Joe Downtown: Social-networking developer sees future in amateur sports

Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 | 4:36 p.m.

Amateur sports is a $20 billion U.S. industry and some 2.3 billion people participate in amateur sports worldwide. In Las Vegas alone, thousands of people, young and old, play soccer, kickball, football, softball, baseball, basketball and more. Now a startup company from England, with help from venture capital group Vegas Tech Fund, is moving to Las Vegas to launch a social networking website/app designed to make it easier for the various amateur sports groups to organize, inform and update players on everything from practice schedules to game times. It’s called Bluefields and 15 months ago a version of it was ...

Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.

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By James_P_Reza (James Reza)

Jan. 25, 2013

11:17 p.m.

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Ninety-percent of business startups fail, regardless of where and how they start. I hope the Sun archives all their stories so that in a few years we can look back and see what percentage of downtown start-ups succeeded, in comparison to the overall statistics.