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June 29th, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 26th, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 25th, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 22nd, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 19th, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 18th, 2015 by
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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. Read more »
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June 17th, 2015 by
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It may surprise some people to know how popular the sport of surfing has become. It has been a staple of Polynesian culture for centuries, likely first observed by Europeans in the eighteenth century. We now have professional surf competitions with large cash prizes, and there is even a sort of celebrity culture built around great surfers in many parts of the U.S. and the world. Petersterlingfilms.com is a website that pays homage to the sport of surfing in its many facets, created by a true enthusiast of the sport. It is, first and foremost, a website dedicated to photography and video, but that exclusively centered upon its creator’s favorite activity. Read more »
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June 16th, 2015 by
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Eating healthy on a budget seems to be much more difficult than it should be. While some whole foods stores and markets have the healthy items we want, they can be a great deal more expensive than the lower quality foods found at any supermarket. Conversely, the typical supermarket has lower prices, but it does not have much of a selection of the healthier kinds of foods many people want. Wholeshare is a solution to this dilemma, serving as what its creators call an online marketplace for local and sustainable food. It helps those who find that reaching the balance between quality and price is a challenge to achieve, offering higher quality foods cheaply. Wholeshare makes it possible to bring food that is both healthy and affordable to individuals and their local communities. Read more »
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June 15th, 2015 by
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There are many note-taking services available as well as similar apps for mobile devices. There may be times, however, that you want to look back at something you posted long ago, and going very far into previous posts can be a hassle. Thoughtback is an app similar to a digital notebook, allowing you to quickly save thoughts, questions, important data, quotes, and more. What sets it apart is that it offers a unique feature whereby it automatically sends your thoughts back to you. After saving a new post, the app will bring up a random thought that you have previously saved. Additionally, it will send you a recap email once every week, and there is the option to make use of hashtags to help you organize your saved ideas. Read more »
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June 12th, 2015 by
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While buying exclusively American-made products is not as important to some as it was in the past, interest is steadily beginning to increase. On a smaller stage, there is rising concern with supporting communities and local economies but buying locally produced goods. Gradually, interest in higher quality American-made products is also beginning to rise again. Most companies are now available online as more and more people do more of their shopping over the Internet from the comfort of their homes or with their mobile devices. Capitalizing on both of these interests, Apple Pie promotes only goods made by Americans for the Americans consumer. It offers products of all kinds made in the USA ranging from daily essentials to top-quality designer goods. Apple Pie it easier for Americans to find, discover and buy products made in the U.S. In fact, Apple Pie’s creator tout it as the single best way to buy American products. Read more »