Carbonetworks - Michael Meehan
- Provides companies a platform for managing their carbon footprint and strategy.
- Incorporated in 2005. 300 corporate subscribers to date, growing at 2-3 per day.
- 3D views of real places online. You can walk around outside, walk in to shops, zoom around.
- Source of product information to find healthy, safe products.
- Are there carcinogens in products?
- Web-based and also launched an iPhone client. Also available by SMS message.
- VC concerns: start-up or public service? content-generation cost? velocity of new products developed is quite high.
- Platform for online predictions by users.
- Revenue model: sponsored questions by marketers. $1/question.
- 1M predictions with 200K questions since its launch one year ago.
- Streaming live video from cell phone to the web.
- Use cases: sharing video with friends, bloggers, Ashton Kutcher, travel diaries, media companies for live news.
- Works with any J2ME phone.
- Platform that supports multiple back-ends: facebook, twitter, itunes, blogger, tumblr, youtube.
- Will be embedded in Nokia 5800.
- VC concerns: monetizing video,
- VC's liked: IP, differentiation,
- Sells solar panels on-line.
- Online quote for solar panel installation.
- Web site has a video-based
- On target to meet $2.5M first-year revenue goal.
- For each presentations, there were very widely varied reactions/feedback by the different VC's.
- The passion of the entrepreneur during the presentation does have an impact.
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