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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/

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.

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

Climber.com is recruiter networking site for jobseekers. We target 50k + salary, Bachelor degree or experience equivalent candidates that are domestic in the United States. Jobseekers who become part of Climber’s network are marketed to recruiters and hiring managers, who are actively looking to source qualified candidates.

Unlike most career sites on the web, Climber is not just a job board with postings. Our goal is to connect our jobseekers with actual human beings who are looking to hire. We do this not only through our internal recruiter network, but also create an SEO version of our jobseekers profiles that we index on major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. This then allows our jobseekers to be found by recruiters and hiring managers outside of Climber. In addition to actively marketing our jobseekers, we also provide them with multiple career tools such as a Recruiter Directory, Custom Resume Center and provide partnerships with job boards so they can search multiple sites all in one place.

Climber has seen significant growth this year and tripled it’s membership in the first quarter of 2010 alone. The Recruiter Directory, which allows jobseekers to search for the hiring executive at their favorite companies or industries and send them their resume directly thus avoiding the Applicant Tracking System, was launched this year and we have already received success stories of users being hired from it. We are also currently in development of creating and launching a career management section for users to keep track of their job search efforts for the long and short term.

We are currently profitable and charge a month-to-month fee to our jobseekers as well as have different price packages for the recruiters who use our service to source qualified candidates.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

WebsitesGiveBack is a web design business which markets to niche web design for the truly small business owner, focusing greatly on labor/services business such as electricians, roofers, plumbers, etc. We can work with all kinds of small businesses; however, we know there is a great need and gap in this area that can be filled. We help these small businesses by providing complete website packages with no monthly fees or contract for a flat rate of $499. WGB also supports charitable causes by donating $100 of the costs of each of website, on behalf of their customers, to a charity of their customer’s choice. Donations are not bundled and WGB receives no credit – the business owner receives the full tax benefit.

WGB has an ambitious goal — to raise $60,000 in 2011 —for the causes its clients select to help.
We have no monthly fees, additional fees, or contract.
We include a video promotion of client’s business that will go on our video blogging series on The Wrap and our WebsitesGiveBack YouTube channel, and their website if requested (just added to our services)
For our VA neighbors living within a 30 mile radius of our Front Royal location, we take an additional $50 off.
For every paid referral, a $50.00 check.
WebsitesGiveBack website with our special seal.
Yearly renewal is only $100, of which $25 again goes to the charity and tax credit give to client, and includes all maintenance and updates.
The absolute best and personalized customer service experience.

Simply because we do combine good business and goodwill. We are fearless small business advocates and know the downside of this business and how countless small businesses are being mislead and taken advantage of.
Charitable and worthy organizations are experiencing an all-time low in donor assistance. In an economy such as this, conitinuing to give and maintaining is more important than ever. Every little bit helps and we want to do our part and make it grow. We are also very much involved in our community and we walk the talk. We’re passionate advocates for worthy organizations just as much.

By expanding our web design and mission to small business advocacy and social responsiblity awareness through the means of social media and video blogging. We were business owners prior in another very different business and we had to close shop when the economy began to turn. With our experience as entrepreneurs and small business owners, we feel that we can offer insight, advice, experience, and encouragement to others. With this, we hope to overflow and create brand awareness; hence increasing earning potential and charitable contributions.

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

FindtheBoutiques.com provides a directory of boutiques nationwide for boutique shoppers to discover, explore and shop while also providing a low cost method of advertising for boutique owners to increase boutique awareness and their customer base.

There is no other website that covers boutiques on a national level.

Everyone loves to have unique clothes/decor/etc which is why boutique shopping is so popular, but knowing where to find and shop at boutiques is difficult. FindtheBoutiques.com allows easy access for boutique shoppers and boutique owners to find each other to create lasting shopping relationships and support local small businesses.

Boutique’s basic information will be listed for FREE so boutique shoppers can start their boutique hunting right away. Boutique Owners have several levels of listing options to increase their boutique’s marketing on FindtheBoutiques.com. Some of the options include: store front photo, featured merchandise, store tour video, boutique biography, sales/coupon section and so much more.

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

PointDebate is an online communication platform meant to stir up, engage and give voice to most diverse opinions. It is particularly suitable for leading debates on topical subjects, especially debates with two clearly distinguished opposing sides. Users create debates, providing the debate title and the two possible debate options. Other users can make points in the debates and to bias their points to one of the two possible options.

PointDebate is a unique mixture of social networking, Q&A site, discussion board and a poll site. You can use it for its main purpose – create debates and participate in debates, but it also offers other features. You can follow other debaters to keep track of their activities just like you do on Twitter and ask questions like you do on Yahoo! answers or Mahalo. You can also use it as a regular discussion board.

PointDebate could be big because it is not a clone site but provides new experience on the web. People like to debate and argue on different topics.

Through PPC advertising and promoted debates.

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Please visit their website to learn more: http://pointdebate.net

Fashion-Ade.com is a virtual closet and e-stylist tool that helps women get the most out of their closets and empowers them to dress with confidence every day. Women can easily build a virtual closet by either selecting from nearly 100,000 pre-populated garments, or by uploading photos of unique garments to the application. The site’s patent-pending Outfit Engine then suggests combinations that users can rate and share through Facebook and email which in turn generates usage data that Abundant Closet can provide to retailers in the form of Closet Insights reports.

• Users don’t have to spend time uploading photos. Instead, they can build a virtual closet in 15 minutes or less, leveraging the 95,000 garments preloaded into the system

• Fashion-Ade’s patent-pending Outfit Engine allows users to view, rate and share thousands of outfit combinations.

• The Closet Insights tool will help educate retailers and improve their ability to understand their users’ interests and style preferences.

Fashion-Ade has the potential to make it BIG. American women spend $215 Billion on clothing annually, yet consumer research reveals most wear less than half of what they own, leaving more than $100 Billion worth of garments hanging in a closet, or worse, a thrift store. Fashion-Ade’s patent-pending Outfit Engine helps them utilize more of what they own and presents them with more of what they want: improving ROI on their clothing investments.

At the same time, online retailers in the women’s apparel category – more than 300 at this point – are grabbing an increasingly large slice of the retail pie; online sales as a percentage of overall sales are up 11% in the last year alone. Fashion-Ade presents retailers the opportunity to build relationships even when users are not shopping. Our data mining capabilities give retailers access to market intelligence literally not available anywhere else.

Fashion-Ade will provide user insights reports to retailers for a fee (per user).

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Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fashion-ade.com/

Agent Anything is the eBay of services:

People can post any service (“Mission”) they need accomplished (errands, tasks, research, anything) onto the website. They can then decide the price they are willing to pay, or they can elect to accept offers from Agents.

Students (“Agents”), using their university ID, can run these Missions in their free time and get paid the full amount offered.

- The Customer has full control over how much they pay.
- Only verified college Students can run Missions, so Customers are helping out Students by helping themselves
- Students can get verified in seconds, so they can start running Missions immediately
- Customers only pay AFTER their Mission has been completed to their satisfaction
- The cost of having someone run a Mission is extremely low

How many people do you know that have plenty of time to do all the little things they have to do in a day?

Pretty much everybody has more on their plate than they can handle on a daily basis. This is a huge problem in our society, not just in terms of productivity and efficiency, but also in terms of stress and well-being. Until now, this problem has never really had an adequate, affordable solution.

With Agent Anything though, people can get help with all of their little tasks: walking the dog, picking-up groceries, moving, finding a vacation condo…Anything!

This isn’t some concierge service that charges $40-50 per hour with a minimum of 18 units of 2 hours each and a 24-hour advanced reservation policy. Agent Anything connects you directly with college students, and with college employment levels lower than they’ve been in years, there are sure to be plenty of students who are available right now and would be happy to take $10-15 to run an errand.

Agent Anything charges a fee for successfully connecting Clients with Agents. It’s not much (e.g. $2.50 for a $10 Mission, $3.50 for a $20 Mission), and again, the Client is only charged AFTER the Mission has been confirmed as successfully accomplished.

This would be like ordering-in dinner. Eating all of it. And then only paying for the food if you liked the meal.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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

We send a curated weekly newsletter of the best startup events in 47 cities and 5 Universities (Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, Princeton, Columbia) around the world

Our newsletter is hand curated by a member of the startup community themselves, we focus on events and short form content, and we tell you what is going on in your localized startup community.

We are reaching a highly influential demographic of mostly geeky dudes who are 25-30, early adopters, and the most socially connected segment of the population. (our audience creates the social technology).

Other publications that reach this audience (INC, Fast Company, Entrepreneur) monetize this audience consistently and well. We can do the same + offer engagement which magazine advertising could never do.

We’re already cash flow positive through sponsorship and partnering with larger tech events.

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

Specialize in Professional Web Development for small- and mid-sized businesses needing a new or revamped website in order to improve their online presence(s). We also offer marketing services (such as Business Cards, Flyers, and Letterheads) for a more professional touch for our clients.

We hand-craft every website. Instead of using a visual editor (such as FrontPage, DreamWeaver, WordPress, Joomla, etc), we actually hand-code everything. This allows for more customization options, better flexibility, and easier editing for clients. Most visual editors are either expensive, limit your creativity and services, or you have to have a Tech-based degree to operate one. We offer complete website management services to take the hassle of website management off of our client’s hands and makes it easier for them. One less thing off their task list.

We also offer SaaS services, such as ScrumIt (taking scrum-based projcet management to the web) and The College Kiosk.

The market will always be out there for business to get a new website or a revamp to what they have, or they are looking to add to the services they already have. Our plan is to offer a 1-stop management service to customers, in addition to the hand-crafted website in order to create a unique package to offer to customers where as other companies either just offer web design on the side or use a visual editor and charge 5x the price. As our motto says, “Simply Professional, Professionally Simple,” our goal is to make it easy for the customer. Our goal is to become the #1 name people think about when they think “websites”.

We charge on a per-project basis and have a 20% markup for services provided. This allows for reinvesting back into the company, along with giving our employees an earnable profit. The clients pay 50% upfront (so we make sure we can get paid), and pay the rest after services have been provided.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

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