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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 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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From the Judges Interview Tips for Previews Applicants

November 5, 2012 By

 

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex
Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex

With the Previews application deadline coming up November 21, I sat down with Previews Chair/Judge Larry Schwartz, to get some tips on what makes for a successful previews presentation, both to the judges and at IIS 2013 in January.

JH: What sparked the Previews concept?

LS: Wow that tests my memory. It started organically with me and Ed Keating. I was frustrated that small companies were not getting enough exposure at SIIA, and SIIA was not enough to bring small companies/startups into the SIIA community. Ed and I had several lobster roll sessions and came up with the idea, originally as a stand alone conference the day before IIS.

JH: What is your most memorable Previews moment?

LS: Two come to mind, first when Fred Wilson spoke at I believe the first Previews event. It was a great speech about information wants to be free. Watch it here.

My second moment was the Alumni lunch we had in 2008 and 2009 I believe. It was a great to see all of these content related companies networking under the SIIA previews banner.

JH: Rumor has it that you are the “Simon Cowell” of the Judges. If you’re Simon, then who is Paula?

LS: Ha! You mean who gives the love? Randy Marcinko :-)

JH: You have been judging previews since it launched in 2007. What is the best advice you could give potential applicants?

LS: When presenting your company in 5 minutes tell a story! The audience does not want facts and figures about your startup or hear your 10 page resume. They want you to tell a story about the problem your company is trying to solve. Some of the best Previews companies were the ones that described the problem and then showed how they were solving it. Boardroom Insider is a great example. They are helping to solve the problem of finding detailed information about senior executives by using public source data to build deep and insightful profiles of senior executives at major companies nationwide. Tell a great story that solves a problem.

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About Previews

Previews showcases innovative B2B content companies – publishers, media, content aggregators, and technology plays – who have at least a Series A round of financing, generate less than $10 million in sales, and have actual customers. If that describes your company, apply now.

Selected companies will present at IIS 2013 to over 300 leaders from the information industry. Previews presenting companies present to secure funding, strategic partnerships, new customers or even an exit.

Apply Now

Questions? Contact Jennifer Hansen.

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Apply to Present Your Company at the 2013 SIIA Previews

November 1, 2012 By

Do you want to present your company to over 300 information industry leaders and decision makers? Are you interested in finding investors, partners, or acquisition opportunities? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, then you should apply to present your company at the 2013 SIIA Previews.

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

You can view updates on all of the SIIA Previews alumni and apply to present at the 2013 SIIA Previews on the SIIA website. Browse through the alumni list and you’ll see companies that have achieved great success. Examples of companies that have been acquired since they presented at an SIIA Previews event include:

  • Pubget: Acquired by Copyright Clearance Center
  • Associated Content: Acquired by Yahoo! for $100 million
  • FeeDisclosure.com: Acquired by Bankrate
  • Keibi Technologies: Acquired by Lithium Technologies
  • TutorVista: Acquired by Pearson
  • Generate, Inc.: Acquired by Dow Jones

SIIA Previews Qualifications and Application Instructions

Does your company qualify?
To apply to present your company at the 2013 SIIA Previews, yours must be a B2B content company that provides content or content technology products or services (e.g., publisher, content aggregator, technology play) with under $10M in revenue and actual customers. Furthermore, your company must not have received more than a Series A round of financing and must not generate more than $10 million in sales.

How do you apply?
You can apply online. Nominations open on October 9, 2012 and close on November 21, 2012.

How are presenting companies selected?
Nominated companies will present a 5-minute pitch to the Previews Selection Committe via webinar during the first two weeks of December. The committee will identify the top companies to present at the January 30th SIIA Previews event during the SIIA’s IIS 2013: Breakthrough conference, which will be held from January 30-31, 2013 at Pier Sixty in New York City. The final five SIIA Previews presenting companies will be announced the week of December 20, 2012. Selected SIIA Previews presenters will have an opportunity to be coached by the Selection Committee, which will be scheduled during the first two weeks of January 2013.

What should presenters know about the event and their participation in the event?
Presenting companies will get five minutes plus a question and answer session in front of leaders of the information industry. The audience will vote on the “Most Likely to Succeed.” Presenting companies also have an opportunity to exhibit and showcase their product throughout the two-day IIS 2013 conference, and they can attend the IIS Reception where they can network with other IIS attendees.

When the winning company be announced?
The SIIA CODIE Awards event wraps up the IIS 2013: Breakthrough conference on January 31, 2013. The presenting company that received the most “Most Likely to Succeed” votes during the SIIA Previews event will be announced during the ceremony.

Newstex President Larry Schwartz will be a member of the SIIA Previews Selection Committee again this year. Even if your company isn’t a match to apply to present at the SIIA Previews, we hope to see you at IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

You can get all of the details and apply on the SIIA website. Good luck to all of the 2013 SIIA Previews applicants!

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This post was written and originally posted by SIIA Member Newstex.

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Go Mobile: SIIA Previews the Newest in Information Industry Mobile Apps

January 30, 2012 By

Contributed by Grace Schalkwyk, Gramercy Digital Strategy Advisors

Larry Schwartz, Previews Chair and president of Newstex, outlined the evolution of the Previews program which celebrates its 6th anniversary this year. Started as an experiment, this year it is a core part of the main-stage program at Information Industry Summit with 6 company previews and 6 mobile previews. Next year’s conference will feature the 100th preview.

Dow Jones Investment Banker for iPad
Ian Rosen presented Dow Jones’ new app for investment banking end-users. Dow Jones’ strategy is to combine its content assets with its editorial expertise to create relevance for end-user groups. Its Investment Banker personnel are from the banking industry, and they employ ‘curation, creation, workflow knowledge and tools’ to assemble their service. The layout is similar to the Wall Street Journal app, leveraging users’ familiarity with it. All content is downloadable to be usable offline. It offers news customization as My Topics, and market-specific Collections, such as Energy, that feature Opinion and Strategy. It rounds out the service with Banker Moves, a sort of bankerly Page Six.

Lexis Nexis
Scott Livingston presented Lexis Nexis’s legal news awareness offering, which is in its 5.0 version in the mobile space. It seeks to serve lawyers who are untethering from their offices, providing a searchable, contextual, and exhaustive legal news source on the go. It is tailored to the use cases particular to lawyers, such as the on-commute work flow, the quick-briefing need prior to meeting with a client, and the working-remote workflow. Its components include Breaking News, Legal News focused on legal practice areas, Legal Blogs, Mealeys proprietary short form content, Communities, Twitter, and Video. It permits archival searching and access to full text content. It is available to the public as an in-app purchase. Lexis-Nexis is testing various pricing models including $1.99/month through the App Store.

Pubget for iPad
Pubget is one of those amazing services that so good that it shouldn’t be free, but it is. Recently acquired by the not-for-profit Copyright Clearing Center, it is a search engine for science, technology and medical (STM) articles and peer-reviewed papers and is intended for life science researches and practitioners. It is cloud based service hosted and sold via a freemium model that allows users to legally find and directly retrieve research papers from their sources. It has access to 3 million medical and STM articles and knows where 30 million academic papers live across 30,000 institutions.
Pubget is led by Ryan Jones, a FAST and Microsoft veteran. It is looking for publishers who want their content accessed by Pubget’s system, and enterprises that are interested in employing Pubget’s unique search capability.

Factiva for iPad
Factiva’s new app easily enables people to monitor news across the world, leveraging its new and popular web feature Snapshot. Its consumer-like feel, elegant and simple, reflects the demands of professional consumers for a great user experience. On the go, it gives the capability to spot trends, risks and opportunities. It also gives access to Factiva Search from anywhere. Features include Top News, with headlines, audio, video, trending companies, trending people, and visualization. On individual companies it provides news volume vs. stock price graphs with click-throughs. Other features include Radar, news volume on top trending companies; My Alerts, an RSS feed module; and article views with tagging.

PR Newswire for iPad
PR Newswire’s app is designed for PR professionals and journalists. It offers top headlines for all categories with drilldowns to appropriate sectors. It includes extensive coverage of PR blogs which will expand to 100 blogs over time. It offers in-app search, push notifications, saved searches and numerous other convenience features. It is available free on iTunes.

Nexis News Search
Nexis’s app is free to its customers, and essentially ports the website experience to the iPad. It provides nested search on news content options, with two-year history, date range search, article length search, and numerous other options. Articles can be saved and emailed. Articles highlight the user’s search terms, and other features are available.

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