Ryan Smith

TreadEx
Investor’s Presentation!
blog post on KCStartup page

I had such a fun time! I came up with an idea to connect bicycle messengers with local business owners on Thursday night. I pitched the idea friday night at the Kansas City Startup Weekend ( with a little help from my friends ) and started from scratch on Saturday morning. Sunday night, we presented the idea and launched our site. It was awesome! Here are some highlights:

TreadEx Sunday Afternoon Update from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

TredEx Team Update from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Help the Bikers Team from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

So on Tuesday of last week I revived an old idea.  I  wanted to create a web app that helps college students trade their textbooks.

Let me explain this idea with an example.

As a student. I want to save as much money as possible. I can do this by not buying my books from the university bookstore. But if I do not buy my books from the bookstore, how then shall i get the required reading material? My solution is to BookUp! So, lets say that I just finished Calculus III and I no longer need my 50lb Calculus book. I go to BookUp, find my Calculus book on the list and then I will create a listing associated with the book. This listing will show the world that I no longer need this book and I wish to give it to a student who does. I could sell it for cash or cashews, it does not matter because BookUp does not assume that much. BookUp is more of a tool to connect students and less of an commerce app. So basically this is a Craig’s List for college textbooks.

Let me know what you internet people think about this idea. . . . And now, in case you missed the link

BookUp

with kiva.org. A friend of mine put $650.00 USD in an account on July of 2007 and has $649.98 today. It seems that destitute krakatoans are more  likely to repay debt than American Home Owners.

This news is so refreshing. Okay, so for those of you who have not been keeping score, here it is:

Oil man = 120
us = 1

For the first time since the automobile was introduced, American’s have driven less. [citation needed] Well, at the very least we have slowed down with respect to the past year.

If you want a decent scoop, check this out.