Silicon Valley Meetups and Startups

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Highlights of January Meetups (that we did not have the time to attend):

Co-founders wanted January meetup

High Note,
Customized Concerts
Contact; Chongkee at HighNoteLive.com
Looking for: Expert ROR developer, Equity only

Phine
Contact: Aaron Tait
Seeking equity compensated founders and investors

sparkler.tv
personalized broadband TV
Contact: sethc at sparkler.tv

Bright Lights
Headlight restoration

Sexy Enterprise XRM
Contact: Sudhir at gqc.com (Sudhir Kshirsagar)
Looking for Equity-based Partner(s)
Money, Brains, Personality, Coffee-powered, FT/Pt (Significant)

EasyLingual
Contact: Sabir Ibrahim
online language learning community

No name company
Contact: mattt314
new communication medium
3 founders developing the prototype
looking for full time engineer founder; equal equity split

Revenzy - a lovechild of eBay and Facebook
plan to IPO in 2012 or 2013
looking for co-founder/China Operations

Bonvoy - that is to Expedia/Orbitz as Generics are to name Brand Drugs
Looking for people who want to disrupt travel space

SaferBuilding
Healthy Home and Office Experts
Rapidly Growing List of Contacts across networks
wanted Lead Architect/Engineer Cash/Equity Package
winston Choe winston.choe@inno-scape.com

(See also November minutes of co-founders wanted group).

The SiliconValley NewTech Meetup Group [SVNewTech] featured the following presenters:
* apptizr.com - iphone app suggestion service that actually works. It's like Netflix for apps on your phone. [David Li]
* iformbuilder.com - Data Collection on the iphone, that is super easy to build and use. Some customers include Hershey Chocolates, Comcast, and a number of Universities. [Chris Reichart]
* thinkcomputer.com - Will be launching a new mobile payments service [Aaron G. & Michael Anderson]
* Expert Talk Series - Putting a Term Sheet together. [Brad Rock, Partner DLA]

Also, check out this SlideShare Presentation from the Semantics in Financial Services meetup organized by Peter Berger and Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group.

Semantics in Financial Services -David Newman

View more presentations from Peter Berger.

Bay Area Startups Looking for Cofounders

The Bay Area is a well known hub for innovation. Good to see innovations are surging. Let's hope many of the new startups will be given the support they deserve.

Here are my brief meeting minutes from the Cofounders Wanted November Meetup, organized by @alain94040
(see also FairSoftware's blog on this event and Aurametrix' analysis of startups presenting at Silicon Valley New Technologies meetup)

• Interesting idea of hotels for everyone and by everyone was presented by russ.hearl at staysherpa.com The startup is looking for a CTO-to-be PHP programmer. http://www.sherpatravelexchange.com/ & http://twitter.com/sherpatravelx
• Greg Gentschev is looking for a technical cofounder for a Business Search & Workflows project: http://twitter.com/gentschev
• Justin at binarynomads.com is looking for a technical cofounder too: http://binarynomads.com/
• Peter Kazanjy is building a site to outperform LinkedIn and Yelp, his LI prfile is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kazanjy see also http://getunvarnished.com/
• Ira Chayut is building a Fun Site with Sound and Voices: http://www.linkedin.com/in/irachayut
• Sujit Kirpekar (kirpekar at gmail.com) has a great Autolicious idea, follow him on twitter: http://twitter.com/discoganya
• Kristen at Hazard.com presented her Timesarrow project: http://www.hazardbio.com/, see also http://twitter.com/timesarrow. She is a yoga buff and is looking for a business cofounder.
• Georgi Dagnall at geogad hopes people will travel more, with their personal mobile tour guide. See http://www.geogad.com/
• Junk Cloud brings the power of auctions to online classified ads: http://www.junkcloud.com/ and http://twitter.com/JunkCloud. Contact Ryan at juncloud.com for more information

Other bay area startups looking for cofounders and team members:

• Al Brown, Deep Therapeutics, is looking for mechanical, electronics, robotics engineers to help implement the prototype.
• http://fairsoftware.net/- legal framework for early-stage projects, finding cofounders
• http://www.chagora.com/ - microdonations
• http://revenzy.com/ - social auctions site
• http://valverdecomputing.com/
• Jobnob
• WebSketch
• Welebrity
• As to Aurametrix, it's all hush hush now. The public site is for general informational purposes only. The company may be looking for a cofounder at a later stage.

Changing Culture of Medicine

by Aurametrix

Healthcare is the largest service industry in the world. Its old ways don't work anymore.
One of the reasons is that medical profession is seen increasingly in financial terms. Can you separate the businessman from the doctor? Not in American Medicine, says Kevin Pho, MD, author of the web's leading physician blog.

We need to change the way health care is envisioned, organized and delivered. We need creative approaches to building novel business models, and "disruptive technologies" to shake up the current system.

The current model motivates doctors to think about diagnostic tests based on available technologies and profit, not the need. They will, indeed, order a heart-stress test when the nuclear camera is in the next room, diagnose and treat harmless cancers, and be under financial pressure to see as many patients as possible.

The reform should create a different culture among health care professionals. Solutions include retail clinics that let people pay cash for low-end services and care, new primary care models such as Qliance, MDVIP, QuickHealth, and 1Life, clinics staffed largely by non-physicians, divorcing of physician payments from volume of services, more electronic encounters between doctors and patients and more automation.

Aurametrix works on automatic solutions beyond electronic medical records, for a healthier world.