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Mutualmobile.com – We Make the Most Out of Mobile

Posted by admin On November - 18 - 2010

		Company	Mutual Mobile
			http://www.mutualmobile.com/
		Founded:	11/04/2008
		City:	Austin, Texas
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	John Arrow
		Founders:	John Arrow, Mickey Ristroph, Sam Gaddis, Tarun Nimmagadda, Jason Story
Category:	Mobile Apps	Funding:	Bootstrapping
Tags:	Professional Services Mobile Development for Enterprise	Employees:	Over 100

What does Mutual Mobile do?

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.

How are they different?

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.

Why could Mutual Mobile be BIG?

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.

How they plan to make money:

- 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

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Bootstrapping, Mobile Apps, Over 100

Rentasmile.com – Saving Time and Making Life Easier

Posted by admin On October - 18 - 2010

		Company	Rent A Smile
			http://www.rentasmile.com
		Founded:	07/05/2010
		City:	Princeton, New Jersey
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Hemaprasad Veera
		Founders:	Nikunj Mittal
Category:	Other	Funding:	Self-Funded
Tags:	virtual personal assistant, virtual concierge	Employees:	Over 100

What does Rent A Smile do?

Helps to save time and make life easier for busy individuals, small business owners, etc. We provide task-based or hourly assistance with no long-term commitments. Tasks are anything that can be done over the phone or Internet such as speaking to a call center executive on our members’ behalf, scheduling appointments, ordering groceries, making bill payments, word processing, research work, social media management, etc.

How are they different?

Our response time is very short – within 4 hours and personal assistance plans start at $35 a month for 30 task requests. Business assistance plans vary from $5.75 – $10 per hour.

Why could Rent A Smile be BIG?

Busy people want to get rid of obnoxious and time consuming tasks so that they can spend more time with family or in pursuing their interests.

Business owners have peak seasons and non-peak and also requirements in skills vary. We come in to provide all possible options.

How they plan to make money:

The service is commercially viable by itself and members’ subscription fees will suffice.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Other, Over 100, Self-Funded

HerCampus.com – Online Magazine for College Women

Posted by admin On October - 8 - 2010

		Company	Her Campus Media LLC
			http://www.hercampus.com
		Founded:	09/16/2009
		City:	Cambridge, Massachusetts
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Stephanie Kaplan, CEO
		Founders:	Stephanie Kaplan, Windsor Hanger, Annie Wang
Category:	Digital Content (Blogs, Websites)	Funding:	Bootstrapping
Tags:	college, local, marketing	Employees:	Over 100

What does Her Campus Media LLC do?

HerCampus.com is an online magazine for college women that individualizes its content college-by-college by establishing branches at schools across the country, supplementing national content with local content from 50+ schools, produced entirely by the nation’s top student journalists. In addition to its role as an online content provider, Her Campus serves as a marketing platform, connecting companies with college students across the country in creative ways.

Her Campus was founded in September 2009 by three Harvard undergrads after winning Harvard’s business plan competition, and the site has since grown to a team of 500+ college students with branches at 50+ colleges, content partnerships with Seventeen and The Huffington Post, and marketing partnerships with New Balance, Juicy Couture, Rent the Runway, and has been featured on ABC, AOL, CNN Money, and in Inc. magazine, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, seventeen.com, among others. My co-founders and I were also recently named to Inc. magazine’s 30 Under 30 Young Entrepreneurs.

How are they different?

Her Campus possesses a unique insight and direct reach to the college market via our combination of national content supplemented by local, on-the-ground branches at 50+ colleges across the country. We are the only magazine that speaks directly to college women with targeted content, and our presence at schools across the country enables us to execute strategic marketing programs for companies looking to reach the college market across many colleges at once.

Why could Her Campus Media LLC be BIG?

The college demographic is something many companies are looking to access, but it is difficult for them to do so on their own. The 9 million college women that Her Campus targets have significant purchasing power and are ideal customers for companies to look to build brand loyalty with at this stage in their lives (age 18-22). Her Campus seeks to position itself as the College Experts, becoming the go-to source for all things college-related.

How they plan to make money:

We execute strategic marketing programs for colleges looking to reach the college market, through a combination of online and offline initiatives, including sponsored content, campus brand rep programs, product distribution, product sampling, among other services.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Bootstrapping, Digital Content, Over 100

KonySolutions.com – Mobile Application Platform Provider

Posted by admin On August - 3 - 2010

		Company	Kony Solutions
			http://www.konysolutions.com
		Founded:	2007
		City:	San Mateo, California
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Raj Koneru
		Founders:	Raj Koneru
Category:	Mobile Apps	Funding:	Self-Funded
Tags:	Mobile, mobile applications, mobile web, mobile marketing, mobile strategy, mobile commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, banking, finance, media, branding, B2C	Employees:	Over 100

What does Kony Solutions do?

Kony Solutions provides a suite of products and support services that enable Fortune 500 companies to offer consumers feature-rich mobile applications in less time and at lower costs than any other solution available. Kony’s proprietary Write Once, Run Everywhere single application definition enables applications to be designed and developed just once, in a device independent manner, and deployed across multiple channels, including on-device applications, mobile web, SMS, web gadgets, desktop applications, and mobile operating systems.

How are they different?

Kony Solutions delivers a unique approach to address the challenges of developing brand-consistent mobile applications across a variety of platforms. Different delivery channels and multiple device platforms create a complicated and costly development, management and maintenance problem for companies. The Kony Mobile Application Platform™ leverages the Write Once, Run Everywhere technology for designing, developing, deploying and managing mobile applications. This proprietary application definition enables mobile applications to be developed just once and deployed across all mobile platforms with less time to market and total cost of ownership than individual development solutions. The Kony Mobile Application Platform also optimizes the functions and user experience of a device’s native capabilities to deliver a differentiated, hosted, and managed mobile solution.

Why could Kony Solutions be BIG?

With a recent Gartner study noting that mobile phones are set to outpace personal computers as the most common web access device worldwide by 2013 and ABI Research predicting shoppers will order $2.4 billion in physical goods from websites via mobile devices, companies can’t afford not to have a mobile presence. With an incredibly fragmented mobile device market and many new and emerging technologies, companies have to spend their mobile dollars wisely, making sure they reach the most consumers. Using its Write Once, Run Everywhere technology Kony is able to deliver brand consistent, feature-rich mobile applications for companies in less time, and at lower costs than any other solution across all mobile devices and operating systems (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian etc.)

How they plan to make money:

Companies license and subscribe to the Kony Solutions platform.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Mobile Apps, Over 100, Self-Funded

BeyondTheRack.com – Premier Members-Only Shopping Club.

Posted by admin On July - 29 - 2010

		Company	Beyond the Rack
			http://www.beyondtherack.com
		Founded:	02/01/2009
		City:	Montreal, Non-US
		Country:	Canada
		CEO:	Yona Shtern
		Founders:	Yona Shtern and Robert Gold
Category:	eCommerce	Funding:	Angel
Tags:	Private online shopping club	Employees:	Over 100

What does Beyond the Rack do?

Beyond the Rack offers consumers across North America the most sought after designer apparel, accessories, beauty, and home decor at up to 70% off retail prices in the context of limited-time sale events that typically last 48 hours.

How are they different?

While many other online shopping clubs target narrower market niches, Beyond the Rack has distinguished itself by aiming at a broader demographic with a diverse selection of merchandise that includes men’s and women’s apparel and accessories, children’s clothing and toys, beauty, housewares, and home décor.

Why could Beyond the Rack be BIG?

Every consumer is looking for designer items at discounted prices (in other words, a taste for luxury for less). And Beyond the Rack offers just that!

How they plan to make money:

By continuing to provide an exciting shopping experience to our members and continuing to increase our top line sales at a rate of over 30% each month.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Angel, Over 100, eCommerce

Inteqnet.com – On Demand IT Service Management

Posted by admin On July - 8 - 2010

		Company	InteQ
			http://www.inteqnet.com
		Founded:	03/09/1995
		City:	Bedford, Massachusetts
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Santhana Krishnan
		Founders:	Santhana Krishnan and Yash Shah
Category:	Web Apps/Tools/Widgets	Funding:	VC
Tags:	itsm, saas, itil, service desk, on demand, infradesk, help desk	Employees:	Over 100

What does InteQ do?

InteQ leveraged the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices guidelines, Cloud and Web 2.0 technologies to launch InfraDesk – a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT Service Management solution which dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership, offers the fastest time to production and is the easiest to adopt by users.

How are they different?

IT organizations today have to contend with forced upgrades, costly maintenance fees and reliance on programming skills. InfraDesk offers the lowest total cost of ownership, is intuitive and easy to use and is fully configurable with zero programming skills required.

Why could InteQ be BIG?

We are the only company in the industry that provides a solution like InfraDesk. No other SaaS enterprise service desk application provider has a true multi-tenant architecture delivered out-of-the-box fully integrated ITIL modules with pre-configured workflows and action-based automated routing. InteQ eliminates all risks associated with switching to InfraDesk by guaranteeing a successful migration from legacy solutions. Customers can save up to 70% compared to similar in-house applications. The market penetration for SaaS is less than 5% and growing exponentially over the coming years.

How they plan to make money:

We are committed to ensuring our customer satisfaction and renewal rates are among the highest by providing quality upgrades and support. As we continue to gain global adoption of our solution, we will continue to produce the highest quality, easiest to use and most cost effective solution that is available to IT organizations.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Over 100, VC, Web Apps/Tools/Widgets

Vmlogix.com – Virtual Machine Management Applications

Posted by admin On June - 30 - 2010

		Company	VMLogix
			http://www.vmlogix.com
		Founded:	2004
		City:	Palo Alto, California
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Sameer Dholakia
		Founders:	Ravi Gururaj
Category:	Other	Funding:	VC
Tags:	lab management, virtualization, cloud computing	Employees:	Over 100

What does VMLogix do?

VMLogix provides virtual machine management solutions designed for software companies and IT organizations to use any of the leading virtualization platforms for consolidating test lab infrastructures, automating the software build and test process, and for managing the staging and delivery of applications into production.

How are they different?

VMLogix provides groundbreaking software solutions that help simplify the software lifecycle by deploying the power of virtualization technology. With its LabManager product suite, VMLogix revolutionizes the way software development teams around the globe manage their automated software lifecycle and quality assurance processes. By offering agile, self-service virtualization tools, VMLogix enables these teams to deliver more reliable products at lower costs, more quickly than ever before.

Why could VMLogix be BIG?

VMLogix LabManager enables software companies and enterprise IT organizations leverage virtualization to consolidate and automate lab IT infrastructure so that software applications can be delivered and maintained more quickly, cost-effectively and reliably.

How they plan to make money:

They plan to make money by selling their software products.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Other, Over 100, VC

Appsense.com – The Leading Provider of User Virtualization

Posted by admin On June - 29 - 2010

		Company	AppSense
			http://www.appsense.com
		Founded:	1999
		City:	New York, New York
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Charles Sharland
		Founders:	Charles Sharland
Category:	Other	Funding:	VC
Tags:	user virtualization, user profile management, virtual desktop, terminal services, terminal server, citirx, vmware, xendesktop, xenapp	Employees:	Over 100

What does AppSense do?

AppSense is the leading provider of user virtualization technology to enterprise organizations. User virtualization is a way of managing user-specific information independent of the desktop, and applying this information into any desktop (local install, virtualized, published, streamed etc) on-demand. This enables IT to standardize the desktop build, automate desktop and application delivery, and migrate users to new desktops – all while ensuring the user experience is seamless, personal, predictable and easily manageable.
AppSense technology is used around the world by companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Lowes, United Airlines, Wachovia and ESPN.

How are they different?

AppSense Environment Manager is the only enterprise solution on the market that enables standardized virtual desktop environments to be fully and automatically personalized “on demand”, without cumbersome profiles or scripts. It uniquely decouples corporate policy and personalization data from the desktop, manages them independently and applies them to user devices on-demand.

Why could AppSense be BIG?

With the rise in desktop virtualization, enterprises are looking for technologies that allow them to achieve the greatest ROI. AppSense technology does this by enabling enterprises to receive all of the benefits of desktop virtualization. Specifically, AppSense Environment Manager enables low-cost, standard desktop images to be used to deliver fully configured and personalized desktops to all employees. This ensures maximum user adoption from a standard base image, further reducing desktop management cost, as well the complexity and risk associated with maintaining a large desktop estate.

How they plan to make money:

AppSense plans to make money by selling their software. In 2009, AppSense had a dramatic increase in sales in the south central and southeast regions in the US over the past year, with significant growth in the company’s historically key industries, which included financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and education, along with newer areas of growth such as government.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Other, Over 100, VC

Netronome.com – Leading Developer of Network Flow Processors

Posted by admin On June - 24 - 2010

		Company	Netronome
			http://www.netronome.com
		Founded:	2003
		City:	Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Niel Viljoen
		Founders:	Niel Viljoen, David Wells, Johann Tonsing
Category:	Communications	Funding:	VC
Tags:	semiconductor, network flow processors, secure socket layer, acceleration cards, multicore, heterogeneous	Employees:	Over 100

What does Netronome do?

Netronome is a leading supplier of highly programmable semiconductor products that are used for intelligent flow processing in network and communications devices. Netronome’s solutions include tightly integrated network flow processors and acceleration cards that scale to more than 20 Gbps. They are used in carrier-grade and enterprise-class communications products, as well as virtualized servers and appliances that require deep packet inspection, flow analysis and content processing, all at very high speeds for millions of simultaneous flows.

How are they different?

Because Netronome’s NFP product line provides scalable network performance up to 40 Gbps along with sophisticated packet and flow classification, in a highly programmable design environment, it provides users with a path to higher performance and software scalability, helping users develop products for next generation networks more cost-effectively and efficiently. In addition, the NFP-32xx is the industry’s first processor designed for unified computing architectures by combining high-performance network, content and security processing with I/O virtualization. As a next generation solution derived from and compatible with the Intel IXP28XX line of network processors, thousands of existing product designs, tens-of-thousands of skilled engineers, and hundreds-millions of lines of code now have an evolutionary path to higher performance and greater intelligent designs.

Why could Netronome be BIG?

Network traffic in both enterprise and carrier networks continues to rise, driving the bandwidth requirements and line rates to 10 Gbps today, and expecting to grow to 40 Gbps and beyond in a few years. With the need for application awareness, content inspection, and security processing, the amount of processing power within the network infrastructure at these ever-increasing line rates is growing exponentially.
Netronome technology features a unique heterogeneous architecture which meets these increasing network demands and does so at a lower cost than other solutions available in the market today.

How they plan to make money:

Netronome plans to make money by selling the NFP and related solutions.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Communications, Over 100, VC

Service-now.com – Modern SaaS for IT service management

Posted by admin On June - 14 - 2010

		Company	Service-now.com
			http://www.service-now.com
		Founded:	06/30/2004
		City:	Solana Beach, California
		Country:	United States
		CEO:	Fred Luddy
		Founders:	Fred Luddy
Category:	Web Apps/Tools/Widgets	Funding:	VC
Tags:	itsm, saas, itil, service desk, on demand, modern	Employees:	Over 100

What does Service-now.com do?

Develops a modern SaaS application for enterprise IT service management.

How are they different?

Service-now.com is modern and simply powerful. Enterprise ITSM competitors sell decades-old software that is difficult to use and expensive to own.

Why could Service-now.com be BIG?

We are already pretty big. After less than five years in business we are currently at about $53 million in annual recurring revenue. Every one of our competitors has attempted to emulate our business model and technology without success.

How they plan to make money:

Service-now.com is profitable and has been cash flow positive for more than three years. We are frugal and pragmatic in our approach to business. We are honest with our fanatical customer base and they reward us with their loyalty. We take ownership of the care and feeding of the application and our customers appreciate being able to focus on their core competencies. At the end of the day, we make money because our customers are successful and they get value from our application.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.service-now.com

Over 100, VC, Web Apps/Tools/Widgets

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Mutualmobile.com – We Make the Most Out of Mobile

Rentasmile.com – Saving Time and Making Life Easier

HerCampus.com – Online Magazine for College Women

KonySolutions.com – Mobile Application Platform Provider

BeyondTheRack.com – Premier Members-Only Shopping Club.

Inteqnet.com – On Demand IT Service Management

Vmlogix.com – Virtual Machine Management Applications

Appsense.com – The Leading Provider of User Virtualization

Netronome.com – Leading Developer of Network Flow Processors

Service-now.com – Modern SaaS for IT service management

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