DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews

Tischen is an online job opportunity site, aimed to help people get working again. Tischen is a free online service that lets users create a free, personalized “Tischen page” advertising their services, hourly rate, availability and geographic location. Members can upload work samples to their page, download a business card template featuring their URL, and receive text message alerts when job opportunities arise.

Tischen is unique because it allows job seekers and job hunters to link their web pages to their Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter pages. It also send out alerts when employers contact employees via text messages. The site is also great for people who are freelancers.

Tischen.com enables job hunters to reach the maximum amount of employers in the easiest and most effective way. Finding a job can be stressful and extremely difficult but Tischen.com simplifies the process for both the employer and the job candidates.

This information will be disclosed upon further interest

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

MeeGenius! is a new reading, bookstore and publishing application for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Web users

By reading the digital books with in MeeGenius!, children benefit from extras that traditional books cannot offer, such as word highlighting, audio playback, personalization of each story and the convenience of reading anywhere and anytime.

MeeGenius! is set to revolutionize children’s book publishing – offers aspiring children’s book authors a viable alternative to traditional book publishing. By producing digital books with MeeGenius!, authors and illustrators can have their work edited, brought to life and available for sale through MeeGenius! and iTunes in days instead of months

App downloads / revenue share

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

In just two years, the Austin-based tech startup has not only garnered the unanimous support of their peers but has also grown a national client list of corporations vying for a piece of the mobile applications market. What began as an iPhone development shop has evolved into a full-service mobile development and marketing agency, winning contracts to produce licensable products and platforms for the Harvard Business Review, Dell, SXSW and StumbleUpon.

We operate at a scale that very few other companies have achieved – 70+ people working exclusively on building premier mobile apps for big brands and enterprise. As a result of this, we can, in most cases, build it better, faster, and sometimes even cheaper.

Having completed over 50 projects, we have a vast internal codebase that ensures speed of development and robustness of components. Additionally, our culture is very focused on innovation and has organically grown a suite of technologies that help us and our clients build bleeding edge apps.

To our knowledge, we are the largest dedicated mobile design, dev, strategy shop in the country. We have built applications for almost every industry and have a unique perspective on challenges in mobile development. As a result, we’ve created a series of proprietary technologies that solve common problems.

- By providing the services that can’t be commoditized (top-tier design / dev)

- By licensing technologies we develop

- By creating products and solving needs in enterprise mobility

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

We help retailers and food service companies easily create and communicate their employee work schedules. We give employee the ability to post availabilities and vacations on our site as well as view and swap shifts. Managers can easily take all of this information, and create schedules quicker then ever. Our users have found up to an 80% reduction in scheduling time and an overall improvement in employee moral.

Unlike other ‘business softwares’ we really focus on simplicity and using the best in modern web-design to help make SkedX really simple to use.

We focus on a specific market that is not a focus of the large scheduling companies and is to big for the all the small scheduling companies. We basically want to give our users most of the features and integrations expected in a large ERP system, but for a lot cheaper..

It is a SaaS company. Our prices start at about $3/user per month.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

CleanEdison serves federal, state and local governments, building design and construction firms, owners, operators, and real estate investors. They have educated hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals in green building practices both through customized training and the largest open enrollment green training program in the nation. CleanEdison has courses in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), BPI (Building Performance Institute) Certification, Energy Auditing, Solar, Wind and Renewable Energy. CleanEdison has also developed numerous customized training programs specific to a business or organization’s needs.

Every project begins with a comprehensive analysis of the client’s goals and budget in order to implement a strategy with the most cost-effective solutions. CleanEdison’s proprietary in-house database brings together the latest technology and products, government incentive programs, grants, and financing solutions to bring your project from start to finish.

CleanEdison is a great way to enter the green job market, which is a rapidly growing market in a time where job’s are few and far between. Having BPI certification and LEED accreditation can set you apart in the building and renovating industry because of the popularity of green renovations.

More of the same. We have quickly made ourselves the nation’s largest green building training company, so now we are fine-tuning and expanding rapidly.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Featurestage enables collaboration with any number of projects, from any number of organizations, with a single account. This issue tracking service combines the ability to search, view, and communicate with all projects from a single view. Storage limits have been eliminated, granting freedom to provide all the information needed for even the most complex projects.

* Collaborate with any number of projects, from any number of organizations, with a single account.

* Search, view, and communicate from a single view.

* No storage limits

The service becomes more and more useful with scale (% of projects any given individual collaborates with on Featurestage should climb).

Role-based concurrent Producer license, with the option for an unlimited Consumer license.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: https://featurestage.com

GetSweaty.com is the first video-based website that provides daily physical activity for kids.Use of the site is completely free to kids, parents and teachers.
Upon logging in, kids find a new, different and fun video workout each day called the Daily Sweat. Kids earn points for working out which they can redeem for free prizes.

GetSweaty also has a back-end technology for teachers which allows them to use it on one computer in a group setting (ie the classroom)and with the push of a button, assign points to the entire class. Teachers are also incentivized with a Cash for Cash program.

There’s a lot of talk about the fight against childhood obesity and keeping our kids healthy, however, there are very few practical tools. GetSweaty is available for individual kids to use at home where they can exercise privately – an especially important aspect for those who are overweight or awkward. Or it can be used in group settings (schools, not-for-profits organizations,etc.).

No other website provides high quality daily exercise videos. We not only offer something new each day, the videos are shot for entertainment as well as educational value. The site allows kids to put their own background in each video (workout at the beach today?), keep track of their goals and points on their personalized profile page and learn about health and fitness from a kids perspective.

With PE classes being cut and unfunded physical activity mandates in schools, GetSweaty provides a free and easy- to- use classroom tool.

GetSweaty is an exciting new way to deliver physical fitness. It is currently in use by individual kids and schools in all 50 states.

We believe GetSweaty has the key elements necessary for success:
• The perfect match of target and advertiser
• Fills a need in the marketplace that is currently unmet
• As a free solution, it has few, if any, obstacles to rapid
growth and adoption
• It can be marketed through third parties, thereby
reducing marketing costs while expediting speed to
market
• It takes advantage of the growth cycle of internet usage
and online advertising spending
• It provides a practical solution to a high-visibility social
issue.

Upon establishing the GetSweaty brand, opportunities for additional revenue streams abound, including merchandise sales, licensing and expansion of the brand to additional targets.

Initially, GetSweaty.com will make its money through advertiser support. It is currently the only advertising opportunity available in the online tween health and fitness space. GetSweaty.com offers a truly unique opportunity for marketers who wish to reach this elusive market, build brand awareness in an authentic manner and create good will.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

I have a network of former colleagues, college admission professionals, who help me read and review college admission essays. We do so in the same manner it’s done in college admission offices across the country. And we do so at a cost we think is realistic and fair, $25.

We undercut private college admission consults, many of whom lack experience and charge hundreds of dollars for a similar service. Basically, we’re committed to putting students, not profits, first.

We maintain the largest repository of real college admission essays on the internet. More and more colleges are starting to worry about fraud in the college admission process. Where can they turn if they believe a college admission essay has been plagiarized? ReadEssay.com! They can search our database…for a fee, of course!

Review service fees, re-review service fees, advertising, college and university contracts

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Plume Blue provides an online dating services that connects members with each other through self-chosen activities. Members post and respond to dates, which ensures that our members will always be doing something they enjoy on their dates.

Plume Blue has restructured online dating at multiple layers to offer a very different experience. Most online dating sites have three components that they all construct in the same way: self-representation, discovery of others, and communication. Plume Blue has changed each. The most important, though, is that we’ve modified how people find each other. Our members post and respond to dates. There is no exhaustive search through profiles. On other sites, members communicate with each other, then decide if they want to meet and what they want to do, which inevitably leads to a monotonous lunch or coffee. We’ve reordered the process. Our users post dates (like comedy, a picnic etc) so that the event has been decided in advance. This means that every date will be something fun, which in turn means that even if you dont “click” with your date, youll still have a reasonably good time.

Plume Blue could be big because of the common disenchantment among online daters. Most people don’t like online dating, but have no other options. Plume Blue marries the idea of meeting people with the concept that it can still be fun. The online dating industry is huge and populated by sites that are all fundamentally the same. Plume Blue is different.

Plume Blue will charge a basic and relatively cheap membership fee. We don’t want to fleece our members, but at the same time we’d like them to make an active decision to participate. Additionally, Plume Blue is connecting local businesses with our members to provide date ideas. Eventually this will be monetized as with business subscription plan.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

DesignPax.com allows online marketers to quickly order fully-customized banner ads, logos, landing pages and email campaigns, and receive professionally designed, campaign-ready graphics within 48-72 hours. Formed to help marketing managers, small-business owners, affiliate marketers and eBay merchants slash the cost of production, DesignPax.com improves campaign quality with eye-catching creatives that are uniquely designed for each client.

Given our self-managed operational platform we are uniquely positioned to offer prices on high quality design work that are approximately 70% less than most other design solutions. Moreover, all of our orders include 3 free revisions.

The design industry is extremely fragmented with thousands of small design agencies serving clients of all sizes. Small businesses are increasingly spending more of their marketing budget online and we plan to capitalize on this growth. Our platform is perfect for small businesses that do not have in-house Designers given our price, speed and level of service.

We charge an upfront fee for our services.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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