Image by Getty Images via @daylife I wrote a post a week or so ago that introduced Zaplee – very exciting software that gives small and medium sized businesses access to call centers via Skype which does away with expensive infrastructure and significant delays in setup.  A free trial has literally just been launched via [...]

I wish I could tell you all about Flixor but I’m not allowed to today.  What I can say is that Flixor is a very cool up and coming company focused on tools that have both consumer appeal but also the potential to revolutionize the advertising industry.  I recommend you go to http://www.Flixor.com, bookmark it [...]

For anyone that has read any of the posts on this blog, you’re probably used to seeing a review of the business model of an up and coming young company.  Today’s post is different. It’s a Startup ‘Quick Intro’. My goal is to intersperse the usual type of postings with ‘Quick Intros’. We’ll see what [...]

Image via CrunchBase Our Million Dollar Startup Game blog covered ‘Amie Street’ back in February.  I hate to say “I told You So” but Amie Street has just finalized it’s Series A funding round and the interesting piece of information is that Amazon.com lead this funding round.  Our blog gave Amie Street one of the highest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Auction Ads is a company which has just launched some new technology which places items within eBay auctions within blogs according to the blogs content. I LOVE this business in terms of the potential win/win for customers and the company and the potential revenue stream for the investors. Business Model: Auction Ads business model is [...]

Quintura just responded to yesterday’s post “Quintura: A $Zero Virtual Investent”. ” Yakov Mar 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am Edit Hello Andrew! Very interesting post as well as the other reviews! Don’t you know that Quintura stands for quintessence or pure essence of searching. Try to make Quintura your homepage for a week and then give [...]

Quintura is a new search engine that has chosen a tag cloud metaphor as the means of search.   Business Model: This is a beta site launched in the last few days so its not too surprising that there are not too many obvious ways of generating revenue for Quintura.  There are a number of tabs beneath [...]

Ning is a new’ish company with some recently released technology that will skyrocket this company into the stratosphere.  It’s the first company that I’m aware of that has created an easy to use, drag and drop, easy configuration site for users to create their own Social Networking site.  Literally within minutes you can have your own Social [...]

Just after the last post ‘Geni: A $500K Virtual Investment’, Geni were kind enough to respond with the following: “Geni JoAnne Feb 26th, 2007 at 4:46 pm Edit Hi Andrew. Excellent blog. We are considering adding premium services to our site in the future–the basic service will remain free.” JoAnne – Thank you for letting [...]

Geni is a very interesting online service that leverages an easy to use flash interface and viral tools to create family trees.  One interesting concept to prove or disprove is that the whole world is related in one way or another. Could Geni be the solution to world peace?    Business Model: I have been unable to [...]

After scratching my head for a few days considering what more could possibly be added to the already significant contributions made by the blogging community, I came up with the following idea.  The Million Dollar Startup Game! The basic idea is that I’ll take a look at new, buzz ridden startups or early stage companies [...]