U-M students turn school into start-up – Troubadour Mobile

Everyone is creating application for iPhones and Blackberries these days, so a trio of University of Michigan students thought why not them, too?The School of Information students (who recently graduated) ended up creating Troubadour Mobile last year. Two of the team are now heading out west for jobs with the likes of Microsoft but one of them plans to stay in Ann Arbor and make a go with the start-up. Ghaurav Bhatnagar hopes to develop the technology into his full-time job this year.Troubadour Mobile’s application allows iPhone users quickly connect with family and friends. It hopes to create three more applications by the end of the summer. A whole family of applications should be available by the end of the year. And that’s not long after when the founders were trying to decided whether to focus on Blackberries or iPhones.”We knew something big was going to happen, but we couldn’t nail it down,” Bhatnagar says.Source: Ghaurav Bhatnagar, co-founder of Troubadour MobileWriter: Jon Zemke