“It seems to me that interesting times are coming. There have never been so many opportunities to do something that previously seemed just incredible. Now is the best time to open a new business, to move science forward, not to lose contact with friends and relatives ... ” So said more than a decade ago, the founder of a great corporation, the system of which is still used by most users. Very interesting phrase that is applicable at almost any time.

But now, and really, there are enough opportunities to develop their projects in the field of Internet technologies, the environment allows it. As part of the
Web Ready contest, we have collected such projects, and now we are ready to share the shortlist in the nomination “The
best project at the seed stage ”. A total of 211 applications were submitted for this nomination.
The expert council selected the 24 best projects that were submitted to the jury, and yesterday they determined the composition of the finalists. Who are these projects that can be called the best business ideas of Runet?
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Ariadn - SaaS personal recommendationsLeader: Mikhail FedorovAriadn is a new technological step in the field of recommendation services and collaborative data filtering. Ariadn is based on a set of recommender algorithms that adapt to the user's individual preferences. A distinctive feature of the algorithm is the speed of its work, which allows you to process the data of millions and tens of millions of users. From the very beginning of its development, Ariadn focuses on serving users of social networks, media portals, search services, etc.
BabbleLABELLeader: Andrey VerbinMobile application that allows you to attach any multimedia content to any barcode.
SMaileX.comLeader: Elena ElnovaSmaileX.com is an online service that, for the first time in the entire express delivery industry (reaching $ 211 billion), allows you to: determine the weight and size by eye using visual associations and / or standard packages; determine the weight and size of the content (for example, two iPhone phones); do not worry about postal codes; to find out and compare the prices of various carriers (DHL, FedEX, UPS, TNT) before placing an order, choose a carrier by the parameters price-time-rating.
Last year, it was almost all projects in the field of social networks, this year pleases a large variety of different types from cloud platforms to analyzers, aggregators and rather creative services such as
socks to order .
On December 2, during the
Web Ready final, the winners will be finally determined by a jury composed of Alexander Andreev (SoftJoys), Sergey Belousov (Parallels), Alexander Galitsky (Almaz Capital Partners), Alexander Egorov (Reksoft), Igor Kaloshin (Intel), Nikolai Mityushin (ABRT), Felix Muchnik (Softkey), Andrey Rogozov (VKontakte.ru,), Pavel Cherkashin (Microsoft) and many others.
By the way, if you have your own startup, then you can visit the final of the competition in St. Petersburg to talk with venture investors and business angels in a specially organized space. So, we are waiting for a visit!
And successful Internet projects.