DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews

LELA Media Inc.’s premier website (www.iaam.com) is the Teen Entertainment & Life Skills Multimedia Network. iaam is an interactive online community for teenagers that provides valuable information on money, career, entrepreneurship, self confidence, and overall success for teens through interviews with professionals, interactive games, multimedia contests, life-skill blogs, videos, photos, and music. iaam is like Nickelodeon on a financial and life-skill mission.

Our website is the information and entertainment aggregator for high school & college students. Most of our content is created by teenagers and college students. iaam.com takes an edutainment approach to financial education, career choices, and healthy lifestyles. Parents and teachers are also encouraged to join the community to view and participate in parent and teacher forums. iaam uses entertainment to spark creativity and inspire teens to be unique and successful in all aspects of life.

iaam can become Yahoo for teens and is getting press from English and Hispanic educational and mainstream media. Teachers are introducing the life skills sections to their students as they realize how effective the edutainment approach can be.

iaam.com will monetize by selling cause-based sponsorships and advertising to corporate and individual sponsors. The secondary source of revenue will be an online store. iaam is soliciting sponsorships from parents and wealthy individuals who care to make a difference in teenagers’ lives.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.iaam.com

WebsitesGiveBack is a web design business which markets to niche web design for the truly small business owner, focusing greatly on labor/services business such as electricians, roofers, plumbers, etc. We can work with all kinds of small businesses; however, we know there is a great need and gap in this area that can be filled. We help these small businesses by providing complete website packages with no monthly fees or contract for a flat rate of $499. WGB also supports charitable causes by donating $100 of the costs of each of website, on behalf of their customers, to a charity of their customer’s choice. Donations are not bundled and WGB receives no credit – the business owner receives the full tax benefit.

WGB has an ambitious goal — to raise $60,000 in 2011 —for the causes its clients select to help.
We have no monthly fees, additional fees, or contract.
We include a video promotion of client’s business that will go on our video blogging series on The Wrap and our WebsitesGiveBack YouTube channel, and their website if requested (just added to our services)
For our VA neighbors living within a 30 mile radius of our Front Royal location, we take an additional $50 off.
For every paid referral, a $50.00 check.
WebsitesGiveBack website with our special seal.
Yearly renewal is only $100, of which $25 again goes to the charity and tax credit give to client, and includes all maintenance and updates.
The absolute best and personalized customer service experience.

Simply because we do combine good business and goodwill. We are fearless small business advocates and know the downside of this business and how countless small businesses are being mislead and taken advantage of.
Charitable and worthy organizations are experiencing an all-time low in donor assistance. In an economy such as this, conitinuing to give and maintaining is more important than ever. Every little bit helps and we want to do our part and make it grow. We are also very much involved in our community and we walk the talk. We’re passionate advocates for worthy organizations just as much.

By expanding our web design and mission to small business advocacy and social responsiblity awareness through the means of social media and video blogging. We were business owners prior in another very different business and we had to close shop when the economy began to turn. With our experience as entrepreneurs and small business owners, we feel that we can offer insight, advice, experience, and encouragement to others. With this, we hope to overflow and create brand awareness; hence increasing earning potential and charitable contributions.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.websitesgiveback.com

FindtheBoutiques.com provides a directory of boutiques nationwide for boutique shoppers to discover, explore and shop while also providing a low cost method of advertising for boutique owners to increase boutique awareness and their customer base.

There is no other website that covers boutiques on a national level.

Everyone loves to have unique clothes/decor/etc which is why boutique shopping is so popular, but knowing where to find and shop at boutiques is difficult. FindtheBoutiques.com allows easy access for boutique shoppers and boutique owners to find each other to create lasting shopping relationships and support local small businesses.

Boutique’s basic information will be listed for FREE so boutique shoppers can start their boutique hunting right away. Boutique Owners have several levels of listing options to increase their boutique’s marketing on FindtheBoutiques.com. Some of the options include: store front photo, featured merchandise, store tour video, boutique biography, sales/coupon section and so much more.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.FindtheBoutiques.com

PointDebate is an online communication platform meant to stir up, engage and give voice to most diverse opinions. It is particularly suitable for leading debates on topical subjects, especially debates with two clearly distinguished opposing sides. Users create debates, providing the debate title and the two possible debate options. Other users can make points in the debates and to bias their points to one of the two possible options.

PointDebate is a unique mixture of social networking, Q&A site, discussion board and a poll site. You can use it for its main purpose – create debates and participate in debates, but it also offers other features. You can follow other debaters to keep track of their activities just like you do on Twitter and ask questions like you do on Yahoo! answers or Mahalo. You can also use it as a regular discussion board.

PointDebate could be big because it is not a clone site but provides new experience on the web. People like to debate and argue on different topics.

Through PPC advertising and promoted debates.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://pointdebate.net

Merge.fm is an app that exposes fans to the creative experience of their favorite music artists, establishing a new revenue channel for a music industry in need of new business models with the growth of the internet. Check out our website for a demo!

Merge.fm lets music artists dominate their songwriting process. Unlike a blog, twitter account, or facebook page which makes them do extra work on top of making music, merge.fm improves songwriting first. Then as a bonus they can engage fans with almost no extra time commitment. So the kicker is that artists can let fans be there when they are writing great songs simply by giving them access as they work on their music. Our song versioning tech makes this simple and scalable.

With this approach, the growth of the internet is an advantage because we are allowing artists to sell an experience that only gets better with more sharing and at larger scale, giving merge.fm the potential to be a highly scalable point of value for digital music. With half a million serious music artists each with a loyal fan base in the target market, this is at least a $5 billion/year market opportunity.

Unlike most internet music startups, merge.fm does not charge music artists for its services. Fans are the customers and they currently pay to subscribe to their favorite artists on merge.fm. Part of the revenue goes to us for providing the platform, and part goes to the artist for providing the content.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://merge.fm

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Efficient, accurate and daily import and export datas from US customs

That information can be shared to all companies in the world

Getting monthly recurrent subscriptions

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.tradeintelligency.com

In some ways, using Drrop is similar to throwing a message in a bottle to the ocean. When you use drrop, you can post messages called “drrop,” while you can see drrops from people around the world.

However, there are some differences we would like to explain here.

1. A drrop (message) only shows up one by one
When you log into Drrop, automatically you will see one drrop from someone in the world. There is a “wipe” button below the drrop. If you click “wipe,” then you will see the next drrop.

2. Once you wipe it, never again
As a rain drop hits you only once in its life time, a drrop can be encountered only once.

3. 24hours, not forever
At this time, a drrop will be invisible in 24 hours after it is posted. After 24 hours, people will not be able to see your drrop, unless they have saved or replied to the drrop. In this way, we keep the drrops always fresh and up-to-date.
*Note: This function is disabled for now. Once we finishes the first phase of testing, we will start running this function.

Drrop introduces an easier way to say “hi.”

With Drrop, you can say “hi” to people before getting to know them.

We communicate online. We often use social networking websites to communicate with friends in our networks. We, the Drrop development team, thought it seems similar to go to school / workplace and chat with classmates / co-workers.

However, in our real life, you also meet people on the way to go to school / workplace and enjoy random conversations. You may say “hi” to people passing by, or talk about the weather at a fruit stand while talking about the perfect balance of coffee & milk at a donut shop.

With Drrop, you can do just the same on the internet.

Drrop is a new way to getting to know people out of your community. It can be used before communicating with people on currently-existing social networking websites.

At this moment, we would rather leave this uncertain.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://drrop.com

Pop Feedback is a web application that allows you to get customer feedback on your website. It provides you the tools to create short one question surveys that show up on the right bottom corner of a specified URL.

Getting website feedback from your customers can be difficult and expensive because people don’t like to fill out surveys without a monetary incentive. We’ve create a survey software that customers are more likely to respond to since the questions asked are short and to the point. This way, website owners can get quality feedback fast for a short price.

Pop Feedback could be big because it revolutionizes the way website owners get feedback from their customers. Instead of asking customers to take long surveys, website owners can ask users a simple question as they are using the website.

Pop Feedback has a freemium business model with 2 paid plans.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.popfeedback.com

Yoomly is a new type of job search and employee finding website. Yoomly creates a marketplace for both employees and employers, allowing employers to compete for employees and vice-versa. Employees create employee profiles, which offer extremely high visibility–including easy access to employers and ranking on Google–as well as easy personalization (users can even upload video clips). Yoomly is a smarter way of finding jobs and employees.

Yoomly takes the mystery away from finding jobs and employees. Instead of showing only a black and white resume, employees can show a full profile to employers. Employees can easily see information about other applicants applying to positions and can therefore connect with employers faster. Yoomly also offers much more exposure than traditional job search websites–with all employee profiles indexed in major search engines. Employers can also see basic information about other employers offering employment to candidates. Yoomly is completely free for employers and employees.

Many businesses cannot afford to hire employees on traditional job search websites, with job postings often costing around $500–Yoomly is an efficient, free alternative. Yoomly creates an efficient marketplace between employers and employees–which will help employers find employees they can afford–an extremely important benefit, especially in a recession.

Yoomly will eventually be a paid service in some sort of way for employers–we will most likely not be charging employees to use the service.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://yoomly.com

Fashion-Ade.com is a virtual closet and e-stylist tool that helps women get the most out of their closets and empowers them to dress with confidence every day. Women can easily build a virtual closet by either selecting from nearly 100,000 pre-populated garments, or by uploading photos of unique garments to the application. The site’s patent-pending Outfit Engine then suggests combinations that users can rate and share through Facebook and email which in turn generates usage data that Abundant Closet can provide to retailers in the form of Closet Insights reports.

• Users don’t have to spend time uploading photos. Instead, they can build a virtual closet in 15 minutes or less, leveraging the 95,000 garments preloaded into the system

• Fashion-Ade’s patent-pending Outfit Engine allows users to view, rate and share thousands of outfit combinations.

• The Closet Insights tool will help educate retailers and improve their ability to understand their users’ interests and style preferences.

Fashion-Ade has the potential to make it BIG. American women spend $215 Billion on clothing annually, yet consumer research reveals most wear less than half of what they own, leaving more than $100 Billion worth of garments hanging in a closet, or worse, a thrift store. Fashion-Ade’s patent-pending Outfit Engine helps them utilize more of what they own and presents them with more of what they want: improving ROI on their clothing investments.

At the same time, online retailers in the women’s apparel category – more than 300 at this point – are grabbing an increasingly large slice of the retail pie; online sales as a percentage of overall sales are up 11% in the last year alone. Fashion-Ade presents retailers the opportunity to build relationships even when users are not shopping. Our data mining capabilities give retailers access to market intelligence literally not available anywhere else.

Fashion-Ade will provide user insights reports to retailers for a fee (per user).

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fashion-ade.com/