ImThere hosted a STL startup meetup last night. It was a great group of guys who had some really good ideas. These guys are doing what I use to always say when I was in bands, “You should be able to live anywhere, and still do what you love to do!”
UPDATE: This was actually a co-hosted event with St. Louis Startups. Thanks for the link Paul, as well as Mike’s link below.
Now the trick of course is to see if the Venture Capitalist’s of the world will realize there is great “music” everywhere. I saw some really good ideas last night, and feel that VC or angel money would be well spent on an idea outside of the Valley. David the founder of ImThere realizes the reality of how there is no VC money here in St. Louis, and will actually be presenting at Under The Radar in November.
Some of the other great ideas I saw were from two guys who have developed a great new mapping mashup. Now many of you are thinking “Oh Google does that well.” – Well I’m here to tell you that Google doesn’t do everything, and there are some things their application does well. Not only that, they have a full suite of other apps, one of them could be used as a great way to eliminate e-mail attachments. Check ‘em out for yourself.
Since I have already alluded to music, it was great to see a music place that I haven’t heard of. In fact it reminded me of the old mp3 dot com, garageband, etc… The place is supported by a big time radio company. It is currently being re-tooled for 2007. The site, once re-tooled, has all the potential that the above mentioned sites did in helping the consumer discover new music.
There was one more presentation, and it sort of reminded me of Minority Report. This person is designing a new way of storing items and viewing them. It is sort of a web top, but than again it’s not. I don’t have the URL to share, but if you are reading this (Mike) – send it to me and I will link it. UPDATE: Here is Mike’s site – only works in IE 7
Technically Speaking, there are startups here in the STL with some great ideas.
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