BGP Forges Billion Dollar Brain Alliance in Los Angeles Startup Industry

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013

Los Angeles’ leading tech incubator/accelerator Be Great Partners (BGP) has just announced the latest addition to their team of ten highly experienced and successful mentors: Joel Holland, Alex Zhardanovsky, Darcy Wedd, Gautam Gupta, Michael Krieger, David Santulli, Michael Orza, Alexander Debelov, Michael Mothner, Ola Danilina, Jeff Fissel, and Jeff Avallon. These professionals’ backgrounds will offer the portfolio companies under Be Great Partners great insight into their respective industries’ business development.

“We wanted to bring in a high caliber of professionals to help guide the vision, strategy, marketing, and development of our portfolio companies to build them into successful ventures,” says Lin Mao, CEO and Founder of Be Great Partners. “The team of mentors we have assembled have the potential to grow these startups to multi-million dollar companies, only furthering BGP’s mission to cultivate Los Angeles’ economic and technology sector.”

Joel Holland grew Video Blocks, the first subscription-based provider of stock video and audio, to the #4 Fastest Growing Media Company according to Inc. Magazine, making the prestigious Inc. 500 list. Holland has been named among BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25” and the United States Small Business Administration’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year.”

Alex Zhardanovsky is an avid angel investor, having invested in over fourteen businesses and grown his past company he co-founded, Epic Advertising, to over $ 200 Million in annual sales. He is now Co-Founder of one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies, PetFlow.com, which is projected to reach over $ 50 Million in sales in its third year of operations.

A seasoned mobile executive with over sixteen years of experience, Darcy Wedd is the CEO and Founder of PayVia. Wedd holds past experience as a founding member of one of the fastest-growing carrier billing companies in North America that ultimately resulted in the creation of North America’s largest operator network billing provider.

Gautam Gupta is the Co-Founder andCEO of NatureBox, one of Be Great Partners’ newest portfolio companies’ CEO. Gupta is offering his knowledge to Be Great Partners. While a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, Gupta sourced and was involved with the investments in GoodData, PlumDistrict, BigCommerce, Shareaholic, Honest Company and FriendBuy. He has also worked at Proctor and Gamble, building his knowledge in brand strategy and consumer preferences.

Working with some of the largest wireless data communication, printer, and server synchronization clients as part of Kirton McConkie, Michael Krieger has practiced and perfected international intellectual property law. He is one of Utah’s Legal Elite and a Mountain States Super Lawyer for Intellectual Property.

Founder and Executive Director of United Planet, David Santulli is well versed in international affairs and business, having traveled to over 100 nations. He created the concept of Relational Diplomacy as a practical method to improve intercultural relations.

With BGP hosting many technological companies, Michael Orza is a key player as Founder and CEO of Webair, a service that provides businesses with viable web hosting, web development, and managed solutions for companies of all sizes. Webair is a global leader in the industry with datacenters located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.

Demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial understanding, Alexander Debelov, CEO of the online video advertising network Virool, was recognized as Babson College’s Most Outstanding Entrepreneurship Student, #1 place winner of John H. Muller Undergraduate Business Plan competition, and was named Top 5 College Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Leading the world’s top search engine marketing firm, Michael Mothner, CEO and Founder of Wpromote, launched a company that has been a member of the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Inc. 500/5000 list, with over 3,300% revenue growth from 2003 to 2008. Mothner was part of the “30 CEOs Under 30 To Watch” in 2007 by Inc. magazine, and the 2008 recipient of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entretech Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Ola Danilina is the CEO and Founder of PMBC Group, a multi-tier public relations agency specializing in Corporate Communications PR and Technology PR. Whether the goal is to attract investors, excite shareholders, go public, go global, or build a brand, her company is the catalyst to a client’s public relations’ success.

Co-Founder of a software development company, Jeff Fissel serves as the Vice President of Business Development at KZO Innovations, playing a key role in select strategic accounts and corporate development activities. He is a member of the development team for the KZO technology, with his expertise in interactive streaming media technologies.

Jeff Avallon is the Co-Founder of an innovative and environmentally responsible whiteboard paint called IdeaPaint that transforms virtually any surface into a high-performance, dry erase canvas. With over 75,000 successful installations worldwide, IdeaPaint is the gold standard for dry erase performance, flexibility and environmental responsibility.

About Be Great Partners

Be Great Partners (BGP), the leading technology incubator in Los Angeles, has an active $ 6 million fund to expand LA’s startup ecosystem and bring the most talented tech startups and continued long-term job growth to Los Angeles, specifically its Miracle Mile. The company is seeking big data projects to invest an average capital ranging from $ 25,000 to $ 50,000, while providing the startups with strong mentorship, world-class facilities and a team of 25 innovative developers. Be Great Partners works directly with entrepreneurs to develop their project’s full potential.







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imo.im Launches Broadcasts on Android and iOS Mobile Apps

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PALO ALTO, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013

imo.im, the company behind a top messaging network that allows users to communicate across nine of the most popular third-party messaging services, announced today the introduction of Broadcasts on its mobile platforms. The imo Network, first introduced on the web last year and met with positive user feedback, has been redesigned for users on both Android and iOS devices. This update comes on the heels of a recent $ 13 million Series B round led by co-founder and angel investor, Georges Harik, one of Google’s first 10 employees. The funds will be used to rapidly grow the imo Network over the next year.

The new mobile Broadcasts feed, an integral function of the imo Network, creates a channel where users can easily discover people, information, news and topics they care about in an effort to build relationships and spark discussions. Additionally, users now have the ability to upload and share photos directly to the Broadcasts feed. With the Broadcasts feature, users no longer need to search for friends or specific topics as imo ranks content using a proprietary algorithm that identifies users’ interests. It then generates the appropriate connections with like-minded individuals and groups of people based on these interests, location and friends by evaluating behavior and engagement within the imo Network.

“Social discovery is an important feature,” said Ralph Harik, CEO of imo.im. “We want users to find relevant and useful information, people, news and other content that will make their lives better. imo Broadcasts is a platform to achieve that.”

Always focused on innovation and leading the mobile communications industry, the team at imo quickly adapts to new trends and creates its own by churning out constant updates for its apps and web platform based on users’ needs. As a result, imo has been rapidly expanding its services for both web, mobile and tablet users over the past year. In fact, earlier this year, imo launched completely new UI designs for Android, iPhone and iPad users and introduced high-quality voice calling feature that allow friends and family to stay in touch without sacrificing mobile minutes over a 3G/4G connection or allotted data when connected to Wi-Fi. Additionally, all three platforms now include group sharing and real-time uploading of photos.

About imo.im

imo offers an all-in-one communication and social discovery platform with supported networks including AIM, Facebook, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. Free on the web, Android, iPhone and iPad, imo has more than 7 million mobile downloads and 750,000 unique daily visitors delivering an average of 50 million messages per day. imo supports both private and group chat with the ability to share multimedia files and photos with groups, send voice and text IMs, conduct quick chat history searches and hold simultaneous sessions allowing users to seamlessly switch between desktop, mobile and tablet devices without losing conversations.

Based in Palo Alto, CA, imo was co-founded and funded by one of the first 10 employees at Google, Georges Harik.







Angel Investment Network Now Offering Helpful Tips on Bootstrapping Start-ups and Small Businesses Entrepreneurs

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(PRWEB) May 26, 2013

Global leader of investment networks, Angel Investment Network, is now offering practical and helpful tips to assist small businesses and start-ups. These tips outline practical and effective methods to bootstrap the business make it more investable. These tips are especially helpful to start-ups with limited funds and provide guidance on clever methods of bootstrapping that attract the attention of venture capitalists and angel investors.    

As a leading online community for angel investors and start-ups, Angel Investment Network highlights different methods and techniques to bootstrap start-ups and make their companies more attractive to inventors via advice on their websites, news and blog sections. The blog is predominantly focusing on unique, practical, and effective tips to strengthen new businesses all over the world. Apart from offering tips on finding angel investment, the blog is also offering links to different websites that provide more information on specific methods and techniques to help assist entrepreneurs.

The popular community is aimed at start-ups anywhere in the world as they face similar challenges, that of limited funding. Angel Investment Network is highlighting the fact that most start-ups and small businesses do not have adequate funds to fund their companies like their established counterparts. However, with the right methods, angel investors and venture capitalists could take an interest in new companies, provided that they have the passion, vision, focus, resourcefulness as well as dedication to become prosperous in the long term.

Angel Investment Network is encouraging start-ups to perform as much research as possible to maximize chances of success in any venture. For example, the blog is suggesting start-ups to conduct surveys and customer reviews to determine the level of interest generated for a specific product or a service and how much they are likely to pay for it. Approaching industry experts and asking for favors from friends and family are other ways to raise capital for start-ups. Other small yet significant methods to create a buzz about new business ventures include setting up a website, crowd funding, social media and video, such as recording a demonstration video of services of products to feature on the website.

The site is also offering helpful advice on hiring the right core team, developing a solid marketing strategy, networking with peers, and building partnerships with distributors, clients, and third parties were also highlighted by the latest blog featured on the Angel Investment Network website.    

The largest online network of investors and businesses worldwide, Angel Investment Network has a member count of over 350,000 worldwide. With over thirty networks spread in over eighty countries across Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Australasia. Angel Investment Network allows investors from all over the world to work with start-ups and promising businesses on a local, national, and international scale.

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CINTEP Revolutionary Shower Leads the Way for Future Bathroom Designs to Achieve the Level 3 Code for Sustainable Homes

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London, UK (PRWEB) May 27, 2013

New homes in the UK are now being rated and certified according to a national standard for sustainable design and construction. The standard, known as the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH), is measured against nine categories, two of which, energy efficiency and water consumption, have been exceptionally addressed by CINTEP. The Australian-owned and multi-award winning company recently offered up a simple solution for social housing developers and those living in publicly funded housing to meet Code level 3 — a home that is more energy- and water-efficient.

According to CINTEP, when developers and residents incorporate the company’s revolutionary recycling shower system into their bathroom designs, they will be able to deliver and experience 70 percent reduction in water and energy consumption yet zero reduction in flow rate, water temperature, and length of time spent in the shower.

The CINTEP shower system provides nine litres per minute at the showerhead but only uses 2.7 litres per minute in the process. The company also adds that on top of saving water, saving energy is derived by the fact the recirculated water will not require much heating as it is already warm.

The company explains, “The recirculated water is filtered three times and heat pasteurised in less than 25 seconds, and then immediately reused. No water is stored in the shower and no water is ever shared between users. This means we give you a shower that is high on performance, high on efficiency, but low on cost — with no compromises.”

While the UK government reiterates that the CSH is voluntary, not a regulation for private sectors that are considering their options for modern bathroom ideas, and should not be mixed up with the country’s zero carbon policy and zero carbon target by 2016, the code, however, may be enforced in instances when the local councils require developers to be code compliant, and when affordable housing funded by the Homes and Community Agency must meet Code level 3.

Code level 3, incidentally, specifies daily water consumption per person at less than 105 litres. CINTEP aims to help the average shower user consume 20 litres or less of water everyday but, says the Australian owned company, “without compromising on their enjoyment of showering.”

The recycling shower was initially invented in 2004 by Peter Brewin who was an industrial design student at the Royal College of Art in London at the time. Brewin licensed the technology to CINTEP, which further developed the revolutionary system into what it is today. The company’s website mentions that its patented technology, which is used for both commercial and residential applications, will be available in 2014 and that they are “actively seeking distributors around the world.”

CINTEP CEO Nick Christy, who co-founded the company with Brewin, weighs in on the recycling shower, indicating that using their shower is much like having power showers while still reining in energy costs and achieving Code level 3 compliance.

“Whether you’re renovating your bathroom, adding a new bathroom, or building a new house, the water recycling shower will work for you. It can be used with shower trays, over a bath, or in wetrooms, in single or multi-storey homes,” CINTEP shares.

CINTEP, with its corporate offices in the UK and Australia, designs and makes the most efficient shower systems in the world. The company has been cited numerous times by leading organisations for its innovation in the field of sustainable design, among them the prestigious James Dyson Award for the design and prototype of the recycling shower, the 2011 Green Challenge award for best business plan to reduce CO2 emissions, the British Standards Institution Environmental Design Award, and most recently, the Australian Association of Angel Investors (AAAI) as showcase winner among emerging companies.

For more details and further queries about CINTEP’s revolutionary shower system, go to the company’s website today.







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Report: Important Online Business Tips Now Actively Shared in Chatwings Newest Chatroom Tool

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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 28, 2013

Business tips are now circulating swiftly in the newest version of the Chatwing chat app. These business tips, influenced by experience of dozens of entrepreneurs, have various natures depending on certain niches. Chatwing’s developers are also starting important business talks so that tips can circulate even more. The Chatwing tool can even help business tip seekers communicate with larger groups of people.

Common business tips shared in the Chatwing chatbox are usually about the acquisition of capital in every step possible. Discussions about angel investors are also common and everyone shares the advantages and disadvantages of borrowing money. Chatwing’s newest feature—the chat network system—helps business owners in finding more leads. The chat network system easily connects user chatrooms in a single niche; this makes communication easier, and business tips will appear easily.

Chatwing also has social media integration for extended connectivity. Visitors of the chatroom can log in with Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo accounts. With this, the chatroom admin can send out invitations to these visitors. Now, the admin has the opportunity to expand his networks by a high percentage. Now that the Chatwing chat software platform is improved, the social media function is faster and more efficient.

Through the Chatwing website chat tool, everyone can get the business tips they truly deserve. These tips will change every now and then and users can add more information as often as possible. Chatwing’s developers will always ensure that the chatbox won’t have technical glitches and troubles that can impede any communication process.

About Chatwing.com

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