1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2011: GrillGrate, Cartersville, Georgia

The 1M/1M Incubation Radar, part of my global initiative that aims to help a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue by 2020, starts 2011 with GrillGrate, which makes modular plates with a raised rail surface to use on top of grills, making it easier to cook and sear food without burning it or drying it out. >>>

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Careerealism

By guest author Eunice Nyandat

How often have you changed jobs? If the answer is “many times,” you’re not alone. Data gathered by the U.S. government indicates that frequent job changing is not just a 21st-century phenomenon. Even workers born at the end of the baby boom (1957 to 1964) have held an average of 11 jobs from ages 18 to 44. Today’s 1M/1M company, Careerealism, operates under the premise that “every job is temporary.” The idea for the company took root in the mid-1990s while founder J.T. O’Donnell was working for a well-known national staffing company. A senior manager from Europe explained why he believed that the American economy would shift and cause Americans to look at their careers as as series of temporary assignments. He also predicted as much as 50% of the American workforce would end up in contract roles as opposed to full-time jobs – a situation with many pros, but some serious cons, for American workers.
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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: PerBlue, Madison, Wisconsin

The future of location-based games is still up for grabs, and PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming software company, is helping to determine that history. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: VOI ,Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

VOI (Value of Insight) is a bio-pharmaceutical publishing and business intelligence consulting company. Its primary publications, pharmahandbook, Guide to the International Pharmaceutical Industry; and generichandbook, Guide to the Generic Drug Industry in the US, are important resources in more than 40 countries. The company has also created a data platform designed to increase return on investment for R&D and make the long, extremely expensive clinical trial process better, faster, and cheaper.  >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Ecomowers

By guest author Hema Kalsha

While a lot of the discussion about how to reduce fuel emission centers on cars – either trading them for public transportation, car pooling, or more fuel-efficient cars – another common gas guzzler may be overlooked: the lawnmower. There are about 30 million acres (~121,400 square kilometers) of lawn in the United States alone. Caring for these lawns causes a lot of pollution; running a lawnmover for one hour may pollute as much as driving a car for four. Compounding the problem is that traditional manual mowers have the reputation of being heavy and awkward, and their blades need frequent sharpening. Ecomowers is an e-commerce store trying to change the way people think about environment friendly lawn mowers. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Kir DeVries ,Maryland

By guest author Eunice Nyandat

The 1M/1M Incubation Radar series returns in time for the holiday season with Kir DeVries, an online store that offers young women moderately priced, fun, upbeat, and unique gifts for their homes. The company’s mission is to help young women live inspired, healthy, and positive lives. The collection of products are selected for the “good factor”; that is, products that customers can feel good about buying because they come from fair trade sources, possess eco-friendly qualities, and are made from healthy materials while being fresh, new, and colorful. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Vimagino ,Bangalore,India

By guest author Hema Kalsha

Vimagino creates intelligent software agents called angels, which can sense and respond to human emotions in customer interaction. These artificial agents can provide intelligent, interactive customer interaction during sales and support processes on websites. These angels have proved to be successful in converting 65% more visitors into customers than traditional methods and getting more value out of the customer life cycle. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: ShopSocially, Mountain View/London

Deal Radar, which has covered various aspects of the emerging area of social commerce, looks today at ShopSocially, a shopping recommendation engine and a site where friends can give and get shopping advice. It also has a social commerce platform that retailers can integrate into their own sites to harness the power of social recommendations. The aim is to turn purchases into conversations and social endorsement, driving significant ‘friend referred’ traffic back to the retailer’s site. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: OnTrack Imaging

OnTrack Imaging, Inc is bringing a unique ultrasound technology from the industrial to the veterinary market, specifically to treat horses. The company’s through-transmission c-scan ultrasound camera takes clearer images of horses’ legs and allows for early stage soft-tissue evaluation. The aim is to protect horses by treating them earlier and preventing avoidable damage and to give veterinarians and trainers greater confidence in ultrasound imaging. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: CrowdEngineering, Pisa/Silicon Valley

CrowdEngineering is the developer of CrowdForce, a “business process crowdsourcing” SaaS platform, and of solutions to enable companies to crowdsource customer service, with expert customers supporting others. One of the major aims is to cut the amount of money companies spend on customer service. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hireplug, India

Hireplug is a SaaS recruitment technology company whose products are designed to help companies to recruit talented candidates from employees’ social networks and boost employee referrals in the process. Hireplug has two components – hireplug.com and the Facebook app We Are Hiring. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: CionSystems ,Redmond, Washington

By guest author Ravi Bulusu

CionSystems offers identity management solutions that provide IT departments in organizations single, centralized federated identity management for the enterprise and different cloud solutions. The company focuses on three main areas: account management (provisioning and de-provisioning of enterprise accounts), managing multiple identities and keeping them in synch, and audit compliance and generation of required reports. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: InnovizeTech

By guest author Praveen Kumar

InnovizeTech is the creator of Sapience, a patent-pending software product to measure and analyze the effort and productivity of an enterprise. The product helps organizations that use computers to deliver their services and products by measuring the exact effort needed, improves estimates of effort needed for future products, and identifies areas of under- or overcapacity utilization. These benefits can be of use to IT services companies that have fixed price and time and materials–style contracts, software product firms, and also certain non-IT T&M based businesses. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Standing Cloud, Boulder, Colorado

Standing Cloud is an application deployment and management platform for the cloud and can be used to build websites and webapps. The platform is built in Java and is currently deployed on Rackspace and Amazon EC2 cloud servers. Further, the company offers more than sixty open-source applications that users may test-drive or install for permanent operation. It monitors and backs up applications and aims to offer seamless portability from one cloud service to another, ensuring that there is never any downtime by giving control back to the user. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: LOGOPremiums

By guest author Praveen Kumar

How much of a consumer’s decision to click on a URL is based on domain name? Domain name plays a big part, says Jeff Levine, and is testing his hypothesis through his company LOGOpremiums, a network of B2B e-catalogs that sells promotional items in which each e-catalog website uses a product-specific keyword domain name such as Logoteeshirts.com or Logocups.com. The company manufactures custom logo products and imports and distributes stock logo products. >>>