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

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

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

Nix Hydra Games develops witty and disruptive online and mobile games that fill gaps in particular market segments. Our first product is called The Wishing World, and it is an online social game for teen girls that offers them a very different experience from other online games currently available.

The Wishing World has an unique voice and distinctive art style that will appeal to our target demographic in a way that other social games currently don’t, as well as unique personality based group play mechanics.

There’s a huge gap in the market for appropriate online gaming content for teen girls and we believe The Wishing World will fill that gap. There are 35 million teens in the US controlling an estimated $208 billion in largely disposable income. Nearly one out of three view the internet as their primary source of entertainment.

Free to play with virtual goods, mobile apps, premium subscription, advertising and sponsorships, merchandising.

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

We provide easy online acoustic guitar lesson videos online.

We are the only guitar lesson site that has simple acoustic strumming versions of hit songs where the teachers sing and the students are encouraged to do the same. All other sites teach much more complicated parts with no singing.

Learning basic guitar is a goal of many people around the world, but because of either the cost or distance from private teachers, it is not possible. RhythmStrummer.com offers low-cost lessons that can be accessed from any computer around the world at any time of the day.

Through selling access to individual song lessons or monthly subscriptions to our technique library.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

ItsMyURLs simplifies your complete online presence into one location, one link, and one click! With more and more social sites being created all of the time, people are finding that they have many profiles out there, but with no easy way to let everyone know where to find them. ItsMyURLs solves this problem. With our extremely easy to use interface, and within 10 minutes, you can be set up, and don’t have to ever worry about telling people about your profiles or other links again!

Extremely easy to use. We are NOT a social network, nor do we want to be, so we don’t have features such as “friends, followers, updates, etc”. Our service is a tool, that people use to find and connect with you on the site of their choosing.. ItsMyURLs is also a great promotional tool, that make it extremely easy for you or others to share your links on any social network or by email, with our “sharing widgets”. Users can track which of their links are being clicked most, with our “link, hit counters”. We also have a few other features that our current users think are great, such as “Twitter Friends List”, Badges, etc. We are launching an updated design and interface in a few weeks, with our new “Widget” feature going live as well.

The market is huge, the need is there. We have caught the attention of some famous hollywood directors, and may have an announcement as far as seed funding in the near future. We have over 20 of the biggest celebrities, athletes, social media gurus, techies, models, dj’s, as “Verified Users” (similar to twitter’s Verification, except once verified on ItsMyURLs, their complete online presence is verified) on ItsMyURLs.com.

We currently generate revenue through selling ad space.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

hiDentify came up with a new method to search for consumer products on the internet, using semantic analysis and social networking methods hiDentify engine is able to realize consumer needs and suggest matching products. hiDentify’s vision is to help consumers make an educated buying decisions without the hassle of conducting complicated research. Using hiDentify engine consumers will be able in a few simple steps to find the product that best matches their needs.

hiDentify presents an innovative solution using a breakthrough technology, and approaching the problem from a different angle than other tools in the market.
Several characteristics distinguish hiDentify: We have developed unique algorithm that uses consumer social footprint as input, users can describe in their own language the product they are looking, simple interface that can be used by the common consumer, ability to translate technical details into common language, effectively collect products data from the Internet and find the best match for a consumer based on their needs, reduce the amount of time a consumer needs to spend looking for a product.

The web accounts for three of the top five most common places where consumer begin their shopping, there is a mass market of consumers that do their shopping online, yet the tools that are available today doesn’t make shopping easy, the web is loaded with data, large number of manufactures, and there are many merchants you can buy from. hiDentify simplify the process of getting to the product you need, think of hiDentify as the clerk in the nearest shopping retail..

hiDentify business model is based on affiliates programs and ads on its site, hiDentify will serve as a gateway for retails, consumers will find the product they need on our site and will be refered to retails that offers the best prices.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Micromobs is a web service which allows users to quickly start group discussions. Users can stream multiple groups to one place making them easy to manage.

Most services focus on contacting an individual, but where do you go when you wan to contact a group? Unlike most group services, micromobs believes in getting one thing right–group discussion.

Micromobs will be big because everyone is a member of multiple groups. The definition of a group is changing from an entity that is permanent to entities that are created for short periods of time (eg. trips, events, volunteering, a college course). Micromobs will be the application that supports these temporary groups by quickly connecting the people within the groups.

The primary source of revenue for micromobs will be through sponsored mobs. Let’s say a group of people are discussing an upcoming trip to las vegas– we will allow brands to sponsor mobs based on topics being discussed within the mob. The secondary source of revenue will be through premium functionality. We will offer customization tools to groups who have additional requirements.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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