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27 december

De top 10 startups van 2008

Wired kiest de Ten startups to watch

Het einde van het jaar blijft de tijd van de lijstjes. Zowel terugkkijkend naar 2007, als vooruitkijkend naar 2008. Wired heeft zich gewaagd aan een voorspelling van de meest belangrijke startups in 2008: De Ten Startups to Watch. Opmerkelijk is dat er diverse bedrijven in staan die eigenlijk geen startup meer genoemd kunnen worden. Maar, lijstjes blijven leuk. Dus: welke tien startups zijn gekozen?

Zoals Wired het omschrijft: “Here are 10 pre-IPO, pre-acquisition companies worth watching in 2008”

23andMe
There is a lot you could buy with $1,000, but for that price 23andMe offers something never before sold to the masses: your DNA. Are you predisposed to prostate cancer? Glaucoma? Heart disease? 23andMe can tell you.
Employees: 30

37Signals
Chicago 37Signals has made life simpler for programmers and small businesses alike with products such as Basecamp (project management software) and an increasingly popular open source web framework called Ruby on Rails.
Employees: 8

AdMob
AdMob has defied the odds. While Google is just four months into testing a mobile version of its advertising network, AdMob has already served 12 billion ad impressions to mobile users.
Employees: 65

BitTorrent
In late 2007, the parent company of that protocol—also called BitTorrent—unveiled a potentially disruptive new use for its P2P technology: a platform that software providers and media companies can use to help customers download high-resolution files faster (and legally).
Employees: 60

Dash
In 2008, Dash will chart a new course with Dash Express, a GPS that learns from its users. If a Dash owner is moving 5 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone, Dash servers will realize he is in traffic and warn other Dash drivers to choose faster routes. Sure beats calling 5-1-1.
Employees: 85

Fon
Free wifi access. Users first agree to share their home wireless connections with other Fon customers using a special router, which splits the signal into public and private streams. In exchange, they get the privilege of using any of the networks wireless signals anywhere in the world for free.
Employees: Approximately 90 worldwide

LinkedIn
LinkedIn, a career-oriented social networking site, found 16 million users, yet until recently has been eclipsed by much larger, livelier competitors. Zie ook: LinkedIn.com: beursgang?
Employees: 200

Powerset
Its gotten hard to imagine a world where Google doesnt dominate internet search, but some believe that if anyone can dethrone the king, its Powerset. The San Francisco company is developing an alternative “natural language” search technology, which takes into account the actual meaning and context of words in a sentence. Zie ook de toekomst van search op internet en Powerset: de alternatieve Google?
Employees: 60

Slide
In the battle of Facebook vs. the OpenSocial gang, there is one assured winner, and it is not even technically in the fight. Slide, the largest provider of third-party applications (aka “widgets") to websites and social networks.
Employees: 60

Spock
Google can search the web by keyword, but Spock gets more directly at a single question: What does the web know about you? By crawling the web for personal information and combining that with social network data, Spock creates a hub for information about actual people.
Employees: 25

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