Noosphere Networks - we're early still. PVD has a small, but burgeoning startup scene. www.providencegeeks.com
Between having Brown U., RISD, and being in between BOS and NYC we have a lot of good ingredients.
De Chardin, cool. Noosphere.cc? I'm a Brown grad with some connection still to some Prov. based startups, so if you are needing some connections plz ping me.
Thanks - I'm pretty hooked in as I'm active in trying to grow the local scene, but am always interested to learn about other new startups around here.
BTW, how do you ping someone on this system? Thanks.
I was also born and raised in STL.. left 5 years ago for the west coast, moved to Asia at the beginning of 2007.
Palish, I'll be in STL 9/13 - 9/19 for business meet ups. If you have availability I'd love to buy you a drink and hear about what you have going there. Curious as to how the startup scene in STL is evolving.. -frank{&at&}actercompany.com.
I'm in Melbourne, Australia, but my main developer is in California. We communicate with Skype.
I think user-oriented sites need good communication between designers and coders, so having a native English speaker was a top priority. Additionally I've generally been impressed with US coders. I also needed someone with a good knowledge of multiple programming languages (rather than a 'solve everything with Perl' guy), and AJAX experience which is surprisingly lacking elsewhere (check out the development history of all those Indian and Hungarian companies on eLance - they might be a fifth the price, but they're generally pretty terrible).
Somewhere after public beta I'll head to SF again for a few months, maybe permanently. When I do, my dev team team will already be there.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 292 ms ] threadPalish, I'll be in STL 9/13 - 9/19 for business meet ups. If you have availability I'd love to buy you a drink and hear about what you have going there. Curious as to how the startup scene in STL is evolving.. -frank{&at&}actercompany.com.
I'm also mostly giving up on St. Louis and moving to the Bay Area on the 18th.
I think user-oriented sites need good communication between designers and coders, so having a native English speaker was a top priority. Additionally I've generally been impressed with US coders. I also needed someone with a good knowledge of multiple programming languages (rather than a 'solve everything with Perl' guy), and AJAX experience which is surprisingly lacking elsewhere (check out the development history of all those Indian and Hungarian companies on eLance - they might be a fifth the price, but they're generally pretty terrible).
Somewhere after public beta I'll head to SF again for a few months, maybe permanently. When I do, my dev team team will already be there.