Most popular Internet services have now been “instantized”, inspired by the recent unveiling of Google Instant, which “searches before you type”.

You can now add our very own CrunchBase to that list, courtesy of 16-year old entrepreneur and tinkerer Spencer Schoeben. Using his CrunchBase Instant, you can search our rich database of companies, persons, financial organizations and whatnot faster than ever before.

Nice touch by Spencer: when you land on a profile that links to a Twitter feed, tweets from that person or company are displayed in a separate column (example: “Alexia Tsotsis”). I’m thinking we should totally steal that idea.

Thanks, Spencer!

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• SPENCER SCHOEBEN
• CRUNCHBASE

Person: Spencer Schoeben

Website: netspencer.com

Companies: Teens in Tech Labs, OneExtraLap, Twitloc, FeedSharing, Klassio, Mabzy, VelociTeens, FlyEutopia, pitch.ly, SaySurely

Spencer Schoeben is a 17 year old entrepreneur living in Palo Alto, CA. Spencer is also the founder of Twitloc, a geo-location application built to let users explore tweets by their location. Spencer is an active advisor of several teen startups including OneExtraLap, a social quizzing service, FeedSharing, Mabzy, Klassio and many more. He is also working on several stealth startups and products. Spencer is currently a junior at Palo Alto High School where he is the webmaster of The Paly...

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Product: CrunchBase

Website: crunchbase.com

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