3Luxe.com is a product search engine with a difference…other search engines use algorithms, numbers and fractions as the cogs and wheels to regurgitate a whole string of very near misses to everyone that plugs in a search phrase. 3Luxe uses no algorithms or numbers…it more relies on the taste and interpretive skills of its founder [...]
I can’t tell you how much I love this business concept! I’m not 110% convinced about the capability to make significant amounts of investor revenues but frankly…that’s just not the point of this neat new business. So, let me tell you about “It’s Your Movie”. The basic idea is for the online community to fund, audition [...]
Lyro is a new web based application that allows people to create and share online, searchable digital ‘business cards’ across multiple. It isn’t so much a social network as much as personal ‘branding’ and broadcasting but saying that, as well as the core elements of creating a digital online business card (think a micro Plaxo) there [...]
And now for something completely different! Not a neat and innovative website but an actual, real product…something you can touch…well, not so much ‘touch’ as smell. My DNA fragrance is a new company which offers individualized perfume based on your own individual DNA. Each fragrance is a one of a kind product which My DNA [...]
Bringsome is a pre-beta, very early stage company and website that has ‘legs’. By legs, I mean it has the potential to expand it’s service offering and revenue streams as the business grows. So what is BringSomes business? Helping people connect together to BringSome products from one country to another. No, don’t think illicit drug [...]
TableXChange is exactly what the name implies – a website that helps people secure hard to get reservations at some of the most exclusive restaurants. Want to impress by taking a date to Il Mulino’s to sample the divine Italian food of Chefs Fernando and Gino Masci but didn’t think to book ahead? If you’re [...]
Social Flowers is an innovative idea! If you are part of a social network (and let’s face it…who isn’t nowadays) then using ‘Social Flowers’, you can send flowers, gift baskets, balloons to another member of your social network even though you don’t necessarily have their contact information, name, address etc. Business Model: Like most online [...]
PlanHQ.com is an online Business Planning and startup development tool. Doesn’t sound very sexy does it but you’d be wrong. Having been crazy enough to start three different businesses, I can painfully testify that writing and even more challenging…sticking to the thinking within a good Business Plan is extremely tough. Plan HQ is an innovative web application that helps [...]
Continuing on with online P2P hire theme, here’s a new one from New Zealand. HireThings is a P2P rental marketplace across multiple categories spanning products, places and services that offers hourly, 4-hour, daily, week, and month rates. HireThings has a nice ’look and feel’, and easy to use and intuitive interface. Nice design & UI guys! Business [...]
ILetYou hasn’t even launched yet but this site is going to be HUGE! HUGE I tell you!!!! Cackle…Cackle! What’s the basic idea? People with DVDs and games at home set up their own ‘online rental stores’ and rent their own DVDs and games to others. The more people who sign up the more variety and eclectic the [...]
ILikeTotallyLoveIt is a new website where people post objects that they ‘Totally Love’ and include links to where the items can be purchased. As the objects get voted on by members using a ‘Digg’ similar approach, the more popular items get moved to the front page. So its a popularity site for products people adore… Business Model: The [...]
Farecast is a new way of approaching online travel purchasing that could change how we all shop for online travel. This could be a real winner if they can get the average consumer to buy into the concept. It’s about time that there was some real innovation in the online travel space. My personal experience [...]