Complete Property Management Software for Commercial and Residential Properties

http://www.propertyboulevard.com

One line pitch

Complete Property Management Software for Commercial and Residential Properties

Team

Complete Property Management Software, with full accounting. Property Boulevard is easy and comprehensive Real Estate Software for commercial and residential portfolios.

Pain

Leads, Leads, and Leads. More traffic to http://www.propertyboulevard.com.

Solution

Internet marketing, SEO, marketing campaign, improvement of the Internet site http://www.propertyboulevard.com.

Technology

Window 64-Bit. More info at http://www.propertyboulevard.com

Market

Real Estate Property Management

Business Model

Software Licenses and custom features delivered via http://www.propertyboulevard.com.

Competition

Yardi, Domin-8

Milestones

Implementing a new marketing strategy via http://www.propertyboulevard.com.

Conclusion

Property Boulevard is the most advanced software in the property management arena.

People-powered company nutrition labels

http://www.projectlabel.org

One line pitch

People-powered company nutrition labels

Team

Led by Brian, Web Developer since adolescence, and Liza, marketing extraordinaire, the Project Label team brings together those passionate about the Web and social change.

Pain

Want to know how a company or product is impacting your health, community, or planet? Currently, there is no one-stop-shop for this. Typically, you would have to dig through a plethora of articles, research publications, and reports from a variety of sources to find such information.

Solution

Project Label strives to create community-powered company nutrition labels that assess companies’ health, social, and environmental impacts. Project Label users can learn, discuss, and vote on how these labels should be built, based on data added by Project Label users and the Project Label team.

Technology

PHP, MySQL, AJAX

Market

Consumers who want to be informed, NGOs who want to gather information for their campaigns, companies who have a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Business Model

1. Custom reporting and consulting geared towards corporate clients,
2. Brand and data licensing

Competition

GoodGuide, Crocodyl, Scryve

Milestones

1. Promote and gather a critical mass of quality data,
2. Iterate on features based on user feedback,
3. Build mobile and social network applications,
4. Build premium custom reporting tools

Conclusion

Project Label wants to practice what it preaches. Just as companies profiled on the site should account for fiscal, social, and environmental impacts, Project Label wants to be a profitable company as well as create a positive social impact. Project Label’s goals are to create open communication and goal alignment between consumers and products, increase corporate reporting and transparency, and increase awareness of issues related to CSR.

Matching people with content to drive conversion, using smart math.

http://www.cognitivematch.com

One line pitch

Matching people with content to drive conversion, using smart math.

Team

CEO: Alex Kelleher – was previously co-founder of Touch Clarity, and is supported by a team of University Professors in artifical intelligence and machine learning Commercial Director: Glen Conybeare

Pain

Sites have been through usability and basic content testing. Now they are missing out on the revenue and profit that can be delivered through smart content-targeting

Solution

A highly effective solution to matching individuals with content. The software and approach are focused only on increased relevance – that drives increased user response and ultimately revenue and profit.

Technology

Technology is a SaaS (Software as a Service) remote service

Market

Large ecommerce and content (publisher) sites

Business Model

Our success is directly related to the success of our clients – and our business model is based on this

Competition

A range of content targeters, but typically those in the “recommendations” area, though these tend to be less commercially rigorous

Milestones

- Get more customers – Help them be ridiculously successful

Conclusion

The internet is moving towards one-to-one relevance, at last. That shift needs technologies capable of processing the vast amounts of data thrown up by individuals’ behavior online. Cognitive Match is a key part of that.

Help struggling people get things done. Help unemployed earn money.

http://www.ineedthingsdone.com

One line pitch

Help struggling people get things done. Help unemployed earn money.

Team

Luke Hepburn

Pain

How do you get work done when you’re struggling to make ends meet, or you’re trying to save money. A way to get odd jobs done too. Looking for work or a way to earn some extra cash? Do jobs and earn money and build your business or reputation as a handyman or errand runner.

Solution

INeedThingsDone.com allow users to post jobs with a set price and try and connect them with other people who are willing to do the job for that price, this helps out those who aren’t as fortunate as others or are wanting to save money. It also helps those unemployed, stay at home parents or uni students earn an extra income and build their own reputation or businesses. The site uses community to help people get jobs done, twitter and facebook play a strong role in this site.

Technology

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Map’s API, php, Ajax

Market

Everyone, as anything you need done can be done by someone from the community.

Business Model

$3.50 (USD) for a standard job post + additional fees for highlighting jobs etc or asking for more people. Advertising on job pages through sponsor program. Future may see additional fee for us to chase contractors.

Competition

Workstir

Milestones

iphone application, mobile version of website. Site design upgrade if successful. Further integration with other social apps.

Conclusion

The site is crowdsourcing and it helps two niche markets, people who need jobs or errands done, and it also helps those looking for work. The site’s main goal is to help people and I’m hoping to help a lot of people all around the world. If at the end of the day I only help a few people I’ll be happy to have done my small part.

Get an instant statistical overview on how your website is performing within the Google, Bing and Yahoo! search engines.

http://www.instantrankmeter.com

One line pitch

InstantRankmeter is an online service that gives you a complete statistical overview on how your website is performing within the Google, Bing and Yahoo! search engines. You can easily share your reports with your friends or colleagues. The whole thing is free and easy to use.

Team

Adam Mezei, CEO, Marketer and Developer with more than 10 years experience in the Web Development industry. Rego Korosi, Web Designer with more than 6 years experience in the Web Design industry.

Pain

Not enough to optimize your website, it must continually monitored. SEO statistical softwares are usually expensive, you may have to pay $100 to 500$ to get one. Then you have to download and install that software and pass through a long setup process before you get started. If you don’t want to pay for a software you can do the report manually, but it cost time and effort. If you want to check 30 keywords in the three major search engines, it takes an estimated 60 minutes to create such a report. And this is a boring chore once every week. Another issue is sharing. Statistical softwares offer a PDF export functionality but this is not a suitable way if you have to share your report with a lot of people or colleagues in different locations.

Solution

With InstantRankmeter it only takes a few seconds to get comprehensive reports about how major search engines rank your site. You don’t have to download or install anything, the service is availble online via a simple web browser. You can easily share your reports with your colleagues by e-mail, Twitter and other Web2 services. The whole service is free and easy to use. You don’t have to be a SEO guru to understand the reports provided by InstantRankmeter.

Technology

PHP, SQLite, JQuery and AJAX

Market

Website owners who want to – participate in the SEO process of their website, – controll the performance of the SEO agency they hired, – manage their own search engine optimizations. SEO experts and Webmasters who want to – do their job in a more professional and easier way, – let their clients know the results they have produced.

Business Model

1. Displaying SEO related ads, 2. SEO articles and knowledge base sponsored by SEO companies (later).

Competition

There are several companies in the market who offer SEO statistical softwares at various prices: WebPosition, Rank Tracker, Advanced Web Ranking. Pros: – more report types, – more search engines, – more keywords. Cons: – expensive: 100$ and above, – reports can’t reach or share online, – must download and install on Windows.

Milestones

1. Promote, promote, promote and build a database of registered users. 2. Reach daily 100.000 requests on reports. 3. Finish the registered user related features (historical position records, more keywords, pdf export, autmatic e-mail notification and so on). 4. Add more report types and features according to our users’ needs. 5. Find and try out several income possibilities (ad networks, direct advertising etc.)

Conclusion

E-business owners know how important Search Engine Optimization is. Most companies apply SEO methods and utilities to get a higher position with the keywords associated with the company’s field of expertise. Nevertheless it’s not enough to optimize the site just once, it must be continually maintained so that your customers have a better chance of finding you first. It means that a quailty SEO report service will always be required.

VentureDig’s Take

I love the interface and the fact that it is free. It will compare you to other sites in terms of how you are doing in certain keywords. It is useful for knowing who your competitors are and to see if your SEO team is doing a good job. It might not be the best for all smaller websites unless your topic is really niche and you can get very specific. I hope there business model works for them because I can see this being a very valuable tool. It is definitely worth spending 5 minutes to play around and see what info you can find out your website.

Connecting culinary professionals and foodies in the world’s first prepared foods marketplace.

http://www.booksofcooks.com

Pitch

BookOfCooks is a new Web startup connecting culinary professionals and foodies in the world’s first prepared foods marketplace. Users can browse the site easily and at no cost on BookofCooks to find local “cooks” who meet their needs, while chefs can showcase their cooking talents, meet like-minded professionals, and earn money as they are matched with potential clients. Whether users are in search of gluten-free, vegan, or organic cuisine, are eager to join the slow food movement, or are nostalgic for a taste of their hometowns, BookofCooks is a comprehensive directory to fulfill any culinary need.

Team

BookOfCooks was created by Julian Mellicovsky, a self-proclaimed food tourist who loves to experience assorted cuisines from his frequent travels around the world. In response to his own quests to sample regional flavors, Julian took his passion for food and developed a site to help connect people looking for particular types of food or experiences.

Technology

Incorporating the latest social networking technology, the Web site serves as an online community to help people locally find professional chefs, caterers, specialty foods and more within a particular region. The BookofCooks platform delivers resources and technology for consumers, foodies, and chefs allowing them to connect with like-minded individuals and potential customers both locally and online. The platform allows users to: • Find A Cook – Users can order prepared foods from cooks in their areas; search by location or food type to find specialty cooks in other areas; review and share their experiences with others while rating the chefs • Be a Cook – Culinary professionals can set up their own free online restaurant/bakery; chefs can upload menus, licenses and videos; cooks can showcase their cooking skills and earn money while building a customer base

Business Model

BookOfCooks is determined to keep its content and services free by using advertising, affiliate programs, an online store and market research to generate revenue.

Competition

BookOfCooks is the first of its kind to create an online marketplace for home-cooked and prepared foods in a virtual storefront.

Milestones

Since our launch in June, we plan to increase the amount of users, both consumers and culinary professionals, signed up on the site. Eventually, we would love for BookOfCooks to be the go-to resource for people looking for specialty foods, or just for someone to cook a delicious meal for them.

Conclusion

BookOfCooks is such a unique and innovative site that combines aspects of social media, the Yellow Pages, Craigslist and Yelp-like features into one resource to help consumers find cooks to meet their culinary needs locally or while traveling.
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Queryads.com is a unique ppc network that monetizes real-time search engine query traffic for advertisers to bid on.
http://www.queryads.com

One line pitch

Queryads.com is a unique ppc network that monetizes real-time search engine query traffic for advertisers to bid on.

Team

Our team helps controls the quality of campaigns and publishers that enter the system. This keeps Queryads a quality atmosphere.

Pain

The current problem is the market is that there are not enough competitors that are simple enough to use to start getting traffic. Most ppc programs are too complex and have too many requirements. There is also to much non quality traffic in most ppc programs that minimizes advertisers conversions.

Solution

Queryads solves this complex problem of finding the problem of matching Target traffic for targeted advertisers.

Technology

• PHP
• SQL

Market

Advertisers, webmasters

Business Model

Queryads makes it money by taking a percentage of advertisers funds.

Competition

Google Adsense Bidvertiser

Milestones

Grow!

Intelligent Meda Delivery Enabler to Brands and Enterprise.

http://www.netstairs.com

One line pitch

Intelligent Meda Delivery Enabler to Brands and Enterprise.

Team

Our Team brings over 30 years of IT and strategic management experience.

Pain

Client centric enterprise solutions define a set of requirements imposed by manangement in content delivery scheme.

Solution

We make media delivery intelligent, seamless, and offer a middleware that offer compelling reasons why clients should include our technology into teir cloud computing scheme.

Technology

IV~8, FlexiView, HEXA2, Live in 30 Seconds, Ice Cube Mobile SMS video delivery and more.

Market

Media market should speak for itself.

Business Model

Licenses, Managed Hosted Services, White Lable, Lease, and Rentals.

Competition

As middleware we work ith many technolog elites, including but not limited to AKamai, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Real and more. We compete with everyone.

Milestones

Raise Round B and Increase marketing, sales & distribution.

Conclusion

We have two kinds of clients. Those who seek monetization and those firms who seek cost cutting mandated objectives.

FacetoFace Health is a social network that allows users to connect directly with one another based upon medical conditions.
http://facetofacehealth.com

One line pitch

FacetoFace Health is a social network that allows users to connect directly with one another based upon medical conditions.

Team

They have over 20 years experience in the healthcare field.

Pain

Interested in Healthcare? FacetoFace Health is a social network that allows users to connect directly with one another based upon medical conditions. All I wanted to do was to talk to someone who had been to MDAnderson and had Lymphoma… Easy right? Think of what we are doing as “match.com for healthcare”

Currently the market is all message boards that offer a post and wait mentality. There is no way on these sites to be directly matched to others with similar health concerns.

Solution

We have built HealthMatch – an advanced algorithm that will match people together based upon their medical condition, medications, etc. We also match people to potential advertisers (revenue model)

Technology

ASP.NET/Web 2.0 – Healthcare engine is based on SNOMED international healthcare taxonomy.

Market

Anyone on the internet with a healthcare condition. Current estimates are that 10% of the people online at any given time are searching for health related information.

Business Model

Advertisers advertise directly to consumers based upon their medical conditions. We charge a PPC to the advertiser if the user clicks on an ad that matches to them. These matching ads are based upon Healthmatch and it’s ability to match people together with similar conditions, medications, treatment facilities, etc. HealthMatch can also do zip/radius matching for general practitioners.

Competition

Other Healthcare social Networks.

Milestones

Marketing, Marketing and more marketing.

Conclusion

If you’ve ever had anyone diagnosed with a chronic condition you will understand how FacetoFace Health can help. Think about putting in Lymphoma and seeing people who have had lymphoma, what treatments they have undergone, what hosptials they have been to, etc. If you’ve never been sick or had a chronic condition you might not get how urgent it is – for those that do, they understand what we are doing right away. Our goal is to Humanize Healthcare, and that’s through providing direct connections for people with healthcare conditions.

Vaestro: Audio Forum Software

http://vaestro.com

One line pitch

Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free, talk to your friends, use for eLearning purposes, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog.

Team

• Saibal Dey – Business Head and Technical Director
• Matt Ready – Founder

Pain

Text based forum softwares are used on hundreds of thousands of websites to carry out discussions on a daily basis. However, this kind of software is unable to convey the most basic structure of a discussion – emotion. No matter how many words a user types, there is always a gap between their feelings and words. Also, when someone has a lot to say, they have to type out a lot of words which is time consuming and inconvenient.

Solution

Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free to talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, use it like an audio blog etc. Vaestro is divided into Channels which are divided into Forums, which, in turn, contain Topics. In short, each Channel can be thought of as a placeholder for Forums and Topics. Anyone can create a free account on Vaestro and can then create their own Channel and Forums. Once this is done, they can proceed to create their own topics of discussions – on voice. Vaestro has a Flash based Recorder/Player which enables a user to record their messages on voice for others to listen to and comment on them. If someone does not want to go into the trouble of creating their own Channel or Forum, they can always do a search on Vaestro and take part in an existing discussion on a topic of their choice. Since Vaestro is voice driven, hence it helps in: 1. Expressing one’s emotions when posting a message. If you are angry, sad, happy, crying, sarcastic etc., you don’t have to type out “I am angry at this”. You just let your voice do the talking – literally. 2. People no longer have to type out long posts for minutes on the end. All they have to do is speak out their feelings for as long as they want. 3. People do not have to be live on “chat” with each other to hear each others voice. No matter which timezone you are in, you can always leave a message for others for them to listen to at their own convenience.

Technology

PHP/MySQL AJAX Flash Remoting Audio Streaming with Red5 Server

Market

The market size is huge! – Schools and colleges can use Vaestro for eLearning. – People can use it for discussions. – Friends and families can use it for leaving messages for each other when they are in separate locations and time zones. – Bloggers can use it for audio blogging. – Companies can use Vaestro to setup a feedback system for their customers to leave them messages. – Vaestro can be used as a personal messaging system between it’s users.

Business Model

Vaestro has 2 types of channels – free and private. Free channels are visible to everyone whereas private channels are visible only to the channel owner and his/her invited people. Private channels cost only $4.99 per month. More monetizing features related to discussions, downloads etc. are being added at the moment and will be made live in the coming months.

Competition

All text based forum softwares.

Milestones

The most important step is to make Vaestro more user friendly so that even a novice can use it to it’s full potential. The next important step is to make the Recorder/Player more enhanced and with tools to use in discussions, making them more interactive. Also, a series of other features have been lined up to make it one of the coolest tools on the web in the near future.

Conclusion

Voice is going to be the next big thing on the internet. Voice discussions, voice mail, voice searches etc. are going to emerge as strong areas of implementation over the next 2-3 years. Hence, Vaestro is a pioneer in this field since it is the first voice driven forum software created.