RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/redbeacon-wins-the-top-prize-at-techcrunch50-2009/

by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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ojbyrne2• 17 years ago

Somebody tell me why this isn't boring.

jamiequint• 17 years ago

Depends on how boring you think making a lot of money is. Servicemagic.com makes upwards of 100M/yr. Boring or not its a great business.

ojbyrne2• 17 years ago

There's countless startups doing the exact same thing.

ujjwalg2• 17 years ago

I thought TC50 was about innovation. I was expecting something disruptive coming out as a winner. This seems to be a good business but what is innovative about it? I am disappointed.

vaksel3• 17 years ago

when you have crappy selection, you'll make a crappy choice. The competition this year downright sucked, there really wasn't a single company(I'll admit I wasn't really following TC50 that closely) that really made me say "WOW, what an awesome service"

physcab• 17 years ago

I thought CitySourced and LocalBacon were pretty cool. They solved real problems and actually listened to their customers' pain points.

pg• 17 years ago

You guys might be a little more charitable. You're starting to sound like the trolls in TechCrunch comment threads.

patricia3• 17 years ago

I'm really shocked that more people didn't get into the multi-platform toy. American Girl is a multiplatform toy concept and it's enormous. That prototype was hideous, and they need to work out some of the cross platform elements to it but if I were a kid and I saw that? Yeah. Plus, anything that has multiplatform revenue capabilities like that is a smart play right now. 90% of the companies at TC50 were talking about subscription models I didn't think users would be willing to pay and anybody who thinks they're going to make dough off ad revenue alone is nuts. The market is oversaturated and there isn't going to be a roll up.

hwijaya• 17 years ago

Anyclip?

patricia3• 17 years ago

Oh yea and the flash developer technology was hot times. UI is going to become reeeeeeeeallllly important in the next gen of web users

zaidf3• 17 years ago

I know a lot of you guys are saying "where's the innovation". If it's so innovation-free, why does a service like RedBeacon not exist yet?

And if it's not so simple, then wouldn't it require innovation to build the platform and the marketing to make it all gel?

I don't know if these guys can pull it off. But if they do, they will need a lot of <unsexy> innovation.

aaronblohowiak• 17 years ago

"why does a service like RedBeacon not exist yet?" -> they do, servicemagic.com and more.. but the market isnt yet saturated and rb is trying to take some of it with a different pricing model

zaidf3• 17 years ago

They addressed servicemagic specifically during the presentation: it's catered to a very specific niche while RedBeacon is more broad.

patricia3• 17 years ago

Just because something doesn't exist doesn't mean it should.

zaidf3• 17 years ago

Fair enough. Why do you think it shouldn't exist?

lacker• 17 years ago

I wish this was working already! Just today I was looking for a good mechanic to replace a transmission in San Francisco. I tried RedBeacon but SF won't be ready until October 1. If this works it would be really useful.

gruseom• 17 years ago

Trollim ("lets coders battle for programming superiority") sounds like fun if they can figure out how to make it into a game rather than some dumb HR thing.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/tc50-trollim-lets-coder...

Edit: but why did they decide to call participants "trolls"?

RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009

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