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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Top Ten Start Ups Watch Out For
1. www.stumbleupon.com
FOUNDERS: Garrett Camp, Justin LaFrance, Geoff Smith
Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they "stumble" around the Net.
2.
www.bebo.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A social network, more than 30 million members strong, that keeps users' pages private but still allows them to share things like video and drawings made on an online whiteboard.
FUNDING: $15 million (Benchmark Capital)
3.
www.meebo.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: Managing multiple instant-messaging services from one site. Meebo's killer app is a widget that places an IM window on your blog or webpage.
FUNDING: $12.5 million (Draper Fisher, Jurvetson, Sequoia Capital)
4.
www.slide.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: Customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
FUNDING: Not disclosed (Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, others)
5.
www.wikia.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A hosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software and collaborative content model that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon. (See "Building a Wiki World,") Launched in 2004, Wikia communities range from fans of 24 to politics junkies. Wikia is also working on an open-source, user-generated search engine.
FUNDING: $4 million (Amazon.com (Charts), Marc Andreessen, Bessemer Venture Partners, others).
6.
www.joost.com
FOUNDERS: Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström
Forget the three-minute video blog. The 30-minute, broadcast-quality Web 2.0 TV show is coming in all its full-screen glory. And if serial disrupters Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström have their way, neither television nor the Internet will be the same. The duo behind peer-to-peer services Kazaa and Skype will officially launch Joost this spring, aiming to merge the best of TV with the best of the Net. (See "Make Way for Must-Stream TV") .
7.
www.blip.tv
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A platform for syndicating serialized online shows such as Starring Amanda Congdon and TreeHugger TV. Blip provides producers with software, ads, and distribution to websites and blogs. A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets.
FUNDING: Not disclosed (Ron Conway, Mark Gerson, Ken Lerer, Peter Thiel).
8.
www.dabble.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites. Users share them across the network, so, say, food lovers can dabble in one another's video collections.
FUNDING: $750,000 (Hank Barry, Evan Williams, others)
9.
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A service that ranks uploaded videos by popularity and feedback from a community of 17 million monthly visitors--and pays the creators for the success of their work. The auteurs get $100 after 20,000 viewings and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. Since September, Metacafe has paid a total of $250,000 to 200 contributors.
FUNDING: $20 million (Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital)
10.
www.revision3.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A production studio for geek-oriented online shows. Started by Digg founder Kevin Rose and its CEO, Jay Adelson, Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft (Charts), and Sony (Charts) for as much as $10,000 per episode.
FUNDING: $1 million (Adelson, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, others) .
FOUNDERS: Garrett Camp, Justin LaFrance, Geoff Smith
Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they "stumble" around the Net.
2.
www.bebo.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A social network, more than 30 million members strong, that keeps users' pages private but still allows them to share things like video and drawings made on an online whiteboard.
FUNDING: $15 million (Benchmark Capital)
3.
www.meebo.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: Managing multiple instant-messaging services from one site. Meebo's killer app is a widget that places an IM window on your blog or webpage.
FUNDING: $12.5 million (Draper Fisher, Jurvetson, Sequoia Capital)
4.
www.slide.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: Customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
FUNDING: Not disclosed (Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, others)
5.
www.wikia.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A hosting service for ad-supported community sites that use the same software and collaborative content model that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon. (See "Building a Wiki World,") Launched in 2004, Wikia communities range from fans of 24 to politics junkies. Wikia is also working on an open-source, user-generated search engine.
FUNDING: $4 million (Amazon.com (Charts), Marc Andreessen, Bessemer Venture Partners, others).
6.
www.joost.com
FOUNDERS: Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström
Forget the three-minute video blog. The 30-minute, broadcast-quality Web 2.0 TV show is coming in all its full-screen glory. And if serial disrupters Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström have their way, neither television nor the Internet will be the same. The duo behind peer-to-peer services Kazaa and Skype will officially launch Joost this spring, aiming to merge the best of TV with the best of the Net. (See "Make Way for Must-Stream TV") .
7.
www.blip.tv
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A platform for syndicating serialized online shows such as Starring Amanda Congdon and TreeHugger TV. Blip provides producers with software, ads, and distribution to websites and blogs. A deal is already signed with Web TV service Akimbo, which lets producers send their videos to TV sets.
FUNDING: Not disclosed (Ron Conway, Mark Gerson, Ken Lerer, Peter Thiel).
8.
www.dabble.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A tool for organizing videos into playlists of favorites. Users share them across the network, so, say, food lovers can dabble in one another's video collections.
FUNDING: $750,000 (Hank Barry, Evan Williams, others)
9.
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A service that ranks uploaded videos by popularity and feedback from a community of 17 million monthly visitors--and pays the creators for the success of their work. The auteurs get $100 after 20,000 viewings and $5 for every 1,000 subsequent views. Since September, Metacafe has paid a total of $250,000 to 200 contributors.
FUNDING: $20 million (Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital)
10.
www.revision3.com
NEXT NET INNOVATION: A production studio for geek-oriented online shows. Started by Digg founder Kevin Rose and its CEO, Jay Adelson, Revision3 sells sponsorships to companies like Go Daddy, Microsoft (Charts), and Sony (Charts) for as much as $10,000 per episode.
FUNDING: $1 million (Adelson, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, others) .
Techdirt
Companies can use the Techdirt Insight Community to get a confidential instant focus group of experts, who can give feedback, test ideas, review products, make strategy suggestions, help with purchasing decisions or any number of other services that require a dedicated group of experts. Also, Techdirt's in-house analyst team regularly engages expert bloggers for their thoughts on how major current events impact Techdirt customers.
The best thing is that you can actually make some decent money at this. The catch is that you have to provide good answers. For example. I logged in yesterday and found a question about wireless technologies that offered $100 to the top three answers. You wouldn't know it from this blog, but I actually know quite a bit about Bluetooth, Ultrawideband, and wireless in general, and $100 was enough to tempt me to write an answer. That's what I like about the model - it's self-selective because it only rewards the best answers so the bloggers have to be confident that they can write a good answer or it's a waste of time.
One of the major problems with all this stuff about edge competencies and the denigration of core strategies as a result of web 2.0 is that it ignores the marginal value of time to the contributor. Most people that are highly successful and worth a lot of money per hour aren't sitting around contributing to Digg and YouTube. They have better things to do. Most successful people already make good money, and if you promise them a few extra dollars for a few minutes of work, it's not worth it. If you make 100K a year, do you want to make $5 for contributing to a project? No. Even if it is something you care about, there are still only so many hours in a day. You can't contribute to everything. Techdirt has a model that encourages participation even for busy people.
Let me try to make it simpler to understand. If you make $50/hr at your regular job, and you already work 50 hours per week, the pain caused by working that 51st hour can't be erased with $15. You are only willing to tie up another hour of your life for something that you believe in very strongly, or something that pays you enough money to compensate for the pain of working that 51st hour. The problem with "the edge" is that successful people are already tapped out, so the edge is filled with a few talented people who are very passionate about your company/cause, and lots of mediocre people who have a lower value on their time. Techdirt has found a way to raise that bar by offering a larger reward for valuable contributors. At the same time, they have offloaded the risk of participation to the answerer, who may or may not get paid.
It's a cool idea, and embraces some of the concepts from the Askspace project that some of you will remember. I think this idea has a good future, and if you blog, I encourage you to sign up and give it a shot.
HERE:http://www.techdirt.com/
https://www.insightcommunity.com/
The best thing is that you can actually make some decent money at this. The catch is that you have to provide good answers. For example. I logged in yesterday and found a question about wireless technologies that offered $100 to the top three answers. You wouldn't know it from this blog, but I actually know quite a bit about Bluetooth, Ultrawideband, and wireless in general, and $100 was enough to tempt me to write an answer. That's what I like about the model - it's self-selective because it only rewards the best answers so the bloggers have to be confident that they can write a good answer or it's a waste of time.
One of the major problems with all this stuff about edge competencies and the denigration of core strategies as a result of web 2.0 is that it ignores the marginal value of time to the contributor. Most people that are highly successful and worth a lot of money per hour aren't sitting around contributing to Digg and YouTube. They have better things to do. Most successful people already make good money, and if you promise them a few extra dollars for a few minutes of work, it's not worth it. If you make 100K a year, do you want to make $5 for contributing to a project? No. Even if it is something you care about, there are still only so many hours in a day. You can't contribute to everything. Techdirt has a model that encourages participation even for busy people.
Let me try to make it simpler to understand. If you make $50/hr at your regular job, and you already work 50 hours per week, the pain caused by working that 51st hour can't be erased with $15. You are only willing to tie up another hour of your life for something that you believe in very strongly, or something that pays you enough money to compensate for the pain of working that 51st hour. The problem with "the edge" is that successful people are already tapped out, so the edge is filled with a few talented people who are very passionate about your company/cause, and lots of mediocre people who have a lower value on their time. Techdirt has found a way to raise that bar by offering a larger reward for valuable contributors. At the same time, they have offloaded the risk of participation to the answerer, who may or may not get paid.
It's a cool idea, and embraces some of the concepts from the Askspace project that some of you will remember. I think this idea has a good future, and if you blog, I encourage you to sign up and give it a shot.
HERE:http://www.techdirt.com/
https://www.insightcommunity.com/
New Useful Magizne For Entreprenure
It provides you all new thing about entreprenureship.Its news based on and for only entreprenure.
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Online Hotel Search
Trivop claims to be the first online hotel video portal. Using Google maps to help users find hotels, the website gives them the next best thing to visiting a hotel in person—a video walkthrough. Each video begins with some street footage near the hotel. The video camera then takes the viewer up to the entrance and into the lobby and other public spaces, and on to a room. Videos are available for each of type of room a hotel offers (standard, deluxe, junior suite, etc), including shots of the bathroom and the view through the window. No running commentary, just some fairly innocuous background music. Additional information includes the five most recent reviews on TripAdvisor, a full street address and a link to the hotel's website.
Travellers (and hotels) will be able to upload videos they've shot. In addition to amateur videographers, Trivop is also seeking freelance filmmakers to shoot professional videos: "Trivop is convinced that hotels must provide a video on their website. We want to open up many business opportunities for you by building the biggest community of filmmakers all around the world for the hospitality industry."
So besides the providing travellers with previews of hotels, Trivop will also tackle the B2B side by creating videos for hotels, or brokering between hotels and freelance filmmakers. With both professional and user-submitted candid videos, the website's visitors will benefit from the same kind of transparency that candid photos on TripAdvisor offer. Sources of revenue include production fees and hosting charges for hotel-directed videos, as well as referral fees. The company will also license its catalogue to online travel agencies. Trivop's main challenge is to build content and traffic quickly, since TripAdvisor (which has 20 million unique visitors each month and is owned by Expedia), started letting users upload videos last month. Watch this space!
Website: www.trivop.com
Travellers (and hotels) will be able to upload videos they've shot. In addition to amateur videographers, Trivop is also seeking freelance filmmakers to shoot professional videos: "Trivop is convinced that hotels must provide a video on their website. We want to open up many business opportunities for you by building the biggest community of filmmakers all around the world for the hospitality industry."
So besides the providing travellers with previews of hotels, Trivop will also tackle the B2B side by creating videos for hotels, or brokering between hotels and freelance filmmakers. With both professional and user-submitted candid videos, the website's visitors will benefit from the same kind of transparency that candid photos on TripAdvisor offer. Sources of revenue include production fees and hosting charges for hotel-directed videos, as well as referral fees. The company will also license its catalogue to online travel agencies. Trivop's main challenge is to build content and traffic quickly, since TripAdvisor (which has 20 million unique visitors each month and is owned by Expedia), started letting users upload videos last month. Watch this space!
Website: www.trivop.com
H3.com
Boost referral hiring, promote jobs and encourage referrals by offering a cash referral reward.
Leverage your social network, invite them to participate in candidate searches and share the reward.
Build your candidate short list, track referral activity; H3.com manages administration of the referral reward.
This sites is based on referal hirings and people or employee who refer particular person if that person get hired then he will get cash award.Unique way for HR managers for hiring.
More:https://www.h3.com/welcome.html
Leverage your social network, invite them to participate in candidate searches and share the reward.
Build your candidate short list, track referral activity; H3.com manages administration of the referral reward.
This sites is based on referal hirings and people or employee who refer particular person if that person get hired then he will get cash award.Unique way for HR managers for hiring.
More:https://www.h3.com/welcome.html
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