February 2nd, 2010 by Charles
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What it does in their own words:
WinWinBooks was shaped around the idea of “A WinWin Situation” for everyone. Buyers and sellers alike can now name their own price! By negotiating, bidding, and coming soon trading, buyers and sellers can both benefit in this economy. Our goal is to provide an alternative for everyone who is looking to buy or sell their books without compromising their wallets. We strive to make your whole buying and selling experience simple, easy, and inexpensive!
How it beats the competition:
The most rewarding thing I would say for the business is the fact that I am helping people save money and also even get them a little more income. I want to help that upcoming author that can’t get that big book deal but needs to support a family or those publication companies would might need a few more sales or want to promote their company.
Site: http://www.winwinbooks.com
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January 14th, 2010 by Charles
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What it does:
Helps small business and HR professionals define vacation, sick, and personal time off policies. Then allows people to easily make time off requests.
How it beats the competition:
Perq offers more functionality with less clicking.
Site:
http://www.perqworks.com/
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January 13th, 2010 by Charles
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What it does:
Vidinotes allows you to create a graphic summary of any Youtube or home video and print it. Just upload a video, create up to 30 snapshots, add descriptions and title, then print. Perfect for distilling the essentials of a how-to or workout video, and have a handy, printed reference!
How it beats the competition:
Vidinotes.com is a unique tool.
Site:
http://www.vidinotes.com
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December 29th, 2009 by Charles
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What it does
Mugnatasks is a free easy to use cloud computing based team project tasks manager with time tracking, back and forth task forwarding, chart reports and activity log. And it’s free.
How it beats the competition
It has an easy to use drag and drop AJAX interface. You can freely forward tasks to any of the team members and keep track of them. It does categorize tasks by using tags wich are more flexible.
Site: http://www.mugnatasks.com/
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December 26th, 2009 by Charles
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No matter how long you have known each other, when you are part of a team and it comes to casting a decision it is easy to feel at anything but ease. Voting for an option automatically means that you are opposing the other, and there are people who are way too sensitive when it comes to such matters. These people are the ones that would be thankful if their leaders implemented a voting system such as Decing. The best way to define it is by terming it a free solution that enables members of small teams to vote on any item that calls for consideration without having to disclose who they are, and without even having to register individually. When people vote, they specify the subject and the option they have gone for. (They are appointed as participants first, of course.)
Additionally, participants can vote through Google Wave. That is certainly interesting, and it goes some way into unveiling the intrinsic power that Google Wave has. Of course, it will not make people stop in their tracks but it is quite a healthy start.
Site: http://www.decing.com/
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December 16th, 2009 by Charles
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What it does in their own words:
It is a hassle-free A/B, split and multivariate testing tool that lets one increase website sales, downloads and conversions in three dead-simple steps: a) you create multiple versions of your website or landing page in a visual designer; b) you define what website goal you want to optimize (signups, sales, downloads, etc.) and c) VWO automatically split your website traffic amongst different versions and identify the best performing ones.
Primary mission is to make A/B testing an extremely pleasant experience which even non-technies can benefit from.
If you want to try the tool, feel free to use the invite code “rate-my-startup” (without quotes) while signing up here http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
How it beats the competition:
- It does not require any page tagging or repeated fiddling with code (like other split testing tools require)
- It lets you design website versions in WYSIWYG editor, without mucking with HTML
- You only need to add code once to the website. After that you can create unlimited number of tests on different parts of your website using the interface alone, without having to touch your website code ever
- It looks sexy!
- Unlike free alternatives, you actually get dedicated support on email
Site: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
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December 14th, 2009 by Charles
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RiotVine is a great location to search for events happening in your city. Currently RiotVine supports Boston, Los Angeles, and New York.
With the ability to search for events based on both date and location we see RiotVine providing a very useful tool to a currently unserved niche.
What it does in their own words:
RiotVine makes it easy to discover cool events around town.
How it beats the competition:
We allow you to share events with your friends in a single click.
Site: http://riotvine.com
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December 11th, 2009 by Charles
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This website stands as an online student-to-student marketplace where textbooks can be bought and sold. That is, Rebookd gives students the ability to buy/sell their textbooks directly with other students, avoiding middlemen and the typical mark-upthat goes with them. Using the site is inexpensive, as an account is created at no cost and just a small fee has to be paid by the buyer and the seller when a transaction takes place.
The idea, then, is providing a marketplace for students to buy and sell their own books so that both sides can save money and also time – it is a one-on-one relationship. The seller can charge a price he knows that is fair (if only because he is a student himself), whereas the buyer is able to pinpoint the precise edition he is after.
For the time being, the service is placing its focus on 11 Midwestern universities. These include the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana among others. In actuality, every student is welcome to use the site, notwithstanding his current location so you won’t be prevented from carrying out a transaction through it.
Site: http://rebookd.com/
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December 8th, 2009 by Charles
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What it does in their own words:
Allows anyone to encrypt and decrypt text in a multitude of ciphers all via their browsers.
Site: http://phpcrypto.com
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What it does in their own words:
