Thursday, February 28, 2008

VendorDemo is place where they provide centralized information research and compare technology vendors - all in one place

What Company Is offering:
VendorDemo is place where they provide centralized information research and compare technology vendors - all in one place.An online community that connects business technology buyers with business technology solutions providers. Provides centralized access to technology vendor demos/webinars/literature. Buyers easily search, watch and share content, leaving contact information for vendor follow-up


How It Works:
By offering both deep and broad content, they are able to provide technology buyers with a rich research experience, allowing them to explore offerings from a wide array of vendors.

All you need to create a video is a presentation (i.e. PowerPoint) of your product or company, a microphone, and screen capture software such as Camtasia Studio.

Hook up the microphone to your computer and allow the presentation or PowerPoint to play. Camtasia Studio records what plays on your screen and what you say into your microphone. When you are done recording your video, Camtasia Studio also has tools which allow you to edit and cut your video to help you produce a video in the settings you desire.

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

Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life

What Company Is Offering:
Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life without the need for lots of different, complicated services and providers.

How It Works:

Your Sosius account provides you with a 200 MB workspace that you can use to store, organize and share information with whoever you want, wherever they are.
Almost any information like...

Documents, files, web pages, calendar items, databases, projects and tasks, lists, contacts.
If you require more storage space or additional bandwidth, you can upgrade your account.

To upgrade your account click on the Subscription button under your My Account section. Sosius offers free support via the inbuilt help system. Response times are generally within a 24hr time frame.

Whether you're running a fast moving business across multiple locations with your associates always on the road or organizing the local softball team Sosius provides the perfect place to bring it all together.

They call it the ability to create, manage, and connect.

More at:http://sosius.com/

Omgili is the best way in the known universe to find out what people are saying about anything and everything

What Company Is Offering:
Omgili is the best way in the known universe to find out what people are saying about anything and everything!

How It Works:
Omgili is your way to find "subjective information". As opposed to traditional search engines, which search for sites and pages, Omgili finds consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions. Most of the questions have already been answered - find the answers through Omgili. Most of the technical problems have been solved - find the solutions through Omgili. Most of the experiences have already been described - Find these descriptions through Omgili.

Omgili is a specialized search engine that focuses on "many to many" user generated content platforms, such as, Forums, Discussion groups, Mailing lists, answer boards and others.

Omgili is a crawler based, vertical search engine that scans millions of online discussions worldwide in over 100,000 boards, forums and other discussion based resources. Omgili knows to analyze and differentiate between discussion entities such as topic, title, replies and discussion date.

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

CamPeng is a free video oriented friendship site

What Company Is Offering:
CamPeng is a free video oriented friendship and dating site. Users upload a short personal video clip. Other users rate this clip. If two users mutually rate each other high, then a match is created and the users become friends. Only friends can message each other. It is also possible to just browse and watch the video clips without registering an account.

How It Works:

Firstly..
1. Register/Login

2. Post short videos about yourself.

3. Rate other videos.

4. Make friends by rating each other good/excellent.

5. Message your friends.

Of course you can also just browse. Use "Only show me" to narrow your selection. It’s all free!.

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

SeedingIT.com - The Global Seed Capital Network

What Company Is Offering:
The Seed group is a by invitation only network founded to connect the startup community and facilitate brainstorming, positive feedback and funding in a stress free environment. They invite you to attend their events and enjoy.
They founded with the aim to provide positive feedback and connect entrepreneurs and investors. They have a unique format to their events so as to avoid stressful situations with the aim of providing positive feedback and value to entrepreneurs.They use Ning ID for authentication.

How Is It Different:

The Ning ID authentication system lets you choose an email address and password once and use it to join or sign into any social network that uses the Ning ID.

When you create a Ning ID, you can also add a set of basic details and your photo to your Ning ID account. These details are then pre-populated whenever you join a new social network that uses the Ning ID for authentication. It also enables you to keep track of your friends and messages across all the social networks that use it.

You can sign in with your Ning ID email address and password whenever you see symbol on site given.

More at:http://seedingit.com/

Alert Logic--on-demand IT compliance and security solutions has raised $8.25 million in Series C funding

What Company Is Offering:
Alert Logic is the industry's leading provider of on-demand IT compliance and security solutions. Our solutions provide mid-sized organizations with the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations.

Their on-demand platform utilizes software-as-a-service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable network security and compliance.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Alert Logic Inc., a Houston-based provider of on-demand IT network security solutions, has raised $8.25 million in Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing. Updata Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Hunt Ventures, DFJ Mercury, Access Venture Partners and OCA Ventures. The company had previously raised $7.5 million.


More at: www.alertlogic.com

TidalTV Inc., a Baltimore-based startup bringing the television experience to PCs raised $15 million in Series A funding

What Company Is Offering:
TidalTV Inc., a Baltimore-based startup bringing the television experience to PCs.

How Much They Got From VCs:

They have raised $15 million in Series A funding. New Enterprise Associates and Valhalla Partners co-led the round. TidalTV chairman Scott Ferber was a co-founder of Advertising.com, while its CEO Mollie Spilman was Advertising.com's former top sales and marketing executive.

More at:www.tidaltv.com

Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions has closed a $28 million financing round

What Company Is offering:
Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails. Proofpoint's products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX(TM) technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today announced that the company has closed a $28 million financing round, led by new investor DAG Ventures. All previous investors -- including Benchmark Capital; Bridgescale Partners; Inventures Group; JAFCO Ventures; Meritech Capital Partners; Mohr, Davidow Ventures and RRE Ventures -- also participated in this round, bringing Proofpoint's total raised capital to more than $86 million. The funds will be used to accelerate Proofpoint's continued global expansion, customer acquisition and product development initiatives.

About VCs:
DAG Ventures is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980's in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow's leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors. DAG Ventures invests in companies with proven technology, from the prototype stage onward.

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

Helpstream is the provider of on-demand collaborative customer service solutions got $8.6 funding

What Company Is Offering:
Helpstream is leading the development of highly collaborative customer service and help desk solutions. Designed as an enterprise-class SaaS solution built for collaboration from the ground up, the Helpstream solution allows organizations to greatly improve the customer service experience while keeping cost to a minimum and vastly increasing visibility into the customer experience. Helpstream has over 70 customers, representing a variety of industries, including high tech, consumer electronics, government, healthcare, financial services and professional services.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Helpstream (formerly known as Pathworks Software), the provider of on-demand collaborative customer service solutions, today announced it has closed an $8.6 million round of financing led by Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). Additional funds came from seed investor Foundation Capital and from Roger Sippl, founder and former CEO of Informix and co-founder of Vantive.

In connection with the financing, Bryan Stolle, MDV partner and co-founder and former CEO of Agile Software, has joined the Helpstream Board of Directors. Stolle joins a board with a wealth of experience in the customer service industry. Existing board members include Bill Elmore of Foundation Capital, Bill Walsh, former COO of Epiphany and president of PeopleSoft International, and Anthony Nemelka, president and CEO of Helpstream.


About VCs:
For 25 years MDV, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, has identified, mentored and developed entrepreneurs and young companies redefining business, technology and medicine. The firm invests around three major business and science concerns: Personalizing Medicine; Powering the Planet; and Driving the Digital World. Category-leading companies funded by MDV include: Agile (ORCL); Broadbase (KANA); Brocade; Genius; hi5; Pivotal (BRCM); and Vantive (ORCL). For more information, please visit www.mdv.com.

More at: www.helpstream.biz

kluster--Crowdsourcing Innovation

What Company Is Offering:
kluster is a place to harness the power of community collaboration to get stuff done. Everyone has ideas, they provide a platform to get them out of heads and into the world…where they belong.

They initially built kluster to facilitate large group decision-making during product development, marketing/advertising initiatives, and event planning. then, after the system got its algorithmic brain, they realized it was powerful in virtually any decision-making activity, with groups large or small.

How It Works:
kluster uses projects to define goals. a project could be a new product, an event, a marketing campaign, or virtually any goal that is better served by engaging a group of people.

They use phases to break down the project into small, manageable deliverables. throughout each phase the community participates by posting, enhancing, refining, and supporting proposed solutions to the phase’s goal. Phases can be public (allowing the entire world to influence the decision) or private (allowing a select group of your choosing to participate).

sparks are proposed solutions to a phase. They can be submitted in a variety of ways: text, photos, graphics, audio/video, CAD, animation, etc. users can express themselves in whatever way they are most comfortable.

Community members show their support for sparks by investing in the ideas they believe in using kluster’s currency: the watt. watts are earned through participation, and grow based upon sound investments, just like real money. watts encourage users to participate and stay on target, keeping the community productive.

Rather then just choosing the most popular item, kluster uses advanced algorithms to make decisions. All the activity and participation on kluster is stored and analyzed. The data is used in the decision-making process. Each user's successes, failures, reputation, areas of expertise, and overall history are considered.

More at:http://kluster.com/

eBooks On Venture capital

Venture capital is a complicated and sometimes intimidating subject, especially for the first-time entrepreneur. Sure, you can learn a bit about it from blogs, but with these types of subject it’s good to read a proper book or two. These ebooks and white papers should help get you started down the road to VC funding!


Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital from Harvard University
A large component of success in getting venture capital has to do with skill, not luck. This ebook shows some of the trends and skills necessary to get VC funding.

Striking Out With VCs? from Mansueto Ventures
This ebook covers some alternatives you have if you’re not having any luck with VCs.

Via-Mashable

actiTIME--Free Time Tracking

What Company Is Offering:
actiTIME is accessed through a web browser and can be reached from any computer connected to the Internet or to your LAN.

However actiTIME is not an ASP, but a standalone solution. This implies that no financial information is stored outside your organization while you are using actiTIME.

How It Works:

actiTIME collects time expenses for tasks associated with particular projects and customers. The number of customers, projects, and tasks is not limited.
The current version of actiTIME allows only manual registration of working time. We are considering the implementation of automatic time collection in future versions.
actiTIME directly integrates with Intuit QuickBooks® - a leading accounting software. For integration with other software actiTIME provides built-in reporting and data exporting functions.


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

Vitals is committed to providing the most thorough information available on doctors

What Company Is Offering:
Vitals is committed to providing the most thorough information available on doctors. It is our mission to arm consumers with the information they need to make the best healthcare choice possible. We seek to provide you with as much objective data as is available on a doctor. Have an opinion about a health care provider? Vitals offers you a place to both share your thoughts and make informed decisions. Our goal is to give you, the user, the information you need to make the best decision on selecting a doctor.

How It Works:

Vitals obtains information and data from a wide variety of sources both public and private. These include: medical boards from all 50 states, federal websites, hospitals, doctors, surveys, business alliances and third party affiliates.
You may print out a copy of a health profile but you may not electronically send it. If you wish to reproduce, cite, publish and/or distribute any information from the site for any purpose, please contact Vitals. Vitals allows you to share profiles by emailing links to the profile to outside parties.

Vitals strives to preserve the integrity of rating selections by limiting the frequency of ratings that might otherwise be distorted by repeated reviews by the same individual.

More at:http://vitals.com/

Rivals4Ever --It is a plaza where like-mindeds meet the unlike-mindeds

What Company Is Offering:

Rivals4Ever or r4e is the ultimate destination for anyone who has a passion for anything in life. It is aimed at revving up the emotions of all those who feel strong about anything.Thought of after watching the Hollywood flick "Fever Pitch", r4e is the brainchild of an individual who had no place to shout that McLaren is not just good but that it is better than Ferrari.

How Is It Different:

r4e is not just one of those community sites where like-minded people get together and discuss how smart they are in supporting what they support. It is essentially about rivalry. It is a plaza where like-mindeds meet the unlike-mindeds. And then what ensues is what we call 'RIVALS4EVER'!

Though simplistic in its concept, the implications of r4e are enormous. Ranging from the local cafes or farm-houses around you to international celebrities and institutes - just about anyone and anything has a rival. And that is the emotion we are trying to capture.

Don't just support the ones you love, but defend them, fight for them. Prove it that you are a true fan!

More at:http://www.rivals4ever.com/

MyPypeline is the ultimate health and fitness community

What Company Is Offering:
MyPypeline is the ultimate health and fitness community. They deliver high-quality video workouts that you can either stream or download to your computer, video iPod or television.

How It Works:

They combine great workouts with a powerful social networking community that supports your health and fitness goals by allowing you to connect with like-minded fitness enthusiasts, coaches and trainers who support programs and each other, and more.

MyPypeline is accessible. It's requires minimal equipment and allows you to work out when and where you want.

MyPypeline is affordable. Combining social networking with high quality videos it allows users who may not be able to afford their own personal trainers to access great resources for a fraction of the price they'd pay at a gym.

MyPypeline is accountable. By providing users with tools to set, track and report their fitness goals and training progress, it helps each user reach their goals and destinations.

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