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Startup Alert - ShelfLife

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Hot Tips - The Best Free Business Tool You (Probably) Don't Know About. http://www.shelflife.net/ If you’re a passionate collector of anything collectible – Transformers action figures, Star Trek paraphernalia, those comics from DC and Marvel or even from The Walking Dead, vinyl toys, stuffed toys, gaming consoles that date back to when you were still in your diapers to the latest version – and you know how the collecting trend nowadays go, a catalog of every possible item that you can collect, along with a place where you can hang out with other collectors, is like the first drops of rain amid a seemingly endless dry spell. Despite the proliferation of a good bit of information on the Internet, collectors have to look in a number of sites (forums, message boards, sports and action figure collectible sites, video game sites, etc.) to find what they are looking for, which can be rather frustrating, if not time-consuming. Life on the shelf ShelfLife, a newly launched startup for coll...

Cool Apps - XSync

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Hot Tips - The Best Free Business Tool You (Probably) Don't Know About. http://www.xsyncapp.com/ If a friend tells you he’s trying to send a 4GB video file to you as an e-mail attachment, you probably already know what to expect: no 4GB video file hitting your inbox anytime soon. Being too large, the attachment can be rejected, or worse, your friend may experience file upload or Internet speed trouble somewhere along the way and simply choose to give up. In other words, the cons far outweigh the pros. Now, if your friend is using a smartphone to send the file, he doesn’t have to go through the laborious typing-and-attaching game given that there is a more effortless option in the form of a file-sharing app for smartphones called Bump. With over 100 million downloads to date, Bump has made photo, video and contact information exchange between two users a whole lot easier with a bump – yes, a literal tap or bump of their phones. But what if you’re some kind of a germaphobe and don’t ...

Hot Startups - Mailigen

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Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://mailigen.com Regardless of size, shape or form, whether that’s a mom-and-pop shop you’re running or a conglomerate, marketing is an integral part of any business. One marketing strategy that works, if properly implemented, is e-mail marketing. If that got you furrowing your eyebrows in protest, and since I’m a betting man, I’d bet that you’re one of the many people who think spam has killed the effectiveness of e-mail campaigns. Viagra, Bangkok pills … I’m sure you’ve got your fair share already. The very purpose of e-mail marketing can be broken down in four: maximize your ROI (return on investment), build a trustworthy brand, drive sales and boost social interaction. Inasmuch as a good percentage of the global population is equipped with a working e-mail address, e-mail marketing is one of the simplest and most cost-effective marketing methods. But remember, it has to be done properly and a trustwor...

Jason Lucash And The Story Of OrigAudio

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Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://www.origaudio.com/ The ability to put a new spin on the old: That's what catapulted Jason Lucash and his business partner, Mike Szymczak, from aspiring entrepreneurs to creators of one of Time's 50 best inventions of the year in 2009. Each year since then, their Costa Mesa, Calif.-based company, OrigAudio ( look for discounts ), has doubled its sales. Tired of lugging bulky audio players around on business trips while working for JanSport, the duo started futzing with the idea of putting speakers into Chinese-food takeout boxes. The boxes start flat, and "whenever you want to use it, you pop it up," Lucash says. The idea sounded good. The product? Not so much. They moved on to putting a very old idea--origami--to work. In 2009, with $10,000 in seed money from Lucash's mom, the two launched OrigAudio (origami + audio) with one product: speakers, made entirely from recycled materia...

Cool Startups - StrokeLink

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Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://strokelink.ca/ In the early days of the mobile phone, it was perceived as a leisure item. Fast forward to today, the cell phone has gotten a whole lot smarter, and majority of the world’s population can’t go about their day-to-day lives without one. Morgan Moe, co-founder and Chief Clinical Innovation Officer of StrokeLink, believes the iPad is poised to walk the same path. StrokeLink, is a free iPad app that empowers stroke survivors during their care and rehabilitation process through the provision of a knowledge base and self-care tools to augment the gaps that are unfortunately inherent in health care deliveries. Just in Canada alone, 67% of stroke patients get discharged from the hospital without access to rehabilitation facilities. And even if they do, care allotment is relatively low and self-management resources range from very little to absolutely nil. The idea for StrokeLink came about when ...