Tony Hsieh

Delivering Happiness #VegasTech #DTLV

Post date: Aug 19, 2014 4:47:38 PM

Technology

VEGAS TECH

SUMMARY

Moveline lets people take a video of their stuff and get guaranteed quotes from top moving companies. We make it easy for couples, families, employees and people preparing for a move to quickly gather the information they need to save money, prevent headaches and make smarter moving decisions.

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

Ministry of Supply is out to make the most comfortable high-performance business wear ever, using a blend of technology and style. Ministry of Supply creates business apparel that you’d actually want to wear, that feels great, always looks good, and is inspired by athletic gear.

Learn more at: ministryofsupply.com

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/

Surf Air is an all-you-can-fly private air travel membership that provides business and leisure travelers with exclusive, hassle-free air travel, saving valuable time and money. The company provides first-class service on executive aircraft to and from convenient local airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles metro area, with extended service to additional locations to follow. Operating out of local mid-sized airports, Surf Air offers an affordable and sophisticated travel experience for frequent regional travelers.

Learn more at: surfair.com

Combat Gent is a place that equips men with the attire they need to get the job done. Unlike other men’s fashion sites that don’t know fashion or understand the needs of their customers, Combat Gent’s founders identify with the highly-motivated, adventurous and urban gentleman that wants to look his best without having to sacrifice his lifestyle to afford it. Bringing knowledge of the fashion world to the online shopping industry, Combat Gent marries runway-acceptable style with practicality that every Combat Gent needs.

Learn more at: combatgent.com

clippPR makes it simple to bookmark, clip, and tag your press. We track the engagement and conversation: tweets, likes, shares, diggs, stumbles, trackbacks, comments etc. We show you how active the conversation is over time in a TopHits/BestSeller type chart, and alert you of major changes, making it easy to re-engage in the public conversation.

CrowdHall is a venue for crowd-sourced conversations with your favorite people & organizations.

Whether it’s a Q&A between a celebrity & fans or a politician sourcing ideas from constituents, CrowdHall prioritizes the crowd’s questions & ideas, letting the host of the conversation respond in a simple and social way.

Learn more at: crowdhall.com

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

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

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/

We are modern-day female Robin Hoods, raiding men’s closets and dispensing the styles we love through a single destination. From wingtips and blazers to exclusive content and inspiration, Wildfang aims to bring out the best in you by serving both your tomboy fashion sense and your tomboy spirit, 24/7/365. Because, while it’s true that fashions change with the seasons, badass incidentally never goes out of style.

Check us out at www.wildfang.com

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

DoneThis 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

Zirtual provides dedicated, U.S. based virtual assistants for busy professionals and entrepreneurs.

Learn more at: zirtual.com

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

Every company’s most important asset is its people. Teamly builds

software to maximize the potential of individuals and teams by

enhancing the enterprise social network used in the company with

specific applications for task, goal, and performance management.

Previously an accelerator company at 500 Startups, Teamly moved to

Downtown Las Vegas from Silicon Valley in January 2013.

Learn more here: teamly.com

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

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

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

A social platform for sports teams and players, that is capturing the attention of this 2.3 billion strong, massively valuable, audience.

- Where every player has an online profile integrated with Facebook;

- Every team and league can reach its players in one place;

- Every Sports Game also has a home online;

- and, Where sports photos are no longer stuck in email threads.

Learn more at: bluefields.com

wedgies.com is a frictionless social polling service to collect and gather real-time feedback.

Learn more at: http://wedgies.com/

Rolltech is the future of bowling. Our innovative, patent-pending technology allows bowlers to automatically track scores and statistics in real time, share their bowling experience with friends, and compete globally without leaving their favorite bowling center. Rolltech users can also earn points and reward for their skills on the lanes and redeem customized offers at the center in real time. This infusion of technology will bring bowling to new heights and give the worlds’ 100 million + bowlers a new way to enjoy their favorite game.

Learn more at: www.rolltechbowling.com

The SPIRIT project is a social innovation venture focused on developing technology applications that will better facilitate the needs of youths and families in our local communities. By providing a unified framework for greater communication, collaboration and accountability; the SPIRIT system will overcome many of the most serious and prevalent challenges that currently exist. SPIRIT technology uses evidence-based methodologies to streamline the delivery and evaluation of prevention and intervention strategies to at-risk youth and families, resulting in significant cost-savings to local governments.

Learn more at: http://spiritproject.org/

Ticket Cake is a ticketing website aimed at helping event organizers sell more tickets and providing customers with a rewarding and enjoyable experience.

Check them out: www.ticketcake.com

Fandeavor is dedicated to offering a wide range of “money can’t buy” experiences to everything from college sporting events to music festivals. Fandeavor provides inside access that’s never before been available to enthusiastic fans everywhere.

Check them out: www.fandeavor.com

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.

Not Safe For Work Corporation has a modest goal: to save publishing. Initially this means producing insanely readable magazines and ebooks for ereaders, tablets and mobile.

Check them out: http://www.nsfwcorp.com/

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/

Local Motion builds small electric vehicles made for local mobility. Safe and legal on city streets, it gets you to all the places you want to go nearby. The vehicle is nimble, efficient and fun.

They have built the most social vehicle ever. It’s designed for people to get in and out as quickly as possible and connect you to your surrounding environment. The vehicle is made to be owned by places, not people. Keyless access with RFID lets you use your existing company badge or ID to start it. And the online and mobile booking platform integrates with existing social networks and online calendars, to make sure we know your needs in advance to better serve them.

It actually acts as a sensor in its local environment. It can diagnose itself and send its data in real-time, feel how many people are onboard and who they are, and know what’s happening around itself. It can even communicate with direct bystanders. Why? To make sure every mile driven in the vehicle is as efficient as possible, every ride leaves with as many people on board as possible, and each day is filled with as many trips as possible.

Check them out: http://www.getlocalmotion.com/

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/