Posted by Tom Blue on July 27, 2010 under Companies, Executives, Funding, General, Marketing, Profiles, Sales, Technology | 
Lead411’s Hottest Pennsylvania companies list has been announced. See the links and full list below.
Hottest Penn Companies
Press Release
Complete Company List:
80sTees.com, AirClic, Amtech, Aria Systems, Inc. , Avere Systems Inc, Boomi, Carnegie Speech Co, ClickEquations, CoffeeForLess.com, Collages.net, Inc, Document Solutions Group Inc, FlyCast Inc, FreedomPay, Inc, GreenLink Networks Inc, iLabor Network, imwave, inc, Innova Dynamics, Instem-LSS, iPipeline, Landslide Technologies Inc, Lightning Gaming™, Inc. , MobileMD, myYearbook.com, Netronome Systems, Inc, Nxtbook Media, Online Stores, Inc, Plextronics Inc, ProtonMedia, QlikTech, Redlasso Inc, RES Software, Sanovia Corporation, Schoolwires, Inc., ShowClix Inc, SoftWriters , Inc., Stroll, LLC, TagSys USA Inc, TalkShoe, TargetX.com LLC, The Neat Company, Ticketleap, Inc, Touchtown Inc.
Posted by Tom Blue on July 21, 2010 under Companies, Executives, Funding, Marketing, Profiles, Sales |
Congrats to the following companies that won our “Hottest Midwest Companies” award.
Hottest Midwest Companies
Press Release
Company List
4CS, Accertify, ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc., Alice.com, Angie’s List, Anthem Media Group, Apparatus, Inc, ArrowStream Inc, Arsalon Technologies, LLC, Bell Aquaculture, BigMachines, BirdDog Solutions Inc, BuyOnlineNow.com, Centro, ChaCha Search, Inc, Classified Ventures, ClearSaleing, Inc , Compendium Software, LLC, Compliance11, Inc, Consona Corporation, CotterWeb Enterprises Inc, DataSync, Deemsys Inc, Discount Office Items , DyKnow company, eBureau, Electronic Commerce, Inc, ExactTarget, Expressume Inc, FastDue.com, Firm58, Geonetric, gloStream, Inc., GovDelivery, Groupon Inc, GrubHub, Handmark Inc, HarQen, HEALTHCAREfirst, Iasta, Ifbyphone Inc, ImageTrend, Inc, InsuranceAgents.com, Intelligent InSites Inc, Interactions Inc, InXpo, Inc., Liquid Web Inc, Men’s Red Tag, Model Metrics, Inc, mPay Gateway Inc, My1Stop.com, Myriant Technologies LLC, Networked Insights Inc, Newser LLC, Newsy.com, Omnicity Corp, Open Kernel Labs, OpticsPlanet, Inc, Orbis Education , Palisade Systems, Inc., Passageways, Personalization Mall, Plex Systems Inc, Quality Logo Products, Inc, Quantum Retail Technology Inc, Reliance Software Systems Inc, Scale Computing, Sittercity, Sojern, Solid Signal Inc, StartSampling, T2 Systems Inc, TEAM Companies, The Higher Gear Group Inc, ThinkVine, TMW Systems, ubid.com, UnitedLex Corporation, vAuto, Vibes Media, Vontoo, LLC, WorkForce Software, XIOtech Corporation,
Posted by Tom Blue on July 13, 2010 under Companies, Executives, Marketing, Profiles, Technology |
The list of Lead411’s Hottest Southeast Companies are now in. Because there are less technology companies in this region we decided to group quite a few states
together including Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Congratulations to the winners!!!!
Hottest Southeast Companies
Press Release
Full List of Companies
Access Point Inc, Acclaris, Admissions Lab, AfterBOT, AirSage Inc, AlienVault LLC, Astadia, avVenta Worldwide Inc, Bandwidth.com, Batanga Inc, Birch Communications, BlueStripe Software, Inc, Bomgar Corporation, Bridgevine, BrightDoor Systems Inc, Bronto Software Inc, Channel Advisor, Clearleap, Clinverse Inc, Compliance 360, ConnectWise, Connextions, Conterra Telecom Services, CRM Software, Inc, DAXKO, Dayforce, Digitalsmiths, Dukky, eMinor, Emma Inc, FTRANS Corp, GATR Technologies, Geomagic, Inc, GreenWizard, Highwinds Network Group Inc, Host.net, Hosting.Com, iContact Corp, Inlet Technologies, IntegraClick, LLC, InterAct Public Safety Systems, iSeatz, Kudzu Interactive, Loopfuse, M3X Media Inc, MailExpress Inc, Moneta Corporation, Multiply, Inc, Muzak LLC, nTelagent, Inc, Oasys Mobile, Inc, Online Commerce Group, OPEN Sports Network, Inc, OpenPeak Inc, OpenSpan Inc, Paymetric, Inc, Pentaho Corp, Peoplematter, Persystent Technology Corporation, Pipeline Data Inc, Preparis, Inc, Psydex Corporation, Purchasing Power, LLC, PureSafety, Quofore Americas, RemitDATA, Inc, ReStockIt.com, ReverbNation, rPath, SafetyPay Inc, SecureWorks Inc, ServusXchange, LLC, SinglePipe Communications, Spectrum Bridge Inc, StrikeIron Inc, Syenrgistx, Synapse Wireless Inc, TekLinks , Inc., TerraGo Technologies, The Receivables Exchange , ThePort™ Network, Inc, TheraSim, Inc., Transactis, Inc, uMonitor, Vitacost.com Inc, Vocalocity, Voxeo, WeTheCitizens, WorthPoint Corporation, Xomba, Yap
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Posted by Tom Blue on September 22, 2009 under Marketing |
I have been doing some testing with different search terms at CompareGoogle and have noticed that many of the rankings for terms we, Lead411, are included in, have been changed. Not all, but plenty have been. It seems Google has been implementing the Caffeine update. I don’t think it is 100% live, but it is getting there.
Posted by Tom Blue on May 27, 2009 under Companies, Executives, Marketing, Technology |
I am always trying to profile bootstrapped startups so I was very happy we got in contact with FunAdvice and Jeremy Goodrich. He is extremely open about FunAdvice and I assume that really helps his PR. Of course, more bloggers, etc are going to be more likely to do a story on you if you can give them some dirt. FunAdvice has been growing 300% year over year and that is without the help of venture capital. Very impressive. Please the profile interview below…
1. What do you do?
FunAdvice is a question & answer service that allows anybody to register, ask questions, give advice and make friends. Our fundamental belief is that advice / answers is far more interesting when it’s truly social so over the years, we’ve added customizable profiles, friend lists, photo sharing & tagging, photo rating, groups, private messaging and more to improve retention and member interaction. Generally speaking, it’s worked very well, as our retention has been going up along with overall traffic.
2. Who are your competitors?
The main competitor’s that we benchmark against are Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers and Answerbag, as those are the three largest Q&A sites in the US…there are about a half dozen or so that have raised VC money or been acquired, including Yedda, Answerology, Mahalo…however, I don’t worry about what they’re doing as from 3rd party stats services, we’re all pretty close in terms of userbase.
3. What makes you different than your competitors?
The social emphasis in FunAdvice is unique…eg, ‘interest’ lists you can’t find on other Q&A sites, nor customizable profiles, nor photo tagging, etc…our breadth of member features and functionalities is really what makes the service interesting as Q&A by itself is a commodity.
4. What are your or your ceo’s biggest challenges?
To be honest, building out a site and team is pretty new to me. Despite having built eight companies over the last nine years with my wife (and several with our CTO of FunAdvice, Ericson) the last year or so has been tough for me as my leadership and team building experience is very thin. As a result, I’ve been reading a lot of books, blogs and quizing companies I’ve consulted with in the past on how to build a team, how to ensure we attain the productivity I’d like and overall keep marching the numbers higher. It’s a tough juggling act, as I go back and forth on adding features to improving revenue to improving traffic…though our team is very capable and I think we get as much done as most companies with 2x the staff, full time and centrally located staff. The distributed ‘virtual company’ thing has some advantages for us, as I don’t have to deal with atypical office politics stuff…of course that doesn’t mean we’re drama free but I do believe it’s a manageable headache.
6. How long have you been in business?
FunAdvice was started in March, 2003…however, we filed to become an LLC just about two years ago, as the site grew to 700K+ visitors, we wanted to have a more formal business structure around things.
7. How many employees do you have?
Currently we have eight people in total, three are co-founders, three full time, two part time…though I only manage the two part time & one full time employee directly, as our engineering team in China is managed by our lead engineer who has been with us for over two years now and he manages the full time engineers who build out the bulk of the site there for us.
8. What are your revenue estimates for 2009?
Somewhere between six and seven figures…as we use adsense exclusively, their terms of service say we can’t share our revenue numbers publicly. 
9. Are you profitable?
We have been profitable for nearly two years, however, the founders all work part time and don’t receive a salary…we should be profitable even with paying the co-founders (including myself) a regular salary in the next three to six months.
10. When were you founded?
March, 2003 the site went live and we haven’t looked back since. It’s been a wild ride, though we didn’t really work on the site proactively until August, 2006…in October, 2006, we had 70K visitors…now, on a busy day, we have nearly 200K visitors, which is quite a jump.
