List of TechStars companies (6 out of the 10 are listed)(microsoftstartupzone.com)
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List of TechStars companies (6 out of the 10 are listed)
http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/the_next_big_thing/archive/2007/07/13/techstars-in-boulder.aspx
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Noticeably lacking are any business applications, which I think are the next big (profitable) thing in web 2.0 (I am a bit biased on this, but I think the time has arrived)
It's happening already, you just don't hear about it because enterprise software shops usually sell direct to their customers and don't care for publicity outside of their industry.
The curious thing is that this time, consumer companies seem to be leading enterprise companies in technology, and much of the bleeding-edge innovation happens in the consumer market. My boss remarked about this to me - in the past, enterprise tools have been far ahead of the consumer apps technologically. Software features that made it to home PCs in the mid-90s were available on enterprise workstations in the early 80s, and in some cases the consumer market still hasn't caught up (take a look at early Lisp Machines for an example of what was possible then). Nowadays, it seems like Google and Yahoo have locked up many of the best developers, and the features that come out of Google/Yahoo!Finance often are better than the equivalent features from, say, Bloomberg.
I'm not really sure what this means for the enterprise market. Probably not good.
The curious thing is that this time, consumer companies seem to be leading enterprise companies in technology, and much of the bleeding-edge innovation happens in the consumer market. My boss remarked about this to me - in the past, enterprise tools have been far ahead of the consumer apps technologically. Software features that made it to home PCs in the mid-90s were available on enterprise workstations in the early 80s, and in some cases the consumer market still hasn't caught up (take a look at early Lisp Machines for an example of what was possible then). Nowadays, it seems like Google and Yahoo have locked up many of the best developers, and the features that come out of Google/Yahoo!Finance often are better than the equivalent features from, say, Bloomberg.
I'm not really sure what this means for the enterprise market. Probably not good.
Technological advance in general is a good thing, obviously :). The developers will follow the money as their investors will, and if the consumer market gets saturated and looses momentum while the business side starts picking up, with businesses willing to actually pay to use services, then the developers will follow.
What kind of apps do you mean by this?
Mainly business productivity and collaboration applications as well as the basic office suite of applications. Advances are also being made in Sales and Marketing, with SalesForce being a prime example, and internet lead generation companies another (which I use in my Architectural Firm)
To be fair, I didn't investigate ... but who needs 15k and office space to build a sticky note facebook app? Secondly, Didn't the facebook platform launch after the techstars deadline?
I read somewhere that a few people totally changed their ideas after starting TechStars. This may be one of those companies.
I'm not impressed. Is there an equivalent list of YC companies?
There may be an official list somewhere, but Wikipedia has a decent list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator#Portfolio