Sunday, October 28, 2007

FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds

What Company is offering:
FUNDGRA+DES™ is the easiest way to get one of the most sophisticated, objective, and stringent evaluations of mutual funds, closed end and exchange traded funds.

How It works:
Every month, our database of over 22,000 mutual funds and ETFs is graded on an A+ through F scale for five criteria designed by ERISA fiduciaries to expose what anyone investing for retirement SHOULD LEARN before buying or selling ANY fund. These five separately graded categories - diversification, expense, risk, return and the risk of material underperformance - are combined into an equally weighted overall grade.

Usually less than 1% of all funds even receive an overall grade of A or A-. Honor Roll funds (graded B or better) normally make up less than 4-5% of all funds. Shouldn't you know what your funds grades are? Search for them above, or use our advanced search to screen for funds that may have the characteristics you are seeking.
More at:http://fundgrades.com/

Trueview's online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there

What Company Is offering:
Trueview's solutions offer a large number of monitoring tools through an intuitive and secure website. Live and recorded video can be viewed from an internet connection anywhere in the world

A New York-based online monitoring company, lets a business owner see what's going on in the store without being there. Real-time and archived video streams can be accessed by logging on to trueviewservices.com. The videos are saved online for at least two weeks, and can be downloaded for later viewings.
How It works:
The service starts at $1,495 for installation of two cameras. Monthly service is $29.99 for two-week storage and round-the-clock technical support. The cameras can be wireless. The company also is working on making its systems accessible by mobile phone.
"The technology, since it's Web-based, gave us the ability to log on remotely and see real time what's happening in our office," says Mr. Schwartz, who paid $3,000 for about a dozen Trueview wireless cameras and online remote backup system. "If I'm out of the office or out of the country, I could log on to see who's at their desk, what time everybody came in for work and what time they left, and I could see what people are working on in their computers, in each workstation," he adds.
More at:http://trueviewservices.com/

Hyperoffice

What Company is offering:
This company's Web-based software makes it easier for owners, employees, suppliers and business clients to plan projects, share and edit documents, and manage information any time and from any Internet connection. HyperOffice, based in Rockville, Md., allows small businesses to also set up their own intranets and other portals for vendors and customers.

How Much It Cost :
The cost averages $6 to $9 a month per user, with multiple levels of user log-in and administrative rights set by the owner for security. There's a free 30-day trial.
More at:http://www.hyperoffice.com/

Critical Links receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds

What Company is About:
Critical Links is an international networking technology company and provider of edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMBs and Enterprise Branch Offices. edgeBOX is available in a wide range of scalable hardware platforms, including hardened appliances and standard servers, and has the best feature to price ratio in the market, making it the ideal choice for cost savvy SMEs. edgeBOX typically replaces 4 to 6 single-function devices required to deliver an equivalent set of services, fully remotely managed, with significantly lower TCO. Telecom Service Providers and Managed Services Providers offer edgeBOX as a service to their SME customers.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They announced it has closed its Series A round of funding, receiving $5,7 million from European venture capital funds InovCapital, Change Partners and ASK/ISQ Capital.


Whats The Purpose Of Raising Fund:

The new funding enables Critical Links to accelerate sales and marketing activities worldwide, in order to fuel the continued market growth of its proven edgeBOX “Office in a Box” solution. The company is expanding its direct presence in the US market and increasing its investment in sales and marketing in Europe and in key emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil and South Africa.
About VCs:
InovCapital is the Portuguese Ministry of the Economy and Innovation venture capital society, geared towards supporting SME’s and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to contribute for the supported growth of the Portuguese economy through the promotion of entrepreneurship and a proactive participation in the development of the Portuguese companies. Inovcapital focuses its investments in technology intensive start-up companies and innovative projects geared for expansion into the global market.

About ASK/ISQ Capital

ASK/ISQ Capital is the venture capital arm of the ISQ Group, one of the largest engineering services firms in Portugal with more than 700 staff members. ISQ Capital focuses its investments in early-stage, technology-oriented companies.

About Change Partners

Change Partners is a leading independent venture capital company in Portugal. The firm invests in start-ups and highly innovative companies through its Fast Change investment fund.
More at:www.critical-links.com

Get Paid Upto$50 Dollars For Reviewing Any Software On Softwarejudge.com

What Company is Offering:
If you have strong opinions about software, whether positive or negative, and want to get paid for your reviews, you are in the right place. We pay up to 50 dollars for tell-it-like-it-is, no marketing BS, straight talking software reviews.
How It Works:
First. Submit only original reviews that you wrote personally. If we find out that there is a sentence that’s not yours (it’s very easy to find that out with Google), you won’t get paid. Even if you previously submitted top notch reviews that we really liked. We always run reviews through web search before paying you or buying software you requested.

Second. Don’t submit more than three reviews in one day. Better yet, submit one review and see if it gets published or not. If it does not get published, it’s not good enough and we don’t want to spend several hours a day reading crappy reviews. Not everybody is good at this. But you have to be good to get published. Also, don’t bother us if your English is very bad. It’s fine if you make some mistakes (we all do), but a person who only had two years of English classes in high-school or college isn’t someone who is qualified for this job.

Third. Besides freebies, like free reg keys and free games that we give away to best contributors, there are two ways you get paid. If you have $200 in your account, contact us via the form with the complete personal information necessary for us to send you the money. Right now the default method is Western Union, because money can be sent anywhere in the world in 15 minutes. Again, the minimum amount is $200 (two hundred dollars) because we don’t want to spend all our time in the bank. If you have at least $20 in your account, you can request any software, game or an e-book to be purchased. You pick any product you want that costs as much money as is currently available in your account (or less) BUT it has to be a DOWNLOADABLE. We don’t want to deal with shipping costs (we’ve got a few reviewers who live in Australia) or spend time finding out why your package never arrived. In this day and age, you can pretty much buy any software in downloadable form, just send us the link and we’ll get it for you. We won’t buy anything off eBay for the same reason – we don’t want to deal with merchants we can’t trust.

Finally. Don’t be stupid. Don’t review software that you never tried. Don’t say software is good, if it’s bad. Don’t try to write only positive reviews. And never, never do anything that’ll piss us off.

More at:http://www.softwarejudge.com/

JackBe received $9.5 Million

What Company is Offering:
JackBe is a solution in the enterprise Web 2.0 market. Their solution focused on companies and organizations.JackBe is an enterprise mashup solution.

How It Works:
JackBe describes their solution, an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashup Platform that allows any user to easily access and mashup any data from any application to improve their decision making and enhance their collaboration."

What Is The Purpose:

The purpose is to provide a solution to allow employees to access and mashup information, any way they like. The outcome hopefully allows the user to discover and organize information in a way that allows them to make better decisions and collaborate with others.

JackBe states that the organizations desire is to turn knowledge workers into "the killer app" assisting their organization in obtaining an advantage over the competition.

How Much They Got From VCs:

JackBe received $9.5 Million from Harbert Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Darby Technology Ventures and Blue Chip Venture Company.

About VCs:
Core Capital is a $350 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. We focus principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of our investments are made on the East Coast. And others VCs:
http://www.core-capital.com/
http://www.intel.com/capital/
http://www.harbert.net/venture-capital/
http://www.darbyoverseas.com/do/jsp/home.jsp?url=/home/pub

More at:http://www.jackbe.com/

Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your digital products

What Company Is Offering:
Fetch is the smartest, freshest, most elegant digital delivery application that makes selling digital goods simple. Your information is hosted on our fast, reliable and secure servers, so transactions are worry free. Simply add digital items and our automated system will do the rest.
How It Works:
Fetch helps you provide secure delivery of your products. Fetch includes features such as; automatic delivery, bulk import, custom notification, and download statistics. To begin you must choose one of the four plans, which vary only in price and storage space. The plan prices vary from $12 per month to $99 a month, and the storage space varies from 50MB to 10GB. The first step is to fill in some general settings, such as; the sites name, the sites email, the feed URL, feed username, and feed password. Then you need to add your items, either import a bulk inventory or add items individually. Use the items manager to display inventory items. Orders are automatically updated and instructions are sent to customers immediately.
More at:http://www.fetchapp.com/

Payoneer Is Prepaid Mastercards

What Company Is Offering:
We offer a Prepaid MasterCard®. They have a prepaid limit, can be used everywhere that MasterCards® is accepted.
In addition to making the card available to partner groups for travel, we enable online payments for Web businesses to make payments to their members, vendors or partners through a fully-hosted solution to support all of their payment needs.
How It Works:
The card essentially functions like a gift card; you can load up to $1000 on to the card daily. Anyone over 13 can legally hold the Payoneer card, though if you’re under 18 you’ll need to have your parents order a card for you, and, though you’ll be able to check your Payoneer account online, only those over 18 will be able to load money on to your card. There are several ways to load money on to the Payoneer card; you can do it directly from the Payoneer site, or you can do it through the website of any bank partnered with Payoneer. Once you’ve activated your card online, you can use your Payoneer card just as you would a MasterCard; it’s accepted everywhere that a MasterCard is.
More at:http://www.payoneer.com/