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Meet Previews Company Visual Revenue

January 21, 2013 By

Meet Previews Presenting Company Visual Revenue. In this interview, their CEO, Dennis Mortensen, tells us what makes them unique. Learn more during their presentation at SIIA Previews, January 30-31 at the SIIA Information Industry Summit(IIS).

In a sentence tells us what your company does.

Our real-time predictive analytics platform makes human editors the most powerful force in today’s data-driven newsroom.

What is your secret sauce that will make you successful?

We have a tremendous product today, and it will be even better tomorrow, but that is only a result of our ethos, summarized in 5 points:

  • Our customers drive our product
  • Simplicity and ease of use is paramount
  • Exceptional customer service is a given
  • Honesty is always the best policy
  • We really do care

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

We’re looking for partners to participate in what we’re doing (because they too believe it will have a profound impact on the media world).

What is your favorite breakthrough technology or company?

Well, of course our favorite is Visual Revenue, but putting that aside for the moment, we love Square: Simple. Elegant. Highly disruptive.

Learn more about Visual Revenue, 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 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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