Audia, formerly whisper.fm, was a start-up that I worked on with George Ruan and Sam Kaufman. It was a very simple idea. Instead of downloading a podcast, you could call in and listen to it over the audio channel of the phone. It enabled you to get podcast content without a data plan. If the…
waitscout was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan, Brian Silverstein and Ryan Hudson. It was going to use predictive analytics plus relevant data from the Internet of Things to figure out what the wait time was at popular restaurants. Then we would add that information to places like OpenTable…
swayr was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan and Paul Limon. The idea was to use gamification to encourage sharing of media. So we would have links to media that we could track the use of. Then we would build game mechanics that encouraged people to share links. Companies…
quub was a start-up that I worked on with several folks, including George Ruan and Nathan Esquenazi. quub was a commercialization of Nomatic*IM. Basically it was supposed to be automatic status updates that your computer would generate for you based on what it could detect about you from sensors. The ideal case would be to…