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As part of our ongoing award series, we are happy to announce the three monthly Best-Of Discovering Startups Finalists for the month of November. The winner of the November contest was hiDentify, and is featured here.

These companies however have received exceptionally significant responses – garnering thousands of votes from our readers combined. Those achievements are by no means insignificant and deserve to be showcased here accordingly.

SkedX is a new, efficient employee scheduling tool for retailers and food service organizations. It helps solve the immense hassle of managing the ever-changing work schedules of dozens of employees. Given that they also received over 1,400 votes – putting them at the fourth highest overall (beating out a number of our past monthly winners), we’d say that our readers agree that this is both a large problem and a great service to solve it.  Read more here.

FetchABid helps users find service providers for a service by reaching out and collecting bids for various projects and delivering them. Instead of the usual method of having to research, call,  and usually hunt down, professionals for a given service, FetchaBid’s service immediately provides value. Also, in this hotly contested November competition, FetchABid garnered over 1,300 votes to put it at the fifth most popular startup of all time (below SkedX and hiDentify which were also from this month). Read more here.

Merge.fm is a song-versioning app for artists. The app is a tool which helps artists create and edit new music. In addition, artists can allow their fans to see their music, and provide input as their creating new pieces. So, the artist gets additional input from their biggest supporters, and fans can be on the cutting edge as new music is being developed.  Read more here.

We are proud to announce these November finalists and are excited to present them with these Discovering Startups awards!



Discovering Startups would like to congratulate hiDentify on winning the Best-Of Discovering Startups November Contest!

hiDentify received over 1,500 votes for the month! With such a performance, hiDentify easily took the top spot for the month of November.

For those who didn’t get a chance to read this blog post, hiDentify is a new way to search for consumer products on the internet. They use a combination of a semantic method and information from one’s social graph, to determine the best products that you are searching for.  Given how predominate a behavior internet research is in the common consumer’s purchase decision, hiDentify is a great concept. Especially pertinent to the current holiday season, we are proud to showcase hiDentify as our as our Discovering Startups Best-of November Winner.

Congratulations to hiDentify and good luck!

For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.hidentify.com

As part of our ongoing Editor’s Pick series, we are happy and proud to announce PinkPangea as our Discovering Startups Editor’s Pick for October.

PinkPangea is simply a great idea. It’s a place for women travelers all over the world to share their experiences. It provides two things: deep, engaging stories from others about extremely unique experiences, and the passing on of knowledge to allow others to emulate those experiences. The DS team simply became swept up in reading all of the great stories from around the world, and because of the simple, straightforward value PinkPangea provides, we wish congratulate them on being our Editor’s Pick for October. Best of Luck PinkPangea!

Congratulations Pink Pangea!

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As part of our ongoing award series, we are happy to announce the three monthly Best-Of Discovering Startups Finalists for the month of September. The winner of the October contest was EasyHi, and is featured here.

These companies however have received exceptionally significant responses – garnering thousands of votes from our readers combined. Those achievements are by no means insignificant and deserve to be showcased here accordingly.

TheSearchEngineGuys is a new SEO firm with a unique approach: they offer exclusivity to their clients’ keywords. Instead of trying to service multiple clients in the same category, they devote their resources to solidifying a partnership with their clients. Read more here.

Gameday Housing devotes itself to one thing: providing accommodations to sports fans. Their pitch can be readily identified by anyone who has  been to a major sports event: crowds – tens of thousands strong – sell out hotels quickly. Gameday helps provide that greatly needed service. Read more here.

JackThreads is a members-only, deal-oriented fashion site for men. Given the large gap in male etailer fashion sites, JackThreads is poised for a significant opportunity. With an aesthetically friendly, brand-conscious website, the website feels like a natural fir for the fashion-minded male.  Read more here.

We are proud to announce these October finalists and are excited to present them with these Discovering Startups awards!



Discovering Startups would like to congratulate EasyHi on winning the Best-Of Discovering Startups October Contest!

EasyHi got a shocking 1,124 votes for the month, nearly double that of the number two vote-getter for October. With such a performance, EasyHi sits as the fourth most popular startup of all time.  Congratulations to EasyHi!

For those who didn’t get a chance to read this blog post, EasyHi lets users send personalized video and music ecards to family & friends. One easy thing to love about EasyHi is their message: they make it easy to connect loved ones. Their interface is very aesthetically friendly, and the interface is extremely intuitive and easy to use. I think most of us can think of a few family members (especially elderly ones) who would absolutely love receiving video e-cards from those far away. Based on the simplicity of the product, the ease of use, and the immense value it provides – even if measured by one smile at a time – we are proud to showcase EasyHi as our Discovering Startups Best-of October Winner.

Congratulations to EasyHi and good luck!

For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.easyhi.com

As part of our ongoing Editor’s Pick series, we are happy and proud to announce YooMit as our Discovering Startups Editor’s Pick for September.

YooMit attacks the problem of meeting organization and collaboration in a digital environment. Their software solution streamlines the process of organizing meetings, and having experienced the pitfalls with online (or in person) meetings, we can easily see the wide business appeal for their product. We love the idea of Yoomit’s service and wish congratulate them on being our Editor’s Pick for September. Best of Luck Yoomit! Read more about them here.

Congratulations YooMit!

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Discovering Startups would like to congratulate YouMail on winning the Best-Of Discovering Startups September Contest!

YouMail beat all of our previous record holders in total number of votes – garnering a shocking 1,986 for the month. YouMail currently towers above the competition as our most popular startup of all time, with more than 100 above the number two spot holder, TerranExchange (which was last month’s winner). Congratulations to YouMail!

For those who didn’t get a chance to read this blog post, YouMail provides a solution that unifies voicemail from any device. So, think about combining and streamlining all of your home, work, and cell messages across platforms like your computer, ipad, and phone. By providing a deeper, more comprehensive interface, users are able to weed out spammers and save themselves time – something most consumers can agree that is sorely missing from current voicemail providers.

It’s a great idea and we are happy to showcase them as a Discovering Startups Best-Of Monthly Winner. Congratulations YouMail and good luck!

For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.youmail.com.

As part of our ongoing award series, we are happy to announce the three monthly Best-Of Discovering Startups Finalists for the month of September. The winner of the September contest was YouMail, and is featured here.

These companies however have received exceptionally significant responses – garnering thousands of votes from our readers combined. Those achievements are by no means insignificant and deserve to be showcased here accordingly.

WebLyte is a new, incredibly inexpensive web hosting firm, specializing on the “mid-level service gap.” So, in essence, they provide above average service for incredibly low fees.  Read more here.

ThreadThat.com provides a free communication platform that heavily encrypts user’s messages. In an age of daily reports of privacy abuse, especially on the internet, ThreatThat is providing a venue for users to have a truly encrypted, private experience.  Read more here.

LetsLaywerUp provides a truly unique, fantastic experience for law students. LawyerUp takes incredibly dry, hard-to-understand law concepts and breaks them down into easily understood lessons in plain English. We at DiscoveringStartups can easily see how and why this service would be needed, and we hope law students take full advantage of it! Read more about here.

We are proud to announce these September finalists and are excited to present them with these Discovering Startups awards!



As part of our ongoing Editor’s Pick series, we are happy and proud to announce BidNerd as our Discovering Startups Editor’s Pick for August.

BidNerd is a bidding marketplace for services. Basically, think eBay but for oddjobs and other various services that you’d normally contract out. BigNerd is appealing to us at DS because it is applicable to such a large consumer base. Virtually everyone has had the experience of trying to get price quotes from service providers in areas they have no domain expertise (plumbing, electrical, cleaning, etc.). The truth of the matter is, people usually have to go on faith that they are getting a good deal (or a few anecdotal data points from friends). With a live bidding system like BidNerd’s, normalized market forces will be applied to get a much closer to market rate – effectively saving consumers time and money. We love the idea of BidNerd’s service and wish congratulate them on being our Editor’s Pick for August. Best of Luck BidNerd! Read more about them here.

Congratulations BidNerd!

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As part of our ongoing award series, we are happy to announce the three monthly Best-Of Discovering Startups Finalists for the month of August. The winner of the August contest was TerranExchange, and is featured here.

These companies however have received exceptionally significant responses – garnering thousands of votes from our readers combined. Those achievements are by no means insignificant and deserve to be showcased here accordingly.

Webpage FX is a web development firm, specializing in internet marketing, PPC campaigns, and SEO – things that virtually every internet startup rates as very important.  Read more here.

Kembrel is a flash-sales site for college students. There are many Groupon-like companies out there, but Kembrel is positioning itself to take advantage of the lucrative college student market. College students are quite attuned to specific brands, and Kembrel is in a unique position to go after this marketplace.  Read more here.

TheGabrielInstitute provides a very interesting service: they predict how individuals will behave in teams. The idea is that they will better be able to predict how people will work together, so  managers can make better informed decisions when tasking projects. Very interesting! Read more about here.

We are proud to announce these August finalists and are excited to present them with these Discovering Startups awards!