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/

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

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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.

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

SOCO Games develops social media games on the Facebook platform.

Over and above creating top-tier games and creating a loyal player base, we also have integrated a social conscience into how our games are built and into how we conduct business. Within each game there is a automated mechanism that automatically extracts a percentage of revenue and puts it into the SOCO Games Players Fund. The Fund Supports over 30 organizations around the world.

Simply the size of the market, 500 million people and growing is enough to indicate the potential for large growth. Games have grown from zero to millions in annual revenue in a matter of months. Initial reviews and reaction from players indicate that Earth 2.0 is very competitive in this space.

The business model is simple. Players can inhance there game experience and strengthen their character with game credits. They can earn credits by completing tasks in the game or they can speed this process up by buying game credits with real world money or through completing “offers” such as filling out a survey or watching a video.

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

Teamly has developed a productivity and people management SaaS web app for SMBs. For business owners and managers it solves the problem of how to make sure your staff are productive and effective, and how to keep on top of their commitments to you, without micro-managing them.

It makes users think about what is really important in their companies, commit to these priorities and then share these for review by their manager and team-mates. It combines priority and goal setting for the individual with real-time information on staff for managers. The key premise of Teamly is that by focusing on less things, you will achieve more, and that explains our strapline which is “Get The Right Work Done”.

The leading SaaS player in the performance management category is SuccessFactors, with projected revenue this year of $200M. Their product is enterprise focused. There is nothing equivalent for SMBs, and awareness of this category is growing. The market itself is growing at 20% per annum.

Currently we are still in beta and have no revenue. Teamly will remain free for single users, but in the new year we will start charging businesses for team access. This will be a typical SaaS product with a low per user subscription fee, and first month free.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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