in attempt to further support entrepreneurs trying to launch their companies.
ChooseWhat.com, LLC is located in Austin, TX and is managed by Zilker Ventures, LLC. Both companies are subsidiaries of Zilker Holdings, LLC.
Zilker Ventures, LLC was created in October of 2007. ChooseWhat.com, LLC was later formed in 2008 followed by Zilker Holdings, LLC in 2010.