With Metalcon, I made my first experiences in creating an internet start-up. If it had been more successful, I would probably do something different right now. Well, I think I’ve learned my lesson. Nowadays it is my goal to try it a second time. I think there are a lot of good ideas on the web but I strongly believe that even though there is Google, Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, Groupon, etc., we have only seen a very small selection of ideas so far.
Within this category I want to introduce some interesting Internet start-ups, together with their business model (as far as I understand it). I will try to focus only on start-ups with ideas that solve real problems which would not be possible or only hard to solve without the Internet. So what does this mean? Well, a website that connects people owning a car and traveling somewhere to others without a car that want to go to the same place has a chance to gain my attraction; the tenth million web shop selling something will probably not gain my attraction.
So why am I doing this? The reason might appear to be kind of selfish: Even though I have some cool (?) ideas for some fancy web products in my mind, I want to observe others and learn from their creativity and ideas. Blogging and explaining these ideas in public is probably connected to a deeper understanding than just observing. This doesn’t mean I want to simply steal an idea but rather understand (successful) ideas in order to better evaluate my own ideas.
If you know of an interesting start-up or even set up one yourself, please feel free to contact me and tell me about it!