I'm delighted you ask that question! I can tell you that there are plenty of us, but that as #sextech entrepreneurs we fight a battle every day to build our startups. Every piece of business infrastructure any other startup can at least take for granted, we can't, because the small print always says 'No adult content'. This is me and other #sextech founders interviewed about this by Fast Company:
Silicon Valley welcomes innovation and disruption in every other area of our lives except this one - which is why I gave this short talk at New York Tech Meetup back in Feb on why the Next Big Thing in tech is disrupting sex, and intro-ed Colin Hodge of Down and Dema Tio of Vibease to demo their products (go to sex+tech in player):
We welcome as many people as possible to join us in disrupting sex and porn - for anyone interested, this is my talk on 'The Future Of Porn' at SXSW last year:
and I spell out the business opportunity in my open letter to David Cameron and Silicon Valley published by Wired last year - 'Don't Block Porn, Disrupt It':
Thank you so much for all the information you've provided Cindy, I was not expecting this much of a response. I basically got nothing on Reddit.
I'm going to study everything in this thread and use it for my startup. I have some ideas of how human sexuality can be explored through using technology without losing our humanity. Hopefully, we can all change the perception of porn and the dynamics of the industry.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3029634/bottom-line/the-difficult...
and the Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/29/silicon-val...
Silicon Valley welcomes innovation and disruption in every other area of our lives except this one - which is why I gave this short talk at New York Tech Meetup back in Feb on why the Next Big Thing in tech is disrupting sex, and intro-ed Colin Hodge of Down and Dema Tio of Vibease to demo their products (go to sex+tech in player):
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/entry.jsp?calendar_event_id=...
and why I organized a 'Changing The World Through Sex' track at Social Media Week New York also in Feb:
http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/events/?id=139287#.UqhnJP...
You can get a sense of the various #sextech startups who demo-ed in 'Sex Tech Shark Tank' here :)
http://seen.co/event/social-media-week:-sextech-new-york-cit...
We welcome as many people as possible to join us in disrupting sex and porn - for anyone interested, this is my talk on 'The Future Of Porn' at SXSW last year:
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/news/2013/cindy-gallop-celeb...
and I spell out the business opportunity in my open letter to David Cameron and Silicon Valley published by Wired last year - 'Don't Block Porn, Disrupt It':
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/14/cindy-gallop-...
One day I want to start the YCombinator for porn - who's in? :)
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/15/makelovenotporn-founder-wa...