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COMMUNICATION RESOURCES
simple Team Performance Management
iDone
This makes it easy to track and celebrate the progress that you make at work every day. Reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, get a digest with what everyone on the team got done.It’s that simple. No hassle, no micromanagement. Get stuff done, and celebrate it with your team.
Learn more at: idonethis.com
HachiGet successful introductions
Hachi is revolutionizing the way we connect with new people. It’s the google maps for your connections graph! It helps you get successful introductions for business, social, personal reasons – it searches through your connections spread across social & professional networks, finds the best person to ask for an introduction, and facilitates that introduction.
Learn more at: gohachi.com
RecordSetter
Let's see what humans can do.
RecordSetter is the new home of world records. We believe everyone can be the world’s best at something. Our mission is to raise the bar of human achievement through world records
.Learn more at: recordsetter.com
wedgies
Simple, Social Polling
wedgies.com is a frictionless social polling service to collect and gather real-time feedback.Learn more at: http://wedgies.com/
Event Guide
Event Guide/Map
Banjo
is the fun way to explore what’s happening anywhere in the world right now. We’re real time discovery across social networks.
Explore places, activities and adventures around the world
Connect with people you never knew before
Find something new every time you explore
Banjo takes you beyond your network and live into what is happening anywhere you want to go. Whether you want to visit a specific event or you’re curious to experience someplace new, it’s the next best thing to being there.
Learn more at: ban.jo
Online Global Education, Skill Building, Motivators
Education
LUXr
delivers practical tools to entrepreneurs around the world.
Every company has the ability to build products that customers love. We believe that great products are a result of an unrelenting focus on the end-user experience and effective product development practices and principles.
LUXr was founded in 2010 to make these principles accessible to entrepreneurs worldwide through practical and affordable learning tools. In the early 2000’s, agile transformed software development through a system of inter-related principles and organizational behaviors. We believe that the same is possible for the whole product team. LUXr products are strongly influenced by the work of Lean Startup, Agile and User Experience design.
Learn more at: luxr.co
Digital Royalty
Helping national and international clients grow their brands by bridging the virtual and physical worlds.
Digital Royalty develops digital integration and social media strategies for corporate and entertainment brands, professional athletes, sports teams and leagues. The firm has global reach and pioneers measurable concepts for big personalities. Their newest division, Digital Royalty University (dRU), provides customized education programs including strategic and tactical social media training.
Their newest division, Digital Royalty University (dRU), is a first of its kind learning platform designed to engage and inspire students to embrace social media while helping them increase their influence online to grow their business or create their personal brand. Digital Royalty University uses a blended learning approach, meaning classes are a combination of online videos, videos, in-person training sessions and on-demand training sessions. For every class purchased, Digital Royalty University will donate an hour to a teacher, through its partnership with Teach for America, a national non-profit organization dedicated to sending teachers into low-income communities to close the achievement gap. The first class, 8 Royal Rules Part One, is free. Visit www.digitalroyaltyuniversity.com to participate.
Check them out: http://www.thedigitalroyalty.com/
General Assembly
General Assembly is a global network of campuses for individuals seeking opportunity and education in technology, business, and design.
Our global network of campuses not only brings people together – it takes advantage of a new kind of learning-by-doing. Through our curriculum, entrepreneurs receive a pragmatic and multi-disciplinary education at the intersection of technology, design, and business. By connecting entrepreneurs, expert instructors, and motivated thinkers, we’re cultivating a multi-faceted community of like-minded individuals united by common goals, shared experiences, and the occasional dance party.
Learn more at: http://generalassemb.ly
Skillshare
Skillshare is a community marketplace for classes.
Skillshare is a global marketplace for classes. Learn real-world skills from anyone, anywhere. We power thousands of creative, collaborative classes on everything from programming to design to crafts.
Learn more at: http://skillshare.com/
Gifting and Subscriptions
Gifting and Subscriptions
Quarterly
A subscription service for wonderful things
Quarterly Co. is a subscription service that lets you receive curated packages from people you admire. You can subscribe to people you find interesting and, once every three months, they will send you a package right to your doorstep.
Learn more at: http://quarterly.co/
Umba
Umba is a social commerce platform for handmade goods.
We connect our “Umbassadors” (independent sales representatives) who are passionate about handmade products with talented artists across the world. Umbassadors earn a 20% commission on products that they sell during Trunk Shows that are held in hosts’ homes across the country.
Learn more at: umbabox.com
Mouth
Indie food, tasty gifts.
The first curated online store for local artisanal foods. Food made by people, not factories. The best foods you’ve never heard of.
Learn more and eat more at: mouth.com
Las Vegas Entrepreneur Training and MENTORS
Food, EAT, Drink, MIX, MINGO, Delivery
Order Mapper
Get great pizza - faster.
Order Mapper makes it easy for people to order and pay for virtually any physical good or service from almost any business from a mobile device. The cloud-based platform receives and processes orders from consumers and fulfills the orders to businesses.Their ‘Order Pizza’ app for iPhone is the largest independent pizza directory on mobile.Learn more at: ordermapper.com
Mouth
Indie food, tasty gifts.
The first curated online store for local artisanal foods. Food made by people, not factories. The best foods you’ve never heard of.Learn more and eat more at: mouth.com
Tealet
Curated teas, direct from the groweR
Tealet is an online farmers market for tea. Independent tea growers are connected directly to their retail and wholesale buyers. Tealet serves as a transparent supply chain platform that provides optimized online marketing, international logistics, and low costs payments via cryptocurrency.To learn more, check out: tealet.com
Banjo is the fun way to explore what’s happening anywhere in the world right now. We’re real time discovery across social networks.
- Explore places, activities and adventures around the world
- Connect with people you never knew before
- Find something new every time you explore
Banjo takes you beyond your network and live into what is happening anywhere you want to go. Whether you want to visit a specific event or you’re curious to experience someplace new, it’s the next best thing to being there.
Learn more at: ban.jo
Work In Progress connects people and ideas to spaces and experiences.
We build spaces and experiences that help people connect with each other and discover new ways to build amazing things. Visit them at their flagship location, 317 S. 6th Street, or at the usr/lib Worklounge upstairs at Emergency Arts (520 Fremont Street).
Gamers, Coders and ...
RomotiveRomotive builds simple, affordable, and flexible robotic platforms that interact with humans in meaningful ways.Romotive builds smartphone robots that can be controlled from any smart device anywhere in the world. Because software for the robots is distributed through the app store, users can download new behaviors and personalities for their robots at the click of a button. And, developers can use Romotive’s SDK to build out new apps for their robots and then sell them on the app store.The ultimate goal is to build robots that are intuitive enough for normal people to use and cheap enough for normal people to afford. By creating a simple robotic platform that does a few things well, we can spark a personal robotics revolution.In October 2012 Romotive announced its next round of funding totaling $5 million from Sequoia Capital, Crunchfund, Ron Conway’s SV Angel and others.
Meet Romo here: http://romotive.com/
CheckiO
CheckiO is a game world you can explore by using your programming skills.
CheckiO is the game for coders.For experienced developers, CheckiO is a fun competition and a way to share their knowledge.
zirtual
The Personal and Executive Assistant Service for Busy People
Zirtual provides dedicated, U.S. based virtual assistants for busy professionals and entrepreneur.
Learn more at: zirtual.com
Original
Everyone's an Original.
The way we work has changed radically in the last decade, but the tools we use to represent our work have not kept up. Resumes are outdated, static documents of limited utility. Portfolios are complex to create and niche-oriented.Original is a revolutionary new way to share your work.
Original shows projects and examples, is real-time and highly social, and recognizes that reputation, not affiliation, is now the key driver of a person’s success.
Learn more at: http://be.origin.al
LaunchKey
Evolving User Authentication, Killing Passwords
LaunchKey is a cybersecurity startup focused solely on evolving user authentication by killing passwords with physical authentication through your smartphone.
Learn more at: http://launchkey.co
LaunchBit
An ad network for email.
LaunchBit is an ad network for email. They help advertisers reach their target demographic through niche email newsletters, and help email newsletters monetize. They make it easy to target readers of high-quality email newsletters en masse without doing one-off business development deals.
Check them out: http://www.launchbit.com
QUALIFYORqualifyor is a respectfully irreverent team of humble, would-be disruptors, who dream of a world in which education, employment, and life are not three separate categories.
We are building a roadmap to take people from education to fulfilling careers by working directly with innovative companies to understand their specific labor needs and to develop young talent to match those needs – or as we refer to it, offering them “hire learning TM.
Rumgr is a free iPhone app that connects people through the simple act of buying & selling used goods. It is as easy as taking a picture, and your item is for sale to everyone around you.
Surf Air’s all-you-can-fly membership service will revolutionize the world of air travel—Forbes called us the “future of flying.”
We will bring back the ease and allure of flying that has been lost in endless lines, overburdened systems, and heavy fees. Surf Air members will fly the way you should—saving valuable time, eliminating hassle and always flying first class.
WORLD VIEWWorld View® Enterprises, Inc. is pioneering a new frontier at the edge of space for tourism, research, education and other scientific and commercial pursuits.
The firm is offering an accessible, affordable platform to take passengers into nears space for a human spaceflight experience unlike any other suborbital opportunity being offered today. Propelled by a high-altitude balloon, passengers gently float for hours in the comfort of a space-qualified, luxury capsule, gazing on spectacular views of the planet before gliding back to Earth
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