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Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev came up with an interesting way to raise capital for their start-up company, Aboomba, a yet-to-launch consumer Web company. The couple will be married Aug. 29, and they encouraged their guest list of 180—which includes many venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and academics—to browse their registry, The New York Times‘ Bits reports.

You might ask what makes that idea so unique, since most couples who are getting hitched use a registry. But this registry is focused on getting Aboomba off the ground, so rather than soup ladles, serving trays, bedding and wine glasses, the couple hopes to receive gifts including one week of Amazon.com Web hosting ($134.40), Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Home Edition OEM ($95.64), feeding an outsourced engineer for one day ($150) and funding lunch with a venture capitalist ($291), according to Bits. Assistance in stocking items such as Red Bull and pizza is also welcomed.

“Our ambition is to bootstrap the company, or at least to grow as far as we can without having to raise capital, so that is one of the impetus factors for the registry,” Kazanjiev told Bits.

Kataoka and Kazanjiev describe “the world’s first start-up registry”:

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