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Company | MeetingWave | ||
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| http://www.meetingwave.com | ||||
| Founded: | 07/04/2007 | |||
| City: | Boulder, Colorado | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Steve Gibson | |||
| Founders: | John Boyd | |||
| Category: | Digital Content (Blogs, Websites) | Funding: | Bootstrapping | |
| Tags: | network, meet, SaaS, mobile, geolocation, | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does MeetingWave do?
Members can propose networking meetings describing the type of people they’d like to meet, yet control who attends and whether the meeting occurs. The proposed meeting can be face-to-face (e.g., coffee, lunch, golf…) or virtual (e.g., Skype, teleconference,…). Members can also search for proposed meetings near home or work and create “Meeting Alerts” to be notified of new invites in the future.
How are they different?
Members can also have their work or alumni email addresses “verified” by MeetingWave and display an indication of that verification on their profile. When someone sees verified email domains (e.g., @ibm.com or @brown.edu) on a profile, they will know the user must be associated with the university or company identified in the email domain helping people feel more comfortable meeting the user (and vice versa). Only the verified domain is displayed – the user’s personal email address will not be disclosed for everyone to see. We encourage members to create MeetingWave Profiles with background information since helps the decision-making at both ends of the meeting invite.
Why could MeetingWave be BIG?
Currently, small business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers,
We have now launched a turn key system for generating private label versions of MeetingWave to license to colleges and universities.
And are now developing private label turn key functionality to license to conferences and trade shows.
How they plan to make money:
We are also developing innovative “location-based networking” mobile applications based on MeetingWave’s functionality (and US Patent No. 7,716,285) to allow members to network on the fly. We plan to launch our iphone app within the next month and will monetize confirmed meetings by charging members who accept a posted invite or who send a meeting request to an “available” member a fee once the meeting is confirmed by the other member.
We also plan to start monetizing the open site by charging a fee to accept an invite.
Our thoughts:
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