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Meet Previews Presenting Company Delve

January 21, 2013 By

Sandeep Ayyappan, CEO, Delve

Meet Previews Presenting Company Delve, from the voice of the CEO, Sandeep Ayyappan.

What does Delve Do?
Delve helps organizations turn news into knowledge using a personalized news reader for each employee and a private social layer where anyone can recommend and discuss relevant stories with their colleagues.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?
We use our algorithms to identify and recommend the most relevant stories to professionals in a range of industries, and then we make it much easier to engage colleagues on what they’re reading and why it matters. Being able to find better stories and share them more easily creates better questions and conversations inside any organization.

What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)?
We’re currently working on our seed round and we’re looking for potential strategic investors, and we’d love to build relationships with publishers who might be interested in distributing content through our platform as well.

What would you say is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?
I don’t recall a technology that changed my life in as many ways as the original iPhone. I bought it a few months after the first one came out. It was painfully slow and often couldn’t get reception, but how much it allowed me to do and the simplicity of its interface changed the way I listened to music, talked on the phone, played games, and even surfed the internet.

Learn more about Delve, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. Presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed.

About Previews
Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company!

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Meet Previews Presenting Company PublishThis

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company PublishThis trough the words of Matt Kumin, the CEO & Founder.

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

PublishThis is a Cloud-Based Content Marketing Platform. Our easy-to-use content solutions help businesses better engage their customers, amplify their website traffic, automate content marketing, build thought-leadership, improve competitive intelligence, increase lead conversion, and reduce digital publishing costs. In short we do 3 things really well:

  1. Amazing Content Discovery: Our next-generation semantic and social technology organizes the world’s content into customized streams based on interests and relevancies in real-time.
  2. Dead Simple Publishing: We remove friction from the content creation and publishing process with sophisticated technology, tools, and systems.
  3. Fuel Audience Passions: With PublishThis be an authoritative publisher and drive deeper customer engagement through content and social in a matter of minutes.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

PublishThis leverages patent-pending semantic search technology to discover the most relevant and socially trending content for over 250,000 topics across a multiple of industry categories from Business, Health and Autos to Travel, Politics and Entertainment Our core technologies include Semantic Search Engine: 250k+ topics semantically tagged across 20 million+ data points; Social Trending Algorithm: Monitor topics that are most retweeted, shared, and liked across social networks; Advanced Filtering: Create custom filters from over 250k+ top sources and twitter influencers; Powerful CUration Tools: Package any content type + add original commentary; Content Library Ingestion: Semantically tag your own content library and mix with real-time web content; Simplified Publishing: Powerful API’s, WordPress plugins & embeddable widgets What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)? We are excited to meet potential investors, develop new partnerships, and absorb the great programming.

Since theme is Breakthrough – what is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Not surprisingly Mobile/Tablet is an incredible growth opportunity for all us folks in the content ecosystem. Whether it’s Native Applications, HTML5 web experiences, or Responsive Design each area presents a wealth of opportunities and challenges. Here at PublishThis we’re thrilled to be rolling out products that allow Content Marketers to publish their custom feeds of content to Mobile/Tablet ready frameworks with little to no additional IT development effort

Learn more about PublishThis, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed. About Previews Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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Meet Previews Presenting Company Gust

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company Gust through the words of David S. Rose, the Founder & CEO.

David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

Gust, winner of the 2012 CODiE Award for Best Collaboration/Social Networking solution, is the global platform for sourcing and managing early-stage angel and venture capital investments, connecting high-growth entrepreneurs with sophisticated investors and providing online support for all aspects of the investment relationship.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

Gust’s secret sauce is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry. Today, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angel investors in the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages. Gust is used as the exclusive collaboration platform by 85% of the world’s organized angel investors, by over 1,000 venture capital funds and angel networks, 200 accelerators and business plan competitions, and a host of national and transnational organizations. As a result, over 160,000 companies actively use Gust for investor relations, and over 40,000 Accredited Investors use Gust to manage their deal flow and portfolios. We have already facilitated and tracked over $1.8 billion dollars of seed and early stage investments.

What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)?

Partnerships! As the definitive infrastructure platform for the world of innovative startups, we are looking to partner with any organization that is involved with startups, innovation, investment, venture capital, economic development, early stage finance, entrepreneurial ecosystems, or financial data.

Fun Questions – Since theme is Breakthrough – what is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Comixology, one of the companies that presented at last year’s SIIA Previews (and that incidentally was funded through Gust), is the world’s largest digital comic book platform, an industry they created. Comixology powers over 90% of all digital comic book sales, and was the top-grossing non-Game application in the Apple App Store for 2012 (and #3 overall, out of 800,000 apps.)

Learn more about Gust, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. Presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed. About Previews Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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Meet Previews Presenting company Enlyton

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company Enlyton through the words of Chris McKinzie, their CEO.

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

Enterprise Search. Simplified. Enlyton is a cloud based platform to inventory and organize diverse digital assets and create search-based applications on the fly.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

Enlyton blends a revolutionary new technology approach to search science with a consumer-like user interface to make it really simple for anyone to create search based applications.

What are you looking to achieve in presenting at IIS (Investors, Partners, Content)?

We are currently working with our happy customers to deliver search based applications and we would love to meet new customers that are tired of complex and expensive legacy enterprise search solutions. Of course we are always open to evaluating opportunities to accelerate our growth through collaboration with the right investment partners.

Since theme is Breakthrough – what is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Well, I would probably have to go with the telephone - enabling real-time communication across long distances has laid the foundation for so many other inventions and has enabled our fine planet to become truly global.

Learn more about Enlyton, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed.

About Previews
Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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Meet Previews Presenting Company Consensus Point

January 17, 2013 By

Meet 2013 Previews Presenting company Consensus Point through the words of Linda Rebrovick, the CEO.

Linda Rebrovick, CEO, Concensus Point

What is Consensus Point?

Consensus Point provides social predictive analytics, the capability for companies to engage their communities to forecast outcomes and accurately rank ideas and preferences with more speed, precision and value than many traditional market research and forecasting techniques.

What is the “secret sauce” that sets Concensus Point apart?

Our Consensus Point competitive advantage for success are our Huunu software platform, including the combination of our gaming techniques, research methodologies, and prediction market algorithm, and our customer support team, the leading global experts in prediction markets.

What to you hope to achieve by presenting at IIS?

By presenting at SIIA, I am looking forward to building mutually-beneficial business relationships with customers, partners, and potential future investors.

What is your favorite breakthrough technology?

In addition to our prediction market, my favorite breakthrough technology is still my PDA and mobile applications.

Learn more about Consensus Point, and the other 2013 Previews Presenting companies at IIS Breakthrough. Each presenting company will deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers during the IIS Breakthrough event being held from January 30-31, 2013 in New York City. presenting companies will also have 5-minutes for audience Q&A and an opportunity to showcase their companies to IIS attendees during the SIIA Previews and CODIEs Showcase and Networking reception. To top things off, the IIS audience will vote on the company they believe is most likely to succeed.

About Previews
Over the past six years, SIIA Previews has showcased innovative content companies, including publishers, media, aggregators, and technology plays, and 2013 SIIA Previews will feature the 100th Preview Company! Each Presenting company has been selected after two rounds of Judging. To qualify, presenting companies must have less than $10 M in revenue, no more than series A financing, and real customers.

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Fostering Disruptive Drivers of Innovation Webcast is Now On Demand

January 17, 2013 By

Gifford Booth, Co-founder and Partner, The TAI Group

On Tuesday January 15, Gifford Booth, founding partner of the TAI Group and Patrick Harris, author of The Truth about Creativity joined forces to deliver a webcast on Fostering Disruptive Drivers of Innovation to create collaborative teams. During the webcast the duo shared their insights on how you can unlock the potential of great new ideas within your company, by creating and nurturing an innovative environment. After all, breakthrough ideas, innovative products, and new ways of doing things don’t happen by accident; they’re the result of teams working in purposeful, collaborative, risk-taking ways.

In the event you missed it, this webcast is now available on demand.

Gifford Booth will build on the topics presented during the webcast during his keynote at the SIIA Information Industry Summit, coming up in a few short weeks in New York on January 30 & 31.

What is the Information Industry Summit? It’s a Summit for Information Industry Leaders from publishing, Media and Information companies with a razor-sharp focus on c-suite issues. Please review these links for more information:

Gifford Booth has also made a special offer to all IIS attendees. IIS attendees are invited to take a Personal Performance Diagnostic, which will provide you with insight into creating an environment for your team and company that fosters breakthrough ideas. The diagnostic is an online tool that you’ll be able to take at your convenience next week. To participate, you must be registered for IIS, and then RSVP by THIS Friday, January 18. For questions on the diagnostic contact Jennifer Hansen.

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SIIA Announces 2013 Previews Winners: Top Early Stage Content Companies

January 16, 2013 By

SIIA today announced 11 winners of its “Previews” competition, which annually selects the country’s most innovative early stage content or content technology companies. Winners will be showcased at the 12th annual Information Industry Summit in New York City, January 30-31.

The SIIA Previews Program selects and then spotlights the most innovative new content creators, aggregators and technology vendors that are transforming the information industry. A panel of judges from the SIIA membership reviewed and judged a field of innovative companies to select the 11 Previews winners.

The companies (listed below) win a slot at SIIA’s Information Industry Summit (www.siia.net/iis) to present to 300 leaders from the information industry. During SIIA Previews sessions held throughout the Information Industry Summit, company CEOs will highlight the innovations that have made them successful. After the presentations, conference attendees will vote on the company “Most Likely to Succeed.”

As a result of presenting at Previews alumni have received investments, have been acquired, or created partnerships with SIIA member companies. Over the past 6 years, 91 companies have been featured and at SIIA events. In 2013, the program will celebrate its 100th presenting company at the SIIA Information Summit on January 30 & 31. The Class of 2013 SIIA Previews :

  • Appinions: Appinions is an opinion-based influence marketing platform designed to give companies the ability to identify, analyze and engage influencers, then measure the results of their influence marketing efforts.
  • Automated Insights: Automated Insights provides high-quality, real-time content automation services to help companies realize the full monetization potential of their data assets.
  • Buzzient, Inc.: Buzzient, Inc. provides Software as a Service that enables F5000 companies the ability to leverage social media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) for improved customer service.
  • Consensus Point, Inc.: Consensus Point, Inc. is a social analytics software company revolutionizing market research with a new prediction market research platform providing tremendous value from communities and new revenue to market research companies.
  • Datamyne, Inc. : Datamyne, Inc. provides international trade intelligence covering the import and export transactions of some 50 countries across 5 continents, including the US, and key markets in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the European Union.
  • Delve: Delve offers a personalized, curated, news reader for professionals with a simple social layer to share relevant stories with colleagues turning news into knowledge inside organizations.
  • Enlyton: Enlyton is a cloud-based enterprise search and content discovery platform that inventories, organizes, connects and presents creative search-based applications to organizations that manage diverse digital assets.
  • Gust: Gust provides investors, entrepreneurs, and organizations that support them with tools to connect and collaborate on funding decisions and investor relations from pitch to exit.
  • Movable Media: Movable Media has developed a unique technology solution that allows brands to become successful publishers through partnerships with established content creators.
  • PublishThis: PublishThis is a cloud-based content marketing platform that enables brands, retailers, media companies and trade associations to more easily publish fresh and compelling content across all their marketing channels at scale.
  • Visual Revenue Inc.: Visual Revenue Inc. provides real-time content placement recommendations for online publishers based on audience interest, publisher objectives, and editorial tone.

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager of the SIIA Content Division. Contact Kathy at kgsexton@siia.net.

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