We closed down our World Cup market (just over a month ago) and have been cranking on getting the football market ready (and ready for real money!) since.
The World Cup went really fantastic for us (can’t say the same for the US unfortunately). We learned a bunch, proved out a lot, and got a flood of awesome emails from you guys (thank you! you can’t imagine how happy it made me to read them).
In the last month or so we’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make sure our football market is all good, but you should also see some improvements when we open it up, and certainly more coming soon after that.
We’re only going to start by letting 100 of you deposit $25 each (and we’ve already got over that committed!). So, if you really want in, make sure to let us know asap so we can get you to the front of the line.
As always, please keep the feedback coming, and be sure to let us know: are you ready for some FOOTBALL??
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been super busy (my excuse for not blogging)…
As you’ve better noticed, we’ve opened our market for the World Cup (what do you think about it? What should we work on? let us know: yo@starstreetsports.com)
We’ve finished up at TechStars. For those of you who don’t know about it, it is an absolutely awesome program (so check it out techstars.org), that has helped us out soooo much.
We also got covered on CNN (and they did a really good job with it!): http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/business/2010/06/02/kosik.sports.stock.cnn.html
And we’ve had a number of articles written about us (most along with the other awesome TechStars Companies, make sure to give them some love):
TechCrunch (on the 10 of us TechStars Cos): http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/techstars-boston-2010/
Thrillist: http://www.thrillist.com/boston/starstreet-sports
Xconomy (TechStars demo day roundup): http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/techstars-boston-2010/
Scott Kirsner at the Boston Globe (my fav of the demo day recaps): http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/06/tech_stars_investor_night_pics.html
A really nice one from my buddy Danny: http://www.examiner.com/x-42120-Boston-Startup-Business-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Follow-Star-Street-Sports-and-the-World-Cup
And one from Brad Feld (a TechStars mentor and absolute legend): http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/06/interested-in-the-world-cup-play-starstreet-sports.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FeldThoughts+%28Feld+Thoughts%29
*hint hint* you can sign in now (though the market isn’t yet live)
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What a tournament it was. Even with all the shockers, it turns out our traders really knew what they were doing - from day one of the market all the way through Duke was the highest price team (shows what I know, I lost almost all my money on ‘Cuse).
Anyway, we’re working on making some big improvements (you’ll really like them) and we’re planing to launch our next market as we get them in, so keep on the lookout!
Thanks all and congrats to our top traders!
We like sports better than rock – and you’d better, too. We are a small startup with some huge goals, looking for some great help.
We are building an exchange (sports stock market) where traders, with real money, can buy and sell virtual shares of their favorite players and teams. We have developed a mechanism that places an underlying value in the virtual assets being traded and makes the market into a 50/50 game where traders will be able to make money on the basis of their skill in trading and their knowledge of sports.
We are currently in TechStars, so for the next few months we (and you?) will be located in the TechStars Penthouse in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. We are developing in Ruby on Rails, and we plan to have a Facebook app, social tie-ins, gaming dynamics, an API, and — down the line — even more.
We have just a few requirements:
Other than that, we’re pretty open.
Drop us a line at work@starstreetsports.com and tell us why you think you’d be a great addition to the team. Please include a resume, links to what you’ve worked on, your accounts (twitter, linkedin, etc.), and of course a convincing depiction of how much you hate the Yankees and what you think the Celts’ chances are this year.
If you’d like to poke around in the very early version of our trading platform, enter your email address at starstreetsports.com, then contact us at work@starstreetsports.com to let us know, and we’ll invite you in asap. If you’ve been jonesing to join a startup, happen to love sports, want to build something millions of people are going to love and you live in (or are able to move to) Boston, you really owe it to yourself to apply.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Not fully accurate (as those of you in already know), but we’ll certainly take it!
And a new one is coming very soon!
Congratulations to our top traders who made themselves some $$$ and a big thank you to all of you who gave us feedback and helped us test out our assumptions. We feel really good about the track we’re on, and you should see a lot happening very soon.
