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Texas native and co-founder and CEO of the world’s most popular live streaming network Ustream has, Brad Hunstable has joined the advisory board for Dallas startup Guidehop.
Guidhop allows users to create and market custom tours and experiences and share them with an online community.
For example, Aaron B, who is a founding member of Guidehop, offers a scooter tour of Austin. One of his tours on Guidehop is “Ride With a Scooter Gang”. For $40 a person he will take people on a scooter tour of downtown Austin. His tour is flexible, you can ride with him on his scooter, or he’ll get you your own to rent and lead you on the tour. If you don’t have any experience on a scooter he will take you to a school parking lot first to practice before hitting the sites. Not bad for $40 a person it’s comparable to what you would pay to rent a scooter in Miami without the tour.
In San Francisco, Ligia C will take you on a legends of Rock tour for $100 a person. The four hour tour includes the homes of Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and Jimi Hendrix.
These aren’t professional touring companies these are user generated experiences, which makes Hunstables appointment to GuideHops advisory board even more meaningful. Hunstable’s Ustream is all about user generated streaming content.
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“There is a flourishing ecosystem of entrepreneurial communities in Texas and tremendous opportunities to develop more incredible innovations that will change the way we work, play, and live” said Brad Hunstable, co-founder and CEO of Ustream. “I’m excited to be part of the Guidehop team and look forward to contributing to their growth and development.”
Texas is a hotspot for startups and more and more people are paying attention to the startup scene in Dallas, Houston, Austin and even Lubbock. Hunstable is a native of North Texas.“Dallas is my town and web startups are what I do. Nothing would make me happier than seeing my city thrive in an ideas-based economy,” said Hunstable.
The user generated tour concept is a hot space. GuideHop has tours available all over the country and all over the world, even though they are still in “beta”. They aren’t alone in the space though another startup called SideTour has a very similar model. With Hunstable now advising Guidehop though they are destined for greatness.
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Source: LaunchDFW
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