Wanted.VC Digest # 9
Last week we received a lot of human thanks from an investor who found a project to his taste on our Wanted.VC blog. Not at all, cap.
We do not stop and continue to publish information about Russian startups - 10 per week. Startups and investors , as always, are welcome.
As well as your opinions about the listed projects.
What does runet look like? Like the top Yandex, as your RSS feed, or as a directory of all sites existing in the ru-zone? Webonmap
Project He tried to turn the virtual space of the Russian domain zone into a map of the area, transforming individual sites into buildings. The attempt to "visit" will result in the user switching to the site of the "builder". +++
If you believe the PwC report “The World Entertainment and Media Industry: Forecast for 2010-2014,” by 2012, one fifth of all periodicals will be sold electronically. The volume of the print press market in Russia in 2010 amounted to $ 2.3 billion. The potential volume of the Russian market for sales of electronic press sales, therefore, is about $ 500 million.
The authors of the project “Your Press” are among those who have already begun to check abstract figures in practice. +++
British journalist Catherine Whitehorn is known, among other things, as the author of the aphorism "Find something you like to do, and then find someone who will pay you for it." Despite the seeming elementary nature of this rule, not everyone is able to implement it.
You have written devastating reviews all your life, in which you appealed either to Plato or to Kant, but your talent was buried under a pile of office papers. You are the best person in the world weaving lampshades from beads, but your fellow programmers can only guess about it from your suspiciously developed fine motor skills. Littlehelp
website is designed to prevent hidden talents from remaining in the shadows. +++
It is difficult to talk about the IT-Factory project: the service is now in beta stage, investments are being sought directly to launch - paying for the service, advertising and salary to developers. Nevertheless, its author, Artyom Tatarinov, told everything as it is and even promised to send screenshots, "as soon as the electricity is turned on."
Until then, he explained the essence of the project: ““ IT-Factory ”is a place where developers and users come together. The main essence of the project is to provide product developers with the opportunity to contact their customers. ” +++
Why do we more often update our friends' feed on Facebook than read news sites? The answer is obvious: the news that people from your friends list share goes through many filters (including those you set), so you only read what you are interested in, whethernews about the legalization of marijuana in Georgia , which was posted by the most pacified of friends, or less ambitious accomplishments - for example, the 1001st witty comment on the seasonal shutdown of hot water suddenly came to someone's mind.
This seems to allow you to see only what you are interested in. On the other hand, it severely limits: no matter how versatile your friends may be, your interest in separate waste recycling or crustaceans is hardly shared by at least one of them. So, you have to look for all the news on the topic on a separate resource.
The creators of Netflip have figured out how to step over this contradiction. +++
“Would you like all food products and companies representing them to be in the same catalog?” So that in just a couple of mouse clicks you can find the product you are interested in, compare it with peers and see the reviews and ratings of the company that represents it? Or would you like to have an online portal where all the names of your products would be visible to your potential customers? ”
It is suggested that if you read these questions, you are already on the FoodCatalog website . And that from minute to minute all your affirmative answers to these questions will become a reality. +++ Deal Worldwide
Service allows you to simplify the process of buying in online stores to the mark "nowhere is easier." With the help of the service, purchases can be made at all major trading floors of the world, without registering in each individual online store.
“We use the principle of relaying offers of trading floors and stores, which allows our customers to make purchases on all the sites connected to us, having only one account - in our system, plus a search toolbar with the ability to view trading floors through a service interface that will provide the user with a tool a panel whose purpose is to translate the page into the desired language, as well as instantly adding the product to the user’s basket without leaving the current page, ”explains the author EKTA Vitaly Shleina. +++
For full-time work, it’s customary to go to the sites of recruiting giants like HeadHunter . Freelance is usually searched on specialized resources like free-lance.ru , weblancer.net or freelance.ru. Another way to find a side job is through specialized communities in Livejournal or word of mouth. For users of the age group up to 30, a fairly obvious solution is an application on a social network. Nevertheless, if you send “VKontakte” a search query with the keyword “freelance”, the list of proposals found will be quite small. At its very top is an application with the laconic name “All Freelance”. +++
The traditional Friday corporate party is coming to an end, and you realize with crystal clarity that the only way to get home alive is to order a taxi. Around it is noisy, and you can hardly speak already. To find among colleagues someone who would be qualitatively different from the described condition is also not possible.
In this case (and a couple of thousand of its variations), there are taxi service online via the Internet, available as mobile applications. Recently, their ranks have replenished with another service - InTaxi . +++
The essence of the VideoVolna service was explained by its creators as intelligibly as possible:
“The goal of the project is to solve two big problems: with the viewer - what to see in the evening of something that you will definitely like, with the distributor of film and TV content - see more with us, exactly what you like, and come back to us again and again ". +++
We do not stop and continue to publish information about Russian startups - 10 per week. Startups and investors , as always, are welcome.
As well as your opinions about the listed projects.
What does runet look like? Like the top Yandex, as your RSS feed, or as a directory of all sites existing in the ru-zone? WebonmapProject He tried to turn the virtual space of the Russian domain zone into a map of the area, transforming individual sites into buildings. The attempt to "visit" will result in the user switching to the site of the "builder". +++
If you believe the PwC report “The World Entertainment and Media Industry: Forecast for 2010-2014,” by 2012, one fifth of all periodicals will be sold electronically. The volume of the print press market in Russia in 2010 amounted to $ 2.3 billion. The potential volume of the Russian market for sales of electronic press sales, therefore, is about $ 500 million. The authors of the project “Your Press” are among those who have already begun to check abstract figures in practice. +++
British journalist Catherine Whitehorn is known, among other things, as the author of the aphorism "Find something you like to do, and then find someone who will pay you for it." Despite the seeming elementary nature of this rule, not everyone is able to implement it. You have written devastating reviews all your life, in which you appealed either to Plato or to Kant, but your talent was buried under a pile of office papers. You are the best person in the world weaving lampshades from beads, but your fellow programmers can only guess about it from your suspiciously developed fine motor skills. Littlehelp
website is designed to prevent hidden talents from remaining in the shadows. +++
It is difficult to talk about the IT-Factory project: the service is now in beta stage, investments are being sought directly to launch - paying for the service, advertising and salary to developers. Nevertheless, its author, Artyom Tatarinov, told everything as it is and even promised to send screenshots, "as soon as the electricity is turned on." Until then, he explained the essence of the project: ““ IT-Factory ”is a place where developers and users come together. The main essence of the project is to provide product developers with the opportunity to contact their customers. ” +++
Why do we more often update our friends' feed on Facebook than read news sites? The answer is obvious: the news that people from your friends list share goes through many filters (including those you set), so you only read what you are interested in, whethernews about the legalization of marijuana in Georgia , which was posted by the most pacified of friends, or less ambitious accomplishments - for example, the 1001st witty comment on the seasonal shutdown of hot water suddenly came to someone's mind. This seems to allow you to see only what you are interested in. On the other hand, it severely limits: no matter how versatile your friends may be, your interest in separate waste recycling or crustaceans is hardly shared by at least one of them. So, you have to look for all the news on the topic on a separate resource.
The creators of Netflip have figured out how to step over this contradiction. +++
“Would you like all food products and companies representing them to be in the same catalog?” So that in just a couple of mouse clicks you can find the product you are interested in, compare it with peers and see the reviews and ratings of the company that represents it? Or would you like to have an online portal where all the names of your products would be visible to your potential customers? ” It is suggested that if you read these questions, you are already on the FoodCatalog website . And that from minute to minute all your affirmative answers to these questions will become a reality. +++ Deal Worldwide
Service allows you to simplify the process of buying in online stores to the mark "nowhere is easier." With the help of the service, purchases can be made at all major trading floors of the world, without registering in each individual online store. “We use the principle of relaying offers of trading floors and stores, which allows our customers to make purchases on all the sites connected to us, having only one account - in our system, plus a search toolbar with the ability to view trading floors through a service interface that will provide the user with a tool a panel whose purpose is to translate the page into the desired language, as well as instantly adding the product to the user’s basket without leaving the current page, ”explains the author EKTA Vitaly Shleina. +++
For full-time work, it’s customary to go to the sites of recruiting giants like HeadHunter . Freelance is usually searched on specialized resources like free-lance.ru , weblancer.net or freelance.ru. Another way to find a side job is through specialized communities in Livejournal or word of mouth. For users of the age group up to 30, a fairly obvious solution is an application on a social network. Nevertheless, if you send “VKontakte” a search query with the keyword “freelance”, the list of proposals found will be quite small. At its very top is an application with the laconic name “All Freelance”. +++The traditional Friday corporate party is coming to an end, and you realize with crystal clarity that the only way to get home alive is to order a taxi. Around it is noisy, and you can hardly speak already. To find among colleagues someone who would be qualitatively different from the described condition is also not possible.
In this case (and a couple of thousand of its variations), there are taxi service online via the Internet, available as mobile applications. Recently, their ranks have replenished with another service - InTaxi . +++
The essence of the VideoVolna service was explained by its creators as intelligibly as possible:“The goal of the project is to solve two big problems: with the viewer - what to see in the evening of something that you will definitely like, with the distributor of film and TV content - see more with us, exactly what you like, and come back to us again and again ". +++