What Company Is Offering:
RovAir Wireless is the leading day pass provider of wireless mobile broadband (WMB) aircards, datacards and evdo cards.RovAir's mission is to provide their users with superior high-speed internet connectivity combined with unparalleled mobility in an internet day pass format.
How It Works:
RovAir provides wireless mobile broadband aircards, data cards and evdo cards for internet access without an extended contract. To do that, the company itself maintains the necessary long-term subscriptions for data services with Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. It then offers those services in a day-pass format for those who need short-term but continuous access on the road. Coverage extends anywhere the provider's cellular range goes, which can be searched on RovAir's site. RovAir will ship the data card to the consumer express or by courier, and also provide return packaging. Costs depend on the number of days of use, beginning at USD 5.95 per day. There is a three-day minimum.
More at:http://www.rovair.com/
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Globoforce transforms the way companies engage, motivate and empower their workforces across the globe
What Company Is Offering:
Globoforce transforms the way companies engage, motivate and empower their workforces across the globe. They make recognition meaningful to every employee everywhere in the world by enabling daily thank you moments that are culturally relevant and personally desirable. And their strategic approach to recognition proves the value the program delivers to your bottom line through more engaged, more productive employees who drive company performance.
And they’ve done so for the world’s largest and most complex organizations, delivering innovative strategic global recognition services that harness human potential.
Globoforce is the world leader in providing strategic employee recognition solutions for Global 2000 companies.
They understand your needs for strategic recognition, increased employee engagement and improved performance. Their unique recognition methodology helps companies define a new Global Strategic Recognition ambition and turn their tactical recognition programs into a company-wide culture that energizes and inspires, drives maximum employee engagement, and ensures the achievement of strategic goals.
More at:http://www.globoforce.com/
Globoforce transforms the way companies engage, motivate and empower their workforces across the globe. They make recognition meaningful to every employee everywhere in the world by enabling daily thank you moments that are culturally relevant and personally desirable. And their strategic approach to recognition proves the value the program delivers to your bottom line through more engaged, more productive employees who drive company performance.
And they’ve done so for the world’s largest and most complex organizations, delivering innovative strategic global recognition services that harness human potential.
Globoforce is the world leader in providing strategic employee recognition solutions for Global 2000 companies.
They understand your needs for strategic recognition, increased employee engagement and improved performance. Their unique recognition methodology helps companies define a new Global Strategic Recognition ambition and turn their tactical recognition programs into a company-wide culture that energizes and inspires, drives maximum employee engagement, and ensures the achievement of strategic goals.
More at:http://www.globoforce.com/
Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents has secured a series B round of financing for $3.25 million
What Company Is Offering:
Docstoc is premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents, and serves as a vast repository of legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents, announced today that it has secured a series B round of financing for $3.25 million. The deal was led by Rustic Canyon Partners based in Santa Monica, California.
About VCs:
With over $800 million under management, Rustic Canyon Partners invests in early stage companies positioned for strong growth. The firm focuses on growth opportunities catalyzed by technological shifts, market evolution, or regulatory changes. To date, Rustic Canyon has invested in a broad array of sectors including digital media, business and information services, communications, software, and renewable energy. Rustic Canyon Partners has offices in Santa Monica, Silicon Valley and Seattle. For more information, visit http://www.rusticcanyon.com
More at:http://www.docstoc.com/
Docstoc is premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents, and serves as a vast repository of legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents, announced today that it has secured a series B round of financing for $3.25 million. The deal was led by Rustic Canyon Partners based in Santa Monica, California.
About VCs:
With over $800 million under management, Rustic Canyon Partners invests in early stage companies positioned for strong growth. The firm focuses on growth opportunities catalyzed by technological shifts, market evolution, or regulatory changes. To date, Rustic Canyon has invested in a broad array of sectors including digital media, business and information services, communications, software, and renewable energy. Rustic Canyon Partners has offices in Santa Monica, Silicon Valley and Seattle. For more information, visit http://www.rusticcanyon.com
More at:http://www.docstoc.com/
The myMovo Server is a video search engine which constantly searches the top internet video sites for new videos
What Company Is Offering:
The myMovo Server is a video search engine which constantly searches the top internet video sites for new videos. myMovo software runs on your computer to stream video search results directly from the content provider, through your computer, to your media player.
You setup your preferences and perform searches through the myMovo website. Once you have filtered the search results you tell myMovo to start. myMovo then starts downloading the videos you selected to your computer, and then converts them to your media player format.
myMovo provides the ability to transfer non-copyrighted DVDs and video files from your computer to your media player. It does this by converting the file to a format supported by your device. To use the DVD feature, you choose the 'dvd import' option from the main menu. On the DVD screen, select the drive letter of your DVD player, then choose the language and the track. The defaults will work for most cases. You can also change the filename if you want to. Once you have selected the DVD, you can select 'Next' to get the the 'Stream to your device' screen and then select 'Start streams'. myMovo does not know anything about the tracks or channels on a DVD. You will have to use a separate DVD application to determine which tracks and channels you want on you device.
More at:http://www.mymovo.com/
The myMovo Server is a video search engine which constantly searches the top internet video sites for new videos. myMovo software runs on your computer to stream video search results directly from the content provider, through your computer, to your media player.
You setup your preferences and perform searches through the myMovo website. Once you have filtered the search results you tell myMovo to start. myMovo then starts downloading the videos you selected to your computer, and then converts them to your media player format.
myMovo provides the ability to transfer non-copyrighted DVDs and video files from your computer to your media player. It does this by converting the file to a format supported by your device. To use the DVD feature, you choose the 'dvd import' option from the main menu. On the DVD screen, select the drive letter of your DVD player, then choose the language and the track. The defaults will work for most cases. You can also change the filename if you want to. Once you have selected the DVD, you can select 'Next' to get the the 'Stream to your device' screen and then select 'Start streams'. myMovo does not know anything about the tracks or channels on a DVD. You will have to use a separate DVD application to determine which tracks and channels you want on you device.
More at:http://www.mymovo.com/
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web
What Company Is Offering:
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web. Their search allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help you find exactly what you are looking for. Latent semantic searching is also available, and our account features let you organize, annotate and share documents, along with other helpful work-flow features.
How It Works:
FreePatentsOnline, the best online site for free patent searching, has had a makeover. In addition to the graphical differences, the site has been completely rewritten to allow more users, more powerful functions, and more data. If you have comments or questions about the new site,
Free Patent search is the process by which prior inventions or ideas are examined, with the goal being to find information that bears close similarity to a given patent or proposed invention.
There are three main types of patents: utility patents, design patents, and plant patents. Utility patents are patents on inventions which function in a new way or to provide a new result. A design patent, as its name implies, is a patent on the aesthetic design or ornamentation of something that already exists. A design patent is granted when the design in question does not change the functionality of the object, only gives it a novel appearance. Design patents primarily contain drawings. Plant patents are patents on types of plants that may be reproduced by grafts and cuttings. Note that patents related to genetic engineering of plants are normally considered utility patents. Utility patents are by far the most common type of patents, and are what people normally mean when they just say "patent".
More at:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web. Their search allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help you find exactly what you are looking for. Latent semantic searching is also available, and our account features let you organize, annotate and share documents, along with other helpful work-flow features.
How It Works:
FreePatentsOnline, the best online site for free patent searching, has had a makeover. In addition to the graphical differences, the site has been completely rewritten to allow more users, more powerful functions, and more data. If you have comments or questions about the new site,
Free Patent search is the process by which prior inventions or ideas are examined, with the goal being to find information that bears close similarity to a given patent or proposed invention.
There are three main types of patents: utility patents, design patents, and plant patents. Utility patents are patents on inventions which function in a new way or to provide a new result. A design patent, as its name implies, is a patent on the aesthetic design or ornamentation of something that already exists. A design patent is granted when the design in question does not change the functionality of the object, only gives it a novel appearance. Design patents primarily contain drawings. Plant patents are patents on types of plants that may be reproduced by grafts and cuttings. Note that patents related to genetic engineering of plants are normally considered utility patents. Utility patents are by far the most common type of patents, and are what people normally mean when they just say "patent".
More at:http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Adooga is a powerful search engine that connects creative, internet-savvy fans with brands by aggregating contests
What Company Is Offering:
Adooga is a powerful search engine that connects creative, internet-savvy fans with brands by aggregating contests that call for consumer-created content in one user-friendly site.
How It Works:
Adooga's mission is to simplify the discovery and submission process for anyone who wants to participate in online contests. Adooga defines a contest as any branded-initiative that provides reward opportunities for consumers willing to create and provide useful content and information to brands. Contests types can include video, music, photography and animation, among others.
Adooga is for anyone who loves creativity, healthy competition and a chance to win a little dough or a lot of exposure through a unique community.
More at:http://www.adooga.com/
Adooga is a powerful search engine that connects creative, internet-savvy fans with brands by aggregating contests that call for consumer-created content in one user-friendly site.
How It Works:
Adooga's mission is to simplify the discovery and submission process for anyone who wants to participate in online contests. Adooga defines a contest as any branded-initiative that provides reward opportunities for consumers willing to create and provide useful content and information to brands. Contests types can include video, music, photography and animation, among others.
Adooga is for anyone who loves creativity, healthy competition and a chance to win a little dough or a lot of exposure through a unique community.
More at:http://www.adooga.com/
QuotaPrice.com is a service that will change the way consumers buy things
What Company Is Offering:
QuotaPrice.com is a service that will change not only the way individuals and companies alike get work but it will revolutionize the way consumers buy things. At http://quotaprice.com/ anyone can get quotes on absolutely anything & everything! Unlike the other procurement services that are expensive and focused only on big business, it's FREE to use for both the buyers and providers.
How It Works:
As a Buyer you no longer need to search around to get quotes looking for the right price and quality of service. You just simply state what is is that you are looking for and individuals and companies compete for your business assuring that you get the best service and best price possible!
As a provider you get free leads and an opportunity to direct market to your potential customers right when they are in need of your services or products. Feel confident, if your services and products are good and priced fairly you will find this a valuable resource for creating and growing your business. You will automatically be notified when a buyer is looking for one of your services!
More at:http://quotaprice.com/
QuotaPrice.com is a service that will change not only the way individuals and companies alike get work but it will revolutionize the way consumers buy things. At http://quotaprice.com/ anyone can get quotes on absolutely anything & everything! Unlike the other procurement services that are expensive and focused only on big business, it's FREE to use for both the buyers and providers.
How It Works:
As a Buyer you no longer need to search around to get quotes looking for the right price and quality of service. You just simply state what is is that you are looking for and individuals and companies compete for your business assuring that you get the best service and best price possible!
As a provider you get free leads and an opportunity to direct market to your potential customers right when they are in need of your services or products. Feel confident, if your services and products are good and priced fairly you will find this a valuable resource for creating and growing your business. You will automatically be notified when a buyer is looking for one of your services!
More at:http://quotaprice.com/
Wishpot, the popular online social shopping community got Series A investment round
What Company Is Offering:
Wishpot, is a personal and social shopping utility that makes it easy to save, share and discover interesting products. Wishpot has developed a hosted solution for tracking personal wish list entries across any website on the internet. The free product, which is currently in beta, has already become a popular web site for social shopping.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Wishpot, the popular online social shopping community, announced the closing of a Series A investment round. The round, which added $1 million in funding, was led by Monster Venture Partners. Other investors in the round include H-Farm, an Italian Internet development group, as well as existing investors including Adrian Hanauer.
Rob Monster, Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, has joined Wishpot's board of directors. "On the surface Wishpot is a consumer site that democratizes the online wish list across any site that sells products or services on the Internet. However, look a level deeper and you will see the power of being able to predict future demand in real-time segmented by user attributes."
Wishpot is planning to use the funds to further enhance its vertical offerings, improve the Wishpot platform, increase the business development activities, and introduce business analytics for enterprise customers of the platform.
More at:http://www.wishpot.com
Wishpot, is a personal and social shopping utility that makes it easy to save, share and discover interesting products. Wishpot has developed a hosted solution for tracking personal wish list entries across any website on the internet. The free product, which is currently in beta, has already become a popular web site for social shopping.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Wishpot, the popular online social shopping community, announced the closing of a Series A investment round. The round, which added $1 million in funding, was led by Monster Venture Partners. Other investors in the round include H-Farm, an Italian Internet development group, as well as existing investors including Adrian Hanauer.
Rob Monster, Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, has joined Wishpot's board of directors. "On the surface Wishpot is a consumer site that democratizes the online wish list across any site that sells products or services on the Internet. However, look a level deeper and you will see the power of being able to predict future demand in real-time segmented by user attributes."
Wishpot is planning to use the funds to further enhance its vertical offerings, improve the Wishpot platform, increase the business development activities, and introduce business analytics for enterprise customers of the platform.
More at:http://www.wishpot.com
Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applicationshas raised an additional $15 million
What Company Is Offering:
Intacct is a market and technology leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications. The company's award-winning solutions are used by thousands of businesses, from startups to public companies, to manage and share financial, supply chain, and professional services information. Intacct automates key business processes from order entry through cash collection and procurement through vendor payment. The Intacct system includes accounting, contract management, revenue recognition, inventory, purchasing, vendor management, project management, payroll, and financial reporting applications, all delivered over the Web via Software as a Service.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications, today announced it has raised an additional $15 million of financing in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures all participated in the round. When combined with $14 million raised in June 2007, Intacct has raised $29 million in the past nine months, ranking it among the top funded software companies over the past year. Today's announcement was made at Software 2008 in Las Vegas, where Intacct is being recognized as one of the top innovators in the software industry.
More at:www.intacct.com
Intacct is a market and technology leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications. The company's award-winning solutions are used by thousands of businesses, from startups to public companies, to manage and share financial, supply chain, and professional services information. Intacct automates key business processes from order entry through cash collection and procurement through vendor payment. The Intacct system includes accounting, contract management, revenue recognition, inventory, purchasing, vendor management, project management, payroll, and financial reporting applications, all delivered over the Web via Software as a Service.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications, today announced it has raised an additional $15 million of financing in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures all participated in the round. When combined with $14 million raised in June 2007, Intacct has raised $29 million in the past nine months, ranking it among the top funded software companies over the past year. Today's announcement was made at Software 2008 in Las Vegas, where Intacct is being recognized as one of the top innovators in the software industry.
More at:www.intacct.com
Lead Media Partners provides online lead generation services got funding
What Company Is Offering:
Lead Media Partners provides online lead generation services to the higher education market and primarily focuses on clients in the vocational and online education segments of the education industry. The Company's largest clients include University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp, Capella, Kaplan University and other comparable education institutions. Lead Media has created technology to help clients better align the incentives they provide to marketing partners with their own customer acquisition objectives.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Peterson Partners, a leading Intermountain West investment firm, has made an equity investment in Lead Media Partners. Chandler Horsley, CEO of Lead Media, and Rick Stratford, lead partner for Peterson Partners on the investment, announced the new partner relationship between the two firms. "This is a fantastic opportunity for us to partner with an extremely talented management team," Mr. Stratford said. "We look forward to assisting Chandler and his team as they grow the business."
About VCs:
Peterson Partners, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is one of the Intermountain West's most successful private equity firms. Specializing in small to mid-sized companies, Peterson Partners has a track record of successful investments including JetBlue, Making Memories, EnergySolutions, Asurion, Instashred, Winder Farms and Diamond Rental. Founded in 1995, Peterson Partners has over $400 million under management through five funds. For more information, visit www.petersonpartnerslp.com.
More at: www.leadmediapartners.com
Lead Media Partners provides online lead generation services to the higher education market and primarily focuses on clients in the vocational and online education segments of the education industry. The Company's largest clients include University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp, Capella, Kaplan University and other comparable education institutions. Lead Media has created technology to help clients better align the incentives they provide to marketing partners with their own customer acquisition objectives.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Peterson Partners, a leading Intermountain West investment firm, has made an equity investment in Lead Media Partners. Chandler Horsley, CEO of Lead Media, and Rick Stratford, lead partner for Peterson Partners on the investment, announced the new partner relationship between the two firms. "This is a fantastic opportunity for us to partner with an extremely talented management team," Mr. Stratford said. "We look forward to assisting Chandler and his team as they grow the business."
About VCs:
Peterson Partners, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is one of the Intermountain West's most successful private equity firms. Specializing in small to mid-sized companies, Peterson Partners has a track record of successful investments including JetBlue, Making Memories, EnergySolutions, Asurion, Instashred, Winder Farms and Diamond Rental. Founded in 1995, Peterson Partners has over $400 million under management through five funds. For more information, visit www.petersonpartnerslp.com.
More at: www.leadmediapartners.com
Tapioca Mobile provides the most efficient, direct way to get rich media
What Company Is Offering:
Tapioca Mobile provides the most efficient, direct way to get rich media (videos, pictures, more) into the hands of mobile phone users. They help content providers move their digital assets from servers onto handsets. They help advertisers reach a whole new base of eyes and ears.
How It Will Help Ypu:
If you have existing multimedia assets (images, videos, audio), let us help you maximize their value. They can deliver that content seamlessly to mobile users, with very little effort from your company. They specialize in using messaging paradigms (MMS/SMS) to reach users, no matter where they are or what device they carry.
Adding a mobile offering will open up new ad inventory that can be sold right away. Mobile advertising is more compelling and more lucrative than just text. Just add Tapioca and see your revenues grow!
More at:http://www.tapiocamobile.com/
Tapioca Mobile provides the most efficient, direct way to get rich media (videos, pictures, more) into the hands of mobile phone users. They help content providers move their digital assets from servers onto handsets. They help advertisers reach a whole new base of eyes and ears.
How It Will Help Ypu:
If you have existing multimedia assets (images, videos, audio), let us help you maximize their value. They can deliver that content seamlessly to mobile users, with very little effort from your company. They specialize in using messaging paradigms (MMS/SMS) to reach users, no matter where they are or what device they carry.
Adding a mobile offering will open up new ad inventory that can be sold right away. Mobile advertising is more compelling and more lucrative than just text. Just add Tapioca and see your revenues grow!
More at:http://www.tapiocamobile.com/
ONEsite is the leading provider of online community and social media solutions
What Company Is Offering:
ONEsite is the leading provider of online community and social media solutions. They have a proven ability to deliver enterprise-class solutions, including those for Clear Channel Communications, Visa International, Univision Communications, along with over 1500 additional communities for media and entertainment clients, lifestyle brands, or affinity communities. Their core technology, along with their talented and experienced team, allows us to launch a full-featured, customized, scalable online community on an incredibly aggressive timeline.
How It Works:
The ONEsite Platform offers a complete community experience with Blogging, Photo and Video Sharing, Tagging, Rating, Flagging, Commenting, Built-in Messaging, and Groups built on patent-pending technology. They offer the most extensible, flexible, scalable, and customized solution in the marketplace. Our Widget and API libraries make it easy to integrate a ONEsite community with existing web properties, search, registration, and authentication systems.
ONEsite was built to serve as an extensible Web 2.0 Platform capable of creating full featured social networks as well as microsites. It has been used to power full communities for some of the largest media companies in the world as well as on social media microsites for companies like Sprint/Nextel and Proctor &Gamble.
More at:http://www.onesite.com/
ONEsite is the leading provider of online community and social media solutions. They have a proven ability to deliver enterprise-class solutions, including those for Clear Channel Communications, Visa International, Univision Communications, along with over 1500 additional communities for media and entertainment clients, lifestyle brands, or affinity communities. Their core technology, along with their talented and experienced team, allows us to launch a full-featured, customized, scalable online community on an incredibly aggressive timeline.
How It Works:
The ONEsite Platform offers a complete community experience with Blogging, Photo and Video Sharing, Tagging, Rating, Flagging, Commenting, Built-in Messaging, and Groups built on patent-pending technology. They offer the most extensible, flexible, scalable, and customized solution in the marketplace. Our Widget and API libraries make it easy to integrate a ONEsite community with existing web properties, search, registration, and authentication systems.
ONEsite was built to serve as an extensible Web 2.0 Platform capable of creating full featured social networks as well as microsites. It has been used to power full communities for some of the largest media companies in the world as well as on social media microsites for companies like Sprint/Nextel and Proctor &Gamble.
More at:http://www.onesite.com/
Calaméo is the ideal way to publish, search for and share all your documents online
What Company Is Offering:
Calaméo is the ideal way to publish, search for and share all your documents online. You can organize your publications into subscriptions. In addition, you, your family and your colleagues can add comments to and start discussions on each publication!
They offer you a new publishing method that has an incredibly wide variety of options and is simple to use. From a PDF file, you create magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures...
How It Works:
Calaméo provides unrivalled reading comfort for your documents. Your publications are optimized thanks to a wide choice of personalization options (background image, background music, interactive links, etc.).
Calaméo allows you to share your publications with the people of your choice, in complete safety.You can convert as many documents as you wish.
More at:http://en.calameo.com/
Calaméo is the ideal way to publish, search for and share all your documents online. You can organize your publications into subscriptions. In addition, you, your family and your colleagues can add comments to and start discussions on each publication!
They offer you a new publishing method that has an incredibly wide variety of options and is simple to use. From a PDF file, you create magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures...
How It Works:
Calaméo provides unrivalled reading comfort for your documents. Your publications are optimized thanks to a wide choice of personalization options (background image, background music, interactive links, etc.).
Calaméo allows you to share your publications with the people of your choice, in complete safety.You can convert as many documents as you wish.
More at:http://en.calameo.com/
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Search Agency (TSA), a leading search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) firm has received a strategic investment
The Search Agency (TSA), a leading search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) firm, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from JMI Equity. JMI, a private equity firm focused on investments in growing software and business services companies, will work closely with TSA management to support its strong growth in providing search marketing services to clients worldwide. Peter Arrowsmith, a General Partner at JMI, has joined TSA's Board of Directors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
TSA provides SEM and SEO to online advertisers through a suite of paid search and organic search tools, including its AdMax platform. The company's unique approach to online marketing is based on combining proprietary technology with a robust service offering, and has resulted in annual growth rates exceeding 100% and market leading client retention rates. TSA plans to use the investment from JMI to expand its sales and marketing efforts, and to support the continued research and development of the company's proprietary technology.
"We welcome the opportunity to partner with JMI," said David Hughes, Chief Executive Officer of TSA. "In our focus to accelerate TSA's growth and gain market share, we were seeking an investment firm who is highly knowledgeable in the online marketing space. The fact that JMI has proven experience in our industry resonated with us. They clearly understand our strategic plan and we are excited about the significant value they can provide both strategically and financially to our organization."
"The Search Agency's ability to offer first rate service supported and enhanced by technology is unique in the marketplace today," said Mr. Arrowsmith of JMI. "We look forward to working with David and his team to build on the company's success, help enhance its competitive position and continue to generate profitable growth over the long term."
Via-PEhub
TSA provides SEM and SEO to online advertisers through a suite of paid search and organic search tools, including its AdMax platform. The company's unique approach to online marketing is based on combining proprietary technology with a robust service offering, and has resulted in annual growth rates exceeding 100% and market leading client retention rates. TSA plans to use the investment from JMI to expand its sales and marketing efforts, and to support the continued research and development of the company's proprietary technology.
"We welcome the opportunity to partner with JMI," said David Hughes, Chief Executive Officer of TSA. "In our focus to accelerate TSA's growth and gain market share, we were seeking an investment firm who is highly knowledgeable in the online marketing space. The fact that JMI has proven experience in our industry resonated with us. They clearly understand our strategic plan and we are excited about the significant value they can provide both strategically and financially to our organization."
"The Search Agency's ability to offer first rate service supported and enhanced by technology is unique in the marketplace today," said Mr. Arrowsmith of JMI. "We look forward to working with David and his team to build on the company's success, help enhance its competitive position and continue to generate profitable growth over the long term."
Via-PEhub
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort"
What Company Is Offering:
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort" which allows users to control the motion of the image as if they were soaring overhead.
How It Works:
First, sign up and you will have access to the tools you will need to get started. Adding an image to SoarPort is simple: you can upload a single, large dimension image. Once the upload is complete, we do the rest - zooming and configuring your source image into the format required for our engine.
Once your SoarPort is complete, you can embed your SoarPort right within your own pages. Your SoarPort will look as though you coded it yourself. Its kind of like how YouTube embeds videos in web pages. You add a small amount of HTML to your own web page, and they do the rest.
More at:http://www.soarport.com/
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort" which allows users to control the motion of the image as if they were soaring overhead.
How It Works:
First, sign up and you will have access to the tools you will need to get started. Adding an image to SoarPort is simple: you can upload a single, large dimension image. Once the upload is complete, we do the rest - zooming and configuring your source image into the format required for our engine.
Once your SoarPort is complete, you can embed your SoarPort right within your own pages. Your SoarPort will look as though you coded it yourself. Its kind of like how YouTube embeds videos in web pages. You add a small amount of HTML to your own web page, and they do the rest.
More at:http://www.soarport.com/
Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences of forex trading
What Company Is Offering:
Trading Mastermind Offers online forex trading, currency forex trading courses and forex trading training.Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences for the benefit of the entire community. Their trading principles Like Forex Trading Courses, online currency trading and Forex Training methods can be applied to any of the financial markets and some are focused on Futures, Commodities, Bonds, and other instruments.
How It Works:
Their expert will provide you the best forex training and courses to help you generate more revenue with forex trading. If you are a Forex currency trading beginner, your first order of business is to get yourself informed. Forex trading can truly be highly profitably. However, without knowing its essentials, you will not earn one single dollar from it and may even lose your investment. Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.
More at:http://www.forextradingseminar.com/
Trading Mastermind Offers online forex trading, currency forex trading courses and forex trading training.Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences for the benefit of the entire community. Their trading principles Like Forex Trading Courses, online currency trading and Forex Training methods can be applied to any of the financial markets and some are focused on Futures, Commodities, Bonds, and other instruments.
How It Works:
Their expert will provide you the best forex training and courses to help you generate more revenue with forex trading. If you are a Forex currency trading beginner, your first order of business is to get yourself informed. Forex trading can truly be highly profitably. However, without knowing its essentials, you will not earn one single dollar from it and may even lose your investment. Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.
More at:http://www.forextradingseminar.com/
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool
What Company Is Offering:
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool that allow you to look for music, mp3, videos, images, songs, albums, news, blog posts, Web site, ... about your favorite artist.
Musiic.net is a mashup Web application retrieving information from search engines like The Hype Machine, SeeqPod, Yahoo! and Google and from music social networks like Last.fm.
More at:http://www.musiic.net/
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool that allow you to look for music, mp3, videos, images, songs, albums, news, blog posts, Web site, ... about your favorite artist.
Musiic.net is a mashup Web application retrieving information from search engines like The Hype Machine, SeeqPod, Yahoo! and Google and from music social networks like Last.fm.
More at:http://www.musiic.net/
Shopflick is Video Shopping
What Company Is Offering:
Shopflick is Video Shopping!They are bringing you a great new way to discover and experience the most fascinating sellers and coolest new products online.
How It Works:
Buying is as easy as clicking on the video! And Shopflick is a new social experience where you can connect with your favorite sellers and products at their online stores, share their videos with your friends and embed them in your social networks and blogs.Watch entertaining videos directly from the designers, merchants, entrepreneurs and companies selling today's best items. Then see their products come to life through videos showing you features, details and stories way beyond still images.
More at:http://beta.shopflick.com/
Shopflick is Video Shopping!They are bringing you a great new way to discover and experience the most fascinating sellers and coolest new products online.
How It Works:
Buying is as easy as clicking on the video! And Shopflick is a new social experience where you can connect with your favorite sellers and products at their online stores, share their videos with your friends and embed them in your social networks and blogs.Watch entertaining videos directly from the designers, merchants, entrepreneurs and companies selling today's best items. Then see their products come to life through videos showing you features, details and stories way beyond still images.
More at:http://beta.shopflick.com/
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy
What Company Is Offering:
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy and the risk level you're willing to assume.
MarketGuru is like no other site. All their members are categorized by the risk their portfolios carry and ranked by their performance.
How It Works:
MarketGuru's mission is to bring together investors from around the world. They identify individual excellence based on proven track records and allow members to follow their peers of choice, increasing their personal knowledge base and level of information their trading decisions are based on. This knowledge is aimed at positively impacting portfolio gains and member confidence in the ability to invest well and reach personal investing goals.
MarketGuru is about providing the infrastructure for the worlds' investors to converge together, share ideas and wisdom and be rewarded financially for a job well done. For this reason they pay out 50% of all premium membership fees and divide them among Gurus (members who have at least one follower*) according to the number of followers each Guru has. Any member can become a Guru and you will never be asked to identify yourself.
They've provided the basic tools you'll need to make the most out of our community and are committed to keep working hard at understanding your needs and providing you with state of the art tools to make your investing experience as fun and rewarding as possible. You don't need to actually own a portfolio to participate in our community.
More at:http://www.marketguru.com/
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy and the risk level you're willing to assume.
MarketGuru is like no other site. All their members are categorized by the risk their portfolios carry and ranked by their performance.
How It Works:
MarketGuru's mission is to bring together investors from around the world. They identify individual excellence based on proven track records and allow members to follow their peers of choice, increasing their personal knowledge base and level of information their trading decisions are based on. This knowledge is aimed at positively impacting portfolio gains and member confidence in the ability to invest well and reach personal investing goals.
MarketGuru is about providing the infrastructure for the worlds' investors to converge together, share ideas and wisdom and be rewarded financially for a job well done. For this reason they pay out 50% of all premium membership fees and divide them among Gurus (members who have at least one follower*) according to the number of followers each Guru has. Any member can become a Guru and you will never be asked to identify yourself.
They've provided the basic tools you'll need to make the most out of our community and are committed to keep working hard at understanding your needs and providing you with state of the art tools to make your investing experience as fun and rewarding as possible. You don't need to actually own a portfolio to participate in our community.
More at:http://www.marketguru.com/
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts
What Company Is Offering:
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts, thereby helping them to increase sales, reduce marketing costs and provide a higher level of service to their customers and partners. IndexTools specializes in delivering a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform, and serves its worldwide client base directly and through a network of over 200 local partners in over 25 countries around the globe.
How It Works:
It is to help you turn your IndexTools Web Analytics service into a key e-business performance management tool. By employing their expertise, you will gain greater insight into and control over your online initiatives. To achieve this goal, they follow a simple, three-step implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and quick adoption of the service across your organization.
Initial consultations are provided free of charge and they will never charge you before starting a well defined project or task!
More at:http://indextools.com/
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts, thereby helping them to increase sales, reduce marketing costs and provide a higher level of service to their customers and partners. IndexTools specializes in delivering a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform, and serves its worldwide client base directly and through a network of over 200 local partners in over 25 countries around the globe.
How It Works:
It is to help you turn your IndexTools Web Analytics service into a key e-business performance management tool. By employing their expertise, you will gain greater insight into and control over your online initiatives. To achieve this goal, they follow a simple, three-step implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and quick adoption of the service across your organization.
Initial consultations are provided free of charge and they will never charge you before starting a well defined project or task!
More at:http://indextools.com/
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
Jobster is the leading innovator in online recruitment technology. Thousands of employers rely on Jobster to connect with valuable audiences of active and passive candidates through a range of services for employers and recruiting teams of all sizes. It's what we call "social recruiting™."
Whether you're looking to post jobs, search for candidates, feature your company on Facebook, or build a Talent Network of recruiting contacts, Jobster is here to help you connect.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Ignition Venture Partners, Mayfield, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Jobster has now raised around $53.5 million in total VC funding since 2004.
More at:http://www.jobster.com/
Jobster is the leading innovator in online recruitment technology. Thousands of employers rely on Jobster to connect with valuable audiences of active and passive candidates through a range of services for employers and recruiting teams of all sizes. It's what we call "social recruiting™."
Whether you're looking to post jobs, search for candidates, feature your company on Facebook, or build a Talent Network of recruiting contacts, Jobster is here to help you connect.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Ignition Venture Partners, Mayfield, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Jobster has now raised around $53.5 million in total VC funding since 2004.
More at:http://www.jobster.com/
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking got funding
What Company Is Offering:
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking. It delivers relevant and up-to-date information to generate niche-based visitor traffic. As a result, it creates value for domain names in addition to continual advertising revenue for domain owners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhyPark's new investment comes from one of its clients is revealing. Users seem to agree with the company's model and many say they are profiting from it.
"Being one of the first customers of WhyPark, I was amazed at how quickly Craig Rowe developed a user friendly platform which drastically increased the monetization of my domain portfolio," explained Macomber. "The rapid pace of improvements to the WhyPark platform over the last two years has been incredible. The keyword research function, the WhyPark ad feed, image driven templates, SEO tools, as well as the traffic, click and revenue tracking features have all been funded by the company's internal cash flow."
Macomber believes his investment, combined with talented management, will enable this early growth stage company to become a leader in the monetization of large domain portfolios. "When the new development program underway at WhyPark is finished, domain investors will be provided with an incredible suite of tools to quickly build out a website which provides a great user experience and a generous revenue stream," Macomber pointed out.
WhyPark currently hosts over 41,000 domains and says that owners of those sites can expect to see upgrades to the platform as a result of the new investment in the coming months.
More at:www.WhyPark.com
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking. It delivers relevant and up-to-date information to generate niche-based visitor traffic. As a result, it creates value for domain names in addition to continual advertising revenue for domain owners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhyPark's new investment comes from one of its clients is revealing. Users seem to agree with the company's model and many say they are profiting from it.
"Being one of the first customers of WhyPark, I was amazed at how quickly Craig Rowe developed a user friendly platform which drastically increased the monetization of my domain portfolio," explained Macomber. "The rapid pace of improvements to the WhyPark platform over the last two years has been incredible. The keyword research function, the WhyPark ad feed, image driven templates, SEO tools, as well as the traffic, click and revenue tracking features have all been funded by the company's internal cash flow."
Macomber believes his investment, combined with talented management, will enable this early growth stage company to become a leader in the monetization of large domain portfolios. "When the new development program underway at WhyPark is finished, domain investors will be provided with an incredible suite of tools to quickly build out a website which provides a great user experience and a generous revenue stream," Macomber pointed out.
WhyPark currently hosts over 41,000 domains and says that owners of those sites can expect to see upgrades to the platform as a result of the new investment in the coming months.
More at:www.WhyPark.com
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications has secured $19 million
What Company Is Offering:
InvenSense is the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile applications, with proven technology and millions of units shipped to major OEMs worldwide. The company’s MEMS motion sensing technology addresses emerging mass-market applications such as image stabilization, mobile navigation, location-based services and smart user interfaces that use hand motion and gesture-based commands.
How Much They Got From VCs:
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications, today announced it has secured $19 million dollars in Series C venture capital financing. The round was led by new investor Sierra Ventures, with participation from previous investors Artiman Ventures, Partech International and Qualcomm Ventures. Several strategic investors also participated in the Series C investment round including Foxconn, Inventec Appliances Corp, both from Taiwan; Skylake Ventures from Korea; DoCoMo Capital, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo Japan, and VentureTech Alliance (whose majority LP is TSMC). Ben Yu, managing director at Sierra Ventures, will join InvenSense’s board of directors. The round will bring InvenSense’s total funding to date to $38 million.
About VCs:
Sierra Ventures, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the Information Technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed eight venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. More information is available at www.sierraventures.com.
More at:www.InvenSense.com.
InvenSense is the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile applications, with proven technology and millions of units shipped to major OEMs worldwide. The company’s MEMS motion sensing technology addresses emerging mass-market applications such as image stabilization, mobile navigation, location-based services and smart user interfaces that use hand motion and gesture-based commands.
How Much They Got From VCs:
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications, today announced it has secured $19 million dollars in Series C venture capital financing. The round was led by new investor Sierra Ventures, with participation from previous investors Artiman Ventures, Partech International and Qualcomm Ventures. Several strategic investors also participated in the Series C investment round including Foxconn, Inventec Appliances Corp, both from Taiwan; Skylake Ventures from Korea; DoCoMo Capital, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo Japan, and VentureTech Alliance (whose majority LP is TSMC). Ben Yu, managing director at Sierra Ventures, will join InvenSense’s board of directors. The round will bring InvenSense’s total funding to date to $38 million.
About VCs:
Sierra Ventures, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the Information Technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed eight venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. More information is available at www.sierraventures.com.
More at:www.InvenSense.com.
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange has secured $6 million in series E financing
What Company Is Offering:
LeadPoint is the world's first and largest leads exchange marketplace. Leads are competitively priced based on criteria and bidding by members of the LeadPoint community. The platform allows buyers to change bids in real time, and enables sellers to more efficiently sell leads and to enter multiple verticals simultaneously. LeadPoint trades leads in numerous verticals, including consumer lending, consumer credit, education, autos and business services, and provides a single platform that allows thousands of buyers and sellers to simultaneously engage in trading leads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange, today announced it has secured $6 million in series E financing. This latest round of funding comes from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures, wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, with additional funding from Redpoint Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm. LeadPoint will use the funding to add bench strength to the company, launch into new verticals and expand marketing and sales.
More at:www.leadpoint.com
LeadPoint is the world's first and largest leads exchange marketplace. Leads are competitively priced based on criteria and bidding by members of the LeadPoint community. The platform allows buyers to change bids in real time, and enables sellers to more efficiently sell leads and to enter multiple verticals simultaneously. LeadPoint trades leads in numerous verticals, including consumer lending, consumer credit, education, autos and business services, and provides a single platform that allows thousands of buyers and sellers to simultaneously engage in trading leads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange, today announced it has secured $6 million in series E financing. This latest round of funding comes from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures, wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, with additional funding from Redpoint Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm. LeadPoint will use the funding to add bench strength to the company, launch into new verticals and expand marketing and sales.
More at:www.leadpoint.com
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system
About Company:
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system.
When you hover on an external link, the plugin gets the rating (NSFW, SFW or unrated) for that link.
This is displayed on the bottom-right of the screen as a small unintrusive warning.
Click on the No-NSFW icon on the Firefox status bar and select "Mark NSFW".
How It Works:
No-NSFW is a Firefox extension, which pops up a non-intrusive rating (NSFW, SFW, unrated) for each external link that you hover on. Ratings are determined by user votes.
Currently No-NSFW works at a link-level, not domain level. However, some domains are always safe, and some are always unsafe, and the white-listing and black-listing of domains is to be added soon.
More at:http://nonsfw.com/
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system.
When you hover on an external link, the plugin gets the rating (NSFW, SFW or unrated) for that link.
This is displayed on the bottom-right of the screen as a small unintrusive warning.
Click on the No-NSFW icon on the Firefox status bar and select "Mark NSFW".
How It Works:
No-NSFW is a Firefox extension, which pops up a non-intrusive rating (NSFW, SFW, unrated) for each external link that you hover on. Ratings are determined by user votes.
Currently No-NSFW works at a link-level, not domain level. However, some domains are always safe, and some are always unsafe, and the white-listing and black-listing of domains is to be added soon.
More at:http://nonsfw.com/
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages
What Company Is Offering:
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages, such as updates or errors, without distracting the user from their browser experience or breaking their work-flow by displaying obtrusive alerts. Roar is inspired by Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X and is realised with MooTools.
Unique Features:
Show any informations you want and style them with class-names.
Messages are queued and interactive.
Hover them to read them longer.
Add optional click-interaction to provide more information.
Customize them via external CSS to your own needs.
More at:http://digitarald.de/
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages, such as updates or errors, without distracting the user from their browser experience or breaking their work-flow by displaying obtrusive alerts. Roar is inspired by Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X and is realised with MooTools.
Unique Features:
Show any informations you want and style them with class-names.
Messages are queued and interactive.
Hover them to read them longer.
Add optional click-interaction to provide more information.
Customize them via external CSS to your own needs.
More at:http://digitarald.de/
Blubert.com is a technology portal
What Company Is Offering:
Blubert.com is a technology portal that has a number of purposes.Intelligently ranks the top news stories from around the web. Provides numerous downloads from around the web.Provides numerous videos/audioclips concerning technology from around the Internet. Reviews Internet Startups. Provides a marketplace forum where users can sell/buy websites/web services.
More at:http://blubert.com/
Blubert.com is a technology portal that has a number of purposes.Intelligently ranks the top news stories from around the web. Provides numerous downloads from around the web.Provides numerous videos/audioclips concerning technology from around the Internet. Reviews Internet Startups. Provides a marketplace forum where users can sell/buy websites/web services.
More at:http://blubert.com/
Create Your Own Countdown And To Get In Contact With People Waiting For The Same Thing
What Company Is Offering:
It offers everyone the possibility to create their own countdown and to get in contact with people waiting for the same thing. This makes waiting so much more fun - and it creates community.
Today this service tries to create a connection between people who share the fact that they are waiting.
More at:
http://www.countdown2zero.com/
It offers everyone the possibility to create their own countdown and to get in contact with people waiting for the same thing. This makes waiting so much more fun - and it creates community.
Today this service tries to create a connection between people who share the fact that they are waiting.
More at:
http://www.countdown2zero.com/
Monday, April 28, 2008
Prematics is an innovative health care information technology service provider got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Prematics is an innovative health care information technology service provider committed to providing solutions for physicians that improve the safety, quality and efficiency of health care delivery. The company offers ScriptToneSM, the nation's first easy-to-use, fully managed electronic prescribing service designed for busy practicing physicians. This reliable and comprehensive service-centered solution is delivered over the company's proprietary end-to-end network. ScriptTone empowers physicians to make the most clinically appropriate and cost-effective prescriptions at the point of care.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Health Evolution Partners, a manager of health care investment funds, today announced that the Health Evolution Partners Innovation Network (HEPIN) has invested in Prematics, Inc., an innovative provider of electronic prescribing services. HEPIN led the Series B round in Prematics, investing an undisclosed sum in the company. As part of the investment, David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, Chairman of Health Evolution Partners, will join the Prematics board of directors.
About VCs:
Health Evolution Partners invests across the health care industry, from early stage to buyouts and from services to technologies. It is seeking companies that can lead and become valuable in the new era of value-based, cost-effective and consumer-driven health care. To learn more about Health Evolution Partners, visit www.healthevolutionpartners.com.
More at:www.prematics.com.
Prematics is an innovative health care information technology service provider committed to providing solutions for physicians that improve the safety, quality and efficiency of health care delivery. The company offers ScriptToneSM, the nation's first easy-to-use, fully managed electronic prescribing service designed for busy practicing physicians. This reliable and comprehensive service-centered solution is delivered over the company's proprietary end-to-end network. ScriptTone empowers physicians to make the most clinically appropriate and cost-effective prescriptions at the point of care.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Health Evolution Partners, a manager of health care investment funds, today announced that the Health Evolution Partners Innovation Network (HEPIN) has invested in Prematics, Inc., an innovative provider of electronic prescribing services. HEPIN led the Series B round in Prematics, investing an undisclosed sum in the company. As part of the investment, David J. Brailer, MD, PhD, Chairman of Health Evolution Partners, will join the Prematics board of directors.
About VCs:
Health Evolution Partners invests across the health care industry, from early stage to buyouts and from services to technologies. It is seeking companies that can lead and become valuable in the new era of value-based, cost-effective and consumer-driven health care. To learn more about Health Evolution Partners, visit www.healthevolutionpartners.com.
More at:www.prematics.com.
MyFolia .com-----Gardening Adventure
What Company Is Offering:
Folia is a new website designed to help you track, share and discuss your gardens and plants.MyFolia is dedicated to the art (and science) of gardening - from tracking your own plants, to seeing who is also growing the same things you are.
How It Works:
Track your gardening progress - list your current plants with planting dates, track your seed stashes and note down your wish list plants.
Share your garden with others and check out what other gardeners are growing near you.
See who else is growing the same things you are - see their photos, read their journal entries and even leave them a comment or two!
Join a gardening group (or start your own!) about any gardening topic under the sun.
More at:http://www.myfolia.com/
Folia is a new website designed to help you track, share and discuss your gardens and plants.MyFolia is dedicated to the art (and science) of gardening - from tracking your own plants, to seeing who is also growing the same things you are.
How It Works:
Track your gardening progress - list your current plants with planting dates, track your seed stashes and note down your wish list plants.
Share your garden with others and check out what other gardeners are growing near you.
See who else is growing the same things you are - see their photos, read their journal entries and even leave them a comment or two!
Join a gardening group (or start your own!) about any gardening topic under the sun.
More at:http://www.myfolia.com/
Onzilist aims to become the worlds largest collection of statistics for the best, the worst, the most popular, the largest, the favorite
What Company Is Offering:
Onzilist aims to become the worlds largest collection of statistics for the best, the worst, the most popular, the largest, the favorite, (etc) of what is out there.
How It Works:
Create onzilists, rerank existing, and expect others to rerank yours.
Once you rerank an existing onzilist an average is automatically drawn up between your new list and those of others who have reranked the same list.
The more people rerank a list, the closer it gets to representing a global average.
Why To Use It:
* Research: look for the most popular, or the least popular of anything.
* Trend setting: Find out what’s hot, and what’s not.
* Discover: Find out about things you didn’t know.
More at:http://www.onzilist.com/
Onzilist aims to become the worlds largest collection of statistics for the best, the worst, the most popular, the largest, the favorite, (etc) of what is out there.
How It Works:
Create onzilists, rerank existing, and expect others to rerank yours.
Once you rerank an existing onzilist an average is automatically drawn up between your new list and those of others who have reranked the same list.
The more people rerank a list, the closer it gets to representing a global average.
Why To Use It:
* Research: look for the most popular, or the least popular of anything.
* Trend setting: Find out what’s hot, and what’s not.
* Discover: Find out about things you didn’t know.
More at:http://www.onzilist.com/
JETPAC - white label video delivery solutions for media, corporate, organizations
What Company Is Offering:
JETPAC - white label video delivery solutions for media, corporate, organizations and small business.Their common vision to help individuals, organizations, and businesses take advantage of the powerful dynamics of on-line video.JETPAC offers a variety of custom services to enhance your video offerings, from custom integration options, widget design, and custom pre/post rolls and overlay options within your video.
The JETPAC video platform allows for HD quality, large screen dimensions, and massive file size upload.
How It Works:
All delivered on a proprietary worldwide Content Delivery Network to ensure your content reaches your users.
The JETPAC player is easily brandable from the administration area, giving you a player that communicates your brand effectively no matter where the player is placed or shared. JETPAC works transparently to provide the video infrastructure that will truly propel your message.
JETPAC is built with sharing and social media in mind. Built in sharing tools that can be turned on or off from the administrative area give the content owner complete control over the availability of these features.
More at:http://www.jetpac.tv/
JETPAC - white label video delivery solutions for media, corporate, organizations and small business.Their common vision to help individuals, organizations, and businesses take advantage of the powerful dynamics of on-line video.JETPAC offers a variety of custom services to enhance your video offerings, from custom integration options, widget design, and custom pre/post rolls and overlay options within your video.
The JETPAC video platform allows for HD quality, large screen dimensions, and massive file size upload.
How It Works:
All delivered on a proprietary worldwide Content Delivery Network to ensure your content reaches your users.
The JETPAC player is easily brandable from the administration area, giving you a player that communicates your brand effectively no matter where the player is placed or shared. JETPAC works transparently to provide the video infrastructure that will truly propel your message.
JETPAC is built with sharing and social media in mind. Built in sharing tools that can be turned on or off from the administrative area give the content owner complete control over the availability of these features.
More at:http://www.jetpac.tv/
CorePage is the first in a series of next-generation online sales tools
What Company Is Offering:
CorePage provides an easy way to build and organize an ever-growing library of links (and embed codes — most often used with videos), adding names, descriptions, pop-up window sizes, and internal-only comments. They call these "items" and once they're in CorePage, you can use them again and again to make custom, private link pages that are always connected to CorePage. So, any change you make to an item is automatically reflected on every page that contains that item.
CorePage also allows you to group frequently used items together in "collections" that, like items themselves, can be added to a page with a single click.
How It Works:
CorePage is the first in a series of next-generation online sales tools from Revixio Software. CorePage takes its name from "core messages" and "core values." Like those, CorePage helps you get to the heart of a very fundamental issue; finding out if your prospect is engaged in the sales process with you, or not.
A combination of content and asset management, URL-shortening and click-tracking technologies, CorePage brings a number of already successful practices and new ideas together in a simple package that's optimized for sales — in any industry.
CorePage helps you get them into the hands of decision-makers at the right time.
More at:http://www.corepage.com/
CorePage provides an easy way to build and organize an ever-growing library of links (and embed codes — most often used with videos), adding names, descriptions, pop-up window sizes, and internal-only comments. They call these "items" and once they're in CorePage, you can use them again and again to make custom, private link pages that are always connected to CorePage. So, any change you make to an item is automatically reflected on every page that contains that item.
CorePage also allows you to group frequently used items together in "collections" that, like items themselves, can be added to a page with a single click.
How It Works:
CorePage is the first in a series of next-generation online sales tools from Revixio Software. CorePage takes its name from "core messages" and "core values." Like those, CorePage helps you get to the heart of a very fundamental issue; finding out if your prospect is engaged in the sales process with you, or not.
A combination of content and asset management, URL-shortening and click-tracking technologies, CorePage brings a number of already successful practices and new ideas together in a simple package that's optimized for sales — in any industry.
CorePage helps you get them into the hands of decision-makers at the right time.
More at:http://www.corepage.com/
Documistic --Marketing Originates Tool
What Company Is Offering:
With documistic, you get the power of their design team, advanced management and reporting tools, and their technical know-how all bundled into one easy to use application which ultimately saves you time, money, and hassles. As a Software-as-a-Service platform, they host, manage, and update all media and applications so you don’t have any software to install, downloads to deal with, or IT support to manage.
How It Works:
By adding their online mortgage marketing tool to your arsenal you can quickly organize sales teams so they can access and deliver your products to consumers from any location, 24/7. Using our professional designs, integrated print services, and consumer list technology, your message can be created and mailed out by your team in days, not weeks, or months. Bottom line, your products will get to market faster while the competition scrambles to keep pace.
The documistic online mortgage marketing system makes it easy for you or your administrator to setup marketing campaigns, add Members to your marketing zone, and provide professional sales tools so your team can deliver your products to the market in minutes. No longer will you need long lead times or advanced planning to release marketing material. With our On Demand, Online software you can easily create new campaigns or update existing programs, allowing your sales network to quickly move with the market to stay ahead of the competition.
More at:http://www.documistic.com/
With documistic, you get the power of their design team, advanced management and reporting tools, and their technical know-how all bundled into one easy to use application which ultimately saves you time, money, and hassles. As a Software-as-a-Service platform, they host, manage, and update all media and applications so you don’t have any software to install, downloads to deal with, or IT support to manage.
How It Works:
By adding their online mortgage marketing tool to your arsenal you can quickly organize sales teams so they can access and deliver your products to consumers from any location, 24/7. Using our professional designs, integrated print services, and consumer list technology, your message can be created and mailed out by your team in days, not weeks, or months. Bottom line, your products will get to market faster while the competition scrambles to keep pace.
The documistic online mortgage marketing system makes it easy for you or your administrator to setup marketing campaigns, add Members to your marketing zone, and provide professional sales tools so your team can deliver your products to the market in minutes. No longer will you need long lead times or advanced planning to release marketing material. With our On Demand, Online software you can easily create new campaigns or update existing programs, allowing your sales network to quickly move with the market to stay ahead of the competition.
More at:http://www.documistic.com/
InternshipGPS.com---MBA internship search
What Company Is Offering:
InternshipGPS.com, an innovative online MBA internship resource center specially designed to facilitate the MBA internship search and overall application process for first-year graduate business students worldwide seeking opportunities in the United States.
How It Works:
At InternshipGPS.com, graduate business students can quickly view and link to the latest MBA internship opportunities posted by employers and recruiters from all across the web. In addition, interested employers and recruiters can contact InternshipGPS directly to post and/or promote their unique internship opportunities. Lastly, InternshipGPS will also provide guides and resources on resume and cover letter building, as well as on best practices and strategies for internship interviews.
InternshipGPS is committed to serving the needs of MBA students in their career path navigation. Students are encouraged to contact InternshipGPS with ideas, suggestions and concerns regarding how the organization can serve them more effectively.
Why It Could Work:
Year after year, thousands of first-year MBA students throughout the world compete with one other for the top summer internship opportunities: however, while there are numerous job search engines and job posting websites, as well as countless off and online guides on resumes, cover letters and job interviews, there are few, if any, that truly focus on MBA students and centralize all of these opportunities and informational resources in one easy-to-navigate location.
More at:http://www.internshipgps.com/
InternshipGPS.com, an innovative online MBA internship resource center specially designed to facilitate the MBA internship search and overall application process for first-year graduate business students worldwide seeking opportunities in the United States.
How It Works:
At InternshipGPS.com, graduate business students can quickly view and link to the latest MBA internship opportunities posted by employers and recruiters from all across the web. In addition, interested employers and recruiters can contact InternshipGPS directly to post and/or promote their unique internship opportunities. Lastly, InternshipGPS will also provide guides and resources on resume and cover letter building, as well as on best practices and strategies for internship interviews.
InternshipGPS is committed to serving the needs of MBA students in their career path navigation. Students are encouraged to contact InternshipGPS with ideas, suggestions and concerns regarding how the organization can serve them more effectively.
Why It Could Work:
Year after year, thousands of first-year MBA students throughout the world compete with one other for the top summer internship opportunities: however, while there are numerous job search engines and job posting websites, as well as countless off and online guides on resumes, cover letters and job interviews, there are few, if any, that truly focus on MBA students and centralize all of these opportunities and informational resources in one easy-to-navigate location.
More at:http://www.internshipgps.com/
Indiaza.com is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information
What Company Is Offering:
Indiaza.com is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. Indiaza.com is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old Indian and desi friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
How It Works:
Indiaza.com is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. Indiaza.com is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old Indian and desi friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
To update your profile, you must visit the Edit Profile page. You can move through the different parts of your profile by clicking the tabs at the top of the page.
More at:http://www.indiaza.com/
Indiaza.com is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. Indiaza.com is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old Indian and desi friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
How It Works:
Indiaza.com is a social networking website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information. Indiaza.com is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old Indian and desi friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more.
To update your profile, you must visit the Edit Profile page. You can move through the different parts of your profile by clicking the tabs at the top of the page.
More at:http://www.indiaza.com/
Four Paws Hotel for a delightful holiday for every dog in particular
What Company Is Offering:
Four Paws Hotel for a delightful holiday. Providing individual care for every dog in particular, the specialists working for the luxury dog board kennels are there to make sure your dog feels comfortable and relaxed. Not only will your dog be offered the best pet care ever but will benefit from immediate medical assistance, provided by a qualified Veterinary Surgeon when necessary.
How It Works:
With extensive experience when it comes to dogs, they have put the foundation of a truly flourishing business and have many satisfied customers. The services they provide are a clear demonstration of their genuine passion and love for animals, always making sure that your dog feels just as comfortable as if he/she were at home.
During the period of stay, the pet care assistants will make sure your dog exercises and eats only healthy food. Special diets are provided upon request and you will have the opportunity to enjoy your personal holiday, knowing that your dog is in good hands. In fact, they even provide relaxation music, carefully chosen for your much loved pet.
More at:http://www.FourPawsHotel.co.uk
Four Paws Hotel for a delightful holiday. Providing individual care for every dog in particular, the specialists working for the luxury dog board kennels are there to make sure your dog feels comfortable and relaxed. Not only will your dog be offered the best pet care ever but will benefit from immediate medical assistance, provided by a qualified Veterinary Surgeon when necessary.
How It Works:
With extensive experience when it comes to dogs, they have put the foundation of a truly flourishing business and have many satisfied customers. The services they provide are a clear demonstration of their genuine passion and love for animals, always making sure that your dog feels just as comfortable as if he/she were at home.
During the period of stay, the pet care assistants will make sure your dog exercises and eats only healthy food. Special diets are provided upon request and you will have the opportunity to enjoy your personal holiday, knowing that your dog is in good hands. In fact, they even provide relaxation music, carefully chosen for your much loved pet.
More at:http://www.FourPawsHotel.co.uk
GameSkoot is first and only search engine dedicated to video games providing accurate and spam free information
What Company Is Offering:
GameSkoot wants to be the first and only search engine dedicated to video games providing accurate and spam free information.
Unique Features:
The first and only Search Engine 100% by gamers dedicated to gamers.
« Hot Stuff » section : the best customized news thread.
Perfectly accurate search results resulting from a combination of cutting-edge.
Technology and editorial know-how, our GamesRank technology.
More at:http://www.gameskoot.com/
GameSkoot wants to be the first and only search engine dedicated to video games providing accurate and spam free information.
Unique Features:
The first and only Search Engine 100% by gamers dedicated to gamers.
« Hot Stuff » section : the best customized news thread.
Perfectly accurate search results resulting from a combination of cutting-edge.
Technology and editorial know-how, our GamesRank technology.
More at:http://www.gameskoot.com/
Trendpedia is your free entry in to what’s Buzz in the Blog-o-sphere
What Company Is Offering:
Trendpedia is your free entry in to what’s Buzz in the Blog-o-sphere.
Search blogs — discover who’s discussing what, where, when and how. Trendpedia finds trends in social media. You choose the topics, enter the keywords, and click “Search Trend”.
Trendpedia finds the articles online that talk about your topics. Trendpedia organizes the articles in a trendline that shows the popularity of the topic over time — you can track a topic’s trendline from three months ago up to today.
How It Works:
Enter a topic, or several topics, click “search trend” and wait while Trendpedia speedily searches blogs in several languages.
Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.
Trendpedia collects posts about your topic per day. Click on the trendlines to find the articles about your topic posted on the date of choice. Watch the articles appear in the tabs below, organised according to topic and date.
More at:http://www.trendpedia.com/
Trendpedia is your free entry in to what’s Buzz in the Blog-o-sphere.
Search blogs — discover who’s discussing what, where, when and how. Trendpedia finds trends in social media. You choose the topics, enter the keywords, and click “Search Trend”.
Trendpedia finds the articles online that talk about your topics. Trendpedia organizes the articles in a trendline that shows the popularity of the topic over time — you can track a topic’s trendline from three months ago up to today.
How It Works:
Enter a topic, or several topics, click “search trend” and wait while Trendpedia speedily searches blogs in several languages.
Trendpedia’s line chart shows the popularity of the topics over time. Click on the chart to visit blog entries from a particular day.
Trendpedia collects posts about your topic per day. Click on the trendlines to find the articles about your topic posted on the date of choice. Watch the articles appear in the tabs below, organised according to topic and date.
More at:http://www.trendpedia.com/
Reality Digital is to provides software products and a hosted service platform for storing sharing, managing, and monetizing user generated content
What Company Is Offering:
Reality Digital is a San Francisco-based company that provides software products and a hosted service platform for storing sharing, managing, and monetizing user generated content (video, photos, games, text and more).
How It Works:
The Reality Digital Opus platform is a cost-effective, transparent service that can be rapidly launched as either a brand new web environment, or within your existing Web domain allowing your users to upload, manage and share digital video, audio and images on your web site.Reality Digital experts deploy and maintain and continue to innovate on a uniquely customized platform for your company, freeing you to focus on your core business and reap the benefits of enhanced user participation.
Reality Digital Opus is about putting tools in the hands of your customers that will enable them to build communities and create value for themselves and for your company.
More at:http://www.realitydigital.com/
Reality Digital is a San Francisco-based company that provides software products and a hosted service platform for storing sharing, managing, and monetizing user generated content (video, photos, games, text and more).
How It Works:
The Reality Digital Opus platform is a cost-effective, transparent service that can be rapidly launched as either a brand new web environment, or within your existing Web domain allowing your users to upload, manage and share digital video, audio and images on your web site.Reality Digital experts deploy and maintain and continue to innovate on a uniquely customized platform for your company, freeing you to focus on your core business and reap the benefits of enhanced user participation.
Reality Digital Opus is about putting tools in the hands of your customers that will enable them to build communities and create value for themselves and for your company.
More at:http://www.realitydigital.com/
NineSigma Inc is provider of search services for companies investigating outside research opportunities, has called down $4 million of a $4.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
NineSigma enables clients to source innovative ideas, technologies, products and services from outside their organizations quickly and inexpensively by connecting them to the best innovators and solution providers from around the world. Their unique "Discover-Connect-Solve" approach is based upon the principles of Open Innovation. Their clients access the largest and most comprehensive open network of scientific researchers in the world to solve their business needs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NineSigma Inc., a Cleveland-based provider of search services for companies investigating outside research opportunities, has called down $4 million of a $4.5 million Series E round, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include River Cities Capital Funds and Blue Chip Venture Co.
More at:http://www.ninesigma.com/
NineSigma enables clients to source innovative ideas, technologies, products and services from outside their organizations quickly and inexpensively by connecting them to the best innovators and solution providers from around the world. Their unique "Discover-Connect-Solve" approach is based upon the principles of Open Innovation. Their clients access the largest and most comprehensive open network of scientific researchers in the world to solve their business needs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NineSigma Inc., a Cleveland-based provider of search services for companies investigating outside research opportunities, has called down $4 million of a $4.5 million Series E round, according to a regulatory filing. Backers include River Cities Capital Funds and Blue Chip Venture Co.
More at:http://www.ninesigma.com/
Juicespot is the place where readers spill the juice and get the juice on books
What Company Is Offering:
Juicespot is the place where readers spill the juice and get the juice on books. Get book recommendations and book ideas. Check out reader comments and book reviews. Find a good book, discover a good read. Figure out what to read next! Juicespot has hundreds of good book suggestions.
How It Works:
Juicespot is the place to get the juice on what to read next. Get the heads up on a great new read by comparing multiple opinions written by book lovers like you. When you find something that sounds good—click and add it to your "My Gotta Reads" list. Then return the favor. How? Read on McDuff.
Spill the juice by sharing your take on some of your favourite books. Any hey, you don't have to be a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. All we're asking for is five lines or less. Of course, if you're feeling inspired, feel free to spout on. Just don't be shy. Here at Juicespot your opinion counts. Your fellow readers want to know what you think and what you recommend.
More at:http://www.juicespot.ca/
Juicespot is the place where readers spill the juice and get the juice on books. Get book recommendations and book ideas. Check out reader comments and book reviews. Find a good book, discover a good read. Figure out what to read next! Juicespot has hundreds of good book suggestions.
How It Works:
Juicespot is the place to get the juice on what to read next. Get the heads up on a great new read by comparing multiple opinions written by book lovers like you. When you find something that sounds good—click and add it to your "My Gotta Reads" list. Then return the favor. How? Read on McDuff.
Spill the juice by sharing your take on some of your favourite books. Any hey, you don't have to be a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. All we're asking for is five lines or less. Of course, if you're feeling inspired, feel free to spout on. Just don't be shy. Here at Juicespot your opinion counts. Your fellow readers want to know what you think and what you recommend.
More at:http://www.juicespot.ca/
Notanant is provide a fully interlinked social networking and website content management engine
What Company Is Offering:
Notanant is a UK based company that has been developing social networking and community technologies since before the term 'social networking' was even in use. Their systems enable you to build highly functional highly linked and networked web-sites and internet applications in a matter of minutes just with a web-browser.
How It Works:
As a company they provide a fully interlinked social networking and website content management engine - the main Notanant web-publishing platform. This is available as server software or hosted on our own systems.
They are currently working with a number of companies looking to build bespoke social networking and virtual community sites based on the underlying Notanant technology including applications for music and bands, and pooled resource sites.
Their main Notanant hosted-application runs on their own servers with fully backed up redundant technology. It is currently being used by a wide range of companies and associations from large-scale (100+ page) content for non-profit organisations, to businesses requiring easy to manage and update websites, to clubs and associations using Notanant for member management.
More at:http://www.notanant.com/
Notanant is a UK based company that has been developing social networking and community technologies since before the term 'social networking' was even in use. Their systems enable you to build highly functional highly linked and networked web-sites and internet applications in a matter of minutes just with a web-browser.
How It Works:
As a company they provide a fully interlinked social networking and website content management engine - the main Notanant web-publishing platform. This is available as server software or hosted on our own systems.
They are currently working with a number of companies looking to build bespoke social networking and virtual community sites based on the underlying Notanant technology including applications for music and bands, and pooled resource sites.
Their main Notanant hosted-application runs on their own servers with fully backed up redundant technology. It is currently being used by a wide range of companies and associations from large-scale (100+ page) content for non-profit organisations, to businesses requiring easy to manage and update websites, to clubs and associations using Notanant for member management.
More at:http://www.notanant.com/
EquineNow is an online classified site featuring horses for sale
What Company Is Offering:
EquineNow is an online classified site featuring horses for sale. If you are looking to buy or sell a horse, you've come to the right place. Use the links to browse through their listings of horses or get started right away by looking at their most recent ads. .
How It Works:
Login to the Manage Your Ads area and mark the Horse as "Sold" or "Hidden".
All ads will be shown on the site for 90 days from the date they were created. However, you may "turn off" an ad if your horse sells, or if you don't want it displayed online. You can renew your ad prior to the expiration date if you would like it to keep running.
You may add your pedigree so that it shows up correctly on the ad. For many horses, the pedigree information is already on record, but for some horses its not. In that case, what you need to do is fill out the sire / dam information (add a horse or edit a horse) at the AllBreed or PedigreeQuery sites mentioned above.
More at:http://www.equinenow.com/
EquineNow is an online classified site featuring horses for sale. If you are looking to buy or sell a horse, you've come to the right place. Use the links to browse through their listings of horses or get started right away by looking at their most recent ads. .
How It Works:
Login to the Manage Your Ads area and mark the Horse as "Sold" or "Hidden".
All ads will be shown on the site for 90 days from the date they were created. However, you may "turn off" an ad if your horse sells, or if you don't want it displayed online. You can renew your ad prior to the expiration date if you would like it to keep running.
You may add your pedigree so that it shows up correctly on the ad. For many horses, the pedigree information is already on record, but for some horses its not. In that case, what you need to do is fill out the sire / dam information (add a horse or edit a horse) at the AllBreed or PedigreeQuery sites mentioned above.
More at:http://www.equinenow.com/
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding
What Company Is Offering:
Autoquake offers you a better way to buy a used car. No stress, no hassle - just great service and low, low prices.
Because Autoquake is an online service, there are no showrooms to pay for, or salesman waiting to take their cut. That means our prices are rock-bottom. Expect to save 15%-20% over typical forecourt prices. There's no need to haggle, either - the price you see is the price you pay.
Low prices sometimes mean a no-frills approach to service. Not at Autoquake. Every car has gone through a comprehensive mechanical inspection before it appears online. You can take a test drive at our professional hand-over centre, buy on finance or arrange a warranty for added peace of mind, just as you would at an old-fashioned car dealer. If you want to speak to someone, our helpful staff are just a phone call away, six days a week.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding led by Highland Capital Partners in conjunction with existing investor Accel Partners. The financing is in addition to the Gbp3 million invested by Accel Partners in the summer of 2006.
More at:http://www.autoquake.com/
Autoquake offers you a better way to buy a used car. No stress, no hassle - just great service and low, low prices.
Because Autoquake is an online service, there are no showrooms to pay for, or salesman waiting to take their cut. That means our prices are rock-bottom. Expect to save 15%-20% over typical forecourt prices. There's no need to haggle, either - the price you see is the price you pay.
Low prices sometimes mean a no-frills approach to service. Not at Autoquake. Every car has gone through a comprehensive mechanical inspection before it appears online. You can take a test drive at our professional hand-over centre, buy on finance or arrange a warranty for added peace of mind, just as you would at an old-fashioned car dealer. If you want to speak to someone, our helpful staff are just a phone call away, six days a week.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding led by Highland Capital Partners in conjunction with existing investor Accel Partners. The financing is in addition to the Gbp3 million invested by Accel Partners in the summer of 2006.
More at:http://www.autoquake.com/
SaysMe Inc is provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
SaysMe.tv is the primary place that individual consumers come to voice their own opinions through television, Internet and radio advertising regarding politics, sports, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or whatever else they may be pursuing). SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SaysMe Inc, a Los Angeles-based provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing led by Intel Capital and Prime Capital. Also participating were Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, advertising pioneer Bill Apfelbaum, and other prominent angel investors. The proceeds from this funding round will be used to expand SaysMe's product offering beyond politics and to continue development of its suite of consumer-friendly technologies.
www.intelcapital.com
More at:http://www.saysme.tv/
SaysMe.tv is the primary place that individual consumers come to voice their own opinions through television, Internet and radio advertising regarding politics, sports, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or whatever else they may be pursuing). SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SaysMe Inc, a Los Angeles-based provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing led by Intel Capital and Prime Capital. Also participating were Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, advertising pioneer Bill Apfelbaum, and other prominent angel investors. The proceeds from this funding round will be used to expand SaysMe's product offering beyond politics and to continue development of its suite of consumer-friendly technologies.
www.intelcapital.com
More at:http://www.saysme.tv/
JYGY --The Next Step In Mobile Social Networking
About Company:
JYGY is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.
JYGY has some social networking features like you have seen on other sites. However, JYGY is integrated into the mobile world from the get go. So for instance you can SMS your friends - just find them on the friends or the messages page.
You can upload media into JYGY different ways. Right now we recommend doing it on the webpage, but you will be able to MMS it to JYGY and email as well later. You can send the media to your friends from JYGY as well.
More at:http://www.jygy.com/
JYGY is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.
JYGY has some social networking features like you have seen on other sites. However, JYGY is integrated into the mobile world from the get go. So for instance you can SMS your friends - just find them on the friends or the messages page.
You can upload media into JYGY different ways. Right now we recommend doing it on the webpage, but you will be able to MMS it to JYGY and email as well later. You can send the media to your friends from JYGY as well.
More at:http://www.jygy.com/
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk
What Company Is Offering:
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk .
Jetcost is a metasearch engine specialized in travel.
It does allow you to compare in just a second thousands of flights, hotels, car rentals, travel packages,...
How It Works:
Jetcost.co.uk compare for you flight tickets and find the cheapest flight among offers and promotions of online travel agencies, regular airlines and low-cost carrier. To book a cheap flight, you just need to launch a search and wait for the travel search engine Jetcost.co.uk to do the work for you. It will show you the best fare for your flight ticket and your airline travel. Discount flights, last minute flights, bargain airfares, charter flights offers and budget airline tickets, Jetcost is the insurance to travel at low cost and at the cheapest fare!
More at:http://www.jetcost.co.uk/
Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk .
Jetcost is a metasearch engine specialized in travel.
It does allow you to compare in just a second thousands of flights, hotels, car rentals, travel packages,...
How It Works:
Jetcost.co.uk compare for you flight tickets and find the cheapest flight among offers and promotions of online travel agencies, regular airlines and low-cost carrier. To book a cheap flight, you just need to launch a search and wait for the travel search engine Jetcost.co.uk to do the work for you. It will show you the best fare for your flight ticket and your airline travel. Discount flights, last minute flights, bargain airfares, charter flights offers and budget airline tickets, Jetcost is the insurance to travel at low cost and at the cheapest fare!
More at:http://www.jetcost.co.uk/
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development and/or their businesses
What Company Is Offering:
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, books, conferences, news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com useful to our members.Membership is free and takes just a minute to register. Members have exclusive content access and can participate in the many ChemWeb community features.
How It Works:
Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to their members.ChemWeb.com members can access a growing list of journal article abstracts and databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures. ChemWeb.com services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, Conference and Event Center, Bookstore and the online magazine, the alchemist.
More at:http://chemweb.com/
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, books, conferences, news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com useful to our members.Membership is free and takes just a minute to register. Members have exclusive content access and can participate in the many ChemWeb community features.
How It Works:
Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to their members.ChemWeb.com members can access a growing list of journal article abstracts and databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures. ChemWeb.com services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, Conference and Event Center, Bookstore and the online magazine, the alchemist.
More at:http://chemweb.com/
uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world
What Company Is Offering:
uberVU helps you regain control of The Cloud. Because uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world.
The name comes from “UBER”, which is the German word for “more”, “extra”, “super”, “very”. And “VU” is just a misspelled version of “view”. The name refers to having an augmented overview of all your comment and conversations. Your uber-view of the Web you created.
How It Works:
Publish content such as blog posts, classifieds, pictures, videos, news, press releases or any other type of structured content, from one central location. More control and flexibility. Makes sense. Think of it as your publishing headquarters.
See and interact with the responses you get to your content. So if you post some content on 2 different blogs, you’ll be able to see what people from both blogs have said about it. And you can even respond to them, so that the conversation continues.
More at: http://www.ubervu.com/
uberVU helps you regain control of The Cloud. Because uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world.
The name comes from “UBER”, which is the German word for “more”, “extra”, “super”, “very”. And “VU” is just a misspelled version of “view”. The name refers to having an augmented overview of all your comment and conversations. Your uber-view of the Web you created.
How It Works:
Publish content such as blog posts, classifieds, pictures, videos, news, press releases or any other type of structured content, from one central location. More control and flexibility. Makes sense. Think of it as your publishing headquarters.
See and interact with the responses you get to your content. So if you post some content on 2 different blogs, you’ll be able to see what people from both blogs have said about it. And you can even respond to them, so that the conversation continues.
More at: http://www.ubervu.com/
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses
What Company Is Offering:
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses.
Sendloop Help Center provides easy-to-read instructions for all sections and features of Sendloop.
How It Works:
Sendloop includes all professional features that you will need for your email marketing campaign combined with a very easy to use interface. In just a few minutes, you will get your account up and ready to send your first email campaign.
Sendloop is being improved every day to make your life easier about email marketing.
More at:http://www.sendloop.com/
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses.
Sendloop Help Center provides easy-to-read instructions for all sections and features of Sendloop.
How It Works:
Sendloop includes all professional features that you will need for your email marketing campaign combined with a very easy to use interface. In just a few minutes, you will get your account up and ready to send your first email campaign.
Sendloop is being improved every day to make your life easier about email marketing.
More at:http://www.sendloop.com/
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now
What Company Is Offering:
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.
Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.
How It Works:
All the demographic data they collect and use is entirely anonymous, so they can never attribute any age or location data to any specific person. So, if you are a user of any of these sites, you don't need to worry that the Sound Index has any information about you. However, if you are concerned, or want more details, please contact us at soundindex@bbc.co.uk.
You can also watch some of the newest bands hottest new tracks on Sound, the music show on BBC every Saturday.
The Sound Index is currently in a public service beta phase, with data sources being finalised. During this beta phase we shall also be implementing and tweaking the data currently in the Index, and investigating a weighting system, to allow the more active forms of interaction to contribute more heavily to the Index.
More at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/soundindex/
The BBC Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.
Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.
How It Works:
All the demographic data they collect and use is entirely anonymous, so they can never attribute any age or location data to any specific person. So, if you are a user of any of these sites, you don't need to worry that the Sound Index has any information about you. However, if you are concerned, or want more details, please contact us at soundindex@bbc.co.uk.
You can also watch some of the newest bands hottest new tracks on Sound, the music show on BBC every Saturday.
The Sound Index is currently in a public service beta phase, with data sources being finalised. During this beta phase we shall also be implementing and tweaking the data currently in the Index, and investigating a weighting system, to allow the more active forms of interaction to contribute more heavily to the Index.
More at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundindex/soundindex/
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you
What Company Is Offering:
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. They count Live Search web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, they compile their findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not!
How It Works:
View a person's popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.
Look over the rankings for names that interest you. Arrow icons show how their movement is trending. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.
Discover relationships among notable people. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you're interested in.Explore a celebrity's latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.
More at:http://search.live.com/xrank/results.aspx
xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. They count Live Search web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, they compile their findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who's hot and who's not!
How It Works:
View a person's popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.
Look over the rankings for names that interest you. Arrow icons show how their movement is trending. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.
Discover relationships among notable people. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you're interested in.Explore a celebrity's latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.
More at:http://search.live.com/xrank/results.aspx
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine
About Company:
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine. Simply enter your zip code, address and apartment number into the search engine, and Wakozi spits out a list of stores that will deliver your favorite drink right to your door.
More at:http://www.wakozi.com/
Wakozi is a portal that allows stores who offer delivery to be included in their search engine. Simply enter your zip code, address and apartment number into the search engine, and Wakozi spits out a list of stores that will deliver your favorite drink right to your door.
More at:http://www.wakozi.com/
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place
What Company Is Offering:
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.
How It Works:
Minggl is moving freely around the web while staying connected to multiple social networks. The Minggl toolbar monitors your networks for key events and friend activity to keep you posted as you browse other sites. It also enables you to manage content, friends, and your online identities across profiles from wherever you are.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.
How It Works:
Minggl is moving freely around the web while staying connected to multiple social networks. The Minggl toolbar monitors your networks for key events and friend activity to keep you posted as you browse other sites. It also enables you to manage content, friends, and your online identities across profiles from wherever you are.
More at:http://www.minggl.com/
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately
What Company Is Offering:
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Most metronomes are capable of playing beats from 35 to 250 BPM. Common uses of the metronome are helping you to maintain an established tempo while practicing, and learning difficult passages.
How It Works:
The first step in metronome use is to understand time signatures. Time signatures are found at the beginning of a musical piece, after the clef and the key signature. Time signatures (also called meter signatures) consist of two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in a measure, while the bottom number corresponds to the value of the beat. Most often, you will see 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per measure. Beats are commonly half notes (the bottom number of the meter signature is “2”), quarter notes (“4”) or dotted quarter notes (“8”).
More at:http://www.metronomeonline.com/
A metronome is a practice tool that produces a steady pulse (or beat) to help musicians play rhythms accurately. The pulses are measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Most metronomes are capable of playing beats from 35 to 250 BPM. Common uses of the metronome are helping you to maintain an established tempo while practicing, and learning difficult passages.
How It Works:
The first step in metronome use is to understand time signatures. Time signatures are found at the beginning of a musical piece, after the clef and the key signature. Time signatures (also called meter signatures) consist of two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in a measure, while the bottom number corresponds to the value of the beat. Most often, you will see 2, 3, 4 or 6 beats per measure. Beats are commonly half notes (the bottom number of the meter signature is “2”), quarter notes (“4”) or dotted quarter notes (“8”).
More at:http://www.metronomeonline.com/
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers
What Company Is Offering:
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers. Guided by the simple mission of helping companies build better software, ProjectLocker's services have expanded to include services for the complete lifecycle of software projects, from requirements documentation to build and test automation.
How It Works:
ProjectLocker serves companies from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals.
ProjectLocker is an innovator in the on-demand development space. Recent additions are ProjectLocker Analytics and BuildLocker. ProjectLocker Analytics works with ProjectLocker Subversion Hosting to help managers analyze developer activity, so they can better manage their projects. ProjectLocker Analytics is the first hosted source code analytics system. BuildLocker is also an industry first: a virtualized hosted continuous integration solution.
More at:http://www.projectlocker.com/
ProjectLocker is to provide on-demand tools for software developers. Guided by the simple mission of helping companies build better software, ProjectLocker's services have expanded to include services for the complete lifecycle of software projects, from requirements documentation to build and test automation.
How It Works:
ProjectLocker serves companies from startups to Fortune 1000 multinationals.
ProjectLocker is an innovator in the on-demand development space. Recent additions are ProjectLocker Analytics and BuildLocker. ProjectLocker Analytics works with ProjectLocker Subversion Hosting to help managers analyze developer activity, so they can better manage their projects. ProjectLocker Analytics is the first hosted source code analytics system. BuildLocker is also an industry first: a virtualized hosted continuous integration solution.
More at:http://www.projectlocker.com/
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever
What Company Is Offering:
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever. With a mobile device is like carrying your office in the palm of your hand.
Unique Features:
A complete list of your real estates paginated and sortable by type, date, name, owner, city and price.
Fully customizable property information such as typologies, notes, images, documents, Google Maps based address, rent/sell management...
Specific request could be associated to clients, in order to find out in a click properties matching their criteria.
Every sale/rent will be recorded in order to track the agent, the seller and the new owner. A simple statistics module let you find the best vendor, most sold typologies, most active agencies...
More at:http://www.macrocasa.com/
Macrocasa is a web-based software: let you manage your business in the best and simplest way ever. With a mobile device is like carrying your office in the palm of your hand.
Unique Features:
A complete list of your real estates paginated and sortable by type, date, name, owner, city and price.
Fully customizable property information such as typologies, notes, images, documents, Google Maps based address, rent/sell management...
Specific request could be associated to clients, in order to find out in a click properties matching their criteria.
Every sale/rent will be recorded in order to track the agent, the seller and the new owner. A simple statistics module let you find the best vendor, most sold typologies, most active agencies...
More at:http://www.macrocasa.com/
Friday, April 25, 2008
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding
What Company Is Offering:
Silverpop is a premier email service provider delivering a comprehensive array of on-demand, Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of enterprise-level organizations throughout the world. Its Software-as-a-Service approach makes it easy and affordable for marketers to create, automate and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns that are timely, relevant and measurable. With highly scalable tools supporting both high-volume BtoC marketing initiatives as well as demand generation activities for BtoB sales processes, Silverpop delivers a robust suite of marketing tools not available elsewhere in the marketplace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company's on-demand marketing suite.
The company has been recognized by Deloitte as the second fastest-growing technology company in Georgia, and Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise-oriented email service providers each of the last four years.
"On-demand marketing solutions are changing how marketers do their jobs. They are able to be more flexible, more responsive and more competitive, all with lower costs," said Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey. "The demand for Software-as-a-Service marketing solutions is growing at an amazing rate, and investors are beginning to realize the tremendous upside of this market."
More at: www.silverpop.com
Silverpop is a premier email service provider delivering a comprehensive array of on-demand, Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of enterprise-level organizations throughout the world. Its Software-as-a-Service approach makes it easy and affordable for marketers to create, automate and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns that are timely, relevant and measurable. With highly scalable tools supporting both high-volume BtoC marketing initiatives as well as demand generation activities for BtoB sales processes, Silverpop delivers a robust suite of marketing tools not available elsewhere in the marketplace.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company's on-demand marketing suite.
The company has been recognized by Deloitte as the second fastest-growing technology company in Georgia, and Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise-oriented email service providers each of the last four years.
"On-demand marketing solutions are changing how marketers do their jobs. They are able to be more flexible, more responsive and more competitive, all with lower costs," said Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey. "The demand for Software-as-a-Service marketing solutions is growing at an amazing rate, and investors are beginning to realize the tremendous upside of this market."
More at: www.silverpop.com
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives
What Company Is Offering:
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives. They fill the information gap that exists in the research process for portfolio managers, analysts and management teams, uncovering information they would not see otherwise, and help theirr clients ask and answer more effective questions, identify emerging trends, and generate better ideas-faster.
How It Works:
FirstRain combines cutting-edge technology with models of companies and topics in their market context to extract only the most relevant intelligence from the web-including hard-to-find sources such as sector-specific sources, premium subscription sites, influential blogs and local and international news. They deliver personalized results tailored to our clients' particular strategy and view of the market via email or web access.
FirstRain delivers personalized, robust data to keep you abreast of developments impacting your investments. Their search-driven research fits the investment professional's workflow by applying pattern detection and adaptive models of business concepts, companies and industries to the web to uncover information that you would not see otherwise. FirstRain extends your information reach and sharpens your edge.
FirstRain is a privately held company, headquartered in Foster City, CA. The company has sales client-services offices in New York, NY, and research and development facilities in Gurgaon. Investors include Oak Investment Partners, Ampersand Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://firstrain.com/
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives. They fill the information gap that exists in the research process for portfolio managers, analysts and management teams, uncovering information they would not see otherwise, and help theirr clients ask and answer more effective questions, identify emerging trends, and generate better ideas-faster.
How It Works:
FirstRain combines cutting-edge technology with models of companies and topics in their market context to extract only the most relevant intelligence from the web-including hard-to-find sources such as sector-specific sources, premium subscription sites, influential blogs and local and international news. They deliver personalized results tailored to our clients' particular strategy and view of the market via email or web access.
FirstRain delivers personalized, robust data to keep you abreast of developments impacting your investments. Their search-driven research fits the investment professional's workflow by applying pattern detection and adaptive models of business concepts, companies and industries to the web to uncover information that you would not see otherwise. FirstRain extends your information reach and sharpens your edge.
FirstRain is a privately held company, headquartered in Foster City, CA. The company has sales client-services offices in New York, NY, and research and development facilities in Gurgaon. Investors include Oak Investment Partners, Ampersand Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://firstrain.com/
Campusfood.com
What Company Is Offering:
Campusfood.com, Inc. is the leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.
How It Works:
Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster. Campusfood.com is the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to order food from your favorite restaurants. Avoid busy signals, miscommunications, AND save tons of money by taking advantage of exclusive meal deals and specials.
Campusfood.com customer service is standing by...7 days a week, 9AM - 3AM EST.
More at:http://www.campusfood.com/
Campusfood.com, Inc. is the leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.
How It Works:
Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster. Campusfood.com is the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to order food from your favorite restaurants. Avoid busy signals, miscommunications, AND save tons of money by taking advantage of exclusive meal deals and specials.
Campusfood.com customer service is standing by...7 days a week, 9AM - 3AM EST.
More at:http://www.campusfood.com/
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you
What Company Is Offering:
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you.
If you’ve got a big appetite for knowledge, or when you need to keep up to date on a specific topic - turn to Feedables for sizzling hot content .
How It Works:
Feedable is an aggregation website covering a specific topic of information utilizing rss technology.
When they create a Feedables site they scour the deepest parts of the web to find the most pertinent information on that particuliar topic. They harness the power of news articles, podcasts, video and imagery from the biggest news sources to the most niche blogs.
More at:http://www.feedables.com/
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you.
If you’ve got a big appetite for knowledge, or when you need to keep up to date on a specific topic - turn to Feedables for sizzling hot content .
How It Works:
Feedable is an aggregation website covering a specific topic of information utilizing rss technology.
When they create a Feedables site they scour the deepest parts of the web to find the most pertinent information on that particuliar topic. They harness the power of news articles, podcasts, video and imagery from the biggest news sources to the most niche blogs.
More at:http://www.feedables.com/
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL
What Company Is Offering:
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL. The thread is tied to the *.www.threadbuddy.com URL that you choose, so there are endless open "channels" to use. The thread buddy is search engine friendly since it has an integrated plaintext and rss feed. Also, the thread buddy can easily be integrated into any site. See the help page for how to integrate a Thread Buddy into your site.
How It Works:
It is easy to add a Thread Buddy to your site! Just replace the URL in the iframe tag below with your own thread buddy (yourname.threadbuddy.com), it's that simple.At a minimum, the following is code is all that is needed to put a Thread Buddy on your site.
More at:http://www.threadbuddy.com/
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL. The thread is tied to the *.www.threadbuddy.com URL that you choose, so there are endless open "channels" to use. The thread buddy is search engine friendly since it has an integrated plaintext and rss feed. Also, the thread buddy can easily be integrated into any site. See the help page for how to integrate a Thread Buddy into your site.
How It Works:
It is easy to add a Thread Buddy to your site! Just replace the URL in the iframe tag below with your own thread buddy (yourname.threadbuddy.com), it's that simple.At a minimum, the following is code is all that is needed to put a Thread Buddy on your site.
More at:http://www.threadbuddy.com/
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses
What Company Is Offering:
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses. Members can edit, print and download copies of real legal documents used and drafted by the top law firms for both Fortune 500 Companies and small cap operations.
How It Works:
RealDealDocs.com provides a wide variety of legal agreements ranging from executive employment agreements, confidentiality agreements mortgage loan agreements, lease agreements, and more. RealDealDocs.com offers over 10 million other legal documents and clauses in addition to the independent contractor and aforementioned agreements.
Documents and clauses found at RealDealDocs.com are drafted by some of the top law firms for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the smallest of small cap companies. Since these legal documents have been drafted by the best law firms in the country, they are not only relevant work products, but also individual opportunities to gain important competitive intelligence about how top law firms are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients; not to mention an invaluable peek at the inner workings of the World’s largest companies.
More at:http://www.RealDealDocs.com
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses. Members can edit, print and download copies of real legal documents used and drafted by the top law firms for both Fortune 500 Companies and small cap operations.
How It Works:
RealDealDocs.com provides a wide variety of legal agreements ranging from executive employment agreements, confidentiality agreements mortgage loan agreements, lease agreements, and more. RealDealDocs.com offers over 10 million other legal documents and clauses in addition to the independent contractor and aforementioned agreements.
Documents and clauses found at RealDealDocs.com are drafted by some of the top law firms for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the smallest of small cap companies. Since these legal documents have been drafted by the best law firms in the country, they are not only relevant work products, but also individual opportunities to gain important competitive intelligence about how top law firms are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients; not to mention an invaluable peek at the inner workings of the World’s largest companies.
More at:http://www.RealDealDocs.com
Greenengineseo.com--new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms
What Company Is Offering:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms.
How It Works:
Their mission is to help brands harness the power of the Internet to create value for their customers. Solutions are driven by your needs and your competitive position. Ultimately they endeavor to increase online traffic, sales and profits.
The first move is to initiate a dialogue. As experts who care about helping businesses outperform the competition, this is your opportunity to find out more about their skills, expertise and philosophy.They are available to give you candid feedback on your website and media plan. Due to demand, they only take on new clients on a case by case basis but they are certainly available to give you competitive advice.
Recent Updates:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms. announced a new campaign for a leading automotive manufacturer.
More at:http://www.greenengineseo.com/
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms.
How It Works:
Their mission is to help brands harness the power of the Internet to create value for their customers. Solutions are driven by your needs and your competitive position. Ultimately they endeavor to increase online traffic, sales and profits.
The first move is to initiate a dialogue. As experts who care about helping businesses outperform the competition, this is your opportunity to find out more about their skills, expertise and philosophy.They are available to give you candid feedback on your website and media plan. Due to demand, they only take on new clients on a case by case basis but they are certainly available to give you competitive advice.
Recent Updates:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms. announced a new campaign for a leading automotive manufacturer.
More at:http://www.greenengineseo.com/
KeepandShare.com
What Company Is Offering:
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group file & calendar sharing easy. With a few clicks, anyone can create a secure group file or calendar sharing center in 30 seconds. Keepandshare.com is a private 'sharing space' where families, friends, clients, businesses, and groups of any kind can keep and share calendars, files, documents, lists, journals and photos safely and privately. With over 280,000 registered members KeepandShare.com is among the web's fastest growing sites.
How It Works:
Its free online secure file sharing resource center. With free online file sharing combined with extensive web-based file sharing resources, KeepandShare's announcement today of their free secure file sharing resource center means users can create file sharing program and share online file sharing faster than ever before. Impressive new file sharing features mean users can do even more with their private file sharing software KeepandShare account.
KeepandShare's free secure file sharing online web center is available now at:
http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
The private file sharing software is secure because it's 100% private to you, but you can share file at any time by just inviting friends to have access to the file or entire folders. You can even mark files public. Lastly, the web-based file sharing in KeepandShare can be combined with creating native documents and sharing online calendars, so it's truly a complete solution for group sharing needs. Kudos to KeepandShare."
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group sharing easy. KeepandShare's free secure file and calendar sharing accounts can be accessed securely from any Internet connected computer.
More at:http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group file & calendar sharing easy. With a few clicks, anyone can create a secure group file or calendar sharing center in 30 seconds. Keepandshare.com is a private 'sharing space' where families, friends, clients, businesses, and groups of any kind can keep and share calendars, files, documents, lists, journals and photos safely and privately. With over 280,000 registered members KeepandShare.com is among the web's fastest growing sites.
How It Works:
Its free online secure file sharing resource center. With free online file sharing combined with extensive web-based file sharing resources, KeepandShare's announcement today of their free secure file sharing resource center means users can create file sharing program and share online file sharing faster than ever before. Impressive new file sharing features mean users can do even more with their private file sharing software KeepandShare account.
KeepandShare's free secure file sharing online web center is available now at:
http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
The private file sharing software is secure because it's 100% private to you, but you can share file at any time by just inviting friends to have access to the file or entire folders. You can even mark files public. Lastly, the web-based file sharing in KeepandShare can be combined with creating native documents and sharing online calendars, so it's truly a complete solution for group sharing needs. Kudos to KeepandShare."
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group sharing easy. KeepandShare's free secure file and calendar sharing accounts can be accessed securely from any Internet connected computer.
More at:http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones got $20 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Obopay, Inc. is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay's mobile application, text message, mobile Web, widget or Obopay.com. As the first mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, only Obopay works on any phone and any carrier to empower consumers and businesses with the convenience of mobile payments.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay's enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.
"This round of investment builds on Obopay's proven success in the mobile payments market," explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. "With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American -- and global -- mobile payments market."
More at:www.obopay.com
Obopay, Inc. is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay's mobile application, text message, mobile Web, widget or Obopay.com. As the first mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, only Obopay works on any phone and any carrier to empower consumers and businesses with the convenience of mobile payments.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay's enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.
"This round of investment builds on Obopay's proven success in the mobile payments market," explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. "With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American -- and global -- mobile payments market."
More at:www.obopay.com
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies has closed a $25 million Series A round
About Company:
Retail Convergence Inc. is a portfolio of ecommerce companies leveraging a common platform, infrastructure, customer file and brand relationships. Current portfolio companies include RueLaLa.com and SmartBargains.com. Retail Convergence is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of financing.
Lead investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst Partners. The first initiative for the new organization included the acquisition of SmartBargains.com, the leading online, off-price retailer. Additionally, Retail Convergence today announced the launch of RueLaLa.com, the invitation-only, private sale ecommerce site driven exclusively by user-generated membership.
RueLaLa.com is an exciting addition to the Retail Convergence portfolio as it offers an entirely new shopping experience. The private sale model provides consumers exclusive access to scheduled sales of upscale brands. Each private sale is brand-specific, lasts 2 days and features current season merchandise. Membership is completely user-generated – the only way an individual can join RueLaLa.com is through an invitation from an existing member. In today’s tepid retail environment this unique peer-to-peer, viral marketing driven model addresses consumers’ demand for unique shopping experiences.
More at:www.ruelala.com
www.smartbargains.com.
Retail Convergence Inc. is a portfolio of ecommerce companies leveraging a common platform, infrastructure, customer file and brand relationships. Current portfolio companies include RueLaLa.com and SmartBargains.com. Retail Convergence is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of financing.
Lead investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst Partners. The first initiative for the new organization included the acquisition of SmartBargains.com, the leading online, off-price retailer. Additionally, Retail Convergence today announced the launch of RueLaLa.com, the invitation-only, private sale ecommerce site driven exclusively by user-generated membership.
RueLaLa.com is an exciting addition to the Retail Convergence portfolio as it offers an entirely new shopping experience. The private sale model provides consumers exclusive access to scheduled sales of upscale brands. Each private sale is brand-specific, lasts 2 days and features current season merchandise. Membership is completely user-generated – the only way an individual can join RueLaLa.com is through an invitation from an existing member. In today’s tepid retail environment this unique peer-to-peer, viral marketing driven model addresses consumers’ demand for unique shopping experiences.
More at:www.ruelala.com
www.smartbargains.com.
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing serviceshas secured $4.5 million in first-round venture fund
What Company Is Offering:
RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.
More at:http://www.RightScale.com.
RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.
More at:http://www.RightScale.com.
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging
What Company Is Offering:
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging:
Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors;
Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.
How It Works:
Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!
Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.
Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo Members’ community. Planet Plugoo is a micro-social chat-centric network. You can share your interests with people from all over the world, meet new friends and chat with them. You can browse Planet Plugoo using tags about interests, localization… Your personal information (email address, instant messaging username) are never revealed to other Planet Plugoo Members.
More at:http://www.plugoo.com/
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging:
Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors;
Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.
How It Works:
Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!
Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.
Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo Members’ community. Planet Plugoo is a micro-social chat-centric network. You can share your interests with people from all over the world, meet new friends and chat with them. You can browse Planet Plugoo using tags about interests, localization… Your personal information (email address, instant messaging username) are never revealed to other Planet Plugoo Members.
More at:http://www.plugoo.com/
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds
What Company Is Offering:
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds. It is a hosted, on-demand service that provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads. There's no software to install or configure - they manage everything on their servers.
And the best part - the money goes straight into your own merchant account instantly when you make a sale.
Unique Features:
Sell any kind of Download
Software, ebooks, digital photos and artwork, screencasts, music, manuals, documents, videos, schematics - if it's a file, you can sell it with our system. You can even bundle multiple downloads on one item.
Automatic Download Delivery
A secure direct download link is automatically delivered to your customer after they order. The download links automatically expire, and the location of the files is protected from unauthorized access.
Your Own Customizable Store
Sell your digital goods through your store - complete with shopping cart, checkout, and payment integration. Quickly customize the look and feel with your own HTML layout and stylesheet files.
Merchant Control Panel
Setup and control everything from your own private Merchant Control Panel. Setup and customize your store, view your orders and sales statistics, and view information about your customers. It's all there.
PayPal Integration
Integrates seamlessly with your own PayPal account. There's no waiting to get paid - the money goes straight into your account when you make a sale.
More at:http://www.cerizmo.com/
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds. It is a hosted, on-demand service that provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads. There's no software to install or configure - they manage everything on their servers.
And the best part - the money goes straight into your own merchant account instantly when you make a sale.
Unique Features:
Sell any kind of Download
Software, ebooks, digital photos and artwork, screencasts, music, manuals, documents, videos, schematics - if it's a file, you can sell it with our system. You can even bundle multiple downloads on one item.
Automatic Download Delivery
A secure direct download link is automatically delivered to your customer after they order. The download links automatically expire, and the location of the files is protected from unauthorized access.
Your Own Customizable Store
Sell your digital goods through your store - complete with shopping cart, checkout, and payment integration. Quickly customize the look and feel with your own HTML layout and stylesheet files.
Merchant Control Panel
Setup and control everything from your own private Merchant Control Panel. Setup and customize your store, view your orders and sales statistics, and view information about your customers. It's all there.
PayPal Integration
Integrates seamlessly with your own PayPal account. There's no waiting to get paid - the money goes straight into your account when you make a sale.
More at:http://www.cerizmo.com/
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction
What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
How It Works:
After registering, you have a couple of different ways to post content. First off, you can start a new story by clicking the "Protagonize!" link from your right-hand menu. That will get you started with a fresh, brand new story. If you're not signed in to your Protagonize account, you'll be prompted to do so before posting anything.
Protagonize lets you explore your inner author: simply read and be amazed by the creative prowess of other writers, subscribe via RSS, or contribute to stories yourself. Registered members get their own author profile page, can write new stories, branches and chapters, add page markers, keep track of their favourite authors, add comments, rate stories, and more.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
How It Works:
After registering, you have a couple of different ways to post content. First off, you can start a new story by clicking the "Protagonize!" link from your right-hand menu. That will get you started with a fresh, brand new story. If you're not signed in to your Protagonize account, you'll be prompted to do so before posting anything.
Protagonize lets you explore your inner author: simply read and be amazed by the creative prowess of other writers, subscribe via RSS, or contribute to stories yourself. Registered members get their own author profile page, can write new stories, branches and chapters, add page markers, keep track of their favourite authors, add comments, rate stories, and more.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Top Business Trends
6 business ideas that take advantage of the top business trends.
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NuWire Investor:
Previously, NuWire identified and ranked the Top 5 Business Trends that present great opportunities for business owners. In this companion article, we present 6 innovative business ideas that exemplify these trends; however, aspiring business owners may find that, with a little food for thought and a lot of motivation, the opportunities are endless.
Foreign market consulting
A business in foreign market consulting can help U.S.-based businesses take advantage of exporting opportunities. Because of their high demand overseas, sophisticated capital goods such as medical equipment and electrical machinery may offer some of the greatest potential for exporting. Additionally, the emergence of the middle and upper-classes in rapidly developing countries such as China and Russia has also driven demand for luxury goods such as diamond jewelry.
In addition to the U.S., opportunities for foreign market consultants exist in Latin American markets. Latin American currencies are closely tied to the weakening U.S. dollar, and thus hold lower value than other global currency markets. For such a venture, Spanish-speaking individuals would possess a significant advantage.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
business-trends.jpg
NuWire Investor:
Previously, NuWire identified and ranked the Top 5 Business Trends that present great opportunities for business owners. In this companion article, we present 6 innovative business ideas that exemplify these trends; however, aspiring business owners may find that, with a little food for thought and a lot of motivation, the opportunities are endless.
Foreign market consulting
A business in foreign market consulting can help U.S.-based businesses take advantage of exporting opportunities. Because of their high demand overseas, sophisticated capital goods such as medical equipment and electrical machinery may offer some of the greatest potential for exporting. Additionally, the emergence of the middle and upper-classes in rapidly developing countries such as China and Russia has also driven demand for luxury goods such as diamond jewelry.
In addition to the U.S., opportunities for foreign market consultants exist in Latin American markets. Latin American currencies are closely tied to the weakening U.S. dollar, and thus hold lower value than other global currency markets. For such a venture, Spanish-speaking individuals would possess a significant advantage.
Link--Virtual Entrepreneur
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away
What Company Is Offering:
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away.
ChunkIt! is an exciting new offering from TigerLogic Corporation (formerly Raining Data Corporation). Their goal has been to take the frustration out of Web searching, by directing you towards the ideal Web pages containing precisely the information you need. No more aimless surfin’ and searchin’. No more chasing after lame links. No more bouncing between multiple windows.
How It Works:
After a quick install, you'll see the new ChunkIt! search box appear in your browser. By entering key words like you would with any search engine, valuable information from the Web will become much easier to find. ChunkIt! can help you discover information buried deep inside the Web hundreds of times faster than conventional search tools. ChunkIt! does this by searching through web pages, as well as its links, extracting the valuable "chunks" of information contained in the target pages that meet your search criteria. You'll no longer have to put up with the endless lists of website links and cryptic abstracts delivered by conventional search engines.
More at:http://www.tigerlogic.com/
ChunkIt! is a personal search engine for your browser that lets you see exactly where to get precisely what you want, BEFORE you click away.
ChunkIt! is an exciting new offering from TigerLogic Corporation (formerly Raining Data Corporation). Their goal has been to take the frustration out of Web searching, by directing you towards the ideal Web pages containing precisely the information you need. No more aimless surfin’ and searchin’. No more chasing after lame links. No more bouncing between multiple windows.
How It Works:
After a quick install, you'll see the new ChunkIt! search box appear in your browser. By entering key words like you would with any search engine, valuable information from the Web will become much easier to find. ChunkIt! can help you discover information buried deep inside the Web hundreds of times faster than conventional search tools. ChunkIt! does this by searching through web pages, as well as its links, extracting the valuable "chunks" of information contained in the target pages that meet your search criteria. You'll no longer have to put up with the endless lists of website links and cryptic abstracts delivered by conventional search engines.
More at:http://www.tigerlogic.com/
Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once
About Company:
Familybuilder(formally iFamily) is a leading software application development company focused on building family-oriented applications within online social networks. The company's flagship product, Family Tree, is the leading social genealogy application on Facebook and Bebo.
Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services, Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once to help people find and communicate with relatives, build family trees, preserve family history, track family activity and more.
More at:http://www.familybuilder.com/
Familybuilder(formally iFamily) is a leading software application development company focused on building family-oriented applications within online social networks. The company's flagship product, Family Tree, is the leading social genealogy application on Facebook and Bebo.
Unlike stand-alone online genealogy services, Familybuilder is positioned to leverage the social graphs of multiple online social networks at once to help people find and communicate with relatives, build family trees, preserve family history, track family activity and more.
More at:http://www.familybuilder.com/
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience
What Company Is Offering:
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience.ShopWindoz is the new creative shopping network from Berlin. Creatives of all types are turning exciting ideas into unique products outside the mainstream. ShopWindoz gives these designers and artists the opportunity to become shop owners and sell their products online to a global audience.
All registered users can rate a seller’s shop window design on a five-star scale in the “Shop Window Design” feature. In the “Shop Info” column you’ll find the overall rating and the total number of ratings.
How Is It Different:
Unlike most other shopping platforms, sellers can fully customise their shop window to their individual taste and present themselves however they want.
For the first time it is possible for buyers to truly go window shopping on the web.
More at:http://www.shopwindoz.com/
ShopWindoz is a shopping site on which sellers can easily set up a shop and sell their products to a global audience.ShopWindoz is the new creative shopping network from Berlin. Creatives of all types are turning exciting ideas into unique products outside the mainstream. ShopWindoz gives these designers and artists the opportunity to become shop owners and sell their products online to a global audience.
All registered users can rate a seller’s shop window design on a five-star scale in the “Shop Window Design” feature. In the “Shop Info” column you’ll find the overall rating and the total number of ratings.
How Is It Different:
Unlike most other shopping platforms, sellers can fully customise their shop window to their individual taste and present themselves however they want.
For the first time it is possible for buyers to truly go window shopping on the web.
More at:http://www.shopwindoz.com/
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network for content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV's platform technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels through its carrier and operator partners to more than three million subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Leader Ventures, an investment firm offering blended debt and equity financing, announced today that it has provided $5 million of equipment financing to MobiTV, the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks.
"Millions of subscribers enjoy mobile and broadband entertainment services," said Patrick Gordan, managing director at Leader Ventures. "MobiTV gives wireless carriers and other operator partners the ability to deliver content almost anywhere," Gordan added.
"We are delighted to be working with Leader Ventures on our equipment financing," said Charlie Nooney, chief executive officer and chairman of MobiTV. "As we continue to expand our footprint and bring our services to an even larger audience, new equipment is essential to our goals of improving the performance of mobile television's content delivery infrastructure and delivering a richer, more rewarding media experience to viewers."
More at:http://www.mobitv.com/
MobiTV is a leader in mobile content and services, developing and offering technology that powers an end-to-end managed network for content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV's platform technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television networks and major music labels through its carrier and operator partners to more than three million subscribers worldwide.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Leader Ventures, an investment firm offering blended debt and equity financing, announced today that it has provided $5 million of equipment financing to MobiTV, the leading provider and platform for content delivery over mobile and broadband networks.
"Millions of subscribers enjoy mobile and broadband entertainment services," said Patrick Gordan, managing director at Leader Ventures. "MobiTV gives wireless carriers and other operator partners the ability to deliver content almost anywhere," Gordan added.
"We are delighted to be working with Leader Ventures on our equipment financing," said Charlie Nooney, chief executive officer and chairman of MobiTV. "As we continue to expand our footprint and bring our services to an even larger audience, new equipment is essential to our goals of improving the performance of mobile television's content delivery infrastructure and delivering a richer, more rewarding media experience to viewers."
More at:http://www.mobitv.com/
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding
What Company Is Offering:
MediaScrape is a world leading broadcaster of global, multi-lingual breaking news video.Their partners include BBC News; CBC News; Asia News International and thirty other leading news broadcasters around the world.
New distribution opportunities provided by MediaScrape broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for breaking news, and advertisers have access to highly targeted audiences which driver higher CPMs.
MediaScrape also encourages individuals around the world to submit their news stories, providing a venue for empowered individual journalism as the most democratic form of news reporting.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding from an undisclosed investor. The company referred to the round as its second, but TechCrunch notes that earlier coverage indicates that it's actually MediaScrape's fourth time at the funding trough. www.mediascrape.com
More at:http://www.mediascrape.com/
MediaScrape is a world leading broadcaster of global, multi-lingual breaking news video.Their partners include BBC News; CBC News; Asia News International and thirty other leading news broadcasters around the world.
New distribution opportunities provided by MediaScrape broadcasters can further monetize their clips, web publishers have a new source for breaking news, and advertisers have access to highly targeted audiences which driver higher CPMs.
MediaScrape also encourages individuals around the world to submit their news stories, providing a venue for empowered individual journalism as the most democratic form of news reporting.
How Much They Got From VCs:
MediaScrape, a Montreal-based video news aggregator, has raised $3.2 million in VC funding from an undisclosed investor. The company referred to the round as its second, but TechCrunch notes that earlier coverage indicates that it's actually MediaScrape's fourth time at the funding trough. www.mediascrape.com
More at:http://www.mediascrape.com/
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the casual sports network got series A round funding
What Company is offering:
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the first casual sports network in North America focused exclusively on developing, publishing and distributing exceptional sports games and entertainment across the Internet. Play Hard is creating the next-generation in online sports with no massive download, no long waiting for the game to load, and no required fees to play. Play Hard provides its audience with high-quality sports titles that can be played almost anywhere and anytime.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Play Hard Sports, Inc., the first studio in North America to exclusively develop, publish, and distribute casual sports games and content over the Internet, today announced the company's official launch as well as a Series A round of funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Jeffrey Anderson, the former President and CEO of Turbine, Inc., announced the formation of his new online gaming company after months of industry speculation.
"Play Hard is an exciting opportunity for sports fans of every age who are looking for something new to play," said Jeffrey Anderson, the founder and CEO of Play Hard Sports, Inc. "Online games continue to change the way that people interact, and Play Hard is the newest evolution in sports. Our online games will free players from the couch, allowing them play nearly whenever and wherever they want."
More at:www.playhard.net
Play Hard Sports, Inc. is the first casual sports network in North America focused exclusively on developing, publishing and distributing exceptional sports games and entertainment across the Internet. Play Hard is creating the next-generation in online sports with no massive download, no long waiting for the game to load, and no required fees to play. Play Hard provides its audience with high-quality sports titles that can be played almost anywhere and anytime.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Play Hard Sports, Inc., the first studio in North America to exclusively develop, publish, and distribute casual sports games and content over the Internet, today announced the company's official launch as well as a Series A round of funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Jeffrey Anderson, the former President and CEO of Turbine, Inc., announced the formation of his new online gaming company after months of industry speculation.
"Play Hard is an exciting opportunity for sports fans of every age who are looking for something new to play," said Jeffrey Anderson, the founder and CEO of Play Hard Sports, Inc. "Online games continue to change the way that people interact, and Play Hard is the newest evolution in sports. Our online games will free players from the couch, allowing them play nearly whenever and wherever they want."
More at:www.playhard.net
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Tiny Prints, Inc. is a web-based company comprised of two brands offering premium, personalized, social stationery, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas. Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas provide simple, modern and unique stationery from birth announcements to baby shower and wedding and party invitations to thank you cards and holiday photo cards. Offering exclusive designs from the nation's top designers, easy card personalization, a powerful preview engine and top-notch customer service, their designs have been lauded by numerous television networks, publications and celebrity parents.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery, announced today that Summit Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) have acquired a minority interest in the company. This investment marks the first external round of funding received to date for Tiny Prints.
Tiny Prints is a web-based company comprised of two social stationery brands, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas (www.weddingpaperdivas.com). Both brands offer premium, affordable stationery without foregoing the high-end customer experience found at stationery retailers. Rather than automating every step in the production process, Tiny Prints has developed groundbreaking technology that allows the company to deliver a personal, customer experience that consumers prefer. Since their inception, both Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas have been recognized for their exclusive stationery designs that include holiday cards, birth announcements, and all other forms of wedding and lifestyle stationery.
More at:www.tinyprints.com
Tiny Prints, Inc. is a web-based company comprised of two brands offering premium, personalized, social stationery, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas. Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas provide simple, modern and unique stationery from birth announcements to baby shower and wedding and party invitations to thank you cards and holiday photo cards. Offering exclusive designs from the nation's top designers, easy card personalization, a powerful preview engine and top-notch customer service, their designs have been lauded by numerous television networks, publications and celebrity parents.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tiny Prints, Inc, a leading online retailer of premium, personalized, social stationery, announced today that Summit Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) have acquired a minority interest in the company. This investment marks the first external round of funding received to date for Tiny Prints.
Tiny Prints is a web-based company comprised of two social stationery brands, Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas (www.weddingpaperdivas.com). Both brands offer premium, affordable stationery without foregoing the high-end customer experience found at stationery retailers. Rather than automating every step in the production process, Tiny Prints has developed groundbreaking technology that allows the company to deliver a personal, customer experience that consumers prefer. Since their inception, both Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas have been recognized for their exclusive stationery designs that include holiday cards, birth announcements, and all other forms of wedding and lifestyle stationery.
More at:www.tinyprints.com
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere, raised $15 million in Series C funding
What Company Is Offering:
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments, and its first commercial product is for the mobile handset market. Audience was selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." The company is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only one with advanced noise suppression technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Audience announced it raised $15 million in Series C funding in March, bringing the total funding amount to date to $45 million. Demonstrating confidence in the company's technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system, existing investors funded the round. These include NEA, Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance.
"Audience's technology is a remarkable innovation with many applications," said George Pavlov, General Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Audience Board member. "The company already has design wins for its first voice processor for the mobile handset market and will be making its technology available to other markets in the future."
More at:http://www.audience.com
Audience is a voice processor company that enables clear communications anywhere with noise suppression technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The technology is applicable across a broad range of consumer products where voice needs to be intelligible in noisy environments, and its first commercial product is for the mobile handset market. Audience was selected as the Most Innovative True Mobile Start-Up for the "2008 GSMA Mobile Innovation Global Awards." The company is one of 34 founding member companies of the Open Handset Alliance and the only one with advanced noise suppression technology.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Audience announced it raised $15 million in Series C funding in March, bringing the total funding amount to date to $45 million. Demonstrating confidence in the company's technology based on the intelligence of the human hearing system, existing investors funded the round. These include NEA, Tallwood Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital and VentureTech Alliance.
"Audience's technology is a remarkable innovation with many applications," said George Pavlov, General Partner, Tallwood Venture Capital, and Audience Board member. "The company already has design wins for its first voice processor for the mobile handset market and will be making its technology available to other markets in the future."
More at:http://www.audience.com
With vlingo users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text
What Company Is Offering:
Using innovative speech recognition technology, vlingo delivers a single voice interface that can work with any mobile application without training or other constraints. With vlingo access to your mobile internet applications is no longer held hostage by twelve tiny keys.
How It Works:
At vlingo they unlock access to wireless data services. They provide wireless carriers and wireless application providers a voice interface to their applications. With vlingo, instead of triple-tapping on a small keyboard, users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text.
More at:http://www.vlingomobile.com/
Using innovative speech recognition technology, vlingo delivers a single voice interface that can work with any mobile application without training or other constraints. With vlingo access to your mobile internet applications is no longer held hostage by twelve tiny keys.
How It Works:
At vlingo they unlock access to wireless data services. They provide wireless carriers and wireless application providers a voice interface to their applications. With vlingo, instead of triple-tapping on a small keyboard, users can now simply speak to their mobile phones to enter search terms, addresses or any other text.
More at:http://www.vlingomobile.com/
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices
What Company Is Offering:
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices (they released a desktop version too but that is just to give you a flavor of the experience) . For example, imagine during a dinner conversation a word or topic comes up and you want to check the meaning of a word or concept. With vTap, you could quickly find the answer right there by typing just a few characters of your query. vTap starts displaying answers as you type, so you may not even have to type the whole query.
How It Works:
You can try vTap on your desktop or on your mobile by visiting http://vtap.com. You can also try vTap on your phone by going through the following steps.
Open a browser on your computer and go vtap.com.
Send an SMS to your device by typing your phone number.
When the SMS arrives on your device, click the link in the SMS to install application.
You can customize their application for the Windows Mobile Platform at the source level by signing up for their developer program at Developer Program.
More at:http://www.vtap.com/
vTap helps you find media quickly on phones and other input/display constrained devices (they released a desktop version too but that is just to give you a flavor of the experience) . For example, imagine during a dinner conversation a word or topic comes up and you want to check the meaning of a word or concept. With vTap, you could quickly find the answer right there by typing just a few characters of your query. vTap starts displaying answers as you type, so you may not even have to type the whole query.
How It Works:
You can try vTap on your desktop or on your mobile by visiting http://vtap.com. You can also try vTap on your phone by going through the following steps.
Open a browser on your computer and go vtap.com.
Send an SMS to your device by typing your phone number.
When the SMS arrives on your device, click the link in the SMS to install application.
You can customize their application for the Windows Mobile Platform at the source level by signing up for their developer program at Developer Program.
More at:http://www.vtap.com/
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