What Company is Offering:
PicksPal.com has created a virtual gathering place for sports fans to prove who really knows their American sports.
PicksPal.com is a free, national competition for sports fans to compete daily in a pick'em game, earning points by correctly predicting sports outcomes. PicksPal then displays the picks of the best of the best in its own "Genius Picks" service. In a way, like an "American Idol" for sports fans.Each member's success is tracked to determine the members with the greatest sports IQs. PicksPal honors the best with a Wall of Fame designations and prizes.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Silicon Valley sports fan website PicksPal, has raised another $3 million from previous investors Bay Partners and Canaan Partners.
Who is Behind This Site:
Tom Jessiman, CEO
Tom Jessiman previously helped lead two of the most renowned online sports companies, CBS SportsLine.com and a larger sports portal in Europe. Under his operational direction, CBS SportsLine’s traditional fantasy sports and premium information services became the most popular on the Internet while the European sports portal, which he founded, became Europe’s leading online sports and entertainment portal, with 15 million monthly unique users and revenues of $4 million per month. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Doug Knepper, VP Sales
Doug Knepper has nearly two decades of experience in the sales and marketing field. His expertise lies in online ad sales and business development and he has been successful in turnaround and developmental roles throughout his career. He has sold integrated marketing programs to Worldwide brands such as Coca Cola, General Motors, Pfizer and General Electric. Prior to PicksPal, Knepper has held executive roles at Pulse 360, formerly Kanoodle.com, Publishers Clearing House, iVillage and Intuit Corporation. He graduated from New York University with a BS in Economics.
Tony Karpinski, Director, Odds
Tony Karpinski creates the exclusive lines, odds, and proposition picks at PicksPal.com. He finished 8th out of 505 handicappers in the exclusive Las Vegas Hilton 2005-2006 NFL Super Book Contest, by selecting the highest number of correct picks in football. With 15 years experience providing premium sports information, he is a sought-after sports expert and frequent guest on sports talk radio shows throughout the country.
Hugh Jessiman, Director, Premium Services
Hugh Jessiman is in charge of Premium Services at PicksPal.com. He has extensive experience in the sales and marketing of cable and pay television and interactive services.
Tom Dittmann, Director, Programming
Tom Dittmann is responsible for ongoing development of PicksPal.com. Previously, he was the national sports producer and lead editor/producer at the last three Olympics for Knight Ridder Digital. Additional interactive sports media positions held, include: play-by-play announcer and color analyst for the Interactive Network, producer for cbs.sportsline.com, content manager for AOL Productions, producer for VegasInsider.com and managing sports editor for Excite.com. He is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara.
Joe Green, Director, Content and Programming
Joe Green joined PicksPal.com in 2006 and leads the entertainment division. Joe has more than 12 years of content management, writing, editing, product development, and marketing experience from leading media and Internet companies including Yahoo!, Internet Shopping Network, and Autodesk
More at:http://www.pickspal.com/
Saturday, November 3, 2007
InstyMeds---Vending Mchine To Make Getting Medications Easy
What Company Is Offering:
InstyMeds, a US startup, has devised a novel way to make getting medications easy. The company’s vending machines are designed to be placed in doctors’ offices, clinics, emergency rooms and other healthcare facilities. Each holds 100 of some of the most often used medications that can range from pills to drops to creams and so forth.
How It Works:
InstyMeds machines require that physicians create prescriptions electronically, which are then transmitted to the vending location. (Alternately, patients can take printed prescriptions to their regular pharmacists.) The machines include several safeguards to insure patients receive the proper medications their doctors ordered. From the patients’ point of view, however, the ordering process is relatively simple. They enter their prescription number and birthday via a user-friendly touchscreen monitor, then insert either cash or credit cards to cover co-pays, while their insurance companies are billed automatically.
Besides saving time for patients, InstyMeds machines also save pharmacists the slow and potentially error-prone process of counting out medications by hand. Indeed, relieving pharmacists from such routine tasks could turn out to be the machine’s major benefit. With pharmacist salaries in the United States climbing over USD 100,000, the time savings can mean significant cash savings. The vending machines, which are accessible 24/7, likewise could help alleviate a growing shortage of pharmacists. Moreover, InstyMed’s founders note that by handling routine prescriptions the vending machines let pharmacists focus on more important tasks such as counselling patients.
InstyMeds illustrates how entrepreneurs can devise niche products that handily meet customer needs while potentially chipping away at ever-growing healthcare costs.
More at: www.instymeds.com
InstyMeds, a US startup, has devised a novel way to make getting medications easy. The company’s vending machines are designed to be placed in doctors’ offices, clinics, emergency rooms and other healthcare facilities. Each holds 100 of some of the most often used medications that can range from pills to drops to creams and so forth.
How It Works:
InstyMeds machines require that physicians create prescriptions electronically, which are then transmitted to the vending location. (Alternately, patients can take printed prescriptions to their regular pharmacists.) The machines include several safeguards to insure patients receive the proper medications their doctors ordered. From the patients’ point of view, however, the ordering process is relatively simple. They enter their prescription number and birthday via a user-friendly touchscreen monitor, then insert either cash or credit cards to cover co-pays, while their insurance companies are billed automatically.
Besides saving time for patients, InstyMeds machines also save pharmacists the slow and potentially error-prone process of counting out medications by hand. Indeed, relieving pharmacists from such routine tasks could turn out to be the machine’s major benefit. With pharmacist salaries in the United States climbing over USD 100,000, the time savings can mean significant cash savings. The vending machines, which are accessible 24/7, likewise could help alleviate a growing shortage of pharmacists. Moreover, InstyMed’s founders note that by handling routine prescriptions the vending machines let pharmacists focus on more important tasks such as counselling patients.
InstyMeds illustrates how entrepreneurs can devise niche products that handily meet customer needs while potentially chipping away at ever-growing healthcare costs.
More at: www.instymeds.com
AskSunday----Your Virtual Personal Assistance For Everything
What Company is Offering:
Sunday, a request-based service that offers 24/7 personal assistance by internet or phone.
New York-based Sunday lets busy people in the US, Canada and the UK delegate chores as they arise, with monthly fees starting at just USD 29 and no cost to join.
How It Works:
The site's agents are available 24/7 by email or phone, ready to make outbound calls, arrange travel plans, set dinner reservations, enable remote access to numerous websites and take action in emergency situations—virtually anything that can be handled remotely. The proprietary Sunday Portal facilitates interactions between members and agents by saving member information such as contacts and encrypted login details to leading websites such as Yahoo, Google, Seamlessweb, Zipcar and Fandango, to name just a few. Messenger and errand services are also available in New York City.
How Much They Cost:
Sunday's Silver membership plan, priced at USD 29 monthly, includes 30 requests per month, with a charge of USD 2 for each request beyond that. The Gold plan is USD 49 for 50 requests per month, and USD 1.50 for each thereafter; it also gives members the ability to have Sunday make international calls on their behalf. It should come as no surprise that Sunday’s low prices are made possible by outsourcing most of the work to agents in India.
More at: www.asksunday.com
Sunday, a request-based service that offers 24/7 personal assistance by internet or phone.
New York-based Sunday lets busy people in the US, Canada and the UK delegate chores as they arise, with monthly fees starting at just USD 29 and no cost to join.
How It Works:
The site's agents are available 24/7 by email or phone, ready to make outbound calls, arrange travel plans, set dinner reservations, enable remote access to numerous websites and take action in emergency situations—virtually anything that can be handled remotely. The proprietary Sunday Portal facilitates interactions between members and agents by saving member information such as contacts and encrypted login details to leading websites such as Yahoo, Google, Seamlessweb, Zipcar and Fandango, to name just a few. Messenger and errand services are also available in New York City.
How Much They Cost:
Sunday's Silver membership plan, priced at USD 29 monthly, includes 30 requests per month, with a charge of USD 2 for each request beyond that. The Gold plan is USD 49 for 50 requests per month, and USD 1.50 for each thereafter; it also gives members the ability to have Sunday make international calls on their behalf. It should come as no surprise that Sunday’s low prices are made possible by outsourcing most of the work to agents in India.
More at: www.asksunday.com
Loanables----Neighbor To Neighbor Borrowing Network
What Company Is Offering:
The Loanables community brings together people who have worthwhile items to loan out and people who want to borrow them.It's free.
How It Works:
Let's look at an example. Todd has stuff that he hardly ever uses (sound familiar?) Like that pressure washer that he uses once a year, or that camping gear that he hasn't used since 1980. Most of the time, this stuff just sits in his garage or a closet, gathering dust.
On the flip side, there is Jen, who really needs a pressure washer, but doesn't want the expense and hassle of owning one herself. She also realizes that Mother Earth would really like us to consume less stuff.
That's where we come in, and it works like this:
Todd creates an account on loanables.com and posts his items to be borrowed. He gets to decide things like how much to charge and whether or not he requires a security deposit.
Jen searches on loanables.com for a pressure washer and sees that Todd is willing to loan his out, for a small fee. It is cheaper than the big home improvement store down the road is charging, and she can keep it for the whole weekend, not just 4 hours.
Jen chooses her desired pickup & return times and requests to borrow the item online.
Todd receives the Borrow Request by email, and accepts it by clicking a link in the email. (He could also decline it, if he wanted to.) Jen and Todd both agree to a standard loan agreement that is between the two parties. (Loanables provides the agreement, but is not actually part of the borrowing transaction. We simply introduce the two parties and help with the logistics.)
Jen picks up the pressure washer from Todd at the scheduled time. They discover that they actually live in the same part of town, and chat about the neighborhood. Jen pays Todd directly (by cash, check, or PayPal) when she picks up the washer.
When Jen is done using the pressure washer, she returns it to Todd, ready for its next adventure.
Todd puts his cash into his piggy bank, excited about his new source of income.
What happens if a Borrower damages or loses an item?
When you post your item on Loanables, you can choose to require a security deposit in case something happens to your item. The Loaner gets to decide how much to hold as the deposit (or can choose not to require one at all).
Of course, they encourage Loaners and Borrowers to discuss any potential damage themselves before resorting to the security deposit. Often they can work out an arrangement that is fair to both parties. After all, we're all neighbors.
more at:http://www.loanables.com/home/
The Loanables community brings together people who have worthwhile items to loan out and people who want to borrow them.It's free.
How It Works:
Let's look at an example. Todd has stuff that he hardly ever uses (sound familiar?) Like that pressure washer that he uses once a year, or that camping gear that he hasn't used since 1980. Most of the time, this stuff just sits in his garage or a closet, gathering dust.
On the flip side, there is Jen, who really needs a pressure washer, but doesn't want the expense and hassle of owning one herself. She also realizes that Mother Earth would really like us to consume less stuff.
That's where we come in, and it works like this:
Todd creates an account on loanables.com and posts his items to be borrowed. He gets to decide things like how much to charge and whether or not he requires a security deposit.
Jen searches on loanables.com for a pressure washer and sees that Todd is willing to loan his out, for a small fee. It is cheaper than the big home improvement store down the road is charging, and she can keep it for the whole weekend, not just 4 hours.
Jen chooses her desired pickup & return times and requests to borrow the item online.
Todd receives the Borrow Request by email, and accepts it by clicking a link in the email. (He could also decline it, if he wanted to.) Jen and Todd both agree to a standard loan agreement that is between the two parties. (Loanables provides the agreement, but is not actually part of the borrowing transaction. We simply introduce the two parties and help with the logistics.)
Jen picks up the pressure washer from Todd at the scheduled time. They discover that they actually live in the same part of town, and chat about the neighborhood. Jen pays Todd directly (by cash, check, or PayPal) when she picks up the washer.
When Jen is done using the pressure washer, she returns it to Todd, ready for its next adventure.
Todd puts his cash into his piggy bank, excited about his new source of income.
What happens if a Borrower damages or loses an item?
When you post your item on Loanables, you can choose to require a security deposit in case something happens to your item. The Loaner gets to decide how much to hold as the deposit (or can choose not to require one at all).
Of course, they encourage Loaners and Borrowers to discuss any potential damage themselves before resorting to the security deposit. Often they can work out an arrangement that is fair to both parties. After all, we're all neighbors.
more at:http://www.loanables.com/home/
AgentB----Discover a new way to find coupons
What Company Is Offering:
AgentB is a free shopping community where members vote on their favorite deals to move them up the homepage. What does that mean to you? Well, it's a place for you to find and share great deals from across the Internet and save tons of moola. You'll discover new deals that people are taking advantage of and share them with your friends.
How It Works:
The busy bees of the AgentB community search the web every day and post their favorite deals. Members of the community vote, comment, and rate their favorite deals.
More at:http://www.agentb.com/general/
AgentB is a free shopping community where members vote on their favorite deals to move them up the homepage. What does that mean to you? Well, it's a place for you to find and share great deals from across the Internet and save tons of moola. You'll discover new deals that people are taking advantage of and share them with your friends.
How It Works:
The busy bees of the AgentB community search the web every day and post their favorite deals. Members of the community vote, comment, and rate their favorite deals.
More at:http://www.agentb.com/general/
MyShoppingPal.com----Find What's Right Shop For You
What Company is Offering:
MyShoppingPal.com, helps you find what is right for you by combining expert knowledge with user preferences from all online stores, including your favorite ones. The website has access to products from all premium stores and brands for five important product categories: clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry & watches, and health & beauty.
How It Works:
When you shop for clothes or shoes, MyShoppingPal.com gives you the feeling that you have the celebrity stylist to help find what looks on you. When you shop for jewelry , you have gemologists to guide you on the quality and price of the jewelry. When you shop beauty products, you have cosmetologists to analyze the colors and ingredients to find items that will look good on you and suit your skin, hair, etc.
Its Unique Features:
The heart of MyShoppingPal.com's technology is its patent pending intelligent shopping engine that calculates your personal score for every product. The personal score takes into consideration the attractiveness of products for you, your personal style and preferences, fashion and technology trends, and product reviews. They call this personalized score, a FAP (Fashion, Attractiveness, and Preferences) score. Their shopping engine automatically sifts through millions of the products and their reviews looking for products which have high FAP score for you. Their FAP scoring system figures out the attractiveness of a product for you using expert knowledge about a product category and customer ratings. We have consulted well known experts in various fields to incorporate their knowledge and expertise in the rating system. We have bots that crawl the Internet to figure out the overall customer perception for products. We have also taken advanatge of our partnership with Amazon.com and Shopping.com to incorporate their customer review data into the overall customer ratings for products.
In addition to its unique technology that helps user find what is right for them, MyShoppingPal.com also has a unique and very attractive reward program only for beta users. With the help of their technology you can buy from your favorite store and still save some money. They have partnered with all the premium merchants to bring the largest selection of the products to you.
More at:http://www.myshoppingpal.com/
MyShoppingPal.com, helps you find what is right for you by combining expert knowledge with user preferences from all online stores, including your favorite ones. The website has access to products from all premium stores and brands for five important product categories: clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry & watches, and health & beauty.
How It Works:
When you shop for clothes or shoes, MyShoppingPal.com gives you the feeling that you have the celebrity stylist to help find what looks on you. When you shop for jewelry , you have gemologists to guide you on the quality and price of the jewelry. When you shop beauty products, you have cosmetologists to analyze the colors and ingredients to find items that will look good on you and suit your skin, hair, etc.
Its Unique Features:
The heart of MyShoppingPal.com's technology is its patent pending intelligent shopping engine that calculates your personal score for every product. The personal score takes into consideration the attractiveness of products for you, your personal style and preferences, fashion and technology trends, and product reviews. They call this personalized score, a FAP (Fashion, Attractiveness, and Preferences) score. Their shopping engine automatically sifts through millions of the products and their reviews looking for products which have high FAP score for you. Their FAP scoring system figures out the attractiveness of a product for you using expert knowledge about a product category and customer ratings. We have consulted well known experts in various fields to incorporate their knowledge and expertise in the rating system. We have bots that crawl the Internet to figure out the overall customer perception for products. We have also taken advanatge of our partnership with Amazon.com and Shopping.com to incorporate their customer review data into the overall customer ratings for products.
In addition to its unique technology that helps user find what is right for them, MyShoppingPal.com also has a unique and very attractive reward program only for beta users. With the help of their technology you can buy from your favorite store and still save some money. They have partnered with all the premium merchants to bring the largest selection of the products to you.
More at:http://www.myshoppingpal.com/
PickPackGo--Find, compare and book vacation rental homes, villas, condos
what Company is Offering:
They created a specialized vacation rental search site that makes it fast and easy for travelers to find the ideal vacation rental for their dates of travel and conveniently and securely book their rental. Our mission is to expedite and simplify the process of finding, comparing and renting vacation homes.
How It Works:
PickPackGo aggressively acquires renter traffic through targeted marketing programs and popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!. Travelers visiting their site get the smartest vacation rental search results for location, travel dates and the property requirements they specify. By matching traveler preferences and travel dates with availability, PickPackGo delivers the most qualified inquiries to property managers and owners in the industry.
Property managers and individual owners may post as many detailed property listings as they like at PickPackGo for FREE. There are absolutely no set-up or annual listing fees—ever.
Why Is It Different:
Unlike a classified listing site, we invite owners and property managers to list as many properties as they like for free. Then, we work hard on their behalf to showcase their properties and deliver highly qualified inquiries and bookings that ultimately lead to increased rental income. It's a performance-driven model that really works.
More at :http://www.pickpackgo.com/
They created a specialized vacation rental search site that makes it fast and easy for travelers to find the ideal vacation rental for their dates of travel and conveniently and securely book their rental. Our mission is to expedite and simplify the process of finding, comparing and renting vacation homes.
How It Works:
PickPackGo aggressively acquires renter traffic through targeted marketing programs and popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo!. Travelers visiting their site get the smartest vacation rental search results for location, travel dates and the property requirements they specify. By matching traveler preferences and travel dates with availability, PickPackGo delivers the most qualified inquiries to property managers and owners in the industry.
Property managers and individual owners may post as many detailed property listings as they like at PickPackGo for FREE. There are absolutely no set-up or annual listing fees—ever.
Why Is It Different:
Unlike a classified listing site, we invite owners and property managers to list as many properties as they like for free. Then, we work hard on their behalf to showcase their properties and deliver highly qualified inquiries and bookings that ultimately lead to increased rental income. It's a performance-driven model that really works.
More at :http://www.pickpackgo.com/
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