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Kate Moloney-Egnatios’ intuition led her to Intuit. She followed the signs in her career pointing to Verisign and paid her dues at PayPal. But she says her latest tech startup is even more of a winning business idea than tax preparation software and online payment/authentication systems, and the audience at this week’s TechCrunch 50 conference seemed to agree.
There’s something both primal and communal about the beat of a drum, whether it’s just one or 2,008 of them — as the world experienced at Beijing’s Opening Ceremony to kick off the Olympics — which might be called the ultimate global social networking event. A drum’s beat seems to capture people from the inside out, turning something as individual and personal as a heartbeat into a collective experience.
These days, when you hear about downloading music for free, it’s usually bad news: a lawsuit from a label, a threat from an ISP, or a crackdown from the government. Now, though, a new startup is turning the tables and encouraging fans to grab all they want — without paying a single dime. TrueAnthem considers itself a modern-day music label. Launched in April, the service offers widget-based downloads of entire albums for free.
If you told Rhett Frandsen 10 years ago he’d end up being a professional widget-maker, he probably would have called you crazy. “Back then, widgets were only something you read about in your economics book,” Frandsen laughed. “Until Apple coined the phrase, everybody had sort of agreed upon the fact that it wasn’t anything.”