It’s hard to deny that the word “start-ups” is a buzz. Google averages 69 million keyword searches for “start-ups” each day and according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) more than $6.8 billion was invested in start-ups for Q2 2009. That’s big news for start-up businesses.

KillerStartups.com and startupLUCKY.com are joining forces to provide the ultimate global resources for start-up founders, students, VC’s, angels and journalists. The joined forces will:

1. Provide a free platform for any start-up to pitch their idea
2. Serve as a daily resource for investors, entrepreneurs, and journalists to learn about what start-ups have in the works
3. Offer sponsors and advertisers the opportunity to promote companies to 3 million page views per month by leveraging video, written posts, and social sharing across the web

Fred Imparatta, Community Director of KillerStartups.com, hopes the partnership will encourage more entrepreneurs to launch their dream companies.

“We are excited to partner with startupLUCKY because they provide great one-to-one interviews with some of the most creative CEOs and founders around,” Imparatta said. “That allows everyone to learn more of the story behind the start-up, it’s insightful and inspiring.”

startupLUCKY.com’s CEO Aronado Placencia says the partnership will cover start-up information on businesses in a number of sectors, some of which include blogging, widgets, travel, science, real estate, social networking, search, healthcare, and user generated content.

“We hope the partnership will stand as a resource for information on start-up community reviews, live event coverage and video interviews,” Placencia said. “Our goal is to build a community where entrepreneurs learn from others so they can build stronger businesses. Better business practices is something we can all benefit from.”

KillerStartups.com, based out of Miami, FL, features 15 new start-ups daily with 3 million page views, and nearly 1,000,000 uniques per month. KillerStartups.com’s mission is to provide unbiased, open minded, and straightforward start-up reviews for the start-up community. KillerStartups is focused on showcasing start-ups who have a clear vision and mission in place to improve and/or create something that will add value to peoples’ lives.

startupLUCKY.com based in NYC, is a start-up web show that was born out of the pure frustration of it’s founder, Aronado Placencia. “Pitching, pitching, and more pitching just get’s exhausting.” After pitching Mashable, Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and countless others about a startup we were working on, I thought, screw it, I’ll create a place where startups can have a chance to tell their story and explain their idea on a video interview in 15-20 mins. We had some very nice success with the show early on and now have covered over 300 startup CEO’s, VC’s, angels, journalists, media people, some of the biggest names in business; and best selling book authors such as Guy Kawasaki, TonyHsieh, Peter Shankman, Chris Brogan, Mike Michalowicz, Richard Laermer, and many more. Behind the scenes we have naturally become matchmakers, introducing investors to start-ups, connecting people for jobs, helping start-ups get press in other media outlets and really trying to add value to the start-up community in any way we can. Why? Because we actually love what we do!

Here’s what a few people have said about startupLUCKY:

“There is no show that’s more fun to be on than startupLUCKY. If anything, you might have too much fun and let a few secrets slip.”
-Guy Kawasaki

“Had a blast with you, Aronado – I was slammed, doing a million things, and the interview made the rest of my day fun. So thanks for that.”
-Peter Shankman

“startupLUCKY is an AMAZING show. Every entrepreneur needs to listen in every single time! I love it. Great job Aronado”
-Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

We are looking for the most ambitious start-up entrepreneurs around the globe. We want to hear & share your story with the world. We will be actively working with VC’s, Angel groups, Incubators, PR firms and marketing agencies to cover start-ups in all sectors.