We ran a survey that showed that over 31% of adults have a hard time making new friends. [Source: https://patook.com/Blog/MakingFriends]
That number goes up to 50% for people who have recently moved or changed locations.
Our app is meant to kickstart conversations between people who would probably make good friends, as well as provide users with a powerful way of finding people they’d likely be compatible with.
It is also aimed at connecting the communities together by providing city-wide, neighborhood-wide, or state-wide discussion beacons, which are visible to everyone within those beacons.
What is your solution?
Patook is about meeting the people who are near you and who share similar interests, as well as connecting local communities together.It is based around the concept of beacons. Users create beacons and everyone within those beacons can interact with everyone else. Beacons can be as wide as cities (e.g. the Seattle beacon) or as narrow as a small library. Discussions posted on beacons can be upvoted and the most popular discussions are shown higher.
Patook is foremost a friendship making service and nearly all interactions within the site are tailored towards making users get to know the people around them better while remaining safe. This includes a powerful point system which allows users to assign points to other user traits (for example, if they play the piano or like to ski).
People have currently less and less time, and more and more information to chose from. According to research by Google and others, the typical traveler makes more than 12 online searches, over as much as twenty websites, when booking a travel.
We solve this problem, we inspire people with amazing places and we let them book without leaving our website.
What is your solution?
Flykt.com is an inspirational, budget oriented travel website.
The service does not ask for a destination, but for your keyword, a date, a budget and a travel category.
Flykt takes travel personalization one step further, by bundling inspirational search with social media inputs.
Our customers are all the travellers, and traveller’s to be, all the people looking to explore the world and to get to know new places and cultures.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Flight + Hotel or Flight only
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
The idea was born in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu mat. Pedro and Ricardo are training partners and have felt since they met that they should join in a venture together, one in which business (Ricardo’s experience) and Behavioral Science (Pedro’s expertise) could be brought together. Ricardo is a hardcore traveler and was talking about the frustration of finding places where to go, as the idea started germinating in the breaks of sparring moments. After they sketched the idea, they talked to about a dozen developers who would go out of their way to explain how incredibly complex (and close to impossible) the project was. Then they met this really reserved developer who heard the idea, just answered “ok”, left the cafe, and sent them a programmed MVP two weeks after.
The new “Kayak.com for custom t-shirts for groups,” bidPress is a platform that lets customers design custom t-shirts and other apparel online and get instant quotes from top print shops.We’re rethinking the way the market for custom t-shirts and other apparel works. We are disrupting a $9+ billion industry widely known for a lack of retail innovation, with more than 85% of orders placed offline and with an online industry dominated by a few large players that charge high prices or have clunky websites. At bidPress, customers can save up to 35% versus online and offline shops, since printers in our network have extra capacity and will print at low margins to stay busy.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
All-inclusive pricing, which includes all fees, shipping and taxes.
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Tony Wavering is the founder of bidPress. In 2005, as a student at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Tony started a custom apparel business that sold to many student groups and businesses in Pennsylvania and New York. After graduating from Penn and working as a management consultant for six years, Tony returned to the custom apparel business full-time, starting bidPress.Tony moved from New York City to Bangalore, India to live for five months, as a development team there built the bidPress application from scratch. Tony has been interested in entrepreneurship from a young age and is funding this business in no small part with money made selling beanie babies online at the age of 11-12.
CEO and Founder Edith Harbaugh: “At every company I worked at, I had the same frustrations about running early beta programs and enabling/disabling users for features. We’d end up hacking together some poorly maintained release framework. I was jealous of the big companies like Facebook that could afford to have dozens of engineers to get features to the right users at the right time. LaunchDarkly allows you to cleanly separate code deployment from rollout. We make it super easy to enable functionality for whoever you want, whenever you want.”
What is your solution?
LaunchDarkly solves the biggest pains around effective continuous delivery, allowing software teams to move faster with less risk. Developers use our feature flags as a service to easily manage the whole feature lifecycle from launch to sunsetting. LaunchDarkly allows SaaS and e-commerce companies to separate business logic from code, putting power in the hands of the business and freeing up developers.LaunchDarkly’s unique server-side architecture enables true feature management, as well as faster performance without page flickers or page bloating.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
Monthly pricing model
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Edith Harbaugh, CEO & Co-Founder
Edith has more than 10 years of experience in product, engineering and marketing with both consumer and enterprise startups. She was Product Director at TripIt, where she launched TripIt for Business and ExpenseIt. She was Product Manager at Vignette, a global content management company. She holds two patents in deployment. She moderated the lean startup list. Edith earned a BS, Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a degree in Economics from Pomona College. She enjoys trail running distances up to 100 miles.
John Kodumal, CTO & Co-Founder
John was a development manager at Atlassian, where he led engineering for the Atlassian Marketplace. Prior to that he was an architect at Coverity, where he worked on static and dynamic analysis algorithms. He has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in programming languages and type systems, and a BS from Harvey Mudd College. He climbs rocks, ice, small boulders, and the occasional building.
We find that more and more people increasingly forget about their relationships, their friendships, their memories! We believe you deserve to be remembered. We believe your memories deserve to live on. And we’ve decided to solve that with stiq.it. By placing messages across time, across the globe on top of real-world locations, the uses are endless! Stiq at the concert you’re at, leave stiqqers for families to read at memorials…describe your most memorable moments through a few mere words, that will forever live on!
Every location holds something special to us all, as well as individually. Now you can share and connect with others at specific locations not just in that moment, but across time. That means you can also leave messages at special locations for your children’s children if you wish!
What is your solution?
We take Facebook and Twitter one step further! stiq.it allows users to ‘stiq’ private or public messages, called stiqqers, to their exact location, anywhere in the world. These stiqqers can’t only be seen by others at the same location, but can be navigated to via Google Maps as well!Stiqqers can also be upvoted or downvoted, which affects their ranking. Registered users can also connect to other users as ‘friends’ and make use of private stiqqers.
You can trace back your memories via pinned stiqqers on a world map. Stiq about the latest concert you attended. Leave messages at memorials. Tell passers-by to not walk past the awesome restaurant. The uses are endless.
We’re not a social network. We’re a social globe.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Free!
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
So stiq.it has 2 Co-Founders; Hakeem and myself. Hakeem is the crazy one out of the 2! Believe it or not, he was undertaking Computing at Imperial College London but decided to risk it all by dropping out to follow his startup dreams! I think that’s pretty courageous. Grown up freelancing in web development, graphic design and video production – he’s become a leading figure to the startup community by organising 2 StartUpWeekends, being the VP of Imperial Entrepreneurs and a mentor to budding entrepreneurs. Honestly, I gotta say he inspires me.Me (Kajol), on the other hand, I’m the weird one. Completing my Physics degree at Imperial College London, I’m now ready to take on the world! Sounds like something from Superman. Being the business and marketing guru in the team, I keep the spirits high and mighty (by bribing Hakeem with cookies.) Having had experience within the financial industry, I hope to use my knowledge to make stiq.it bad-ass, whilst developing my designer skills to allow stiq.it’s user experience to be amazingly awesome.
Because everyone wants to save time and look more professional
What is your solution?
Flashissue is the quickest way to design and send a newsletter from Gmail. It has a great little editor and clever drag and drop functionality to ensure your email correspondence stand out in cluttered inboxes.There’s tons of cool bells and whistles including a nifty newsletter curating feature that helps you with content if you’re stuck with what to write.
Enter the address of your blog site or give a keyword to search and it will fetch you all the fresh content you need for your email. It creates a neat summary of each blog article or webpage that includes a short intro paragraph, an image and a link that takes the reader back to the original full article. Cherry-pick the ones you want in your email and drag & drop them on to the editor.
Gmail puts limits on the number of emails you can send but Flashissue’s back end technology gets you over this hump and ensures delivery of your messages to your audience no matter how large. If you’re a small business owner sending out a weekly newsletter or the communication manager of a large enterprise delivering the CEO’s company message to staff your emails gets through.
Tech support is quick, even for the free subscribers, so getting up and running in minutes is a breeze. No matter who your are, if you use Gmail Flashissue is invaluable for writing e-mails that look professional to readers on both computers and mobile.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
free trial and then monthly starting at $10
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Phil Hill is CEO and CoFounder.His previous start up a Voip phone service that was acquired by Vonage and became Vonage Business Services.
Because there’s no easy way to find the right app for your specific needs. Regular reviews are too general.
What is your solution?
Our purpose is to help you find the best web apps for your business needs. Currently, we’re providing in-depth information about e-commerce software. We compare apps head-to-head on criteria such as pricing, design, marketing etc. Out of the mass of comparisons we make a ranking. You can re-order this ranking according to your specific needs by weighting the criteria.More details here: http://webappmeister.com/about-us/
Schools do a few things very well. The tasks that every school does every day – like taking attendance or calculating grades – those have been automated for years. There are dozens of competing solutions for those standard tasks. Scholastico focused on the rare events that slip through the cracks. A few times a year a school needs to do one specific thing – like organize parent-teacher conferences or conduct student-teacher feedback surveys. The daily school software tools just don’t have features to do those things. Most schools end up wasting valuable manpower, spending days putting together complex spreadsheets or resorting to handwritten paper-based solutions. We have observed these offices, analyzed the tasks, and designed the perfect solution to streamline the process.
What is your solution?
We make amazing web-based software to help make schools run more effectively. Student feedback surveys, parent conference scheduling, after-school activity signups, and more.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
Less than $1 per student per year
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
Warren Apel and Kshitij Ahuja are the two co-founders of Scholastico. They met while working together at a large private international school in New Delhi, India. As Technology Director, Warren was in charge of purchasing software and planning the use of educational technology. In his social networks of other tech directors, he kept noticing certain voids in the market. There were plenty of learning management systems and student information databases – but no solid way to conduct secure voting, or to plan parent-teacher conferences. Other tech directors had cobbled together Google forms or used free survey tools, but no one was truly happy with their solutions. As webmaster and programmer, Kshitij had the ability to create the solutions. Over the next seven years, the two of them worked together to design, iterate, and polish the perfect solution to four challenges that every school faces. Warren is in charge of the user experience and interface design. He knows how school secretaries think. He’s worked directly with teachers and office staff, training them in the use of technology. At first, they offered the tools to friends of theirs at schools around the world. With every round of user testing and feedback, the products got better, smoother, and easier to use. In 2015, they started marketing and selling the solutions more widely and quickly gained a broad international client base. Now they have client schools of every type – from American public and private schools and universities to International schools in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.
