1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: FreeLunched

By guest author Praveen Kumar

In a new flavor of the daily deals trend, FreeLunched works with retailers to offer promotional giveaways and allows users to post product reviews. While the original free lunch was just that – lunch, for those who bought a drink, in a custom thought to have begun in the saloons of New Orleans before the American Civil War – recent giveaways on FreeLunched included a portable PlayStation, Amazon gift cards, and a boxed DVD set of season six of the popular television series “Lost.” >>>

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hospitality Star

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Hospitality Star offers end-to-end solutions based on a SaaS model for the hospitality industry (hotels, casinos, food and beverage, and educational institutes) in the areas of learning, knowledge management, procurement, and business process and reporting solutions. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Off The Quad

In a new twist on the hyper-local and “daily deals” trends, Off The Quad combines a daily lifestyle, events, and entertainment e-newsletter accompanied by local specials for students at several U.S. universities. It has just launched in time for the fall semester. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Actifio

Actifio is a data management virtualization (DMV) software company that provides data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions to IT organizations for virtual and physical IT environments. Its products, which Actifio just launched a couple of weeks ago, are designed to make it easier for companies to copy, store, move, and restore data. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Tissuepro, Miami, FL

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Tissuepro is a fledgling business founded by Miami-based Lenny Marcovitz, who has created a rapid tissue processing machine that he will sell along with the chemicals needed to run it. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Norton Scientific

By guest author Bhuvnesh Bhambhani

Norton Scientific Inc. (NSI) has developed a protein aggregation monitor (PAM) which is used in drug discovery research by crystallographers to learn more about proteins and how they crystallize and interact with other proteins or inhibitors. The monitor, called the NS4910, measures the efficiency of therapies targeted at treating a variety of common degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and screens samples prior to expensive structural analysis techniques such as X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. NSI’s aim is to make a product that cuts operating costs, speeds up analysis time, and is easy for researchers and lab technicians to use. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Fabulousyarn

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Fabulousyarn is a Web retailer that deals in luxury yarn and knitting accessories. The company also sells through a brick-and-mortar shop in Tivoli, New York. Fabulousyarn has positioned itself as a niche site for high-quality yarns that caters to women passionate about knitting. The company evolved from a hand-knit sweater business called fabsweaters, which was started by Judy Schmitz in 2003. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Ringio

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Ringio is a cloud-based phone system service for small businesses. The company considers its product to deliver “rich calling” – a system that goes beyond virtual private branch exchange (PBX) and call routing and integrates call routing and CRM data. By bringing the context of a call to a conversation, the company aims to help employees make their business calls more meaningful and productive and offer better customer service. By creating the solution in the cloud, Ringio can bring capabilities previously available only through call centers and proprietary customizations to small and medium-sized businesses. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Techcello

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Techcello is a SaaS company that focuses on the engineering layer of computing. This is the layer between the technology layer (.NET, Java) and the application layer (domain-specific features, functions, and user interfaces). Techcello’s mission is to provide a robust and strong engineering foundation for a company’s product or application so that the client company’s developers can focus on building business-related functionality. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Temetic Research

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Temetic Research builds advanced tools and services that assist corporations in tracking and managing their global Internet presence and customer loyalty with the help of the science of digital sociology. The company uses technology that applies computational linguistics, progressive data mining, and the latest socio-psychological precepts to improve its clients’ marketing and sales practices. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Sock Monkeys Clothing

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Sock Monkeys Clothing is a clothing line designed for children suffering from skin conditions such as eczema, epidermolysis bullosa, chicken pox, and other sensitive skin issues. The primary benefit is the scratch protection offered by the permanent “hand socks” that make up a part of each garment’s sleeves and cover fingernails while allowing children to still use their hands to pick things up. The clothing is made from extremely soft organic cotton to provide maximum comfort. Additionally, all stitching is on the outside of the garments to prevent chafing, the snaps are nickel-free to prevent allergic reactions, and the tags tear away easily to avoid irritation. All products are hand-made in the United States. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Phitch

By guest author Praveen Kumar

ePhiphony Incorporated develops and publishes the inventory investment optimization solution suite Phitch, which provides software add-ons to existing accounting enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting packages that make it easier to optimize inventory. Phitch is designed to boost the performance of ERP platforms by determining inventory alerts, reorder points, safety stocks, and order quantities at a level to maximize economic profit. The program uses color-coded business alerts that can be accessed from any device and integrates with QuickBooks to improve the financial performance of small and medium businesses. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Reftree

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Reftree is a social network platform with interactive and collaborative Web solutions for enterprise customers. The company’s goal is to enable client organizations to build an interactive Web presence, including community building, which helps in connecting with all stakeholders – prospects, customers, employees, and well-wishers. Reftree provides an array of Web 2.0 applications for interactive marketing communication, recruitment, and knowledge sharing within the community. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Altitude Fasique

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Altitude Fasique is an online designer apparel company that creates clothes exclusively for women who are over 5’9” (1.75 m). The company’s mission is to create contemporary and fashionable styles for tall women with designs that aim to make them feel confident and unique. Target clients are women seeking a clothing line that reflects their professional and personal characteristics and that is smart, stylish, and moving up. Altitude Fasique believes that tall women should not have to sacrifice fit for a stylish look. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: SurgeForth

By guest author Praveen Kumar

The next generation talent management suite TalentWeaver, created by SurgeForth helps companies to assess, acquire, develop, and align their workforces for improved business performance. TalentWeaver integrates competency management, competency-based learning management, a career development workbench, and predictive analytics offered to enterprises and academia on a subscription model. The solution is interoperable and implements HR XML and IEEE standards. TalentWeaver is based on SurgeForth’s patent-pending Right Assess Career Enabler (RACE) framework, and the company is in the process of filing another patent for its predictive analytics engine. >>>