Startup Name | Oktopost |
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What is your solution? | Oktopost is the first solution to establish the ROI of social media, bridging the gap between social media and lead generation. Oktopost delivers the true business value from social media, generating new sales and integrates marketing and sales in today’s social-centric marketplace. |
Target Market | Businesses |
How will you make money? | Free trial then $55/month |
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | Daniel Kushner Co-founder and CEO Daniel Kushner is a marketing expert and social media guru. As the former VP of Marketing at innovative high-tech company Nolio, Daniel doubled sales growth year over year. Daniel has been in the field for more than a decade and has successfully led the online marketing departments of various global organizations. Liad Guez Co-founder and VP Product Liad is a talented web professional who led his own web agency for seven years, in which he has provided interface design, social marketing and web development services for high profile companies on dozens of successful projects. |
Founders Names | Ben Green |
Website | http://www.oktopost.com |
Twitter Handle | @Oktopost |
Tony Freelance
LucidLMS
Startup Name | LucidLMS |
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What problem are you solving? | LucidLMS is giving a voice to the millions of people who want to share and learn online. By providing this easy tool, professionals of all trades can create a course out of their expertise and make it available online inspiring spread of high-quality knowledge and ideas. LucidLMS is taking content to the new level, making online engagement between the like-minded even more meaningful. |
What is your solution? | Lucid LMS allows you to create full-featured learning experiences and sell them online. It does not only give you all necessary tools to create, but also guides you through the planning process: from an idea to a full-featured online course. It best serves individual professionals and organizations for post-secondary education, internal training and content marketing. |
Target Market | Businesses |
How will you make money? | $99/license |
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | LucidLMS was started by Yuriy Kurat, a tech entrepreneur and two developers — Alex Tinyaev and Irene Velychko. Before starting Lucid, they gained experience in specialized education starting GeekHub: a school helping talented youth start a career in IT. Founders strongly believe that niche education is one of the best, yet overlooked paths to innovation and economic growth. Alex and Irene are strong developers with years of experience in SaaS and WordPress projects. Yuriy’s background is in project management and tech consulting. |
Founders Names | LucidLMS |
Website | http://lucidlms.com |
Twitter Handle | @lucidlms |
Bitbase
Startup Name | Bitbase |
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What problem are you solving? | High speed users can enjoy unlimited cloud storage and HD streaming, while low speed users can enjoy magnet link uploads and P2P enhanced streaming to maximize their bandwidth. |
What is your solution? | BitBase is an unlimited cloud storage service, made great by the people who use it. Uploading, downloading and streaming is enhanced with P2P technology so you can share and enjoy your stuff quicker and easier than ever.Accelerated Uploads Upload popular files faster by sharing the job between users, or simply paste a magnet link to have BitBase grab files on your behalf. It’s the quickest way to get your digital life in the cloud. Peer-to-Peer Streaming Enjoy fast, smooth streaming in glorious HD. BitBase maximizes your connection by using P2P technology when streaming media and dynamically switching quality to ensure minimum buffering. One Click Sharing It’s never been easier to share your digital life with those who matter. With a single click you can share your files with anyone. Best of all, they can stream or download your stuff completely free. Unlimited Space. Zero Hassle. Store all of your photos, videos, files and documents, safe and secure for just $59.99 per year. You’ll never run out of space and we’ll never keep asking you to pay more to store more. |
Target Market | Consumers |
How will you make money? | Free trial then $59.99/year |
Founders Names | Ethan MacMohon |
Website | https://bitba.se |
Twitter Handle | @base_bit |
Doorman
Startup Name | Doorman |
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What problem are you solving? | Nowadays, more and more people are shopping online, particularly people living in urban areas who do not have time or access to large shopping centers. Many urban dwellers also don’t own cars – making it difficult to carry things home from a large shopping trip. Online shopping makes your life significantly easier saving a ton of time, but getting packages for many people is a big headache: stolen packages, missed delivery stickers or having things shipped to work. Doorman solves all these problems by bringing customers their packages whenever they want in the evening 7 days a week. |
What is your solution? | Doorman has reimagined package delivery for e-commerce by perfecting the most important moment of shopping: when you actually get your stuff.Schedule home delivery of your online purchases until midnight, 7 days a week, same day or weeks away. We give customers a new shipping address to use whenever they shop online, and once their packages arrive at our depot, customers use the Doorman app to schedule delivery to their front door until midnight, in convenient 1-hour windows, 7 days a week. |
Target Market | Consumers |
How will you make money? | $3.99 per package fee, $19 per month for unlimited pacakge deliveries in 2-hour windows under the Silver plan, $29 per month for unlimited pacakge deliveries & returns in 1-hour windows under the Gold plan |
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | Doorman was founded by Zander Adell and Kapil Israni.Alexander “Zander“ Adell is Co-Founder & CEO of Doorman. He created Doorman in 2013 to reimagine the broken state of last mile package delivery with a new scheduled mobile service, currently operating in San Francisco, Chicago and New York and available for iOS and Android. Before launching Doorman he was a Product Manager at Idle Games and Baboo, and started his career as a Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios. Zander has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an Art degree from Skidmore College. Kapil Israni is Co-Founder & CTO of Doorman. He is passionate about solving real world problems using technology, design and great user experience. Before launching Doorman he co-founded Loqly (Yelp meets Quora) and worked as a Software Engineer at Banjo. He has also worked at IBM, designing & developing applications for banks and telcos. |
Founders Names | Chris Gadek |
Website | http://www.doorman.co |
Twitter Handle | @Doorman |
No Halftime
Startup Name | No Halftime |
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What problem are you solving? | It simplifies fantasy sports to the nth degree for those that love playing fantasy sports as much as we do. |
What is your solution? | No Halftime is a brand new fantasy sports app that allows users to create challenges on player vs player fantasy sports matchups (e.g. Odell Beckham will have more fantasy points than Calvin Johnson). |
Target Market | Consumers |
How will you make money? | 10% commission |
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | We’re three guys that are avid fans of fantasy sports. We do not only enjoy playing fantasy sports against each other, but also discuss politics, take random weekend trips, watch TV series and (cartoons) and last but not least play Boom Beach together. We’re three regular guys!We have educational backgrounds in business, computer science, computer systems and engineering, and electrical engineering. And are graduates of Stanford, USC and Rensselaer. No Halftime is our third start-up, all of which have successfully raised capital. |
Website | http://www.nohalftime.com |
Twitter Handle | @NHalftime |
Giflayer API
Startup Name | Giflayer API |
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What problem are you solving? | Integrating our Video 2 GIF API into your application will enable you to generate animated GIFs using a full-featured suite of customization options at your disposal. These include cropping, resizing, creating GIF video trailers, setting start, end and duration parameters, specifying your preferred FPS, and much more. |
What is your solution? | The giflayer API was built to provide a powerful and simple way to perform Video to GIF Conversion at an unparalleled speed and a quality of up to 30 FPS (Frames per Second), supporting all major video portals (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, … ), direct video links and video file formats.Integrating our GIF conversion engine into your application will enable you to automatically generate GIFs with a full-featured suite of customization options at your disposal. These include Cropping, Resizing, creating Trailers, setting Start, End and Duration parameters, specifying your preferred FPS, and more. API Requests are made using an easy-to-use URL structure, GIFs are delivered within a matter of seconds, and all API messages and notifications are returned in handy and lightweight JSON format. The following API documentation intends to provide interactive usage guides, detailed descriptions, and code examples for different programming languages. |
Target Market | Businesses |
How will you make money? | Free Plan for 25 monthly GIFs, need more? Subscription Plans start at $19.99 per month. |
Founders Names | Paul Zehetmayr |
Website | https://giflayer.com |
Twitter Handle | @apilayernet |
ClientBee (BETA)
Startup Name | ClientBee (BETA) |
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What is your solution? | ClientBee (BETA) is a free webRTC solution for consultants and small businesses.Simply set up your individual or team profile and allocate custom packages and availability schedules for each consultant. Armed with a unique weblink that can be placed in an email signature, banner, profile or button – users can then schedule, book and attend an in-browser video conference with you at the time specified. All money is paid direct to your Stripe account. |
Target Market | Businesses |
How will you make money? | Free in BETA |
Founders Names | Matt Dibb |
Website | https://www.clientbee.com |
Twitter Handle | @incipientit |
Concord
Startup Name | Concord |
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What problem are you solving? | More than 20,000 companies in 110 countries and tens of thousands of users, from startups to Fortune 1,000 companies, are already using the Concord platform to improve the speed of approving and signing contracts. In addition to saving time, the contract success platform saves companies money and leads to significant improvements in compliance. Concord’s users are finding that signatures are obtained 5 times faster, contract approvals and negotiations are sped up by 70%, and compliance requirements are improved by 90%. Moreover, 85% of users state that Concord improves their image and relationships with their counter-parties.“The contract management space is one of the last business processes that haven’t been automated yet, and companies are spending $153 billion a year on inefficient and expensive enterprise systems to negotiate, sign, and manage contracts,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and general partner at Cota Capital and investor in Concord. |
What is your solution? | Concord is a free cloud-based contract lifecycle management solution that’s changing the way the world is creating, negotiating, signing, and managing contracts. We provide unlimited e-signatures and unlimited contract storage for an unlimited number of users in all types of businesses and industries — from freelancers to multinational corporations. Concord is simple to use and includes online collaboration, deadline alerts, track changes, and more. Our users are finding that signatures are obtained 5 times faster, contract approvals and negotiations are sped up by 70%, and compliance requirements are improved by 90%. We’re on a mission to make sure no one has to manually manage contracts ever again. |
Target Market | Businesses |
How will you make money? | Freemium, free e-signature and contract management, standard |
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | Matt Lhoumeau is the Cofounder & CEO of Concord. Before founding Concord, Matt Lhoumeau worked with the CEOs of Iliad and RATP, Europe’s main telecommunication and public transport operators. Concord is Matt’s second company; he founded one of the main video game websites in Europe at the age of 17. Matt holds four different master’s degrees in business, political sciences, international affairs, and Japanese from Europe’s most prestigious schools, Sciences Po, HEC Paris, and INALCO.Florian Parain is the Cofounder & CTO of Concord. Florian Parain is an engineer and an information systems expert. Like Matt, Concord is Florian’s second company; Florian cofounded a leading French children’s literature website at the age of 16. Florian earned his engineering master’s degree from France’s top school Centrale-Supelec, he also holds a master’s degree in business from HEC Paris. |
Founders Names | Matt Lhoumeau |
Website | http://www.concordnow.com |
Twitter Handle | @ConcordNow |