Restaurants Help Groups Raise Funds with GroupRaise
Groups looking to throw a fundraiser need a place to do so, and a restaurant is often a good option. A launch party or even simple information meeting at a restaurant can help to bring in business during its slower business hours. An arrangement between a restaurant and a group, particularly one hoping to bring in a large group of people, can take a long time and a lot of work. This is where GroupRaise comes in, helping them find each other more efficiently than traditional methods. Its creators tout it as local community networking for groups and restaurants. Its site will let restaurants post available time slots that groups can request online, and the group earns a percentage of the sales for its cause while restaurants can give back to the community. The restaurant does not need to offer discounts or coupons, but can give a cause some of its profit that is essentially extra by reaping the benefit of having more customers who would not normally be there at that time. Read more »
Competition can drive people to do better, and the workplace is no exception. An employee incentive program that combines performance recognition with the current trend to gamify competition even in the most professional settings could be an excellent means of engaging people to work harder. This is the concept behind DueProps, which offers employee motivation via a peer recognition game for workplaces. It is an app that gamifies employee appreciation so that employers can recognize work effort to reward those who perform well. Its developers created it based upon the premise that people who feel appreciated are happier, more engaged, and more productive at their jobs. 
The problem of growing waste and a lack of space for it is a pressing one. Many governments are issuing stricter environmental standards, and many companies have made efforts to combat this problem through recycling and other initiatives. Cocoa is a startup focused on organic food production and waste management through clean technology. The service it provides is to transform organic waste into compost and compost-based fertilizers. By doing so, it offer a unique solution for farmers that benefits them as well as the problem of dwindling landfill space. To do so, Cocoa uses its own patent-pending technology to transform organic waste into a safe and sustainable fertilizer that the company then sells to farms. 
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way to gain funds as well as support for many individuals and companies. People use it as a method to achieve all sorts of goals and to gain enough money to open any kind of company. Typically, would-be producers utilize crowdsourcing to fund the creation of a company, a project, or a line of products, but a startup called Gustin looks to employ it as a means of backing the creation of individual products. In the same way that crowdfunding brings together creators and potential consumers on a more personal level and gets individuals involved, Gustin does so for particular items. Its niche is menswear, and its creators intend it to change the way men buy clothes by creating a fully crowdfunded model for determining which jeans it makes. Gustin’s focus is exclusively on high quality clothing, and its model cuts out a lot of the cost to make it more affordable. 
Ordering food for a large group of people is never an easy thing because many people have very particular orders, and orders for large groups can take a great deal of time and effort to complete. Not only that, but the more a list includes, the more likely it is that something will be made incorrectly. People can choose only one restaurant or, alternatively, send someone out to several different restaurants to fulfill an order. This can be more costly than necessary, particularly for a business. Fortunately, there is Foodjunky, a web based food-ordering platform that handles online ordering for groups of people. It helps large groups make orders from restaurants, simplifying the error-prone process of one person relaying many food orders to another over a phone line. Unlike other services that help groups order food, Foodjunky allows users to choose from restaurants, delivery options, cuisine type, and more. 
Improving your health does not need to be difficult or involve major, life-altering changes. There are many small lifestyle changes that can help you better your health in any number of ways, and the simple step of eating better is one of them. Organic Diet Buddy is an app from Saagara, a health-focused startup that enables people to lead healthier lives online or through mobile platforms. It is a mobile app that allows you to make lifestyle changes that you can easily implement in your daily life and let you see the possibilities for change in other areas. In essence, it provides a color-coded guide to fruit and vegetables so you can know which you should buy organic and which are safe to buy non organic, with a few other helpful features included. 
Almost everyone stores passwords for everything from their email, business and personal banking, social media, and other extremely sensitive information on their computers. Unfortunately, not even Mac users are as safe from attacks from malicious programs online as they once thought they were. A new report released by a team of researchers from Indiana University has found that Apple, one of the most reliable computer manufacturers in the world, has developed a flaw in its software that could allow hackers to steal user passwords from Macs. 
Many people are not merely browsing online for trending topics but are serious consumers of news, and for them it can be time-consuming to navigate the many sites where their interests lie. Fortunately, there is Comunitee, created for people who would like to have one spot where they can find their news articles instantly without the clutter. Combining the methods of corporate news providers with niche social networking that offer snippets, it aims to make the act of news reading social and wants to help people discover news through friends who are similarly focused. This service also does away with the manual sharing of social media and automatically shares what you like with friends. In short, it is a more comprehensive news service based on the premise that reading news is better with friends. 
When it comes to weddings, finding the right photographer and / or videographer is one of the biggest decisions. Unfortunately, it can be quite costly to hire a professional. In these cases, some couples choose to have guests take photos and videos to make a wedding album or video from, but there is typically very little editing. For these situations, Wedit has a solution that can help you capture your wedding moments affordably and easily. It offers a way to get DIY wedding videos that you can have professionally edited for more economical and more personal results. Wedit’s service offers a simple solution while involving friends even more intimately. 
Branding is key to establishing a company’s image and is often the first impression a business will make. Choosing the right look for your company can take a lot of time and effort, but now a startup called BrandCrowd looks to make things easier by providing premium, ready-made logos and brands created by thousands of designers from around the world. It is a website that simplifies the task of hiring a freelance graphic designer by doing most of the work for you.