DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews

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/

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

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

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

ShoutOmatic Records and Broadcasts “audible status updates” (Shouts) so your actual voice is heard within your Twitter and Facebook feeds

Using ShoutOmatic adds authenticity, emotion and tonality that is not possible with 140 characters of text alone

Every time someone “Shouts” their Friends and Followers learns about ShoutOmatic and can Shout-Back and Re-Shout.

Celebrities that use ShoutOmatic can opt-in to offer their Fans Personal Shouts for sale.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

OpenCal allows anyone who sells their time to offer appointment booking online. Making an appointment is faster and easier than a phone call and notifications and reminders are sent out automatically.

Because we focused on the design and user experience from day 1, we’ve created an extremely intuitive online booking experience that makes more sense to a business and their customers.

There are an estimated 25 million appointments made everyday in the US alone. In the future, probably all of these appointments will be made online because it is faster and easier.

We offer subscriptions to OpenCal that are either $19 or $39 per month.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

AboutOne is an online family information management system for people who don’t want to spend time on record-keeping, yet want to preserve memories and MUST have access to household information when certain life events occur, like having a baby, moving, applying to college, changing doctors, or a medical or other emergency.

AboutOne provides ONE place, accessible anytime, anywhere, from any device, where in just seconds you can store and manage what matters most: precious memories and household information (health records, education records, possession details, contact information, to name a few).

AboutOne stores the information with bank-level security. Then, the system automatically uses this information so you save time on family administrative chores like completing school forms, college apps, caregiver instructions, and tax returns, and creating family newsletters, scrapbooks, and hardcover memory books, and creating and mailing holiday cards. The information is also available, at your fingertips, to make informed decisions and respond quickly to an emergency.

Currently people store and manage memories and household information in 1 of 3 ways:

1) Do nothing or manual paper-based filing – neither solution addresses digitally organizing & preserving
data & making it accessible anywhere in seconds.

2) PC-based apps requiring more technical understanding &
need to backup data. These solutions do not address issue of being able to access data at anytime, from any location, plus, there is often a need to redundantly enter data across the various apps, and the data is vulnerable to loss if backup procedures aren’t followed.

3) On-demand tools including mobile and other SaaS apps are also used, but these are silos of data and require the user to manage multiple apps, which again means redundant data entry and a lack of synergy in data use.

With AboutOne, information is digitally organized and preserved, and accessible anywhere in seconds. Data is stored with bank-level security, and backed up hourly. Each unique piece of data must only be entered once. AboutOne automatically leverages the time spent entering data by synergistically using it across the system so you save time on activities that require you to access this data.

AboutOne is a consumer SaaS model targeted at moms, caregivers, military spouses, expats and corp HR departments:
Moms – 56m (grows by 4m/yr)
Caregiver – 44m (w/special needs & elderly)
Military – 1.5m (PCSing & deployed)
Corporate – 9m (Expats, HR benefit)

AboutOne is a $30/yr subscription-based app. We will generate additional revenue streams from affiliate programs, targeted advertising, lead generation, white label products, resale of partner products, & corporate licenses as an employee HR benefit.

Great concept! Really appreciate what you are doing.

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

Checkfront is a cloud based online booking system that allows businesses to better manage, market and sell their schedule based services online.

Traditionally companies with schedule based inventories required a multitude of independent applications to run their business. This could include property management system, customer management tools, a central reservation system and and online booking service.

Checkfront is able offer many of these applications under a single platform.

More service based business are looking to take their operations online, to better serve their customers and stay competitive.

Operating under a Saas model, our customers pay a subscription fee to use the software from $299 – $1800 per year.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

Mobicip is the most popular content filtering and parental control solution available on the App Store. The best-selling Mobicip Safe Browser app has been consistently rated among top paid apps, downloaded and used by tens of thousands of parents and several K-12 schools and school districts in the US, and was recently recognized by the 2010 Parents’ Choice Awards as a Top Mobile App. In addition to iOS-based devices, Mobicip plans to launch its service on other Internet-enabled mobile devices like netbooks, laptops and smart phones.

Mobicip brings enterprise-quality web security to households and educational institutions by combining
- intelligent real-time content filtering
- enforced safe search
- traffic encryption
- category-based filtering
- ratings-based filtering
- whitelists/blacklists
- support for 3G / WiFi networks
over a dynamic cloud architecture, making the solution affordable for families and schools.

Mobicip combines mobile applications with a software as a service (SaaS) architecture and a web 2.0 interface, bringing three industry buzzwords together in a groundbreaking solution.

Mobicip’s Premium annual subscription service is priced at $9.99 per device for consumers. Enterprises are offered volume discounts based on the size of the adoption.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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