Friday, January 11, 2008

UandItrade.com is e-trading site geared towards parents with growing families

What Company Is Offering:
UandItrade.com is e-trading site geared towards parents with growing families. The purpose of the site is to trade anything and everything relating to children including clothing, toys, nursery items etc. Though UandItrade.com can be likened to the powerhouse eBay, gone are the excessive fees and expenses to both buyers and sellers.


How It Works:
UandItrade.com is solely based on a point system with no money exchanging hands. There is no cost to list and the site is economically responsible by supporting itself solely through advertising. The current demographics of UandItrade.com users come from states all over the country and every economic strata.

In nutshell:
The fact remains that UandItrade.com is re-opening an old venue which deserves wholehearted support in light of current environmental conditions. It is well documented that textile manufacturing is in fact one of the top toxic industries. Some of the bigger environmental organizations, like Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, have been very vocal about the chemicals used in clothing manufacturing. Among the dossier of chemical agents used are formaldehyde, sulfuric acid and the like. By reducing just the demand for new clothing, a family can drastically reduce the environmental load. All in all it's a win-win situation.
More at:www.uanditrade.com.

Online Investor Conference

InvestorIdeas.com, and its global investor and industry Greentech portals announce the 2008 Investorideas.com Global Greentech Online Investor Conference, March 21, 2008. The conference theme is: “Insight into Global Green Investing Trends and Opportunities in Solar, Wind, Biofuel, Green Transportation, and Water.”

The in-depth online conference will be available March 21st, 2008, starting at 9:00 am EDT and archived thereafter.

The online conference will include presentations from renewable, environmental, water, clean energy and technology experts providing in-depth perspectives on what is happening in the Greentech sector from venture capital, funds, indices and global publicly traded companies.

The conference format will consist of an audio presentation (average 15 minutes) with images in a slideshow presentation, in flash format.

The conference is free to online visitors with login registration.
More Detail at:www.investorideas.com

Reserve A Spot in Heaven ---Unique Business Idea

What Company Is Offering:

Reserve A Spot in Heaven offers its services through their travel kits, which include "everything needed to transport one individual to Heaven.”They offer you a 100% guaranteed reserved spot into Heaven. Currently the site offers two kits to get you to Paradise: a basic Essential Travel Pack and an upgraded All Access Pack, both including a 100% money back guarantee. These kits come complete with a unique reservation certificate, citizen of Heaven I.D. card, flight boarding pass and a Heaven 101 mini instructional guide. The All Access Pack even includes a special VIP pass to access exclusive areas off limits to most, such as ‘the Land of Milk and Honey’ and ‘Thug Mansion.’

How It Works:

It is "directly affiliated and sent down by The Board of Heavenly Officials, the only governing body in Heaven, to offer you one thing and one thing only: a worry free, secure way into Heaven." And with a money back guarantee, what do you have to lose? It is claimed that that most of their ‘reservation holders’ get in, and if for some reason someone is “plagued by those malevolent evils of the underworld” and can’t make the journey successfully, then they will refund their money with no questions asked.

The kits are intended to be gag gifts, but some critics aren’t laughing about it. "I wish you the worst and hope you suffer, because that monetary pool of happiness that you swim in on mother earth will soon be fire and hot lava in the dungeons of hell. May Christ purge the devil from within you. May the devil be gone!" e-mailed one individual.
What Company Says:

"We don't want people to take it seriously. It's more of just a fun idea we came up with that we thought we'd turn into a novelty gift," said Edgar Kim, 22, half of the duo who started Reserve A Spot In Heaven. His partner, Nathan Davis, 23, thinks it’s hilarious. “People are loving this! We get so much fan mail from people telling us how awesome this is that it’s ridiculous. Our intentions are good and we don’t want to offend anybody. We hope everyone can just take it with a grain of salt and get a good laugh out of it.”

More at:www.reserveaspotinheaven.com

Look Up Web For Me

What Company Says:
A California startup company "Look Up Web For Me, Inc" introduced a new service "Look Up Web For Me" on Jan 7th, 2008. The company maintains that they are still in the experimental stage.

How It Works:

The service helps people on the go needing information from a public website. A consumer can call 866-WEB-4111 and get connected to a live agent. The agent looks up the web and gives information right over the phone.This service helps people in an urgent need of information from the web when they cannot get connected. What 411 did for the telephone directories, they intend to do the same for the web."The service is available from 6 AM PST to 6PM PST Monday through Friday by calling 866-web-4111. The Company plans to expand the service hours with new funding and build out of the expanded infrastructure. Currently this service is available within the U.S. only.

More at:www.lookupwebforme.com

Multistat is helping companies lower costs, increase research efficiency, accelerate the R&D through comprehensive optimization software and services

What Company Is Offering:
Multistat Visual Optimizer helps you meet corporate product goals such as getting products to market quicker, increasing product margins, decreasing material costs, improving product quality, or reducing carbon emissions.

How It Works:

Multistat’s solutions bring to market breakthrough performance to existing optimization techniques, with benchmark results orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions. Multistat is helping companies lower costs, increase research efficiency, accelerate the R&D cycle through comprehensive optimization software and services. Multistat is used by aerospace, defense and automotive design companies as well as structural optimization and materials science research.
Need to save time, get to market sooner, create higher performance products and grow top - line revenue - Multistat can help.

How Much They Got From VCs:

San Clemente-based Multistat said today that the firm has completed a Series A funding from angel group the Tech Coast Angels. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Multistat said the funding will go to fuel the company's growth, and for sales and marketing.
About VCs:
Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor network in the United States, and provides funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other venture capital, angel or other private equity group.
More at:http://www.multistat.com/

ShoppingWords.com is a NEW online community for shoppers around the globe

What Company Is Offering:
ShoppingWords.com is a NEW online community for shoppers around the globe.Connect and make friends with other shoppers and find out what's hot and what's not on the shopping community.List all things that you want to buy and track your progress in getting them.Get shopping tips from other members on the best places to buy online or offline.

How It Works:
Post
A post is something you want to say about your shopping word. A good post would generally answer any of the questions like.Simply put, "Posting" is the core of the ShoppingWords community. Without your posts, there will be no community.


Photos

The image section is for you to upload and store the cool images that you want to share with the shopping community. Remember, ShoppingWords.com is a friendship and social networking site as well so having a bunch of friends here will not be a bad addition to your MySpace buddies:-) When you have shopping friends all over the world, it will be much easier to buy or get that shopping word wherever they are.


PostCart

PostCart is a space for you to easily save a post which might be interesting or of good use to you. You can easily do this by clicking that "Add to PostCart" link that you can see in each post.


Surveys

Surveys are your answers to our general questionnaire whenever you add a "have bought" shopping word in your account. This is meant for other shoppers to know where did you buy that shopping word and more importantly, if it is really worth buying that shopping word.


Recommendations

This will be the placeholder for your online and offline shop recommendations. If you find or stumble upon a good deal near your neighborhood, in a favorite shopping mall in your city or in any online shop, this is where you let your community know


Notepad

Notepad is a private, for you section only that you can use to note down things that you do not want others to see. ShoppingWords is a community but having a small private space would not be that bad right?
More at:http://www.shoppingwords.com/

123Brand It

What Company Is Offering:

It is a service that puts creative types in contact with those who need their opinion or their contribution. Two examples: - a company may need your opinion to select a logo from A, B or C. - a second company may ask for your help to find a name for a new product.

How It Works:

As soon as you register you will be assigned a “portfolio” which you will fill with points by participating on the website. Based on the points you accumulate you can select a gift from the catalogue, this is our first thank you for your activity. But there is more. The companies who enter a request for a contribution will award the winner with the item specified each time. And equally important, this is an excellent showcase for getting exposure in the communication and creative world, being able to demonstrate your ideas in the field is often much better than a good CV.
At some point you have certainly been faced with having to choose between A and B or to invent a new motto or claim. Yes, there are specialised agencies but sometimes you are too small and their costs are too high. Up to now the solution has been to ask your staff, friends or relations, even through in-house mailing lists, etc. Now there is something better, for a very low cost you can put your survey or request online making it visible to a potential number of creative types, customers and navigators which no mailing list can equal.

More at:http://www.123brand.it/

Canopy Financial provides innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services got 15 million in VCs funding

What Company Is Offering
Canopy Financial provides innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services. Serving some of the world's largest healthcare and financial institutions, Canopy powers the development and delivery of complete healthcare banking services for both consumers and businesses.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Canopy Financial, a leading provider of innovative technology solutions that connect healthcare and financial services, announced it has completed a minority capital venture funding round of approximately 15 million dollars. Led by Granite Global Ventures, the new funding round will support product development and marketing of Canopy's leading edge healthcare banking technologies for the rapidly growing Health Savings Account (HSA) and Consumer-Driven Healthcare (CDH) market.

About VCs:

Granite Global Ventures is a leader in expansion-stage venture capital investments in the United States and Asia. Focused on expanding global innovation, GGV's highly diverse team manages over $800 million from its offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as emerging industry segments in Asia. GGV has provided capital and helped accelerate international business development for its worldwide portfolio of high-growth companies, particularly in the U.S. and China. GGV's portfolio includes athenahealth, SuccessFactors, Alibaba.com, HiSoft, Tudou.com, Boston-Power, and Isilon Systems.http://www.ggvc.com.
More at:http://www.canopyfi.com

Outspark is free online community games portal has raised $11 million in Series B financing

What Company Is Offering:
Outspark is redefining interactive entertainment through an engaging virtual playground accessible to players of all ages and experience levels.A unique publisher and operator of free online community games. The company's global reach enables it to select the most compelling social games from talented development teams located around the world.

How Much They Got From VCs:
It has raised $11 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Tencent Holdings, the operator of China’s top Internet portal and instant messaging service. Existing investors DCM and Altos Ventures also participated in the round, which will help Outspark expand and enhance a virtual playground that has attracted more than 1 million registered users in less than five months.

About Tencent

Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users in China by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through various online platforms that include the Instant Messaging service “QQ,” web portal QQ.com, QQ Game portal, multi-media blog service Qzone and wireless portals, Tencent provides online services to the largest community in China and fulfills user needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce online.

Tencent currently operates three principal lines of business: Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Shares of Tencent Holdings Limited are traded on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, under stock code 700. www.tencent.com/ir.


more at: http://www.outspark.com.

alerts.com --They deliver reminders, notifications or alerts where you want them when you want them

What Company Is Offering:
alerts.com is your central destination to access, manage and orchestrate how to receive updated news, headlines or the scores of your favorite team or player, get birthday or party reminders, be notified when a fare goes up or down, if severe weather is moving to town, if the price of a gadget has now dropped to where it becomes a steal, and many more. Be in control of all time-sensitive events and information that shape your life.

How It Works:
They deliver reminders, notifications or alerts where you want them when you want them. With Alerts.com there is absolutely no spam as you are in control. What you select is what you get, nothing else.

For developers and publishers, their software tools make it very easy to participate in the alerts.com ecosystem. For advertisers they simplify how to initiate, administer and visualize a comprehensive marketing campaign across multiple touch points such as SMS, voice broadcasting, email and more.

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

CheckOutMyCards.com

What Company is Offering:

CheckOutMyCards.com takes the latest technology and applies it to card collecting. They desire to continually impress their regular customers by offering new features, utilizing the latest technology, and making it easier and more fun to collect cards.

How It Works:

The best way to make purchases is to create an account and purchase store credit. With sufficient store credit, you can make purchases instantly without going through a shopping cart or paying extra fees. Without using store credit, all payments go through PayPal. Via PayPal, a payment can be made with a credit card or from a bank account. The credit cards accepted are Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover..
By selling your cards through CheckOutMyCards.com they or other users have the opportunity to buy your cards from you.
More at:http://www.checkoutmycards.com/

WeGame.com is creating a new product for gamers around the world

What Company Is Offering:

WeGame.com is creating a new product for gamers around the world.

How It Works:
Simply click the "Upload" link at the top of the page. Click "Browse for Video," find the video on your hard drive, and fill out the Title, Description and Game fields while the video uploads. After the video is fully uploaded, click "Submit my video."
To change your user avatar, click "My Profile" in the upper right hand corner of the website after you have logged in. This will access your user settings. On the right hand side of the screen, below your current avatar, is a box in which you can enter the path of your new avatar. Click upload and your new avatar will be loaded to the site!
WeGame wants to give creators the best platform to publish gaming content. If you are a content creator and would like your own featured channel, please e-mail us at team@wegame.com with some basic information about your content.
More at:
http://www.wegame.com/

iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching

What Company is Offering:
iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching. Tap into the wisdom of your peers and share your gifts with others. iMantri is an online exchange and a social network for mentors and mentees.
Whether you need mentoring or you can offer mentoring or be a mentee and a mentor at the same time, iMantri can help.

How It Works:
iMantri is a mentoring network and your leverage is dependent on your network. With a work email, your colleagues (present and former) will be able to find you easily and also you will be able to join the closed loop networks within your firm. Of course, providing a work email is entirely optional and you may choose to use a personal email ID.
iMantri is driven off competencies and goals as building blocks of mentoring and hence it is essential to pick at least one goal or one competency. You may add/change competencies and goals at any time based on your needs.

In real world, all of us have some strengths and some areas where we need to improve. So when you are trying to be a mentor in an area, you emphasize those skills and competencies and elucidate how you can others. Whereas if you are seeking mentorship, then you will focus on areas where you need help and request help. Given the purpose of each activity is different, iMantri allows for two different profiles.
More at:http://www.imantri.com/

The Healthcare Gift Card can be used to help pay for health expenses, products and wellness-related services

What Company Is offering:
The Healthcare Gift Card can be used to help pay for health expenses, products and wellness-related services. The card can be used to pay things like co-pays, prescriptions, dental care and vision care, as well as gym memberships and elective procedures. You can buy one for yourself and use it to pay for a variety of healthcare expense or you can buy one as a gift and have it sent directly to the recipient.
How It Works:

The Gift Card is a more personal and secure gift than cash. You choose the amount you want to place on the card, anything from as little as $25 up to as much as $5,000, and the recipient chooses the health related expenses he or she wants to use it for — however there’s no rule that says you can’t make suggestions!
The card costs $4.95 plus shipping and handling and can be sent to you or straight to the recipient.

Uses include: co-pays at doctor’s and pharmaciesdental care including braces and teeth whitening; vision care including eye exams and prescription sunglasses; memberships at health clubs and elective procedures including Lasik and cosmetic surgery.

There are a couple of important points for you as the Gift Card Giver, to keep in mind for the Gift Card Receiver. The Prepaid Healthcare Visa Card should be used at merchants and service providers that accept Visa Debit Cards.
Also, the gift card cannot be used at any ATM and can not be used in exchange for cash. The card officially becomes the property of the recipient as soon as they sign the back . Simple activation instructions will be included with the gift card.

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