Harnessing Social for Vital Living
South Africa-headquartered Discovery is a financial and health services company. It offers an innovative program called Vitality. Vitality rewards people for making healthy lifestyle choices. Did you get a weight assessment and reach...
Creating Meaning from Data
According to CarSort.com, there are 9 cars below USD 15,000 that are easy to park. Their length is less than 15 feet. How do I know this, by simply selecting the “price” and “easy to park” buttons on CarSort.com. Christopher Reid,...
A Hosted Coupons Referral Service from Curebit
Curebit is a simple idea: a service that enables an online retailer to serve a coupon after the buyer has checked out, which can then immediately be shared through their social networks. Co-founder Allan Grant likes to think of...
Six Emerging Marketing Technologies for Enterprises
Brian Mullin is partner of Manifold, a startup he defines as a non-traditional marketing agency. A down-to-earth, roll-up-your-sleeves, let's leave the marketing mumbo-jumbo behind kind of person, Brian was anything but traditional....
Social Media, Lead Generation and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com presents an interesting case study in the use of social media. While the big buzz in social media continues to center around brand-building, salesforce.com thinks about social media in a more bottom-line way – how does...
Twitter in the Enterprise
Over the years, software vendors have enhanced enterprise communication & collaboration through email, instant messaging, VOIP, file sharing, web meetings, etc. Blogging, wiki's, micro-blogging, have now been added to the...
The Heart of Social Media - Separating Hype from Reality
As corporations sort out their social media strategies, its important to separate hype from reality, to enable enterprises to conduct real-business, impacting the bottom line.It's key to realize that social media is a channel -...
What Do Angels Look For?
What makes a startup appealing to an angel investor? To find out, I talked to Jeff Clavier, an angel investor I’ve known for a few years. Clavier’s venture capital firm, SoftTech VC is based in Palo Alto, California, and has...
An Angel’s View of Enterprise Trends
Having heard that last quarter was A good quarter for VC's, I asked Jeff Clavier, an angel investor I’ve known for a few years, for his thoughts on the latest Enterprise trends. Clavier’s venture capital firm, SoftTech VC is based in...
Formotus - A Company Going Places with Forms
At the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Samsung recognized Formotus as one of its Premium Solution Partners while Formotus demonstrated its mobile business forms running on Windows Phones as well as Android. Microsoft, Motorola, Intermec...
Confer Simplifies Micro-Blogging, Chat and Social Networking for Enterprises
Based in North-East Ohio, Confer’s is the quintessential startup story. Ed was working a full-time job as Director of Product for another software-as-a-service company and recognized a significant need around communication and...
Startup Liaise helps Transform Email into Actionable Interactions
Liaise promises to help us turn words into actions. Most of us manage projects in email. I certainly do. Grounded in this reality, Liaise works with Microsoft Outlook to annotate text in email messages with four parameters: issue or...
Re-Thinking the Search Engine
When looking to travel, I use Fodors.com for quick information about destinations. I’m a sucker for Fodors, having become used to the well-organized information in their hard-copy travel guides. In addition to Fodors’ “top picks,” I...
Calinda MindUp helps make email interactions more efficient
Calinda Software’s MindUP is a software-as-a-service solution that helps workgroups collaborate more efficiently, within the email environment, that most of us are used to. A user would set up a MindUP group, including identifying...
Your computer becomes a mentor with Loqu8's 'augmented learning' tool
Tim Uy's and Jim Hsia’s eyes light up when they talk about “augmented learning.” Both co-founders of Silicon Valley-based Loqu8, their software applications aim to provide contextual information in a small pop-up window, simply by...
Microsoft Bing – Learning’s on customer-driven innovation from a startup venture within Microsoft
With Bing, Microsoft made many surprising moves in search. Straying from the pack, it questioned assumptions about competing on the size of the index or the precision of results alone; it dove deeper to understand user intent. What...
Cognidox offers a SAAS application for document sharing, management and control, enhancing collaboration.
With its plug-in for Microsoft Word 2007, Cognidox, is a simple, web-based application that allows employees of companies of all sizes to upload documents, grant permission to team mates for viewing, editing or approving, and to...
Lokad makes statistical forecasting accessible to small, medium and large businesses to help them lower costs.
Lokad has democratized time series forecasting for businesses of all sizes. Whether you're a small coffee shop or a division of a large enterprise, forecasting point-of-sales, scheduling staff, call center management, eCommerce,...
Formotus' cool patent-pending technology automatically turns Microsoft InfoPath forms into mobile forms.
Formotus is really cool! Their technology allows businesses of any size to instantly convert their Microsoft InfoPath forms into mobile forms. These forms can be deployed immediately over the air to the mobile devices of employees....
Huddle offers Microsoft-Office friendly alternative to Google Apps
Huddle is a startup that could give Google Apps a run for the money. Huddle makes a Microsoft Office plug-in that adds secure collaboration features as a quick and easy extension to Microsoft Office. Named as one of BusinessWeek's...
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