What Companyy is Offering:
Make Anything Work is the ultimate small-business resource for business owners looking to develop or enhance their business skills. The content, delivery system and course design & creation, as well as the resources provided free through our blog and to our mailing list, have all been created to help small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses.
How It Will Help Entrepreneurs:
Make Anything Work was founded on one simple principle: to do everything possible to help entrepreneurs and small business owners beat the odds and build successful businesses. As part of that goal, Make Anything Work, a Vancouver, British Columbia based training and education company for entrepreneurs and small business owners recently launched their propitiatory new training concept, the Bookinar.
The Make Anything Work Bookinar is the perfect blend of traditional book learning combined with live seminar training. The Bookinar concept forms the backbone of all Make Anything Work training programs, such as the hugely successful Make My Marketing Work recently launched at 10am in the 10th October 2007.
“This is an amazing development in the training tools available to new business owners. The Bookinar concept not only allows business owners to easily digest all the information needed to successfully manage their business, but it also ensures they put it into action.” says company co-founder Alex Read. He continues, “Our aim is to help develop a global plethora of successful entrepreneurs. We hate to see small business owners struggle to succeed and often fail. Our new Bookinar concept will certainly help to ensure that we get successful business habits developed within as many business owners as possible.”
More at:www.makeanythingwork.com.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Myntra, start-up aimed at the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund
What Company is offering:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India.At Myntra.com, you can start shopping by searching and browsing through their extensive library of designs and artwork.
How It Works:
If you like something, choose your color and size and place and order. We offer wide selection of products including T-Shirts, Mugs, Greeting Cards, Mousepads, Posters etc. and are constantly expanding the available offerings at our site. We will print your order on the desired product and ship it to you within 24hrs. We accept major credit card payments.
If you want to become a seller, register on our site and upload your designs and publish them. Once you have uploaded your design, we will review it and if the design passes our legal and copyright tests, we will send you a mail confirming that your design has been published. You can then track the sale of your designs and manage your sales account. You will get paid for your designs on a monthly basis. You can get 10% of the value of the product sold.
How Much they Got From VCs:
Myntra, a consumer internet start-up aimed at revolutionizing the personalized gifting and merchandise space in India, announced today that it has secured seed funding from Erasmic Venture Fund and a few other angel investors.
About Vcs:
http://www.erasmic.com/
More at:http://www.myntra.com/
EchoSign "The Killer App for Contract Management." has announced that it has secured $6 million
What Is EchoSign:
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
In just one click, the EchoSign solution automates the entire signature process from the request for signature to the distribution and filing of the executed agreement or form. With nothing to download, learn or install, there is simply no faster or secure way to get your contracts signed, tracked and filed.
EchoSign has taken the 'contract close' process from its old paradigm of efaxes and misplaced emails into a sophisticated, but easy to use contract automation application with measurable and proven value. Now organizations can get both external and internal contracts signed in seconds electronically, or by an automated fax system, that intelligently routes signed copies of each contract to all parties. In addition, everyone in the organization -- sales, finance, HR -- now for the first time has instant visibility into the status of all outstanding contracts.
How Much They Got From VCs:
EchoSign , the leading web-based signature automation service, today announced that it has secured $6 million through a Series B Preferred venture capital financing agreement. The investment was led by Emergence Capital with full participation from previous investor Storm Ventures.
Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
This round of funding enables EchoSign to expand sales, marketing, and product development operations to meet the increasing demand and popularity of its easy to use, web-based application. Every day over 150,000 users in over 500 global organizations say "Just EchoSign It," to get their contracts signed in the most secure, efficient and effective manner possible.
How It Value For Us Or Companies:
EchoSign's contract signature automation application adds value to organizations of all sizes from British Telecomm, Network General, PayPal, Entertainment Publications, and even bail bondsman at bailgram.com. EchoSign's seamlessly integrated application with salesforce.com -- EchoSign for Salesforce -- is one of the top rated applications on the salesforce.com AppExchange. At the recent salesforce.com Dreamforce conference, EchoSign was named "The Killer App for Contract Management." EchoSign is also a launch partner on Webex Connect, and a charter member of OpenSAM, enabling a full open ecosystem of online office applications.
About VCs:
Emergence Capital Partners is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Our mission is to help build market leading, successful businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 30 TES companies, including such leaders as aQuantive, DoubleClick, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and HireRight more than any other early-stage venture firm. Having assessed thousands of companies in the TES sector, we have developed significant expertise and resources focused on the critical factors of success in our market. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site
What company is Offering:
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
Via-Mash
Metrofunk is the latest to create a trend-setting site aimed for the networking of creatives, from fashion designers, to filmmakers and party promoters.
How It Works And For Whom:
Artists and businesses alike can use metrofunk for self-promotion with the creation of their own, branded networks. The purpose is to offer up channels of distribution, for pushing their own products. The tools for this promotion is what you’d expect: blogs, music, photos, videos, events, etc.
Metrofunk’s part in all of this is to provide a central hub for content being created through its branded networks. It can categorize content according to its four verticals: nightlife, fashion, film and music. As with other sites where you can create your own network, individuals can join your network.
Content is pushed through these networks in a Digg-like voting system, taking advantage of the popularity contest mindset that many trend-setters are born with. Incentives for the creation of your network are monetization opportunities. Dripbook and Behance are other networks for creatives while Ning and MyLifeBrand offer branded social networks. 944life and similar sites aim to bring the forefront of culture to users for promotional purposes as well.
More at:http://metrofunk.com/
Via-Mash
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their need
What Company is offering:
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Search for credit cards by category below, or use the credit card locator to quickly find the card that best meets your needs. Search, compare, read reviews, and apply online! From 0% introductory interest cards to balance transfer, rewards cards and more, find the highest rated cards right here.
How It Works:
SignUpForCards.com provides consumers with a fast, convenient, and interactive way to search and identify credit card offers that best meet their needs. After selecting their cards of choice, visitors may instantly apply for credit cards online through this portal. SignUpForCards.com offers this dynamic and interactive credit card search tool as a free service to consumers.
more at;http://www.signupforcards.com/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone
What Company is Offering:
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
Do Me London is an entertainment guide for your mobile phone. It’s recently launched a set of mobile guides for touring the city.
How It Works:
You can request a tour via text message that’s sent to Do Me, and you’ll receive the tour guide mobile URL. Each tour guide offers a multimedia manner in which to enjoy the city, featuring both audio and video content. It will cost you between £1.00 and £1.50 for a tour guide, depending on the length of the tour.
Why Is It Different:
There are plenty of user-generated sites out there that tap into their user base to collect content and offer it back up to you via mobile phones, including sites like Whrrl. And while these can be very helpful, Do Me has an advantage with its offering of premium content, and appeals to a wider range of mobile users, especially those that are less familiar with extensive mobile browsing.
Having mobile tours like those offered by Do Me London is a good inclusion for bundled packages, such as those found with GetMobio. EveryScape is another service that’s looking to create a fuller spectrum of city tours, but lacks the accessible mobile features.
More at;http://do-me.info/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content withad revenue-sharing model
What company is offering:
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
ChannelMe.TV, the network where you can have your own .tv domain and push video content, has added an ad revenue-sharing model tat’s now being extended to its users. You own and control your channel’s brand.
How It Works:
The program is free to sign up for, but you’ll need to be at least 18 years of age. From there, you can select from three categories of advertisements tat will display on your .tv page. You get a cut from the ad revenue generated for ChannelMe.
Will it Work:
As the .tv domain hype has yet to be met in reality, with both ChannelMe and Me.tv, it will be interesting to see if this particular tactic helps to a large extent, with ChannelMe. This ad rev-share model is widely used across video-sharing networks, and has been implemented in a successful manner by only a few networks. As far as video-sharing networks go, it seemed like many couldn’t launch in the past year without boasting their ad rev program, but this proves difficult for unestablished start-ups.
ChannelMe’s ad program is currently available to US users only, and payouts occur after your account has reached $10.
More at:http://www.channelme.tv/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service
What Company is Offering:
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
MicroPlace lets you make small investments through its service, which provides loans to those in developing countries.
Why eBay Launching It:
The launching of micro-financing tools is becoming a popular trend, and it comes as no surprise that eBay has gotten in on this type of financial institution, made possible through the use of the Internet. With most of eBay’s recent projects focusing on classifieds websites, and the improvement of eBay’s own struggling auction and VoIP services, MicroPlace enables eBay to venture in a new direction.
The importance of these types of services is of course the provision of loans with conditions that are often more reasonable than what some will find in their own countries. Ad different countries around the world have different laws pertaining to loans, businesses, etc. it’s often extremely difficult to start your own business in a developing country, and many stay in poverty as a result of minimized access to financial resources. Others in this space include Kiva, Globefunder and WordHugger.
more at:https://www.microplace.com/
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company
What Company is Offering:
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
Actics is a new community for do-gooders. It’s a positive network that lets you earn respect and endorsements from others that recognize the goodness of your actions.
How It Works:
Aactics is a site for gaining feedback about yourself and your company. And what’s the end result of feedback? Improving yourself or your company, and having a public reason to hold yourself accountable. This encourages you to hold yourself to a slightly higher standard.
The community is connected by these values and actions, so it’s very easy to further navigate the site to find like-minded users. On your own profile, Actics will give you a snapshot of your proxy, so you can easily keep track of what your friends are doing.
How It Could Improve More:
I think a site like this will need a great deal of exporting options, and integration into other networks, like Facebook. It’s already begun to move in this direction with its offering of actics badges, which operate in a concept similar to a digg button, which lets site visitors show their support for your company directly from the company’s website.
more at:http://www.actics.com/
AdNav
What company is Offering:
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free devices.
How It Works:
The company’s initial proposed model charges travelers a small fee for a device when renting a car or registering for a hotel. Through the functionality of AdNav’s sleek handset, participating tourists are enabled to blend into natural surroundings. Say goodbye to common “just visiting” signifiers such as the fanny pack, camera, or oversized maps.
The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS devices that come loaded with ads for various businesses.
How They Are Planing To Excute Their Business:
AdNav is already partnered with search engine Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist. Other features include geo-coded city guides complete with historical information, popular attractions, local statistics, etc.
More at:http://www.adnavinc.com/
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