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CleanEdison serves federal, state and local governments, building design and construction firms, owners, operators, and real estate investors. They have educated hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals in green building practices both through customized training and the largest open enrollment green training program in the nation. CleanEdison has courses in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), BPI (Building Performance Institute) Certification, Energy Auditing, Solar, Wind and Renewable Energy. CleanEdison has also developed numerous customized training programs specific to a business or organization’s needs.

Every project begins with a comprehensive analysis of the client’s goals and budget in order to implement a strategy with the most cost-effective solutions. CleanEdison’s proprietary in-house database brings together the latest technology and products, government incentive programs, grants, and financing solutions to bring your project from start to finish.

CleanEdison is a great way to enter the green job market, which is a rapidly growing market in a time where job’s are few and far between. Having BPI certification and LEED accreditation can set you apart in the building and renovating industry because of the popularity of green renovations.

More of the same. We have quickly made ourselves the nation’s largest green building training company, so now we are fine-tuning and expanding rapidly.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.cleanedison.com

Plume Blue provides an online dating services that connects members with each other through self-chosen activities. Members post and respond to dates, which ensures that our members will always be doing something they enjoy on their dates.

Plume Blue has restructured online dating at multiple layers to offer a very different experience. Most online dating sites have three components that they all construct in the same way: self-representation, discovery of others, and communication. Plume Blue has changed each. The most important, though, is that we’ve modified how people find each other. Our members post and respond to dates. There is no exhaustive search through profiles. On other sites, members communicate with each other, then decide if they want to meet and what they want to do, which inevitably leads to a monotonous lunch or coffee. We’ve reordered the process. Our users post dates (like comedy, a picnic etc) so that the event has been decided in advance. This means that every date will be something fun, which in turn means that even if you dont “click” with your date, youll still have a reasonably good time.

Plume Blue could be big because of the common disenchantment among online daters. Most people don’t like online dating, but have no other options. Plume Blue marries the idea of meeting people with the concept that it can still be fun. The online dating industry is huge and populated by sites that are all fundamentally the same. Plume Blue is different.

Plume Blue will charge a basic and relatively cheap membership fee. We don’t want to fleece our members, but at the same time we’d like them to make an active decision to participate. Additionally, Plume Blue is connecting local businesses with our members to provide date ideas. Eventually this will be monetized as with business subscription plan.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://plumeblue.com

Betterfly is the easy way to find the people – not companies- to help you learn, look and feel better. Betterfly excludes companies to focus only on people, making it easier and more efficient to find the right person to help you learn, look and feel better in over 1,000 ways, from Accordion to Zumba.

The company feels that excluding companies from the search gives it a competitive advantage by allowing its users to search with more specificity and allowing users to compare apples to apples, people to people.

We also have live booking on our site so users can book appointments in real time!

Betterfly is set up to be the ultimate consumer guide to personal betterment. On Betterfly, they can find people that are best suited to their personal criteria, and read what others have to say about their experiences. When trying to perfect your French pickup lines you’ll be working with Jacques the French teacher, not the whole Je Parle Français School. On Yelp or Citysearch, you’d find a review of a great hair salon, or a new gym, and you’d have to scour the comments hoping to find a name. On Betterfly, you know immediately who you should ask for when you get there. With the economy the way it is, service providers are looking for more ways to build their brand and reach new clients. Betterfly answers those needs, with a free service. And who doesn’t like free stuff? We’ve already gotten a tremendous response in just the few months since we launched, and there’s no reason why things shouldn’t continue to grow.

I would love to discuss this over the phone. We plan on making money in numerous ways. One way involves a payment system we will implement in which we will act as a neutral third party and holds the money in escrow until we verify that the service was actually rendered.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://betterfly.com/

Fetch A Bid helps users find service providers that can help them with a project. Users can receive bids online from service providers without the hassle of searching through the phone book or internet looking for a particular type of service provider.

Users receive bids online. They submit their service request details and the rest is left up to bidding service providers. Service providers also bid against one another, which helps users get the lowest price for what they are needing.

Everyone has a project or work they need done that they cannot do themselves. We make it easier and less of a hassle finding the right service provider to handle the job.

We charge a small fee for users to submit service request, along will charging service providers for an optional “Star” membership that gives them a few more privileges that non-star providers don’t have.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fetchabid.com

PayToRent.com is an online property management solution. We offer great features and an easy-to-use interface for landlords, property owners, and property managers.

Through us, you collect rent online via E-Check / ACH transactions or Credit Card / Debit card transactions. Our software tracks every payment for every tenant, property, and unit.

You can pass on any of the fees to tenants, making PayToRent.com a FREE solution if clients wish to pass on all fees to tenants.

Tenants have the ability to log-in and view their full ledger history, and contact the landlord with ease.

We pride ourselves on our personal customer service that we provide to clients. We listen to every feature request, and more often than not our clients see their requests implemented!

Our costs are some of the lowest in the industry, because we’ve negotiated extremely low rates from processors – passing the savings onto our clients.

Online Rent Collection is the next logical step for the real estate industry. There are a few other companies that do what we do, but at certain costs.

The competition:
1. Higher monetary cost.
2. Limited/Hard-To-Reach customer service.
3. Inferior back-end
4. Loads of Paperwork

Pay To Rent LLC:
1. Our cost savings are passed onto the client.
2. When you call us, you’ll usually get a call back from one of the company’s founders!
3. A logical, easy to use back end.
4. Coming in October 2010: The first in the industry to implement an all digital signup!

We make a small profit on the processing fee charged to clients for every transaction submitted through our system.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: https://www.PayToRent.com

IndustrialInterface.com is Match.com for the Manufacturing industry, connecting engineering problems with engineering solutions. Through our up-and-running website, engineers post their design problems and industrial suppliers pay a fee for the opportunity to solve them. This collaborative process allows engineers to quickly find multiple solutions for their designs and allows suppliers to concentrate their time and money on relevant and qualified sales leads for their business.

Engineers have to search through online directories that resemble yahoo from the late 90’s with hierarchical search. This limits the solutions that engineers find to larger companies with big marketing budgets and to solutions that they know about.

Industrialinterface.com gives suppliers access to the problems that engineers are working on via a free detailed profile. When engineers put problems in front of many technical salespeople, they are exposed to more innovative solutions without spending weeks contacting multiple suppliers.

Benefits for Engineers include:
1. Ability to decide whether to Buy a component instead of designing from scratch(Time/Money).
2. Cycle Time Reduction: Finding more vendors in less time. (Time/Money/Better Products)
3. Error Reductions: Standardized forms provide consistent communication to relevant suppliers. (Time/Money)
4. No reliance on Tribal knowledge: All Qualcomm engineers have access to a history of projects. (Consolidation of Suppliers)

No one has taken this antiquated industry into the 21st century. The space is dominated by Online Media companies that charge exorbitant amounts of money for advertising while not providing any real innovation to how the industry functions as a whole.

Online advertising in the manufacturing industry is a multi-billion dollar/year space. If you add up all of the inefficiencies that our displacing technology/roadmap can solve, the market becomes tens of billions of dollars.

We are solving real problems that engineers and suppliers face everyday. Our website could help companies realize dramatically higher ROIs and shorten time from design to production. We are already seeing this happen within our small customer basis.

We make money many different ways:

1. Provide co-branded email marketing to technical supply companies trying to gain more business from their contact database. This allows suppliers to invite all of their engineers to our site. – Currently in revenue from this model.
2. Charge suppliers a per lead fee or subscription fee to view contact information for engineers within our site. – Currently in revenue from this model
3. Charge suppliers for CRM/Project management features that allow them to collaborate on projects with colleagues and keep internal notes about projects. – Future revenue opportunity
4. Charge engineering organizations for CRM/Vendor management capabilities. This feature allows engineers to invite their suppliers to their Industrialinterface network of colleagues. – Future revenue opportunity

Together, revenue models 1 and 4 lead to both sides of the market inviting their counterparts, creating virility.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://industrialinterface.com

Helps to save time and make life easier for busy individuals, small business owners, etc. We provide task-based or hourly assistance with no long-term commitments. Tasks are anything that can be done over the phone or Internet such as speaking to a call center executive on our members’ behalf, scheduling appointments, ordering groceries, making bill payments, word processing, research work, social media management, etc.

Our response time is very short – within 4 hours and personal assistance plans start at $35 a month for 30 task requests. Business assistance plans vary from $5.75 – $10 per hour.

Busy people want to get rid of obnoxious and time consuming tasks so that they can spend more time with family or in pursuing their interests.

Business owners have peak seasons and non-peak and also requirements in skills vary. We come in to provide all possible options.

The service is commercially viable by itself and members’ subscription fees will suffice.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.rentasmile.com

From Car to Finish helps individuals and organizations by taking the haggle and hassle out of buying a new vehicle, to save our clients both time and money. Our website offers tools and advice to help you research, compare, and price new vehicles, and our main service actually negotiates the price of your new vehicle for you, so that you don’t have to.

First, most if not all websites give cookie cutter advice when it comes to buying a new vehicle. Because From Car to Finish has successfully negotiated over 7500 new vehicles for 17+ years, our advice is based on tactics/strategies that actually work (and with our lowest price guarantee, they have to work for us to stay in business).

Second, we actually have a national new vehicle negotiating service that creates a customized report with confirmed bids on a case by case basis, as opposed to pre-negotiated quotes from some website or organization that has a relationship with a few specific dealers in your area, who may not be giving you the best deal the market will bear. From Car to Finish works for you, the customer, as your advocate. We make sure at least the lowest quote is confirmed it writing before sending you a report, and once you receive it, will answer any questions or concerns you have about the report, the dealers, or any other items you may have, to make sure you are understanding and utilizing the report in an optimal way.

There are many sites that give advice/research/pricing/comparison tools to help you choose or negotiate a new vheicle, and some sites claim to negotiate for you. Only From Car to Finish offers it all on one comprehensive site. Our employees are also very knowledgeable about the auto industry, and can help you to whittle down your choices and give other common sense advice from before and after the sale when it comes to new vehicle purchases, as well as how to handle a trade-in.

The negotiating service charges a flat fee per negotiation, and the free information on the website has google ads.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.fromcartofinish.com/

ODIN has built the only true operating system for RFID, making the devices “intelligent” and eliminating expensive middleware. The RFID OS called “EasyEdge” is the foundation for several packaged, ROI-driven RFID solutions. We have completed more than 300 successful projects for clients like Airbus, Johnson & Johnson, Wells Fargo, Dell and many others. We focus on IT Asset Tracking, Healthcare, Weapons Tracking, Aerospace, and Governemnt Solutions.

We are the only company that has a true hardware-agnostic operating system for RFID, that is embedded on the device eliminating middleware and costly servers. We combine deep RFID hardware expertise with elegant embedded software design. We enhance the performance of the RFID devices and add a business process layer making the data more useful to applications like SAP, Oracle, Maximm, etc.

All of the Fortune 1000 companies need to track and secure items and they can’t count on people to do it. Passive RFID is accurate and cheap enough to give every item its own voice. RFID will notify you if an item leaves a secure area or is taken by the wrong person. The B2B opportunity will make RFID big. The Consumer Applications (See Vail, Disney,etc) will make RFID HUGE, as the virtual world is connected to the physical world automatically. ODIN’s Operating System will be on the majority of devices connecting RFID tags and readers.

We charge a licensing fee for the operating system and a monthly recurring SAAS fee for the monitoring of each device.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://odintechnologies.com/rfid-software-iam

CrowdPicker hosts lightening fast public opinion polls through single question surveys. The service enables anyone to gather feedback on logos, packaging, webpage design, advertisements, taglines, names, and much more.

CrowdPicker gathers about 100 votes within an hour, a speed that blows any other survey system out of the water. Crowd sizes range from 25 vote polls that are completed within 15 minutes up to 1000 vote polls that take about 24 hours to complete.

The simple interface allows for a poll to be launched within 3 minutes of signing up, and that leaves time to see the first vote come in! Responses start flooding in immediately, and are updated in real time for you to view through live graphs. CrowdPicker makes it extremely easy for anyone to instantly tap into a huge pool of engaged voters from a diverse demographic all over the web.

We charge for each poll depending on the size of the crowd that is picked.

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!

Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.crowdpicker.com