Business Analysis Made Easy

The UK based Ometria, works for online retailers and business firms to organize data, and perform an analytical study to equip the business with market updates and customer behavior. In the current scenario, the competition in e-commerce field is an all-time high, hence the need for right data-driven marketing to fathom the present selling goods and services, targeted clients and steps to be adopted to make the next order worthy enough stands high. Here comes the strategic intervention of Ometria as a user-friendly support tool focusing on retailers. The platform does not intricate the business analysis by incorporating a multitude of analytic tool, but employ e-commerce intelligence tools and make the market research in an optimized grade.

Ometria supplies an e-commerce analysis platform that facilitates the user’s various functionalities that includes browsing abandonment tools to collect the E-mail addresses of visitors by the retailers. The users can validate marketing mix by analyzing the lifetime value of customers that users get from each source, and get more of the best ones and view detailed information about customers and visitors, across all their devices. It again provides an option to see the specific recommendations for which products to promote to improve overall profitability. The platform also facilitates an on-floor walkthrough online store in real-time to see who is shopping and what they are browsing.

 The company has received a Seed funding of $1.5M  in March 2014 raised by Alastair Mitchell, Andy McLoughlin, Tim Jackson, Phil Wilkinson, Guy Westlake, Sean Cornwell, Ned Cranborne, Shan Drummond. The company said they would utilize the money to expand the span including a plan to establish an office in Moscow and further develop the platform. It’s a fast-growing venture serving a $1 trillion industry whose customers include well-known British Brands like John Smedley and Charlotte Tilbury, and recent press includes The Telegraph.

A Doctor Friendly App

SharePractice is a free social medical reference app for medical practitioners including physicians, nurses and medical students. Never before have healthcare professionals had a social tool to use in their profession. But today an exclusive mobile app, where the clinicians can to browse and search diagnoses, to access preferred ways of treatment by understanding real life experience of fellow practitioners who have shared their experiences over SharePractice. Hence the platform provides a way to contribute the effective treatment for varied illness and rate and comment such posts for future reference of SharePractice users. The platform is serving a referral based treatment experience that altogether enrich treatment quality and knowledge of general practitioners.

 In comparison with all other fields, medical sector demands upright updation, that lacks easy accessibility of  resources and references. There are no easy ways for the medical community to exchange and evaluate ideas and share insights based on experience. People usually call, text, email, use forums and go to conferences, but this data is circumstantial, difficult to gather, and eventually is lost. This makes SharePractice an innovative yet practicable undertaking. SharePractice has launched a free iOS app that allows doctors to publish findings, generate feedback, review conventional therapies, and incorporate new medicines into a collective knowledge base. Until this time, report shows that Share Practices have been used by 5000+ clinical practitioners who belongs to any field of medicine. Besides, sharing experiences and information over SharePractice is a fine platform clinicians earn reputation within medical field.

 The genuinity of posts and links in the app are beyond the question for the content is created by licensed healthcare professionals. One can always find the author of any treatment and the community regularly evaluates content by rating and commenting on treatments. As well, the company has partnered with Doximity to verify licensed medical status.

 The company raised  around $2.8M funding rounds for several times and presently the $1.3M raised from seed funding in March 2014 to be utilized to further expand the team and to boost up the growth in core field . The investors to SharePractice includes FF Angel LLC, Base Ventures, Better Ventures, Erik Moore, Kirill Makharinsky, Mike Pearson, FF Angel LLC, Scrum Ventures, China Rock Capital.

A Marketplace for Tech Talents

Hired, earlier DeveloperAuction raised $15 M in Series A funding rounds led by Crosslink and Sierra Ventures with participation from SoftTech and Sherpa Ventures. The company founded in May 2012 has previously raised $2.7 million in seed funding from SoftTech, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Haystack. CEO Matt Mickiewicz says the new funds will be used to build the Hired team and expand geographically, with launches set for Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle this year.

hired in red textHired is basically a two-sided market place to meet the requirement of high-quality technology talent in business ventures and a multitude of work fields together with the best job opportunities. Out of 5000 participants, the site intakes an average of 230 new participants and connect them with 700+ leading companies, including mainstream companies such as OpenTable, Palantir, ClearSlide, Mixpanel, Klout, Lookout, and Twitter as well as leading early-stage startups. The company currently provides a platform to hire developers, UX/UI designers, product managers and data scientists in the Bay Area, NYC, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, LA and Seattle.

Hired as a transparent and unbiased recruitment platform with offers appears sound for engineers, but with a future aim of broadening its span that welcomes professionals from all walks of life. As the team found that the name Developer Auction would shrink its span as it implies only engineers, the name was changed to Hired.

Hired is trying to reverse the way that in-house recruiters attract talented engineers. The top developers are listed for a period of time. During that time companies can bid on potential employees, letting them know upfront what they would be willing to pay a developer to join their team, including perks and signing bonuses, all before the two sit down for an interview.  If they’re interested, the engineers can follow up for interviews and go through the normal hiring process. If a professional followed Hired and secured a job with a company, the employer pays Hired 15 percent of their base salary. That fee ends up being a little bit less than what a standard recruiting agency might charge at 20 to 25 percent. Creating a profile in a site is free, but only the top 150 developers would be appeared in the auction list, hence more competitive and the high breeds get hired first. The platform assures the genuinity, as this controls by regular monitoring which candidates to prevent the awkward situation where a current employer sees one of their engineers. Furthermore, Hired help the professional’s support with personal advocacy from the sign-in day to offer signing day.

A sports blog in unison

SportsBlog.com headquartered at Nashville, the US is a dedicated blogging site for sports fans, sports professionals and leading sports media personnel. It was founded in late 2011 and initially the site aimed at athletes and public who inclined to the same. Later as more audience pay attention to the site, the more site paid attention to heterogeneous observers. The exclusive blogging partnership with WNBPA(Women’s National Basketball Players Association), National Basketball Retired Players Association, NFL(National Football League) Player Engagement department drew a large community of basketball and football fans towards SportsBlog.com. In recent times, the viewers to the site are all combined with professional players, sportsmen, and spectators including expert fans, sports journalists and talk show hosts. All members are provided with their own Sports Blog with customizable sports themes and features.

 The company had received $750k in Series A funding in November 2013 besides the Series A funding received on March 2014 from Sports & Entertainment Advisory Group (SEAG). The company has adopted a niche marketing strategy in the early stages of development which was further broadened to a large circle. Today, it is an amalgam of all those sportspeople that speaks well about various sports and games and related information.

 As SportsBlog.com is a professionally designed blog, its look and feel could attract a major sector, especially the skilled persons in the sports field. Furthermore, there is an option to create a custom SportsBlog mobile app which would enhance the participation of bloggers round the clock with ease.

 Moving on, the site also sites rewards bloggers with the monthly ranking competition. It provides monthly cash and material prizes to top bloggers fulfilling specific criteria. Those constraints include the genuinity of the post, its freshness, within the first half of month also with genuinity of visitors(fraudulent visitors and robotic interventions are checked), their uniqueness- all help to keep the site live and content rich-that attracts the professional audience to site.