Thursday, November 8, 2007

FounderContact.com----For Connecting You To Other Investors And Business Professionals

What Company Is Offering:
With a life time free country membership at foundercontact you can expand rapidly your international network with close to 8,000 business owners that have an extended business profile at their website.
How It Works:
FounderContact.com is a community that connects you to other investors and business professionals. Many businesses today have an influence in more than one country it is time for you to expand your network and becoming part of the FounderContact.com community is a great way to do that. At the moment FounderContact.com has specific country directories for; Canada and the US, India, Holland, France, and the UK. There are other individuals who are part of the community that are from other countries and they are listed in the International contact section. Besides networking with other members, FounderContact.com offers many services that could help your business. FounderContact.com offers services in; accounting, business plan improvement, business plan outsourcing, finding capital, computer animation, human recourses, information security, online marketing, and more. If you want your business network to expand, then take advantage of FounderContact.com and be part of a proactive, innovated community.
More at:http://foundercontact.com/

Brightegg---Grow your online business without spending thousands

What Company Is Offering:
Brightegg is privately owned and operated by Digiwize, a new media company specializing in custom web applications, web design and consulting. Since 2003, Digiwize has been passionately developing, creating and consulting many successful organizations and businesses looking to create a better user experience online. Brightegg is an extension of the ultimate Digiwize vision: give organizations a better way to build, manage and market a premier, highly successful website at a cost effective price.
How It Works:
Brightegg targets organizations that want to grow online without spending thousands of dollars or hiring a full-time programmer, web designer and marketing expert. Brightegg and their experienced designer community offer premier, sophisticated web designs that businesses use to build their website. Once launched, businesses can easily manage their entire website in-house, market themselves using a multitude of features and collect leads and client information through a dedicated database. Brightegg members sign on to build a cost-effective website. They stay with Brightegg to grow their business. Brightegg is built on a smart web platform that learns from its community and members.
More at:http://www.brightegg.com/

The Qloud --Online Music Service Got VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
The Qloud My Music application is a revolutionary music service that delivers online music to users how they want it – legal, cost-free, DRM-free, on-demand and linked to their personal music libraries – and where they want it – inside social networks where they can share music with and discover it through their friends.
How It Works:

By simply installing the My Music Facebook application users immediately can see and legally play entire songs and videos from their complete iTunes libraries inside of Facebook for free. My Music also allows users to see and play online the iTunes libraries of their friends, view and exchange playlists with their friends, browse and play the most popular songs among their friends and social groups, and add their friends’ songs to their own online libraries.
How Much They Got From Vcs And Who is Behind This Site:
Investors and board members in Qloud, including the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, who discovered U2 and Bob Marley and was recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; the founder of Launch Music, Dave Goldberg, who most recently headed Yahoo! Music; the former head of AOL’s online music properties, Jim Bankoff, who will now serve as Qloud’s chairman; Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AOL and Chairman of Revolution Money; and music industry executives Paul Vidich, formerly EVP Strategy and Business Development of Warner Music; and Tom Ryan, formerly Global SVP of Digital and Mobile Strategy of EMI Music. Qloud was co-founded by former AOLers Toby Murdock and Mike Lewis.


What's Different Features:
Qloud’s service features an online jukebox with unlimited, streaming music and videos played on-demand. Qloud delivers this new and exciting music experience by embedding content from licensed providers, such as YouTube, Revver and Brightcove, and then making this content available to consumers in easy to navigate locations. Qloud also features deep social networking tools and a powerful, community-based music discovery system driven by the Qloud iTunes plug-in. This plug-in recreates a user’s iTunes library in a browser and enables users to explore the iTunes libraries of other Qloud users.
More at:http://blog.qloud.com/

Hidden City Games has raised $15 million in VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Bella Sara trading cards feature self-esteem-boosting messages and fantastic, imaginative illustrations of horses inspired by both fantasy and nature. The most recent Bella Sara card sets, Northern Lights and Ancient Lights, also feature horses based on Norse, Celtic, Greek and Roman mythology. Each Bella Sara horse-themed trading card can be activated in a magical online world for girls at http://www.bellasara.com, a virtual playground that features horse grooming, jumping, and riding games, plus puzzles, coloring books, interactive storybooks and more.

Inspired by her daughter’s love for horses, Danish social worker Gitte Odder Braendgaard developed Bella Sara to encourage young girls to acknowledge and express their feelings rather than invest too much of their identities in their physical appearence.
How Much They Got From VCs:

Hidden City Games, worldwide distributor of Bella Sara™ trading cards and online world for girls,has raised $15 million in strategic venture capital from Rustic Canyon Partners and Trinity Ventures. The funds will be used to expand the Bella Sara website and for marketing and new product development.
What VCs Says:
With more than 30 million trading cards sold worldwide and more than 1 million registered website users, Bella Sara is the first trading card game to capture the hearts and minds of girls,” said Michael Song, a partner at Rustic Canyon Partners, an $800 million venture fund focused on supporting early-stage technology companies. Mr. Song joins the Hidden City Games board of directors.

“As the online casual games market continues to demonstrate unprecedented growth, Bella Sara has a distinct advantage with 65,000 retail points of sale worldwide, all driving traffic to www.bellasara.com,” said Gus Tai, general partner at Trinity Ventures, which was one of the first institutional investors in Starbucks and which recently sold its portfolio company Photobucket, a web 2.0 darling, to News Corporation. “Peter Adkison understands how to build a global retail footprint, and we are bullish on his plans to leverage Bella Sara’s in-store presence to grow its registered-user base,” continued Mr. Tai, who joins Mr. Song on Hidden City’s board of directors.

Rustic Canyon Partners and Trinity Ventures also funded casual game publisher PlayFirst, Inc. and game publisher/developer Trion World Network.
More at:http://www.bellasara.com/

BigSmarty---The World's Most Exciting Investment Club

What Company Is Offering:
BigSmarty is the World’s Most Exciting Investment Club. Members Invest in PersonalDevelopment,Financial future Community.
How It Works:
By becoming a member of BigSmarty’s Investment Club you will..
LEARN by:
Competing in exciting fantasy stock trading tournaments in real time.
Viewing other member’s portfolios to gain insight into successful trading .
Sharing strategies and ideas with other members.
Practicing newfound skills risk free .
EARN by:
Winning cash prizes from competing in BigSmarty trading tournaments
Winning cash prizes in Fantasy tournaments by choosing the winners
Winning matching cash bonuses by referring other members
Applying your improved skills to the real world stock market
More at:http://www.bigsmarty.com/

Gloofi---The First Web3.0 Search Engine

What Company Is Offering:
gloofi is the first Web 3.0 Search Engine currently in existance. gloofi contains human and Semantic search capability, tag/keyword translation, personalized search, and user generated content. With all the new functionalities, and powerful capabilities of gloofi, you may never again feel good about using the old search engines.
How It Works:
gloofi has a unique point system which rewards users for entering content into the database, approving content, reviewing content, helping other gloofi users, and taking an active part in expanding gloofi globally.gloofi will give away 1 million reward points - totaling about 10% of total gloofi ownership. These reward points will eventually be translated into shares of ownership in gloofi.
More at:http://www.gloofi.com/

RealDealDocs--For Access To Millions Of Corporate/Transactional Documents And Deals

What Company Is Offering:
RealDealDocs provides lawyers with extraordinary access to hundreds of thousands of corporate/transactional documents and millions of deal clauses, created by attorneys from leading U.S. firms.
RealDealDocs organizes the filings for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to the smallest of small caps. We then strip away superfluous information so you get just the exhibits and clauses you need, organized the way you want to find them.
How It Works:
RealDealDocs lets you dictate exactly the kind of document you’re seeking. Say you were looking for a few good examples of a patent license agreement. Using simple pull-down menus, select "Intellectual property" as the document type and "patent license agreement" as the subtype.

You can modify that further with full text search or by choosing additional search fields; in seconds, RealDealDocs returns dozens of examples, prepared by top law firms for leading public companies. Actual document titles, parties involved, law firms and governing law are all listed, so you can quickly judge if the document is useful.
Another click and the document opens on your screen. You don't receive scores of irrelevant hits that match surface criteria, hits that must then be opened, evaluated and dismissed. With RealDealDocs, you get the section of a filing – the work product – which you really need.
More at:http://realdealdocs.com/

Virtual Ventures--You Use Their Virtual Money To Invest But Get Real Money In Return

What Company Says:
Evaluate real technologies developed within Fortune 500 companies. Play the role of a venture capitalist by evaluating the commercial potential of each one. "Invest" in the technologies you think will be commercialized.
How It Works:
You're investing in real technologies with real futures. After you make your "investment", track the process of bringing the technology to market. Earn a return on your investment when a company licenses the technology.It is free to play! You use our virtual money to invest.
Fluid Innovation is innovation that flows from the inventor to the company that is best able to bring it to market.
Fluid Innovation, Inc helps market-leading enterprises generate revenue by discovering, assessing, and licensing their internally developed technologies to companies that commercialize and market them. At the core of Fluid Innovation are two products that help accelerate the innovation process: Fluid Licensing SystemSM, a hosted application to manage ideas within a company, and Virtual VenturesSM, a prediction market community to assess the commercial viability and value of ideas.
More at:http://www.virtualventures.com/
http://www.fluidinnovation.com/

The Hire Hub ----Hire Anything

What Company Is Offering:
The Hire Hub is a community marketplace for hiring almost anything between members. Rather than having to buy the thing you need, you can now hire it from a fellow member. If you've got your own things then you can hire them out and earn some money from them.
How It Works:
The Hire Hub is the place to find items for hire.

Why buy if you'll hardly use it?.

Earn money from the stuff you already have.

Re-use is environmentally better than manufacture.
More at:http://www.thehirehub.co.uk/

Chicini----For Finding What's Hot Trends In Future

What Company Is Offering:
Chicini is your source for all of the products, places, and trends that people will be buzzing about. You decide what's going to be in as we separate the trendsetters from the pretenders. At Chicini, it's all about finding what's hot for tomorrow... today.
How It Works:
You can vote whether you think a posted item is “chic” or “weak”, and these votes determine whether the posted items make it to the A-list or the C-list. Unlike Digg, you can actually purchase items from the site. Chictini also has a social network set up where you can create a pretty detailed profile page. You can list all of the basic personal details, see the last ten posted items by that person, leave them comments, create a detailed bio, include contact info, and have people join your “clique.” You can even post a song to your profile. Check out the top chicsters (the ones with the most points from their posted trends), see who’s currently online, and who has recently joined the site. With each trend you can see an enlarged image and add comments. They also have Chictini TV where they currently have a post on the hotspot Teany and an interview with the owner. For people looking for what will be popular tomorrow, check out Chictini.
More at:http://www.chictini.com/

Feedcompany---For Promoting Your Company

What Company Is Offering:
Feed Company is a new video optimization company in Los Angeles, California that helps advertisers and entertainment companies get their video exposed on popular blogs, social video networks, and P2P.
They help you become of the video sharing community they’re a part of. To think more like a media company than an advertiser selling a product.
How It Works:
Feed Company helps you to create a successful video for internet marketing purposes, and then works with you to aid in determining on which websites and blogs your video should be displayed. Aside from planning and distribution, Feed Company will also help you promote your video within the chosen sites, and provide you with the means necessary to report on your campaign’s results. Feed Company has previously served such swell-known clients such as iDeutsch and Warner Brothers Records.
More at:http://feedcompany.com/