Tech entrepreneurs hope for big opportunity

One of the biggest who's who events of the year for technology startups, TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, will have a Sarasota connection.

That will be through opprtunity.com, a firm that aims to become a digital matchmaking service for businesses. The idea, says co-founder Janis Krums, is to connect people with like-minded business needs and backgrounds to each other using their LinkedIn profiles. The site is free for now, while in beta testing, but the founders hope to eventually make money off the service.

“We've had a really good response,” Krums tells Coffee Talk. “We have done well with small business owners and entrepreneurs.”