A Start-Up Business YouTube?
It seems that in the state of the current economy more and more cities like Edmonton are seeking new ways to promote their young entrepreneurs and technology sectors. Just recently we discovered some striking similarities between the technology sectors of Edmonton and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It seems that young entrepreneurs are beginning to find success in promoting and raising awareness of start-up businesses in areas that are not technically considered hubs of entrepreneurship.
Case in point, ActionsTalk.com promotes start-up businesses in the Milwaukee area and the country. The owners, Ryan Graves and Blake Samic share between themselves a wealth of information technology experience that could launch their website into the next “YouTube” for start-up businesses. In a sense, their site could become a popular source for young entrepreneurs and investors to gather and share information through the use of video and other sources of technology. But will they succeed?
When Bruce Johnson released Semanti, a brilliant search technology that sets on top of Google to personalize the searching experience, he probably never would have guessed the level of the technology’s current success. Though Graves and Samic do have a long way to go before they can consider themselves as being the next start-up YouTube or even as successful as Bruce Johnson, the potential is definitely there, and just as Semanti’s potential was recognized and marketed, so too will the idea of these two young entrepreneurs.
It serves as a reminder to all social networkers, young entrepreneurs and investors alike that we’re just scratching the surface when it comes to ideas. New ideas are developing and will continue to develop in our current economic crisis, and as Edmontonians Visionaries often discovers, technology is always at the heart of those developments.
This entry was posted on November 7, 2008 at 6:38 pm and is filed under Social Networking. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
Tags: Actions Talk, Blake Samic, Bruce Johnson, Edmonton, Edmontonians Visionaries, entrepreneur, Google, Milwaukee, Ryan Graves, Semanti, Social Networking, technology, YouTube
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November 7, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Thanks so much for the write-up!
November 17, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Your interview with Gary was really good. Your next interview should be with one of the stars of the Edmonton tech community.
Do you do your interviews remotely? Maybe you could travel to Edmonton to check things out.