Digest Wanted.VC # 11

While Glavstart is hard at work preparing for the Venture Discounter session and September's Startup Weekend, Wanted.VC continues to tell you about startups who know what they want and in what quantities.
In order to become full-fledged projects, they need not only investments, but also your invaluable comments. They, by the way, can be left in the comments.



Apparently, reassured by the assurances of reputable private detective Stephen Rambam ( “No Private Life, Humble” ), everyone desperately rushed to check in. In a cafe, in a cinema, on a visit - the scale is unimportant, the reason is important. MapMaps decided to turn the principle inside out: the site does not offer a check-in after the fact, but a poster of the event that will only occur, regardless of whether it is the piano concert of Vladimir Putin or the sushi party at the home of Vasi Pupkin, the first guy in the area.

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The Trade & Chat project was conceived as a large-scale solution to the “customer-executive” communication problem. The authors decided to follow the simplest way: to transfer the communication of the first and second to the Internet messenger.
All that is required of them is to install the program, indicate the applications of interest and remain online. The service works on the principle of sending applications to all users who subscribe to them (taking into account interests and territorial requirements, receiving answers on the application and establishing online correspondence with them). +++


All convenient online stores are equally comfortable, all inconvenient online stores are inconvenient in their own way. RedHelper is designed to help both.
The system allows you to communicate with visitors directly during online shopping and give them advice on the nuances associated with the purchase. According to the authors of the service, this increases the conversion of visitors to buyers by 15-40%. +++

Probably everyone who is reading this text now knows what Bonk is. Bonk is the author of an English textbook, through which, probably, 90% of those who learned English in the 90s passed through Russia.
Speech, vocabulary, grammar, spelling and subtleties of language - this is what the study of language is primarily associated with the traditional method, “according to Bonku” (by the way, Bonk is a woman, Natalia Bonk). The authors of the project Smart-Bay.ru believe that this is far from the only method of learning a language. And not the most productive. +++

“If you purchased a marketing report in paper form or as a pdf-file, then you are familiar with desires like“ it would be good to see the data in this section ”or“ I heard something about this company, you need to search the Internet . ” The problem is that the analyst most likely owned this information and many other facts, and he would gladly put them into the report, but the report size is limited, ”Sergei Kovalyov, author of the MadaX project, shares his feelings.
“Our SaaS platform is designed, on the one hand, to make searching and consuming information from reports more convenient for the client, on the other - to expand the capabilities for the analyst on“ data packaging ”into a report.” +++

Appiny's creators share their bitter experience: “In March 2011, we launched a search engine for coupons for the Al Kupone discount, but after working for 3 months we realized that we were tired of offline discounts for blondes ...”
For blondes: coupon services is the place where, by paying a coupon (say, 100 rubles worth), you get a proposed service or product at a discount (say, 50%). At Wanted.VC, such projects appeared with an impressive regularity ( one , two , three , four ), so for those who are especially interested, it will be easy to get a complete picture of such services.
Appiny authors understood everything correctly. Therefore, if the service was made for blondes, then at least from the fascinating geekchick category. +++

The main idea of ​​the “Logistics Department” is contained in its brief description (see project profile): it is SaaS for planning delivery routes to customers and monitoring transport in real time.
According to the creators of the project, "at the time of writing the business plan in Russia there are no such services." Accordingly, the main competitors of the “Department ...” are its offline counterparts. +++



For a site where users can win prizes, BezzRiska is named too tricky.
This, of course, not without purpose: the name has a second bottom. According to the first value, a user who is eager to get something from the catalog of prizes runs no risk (that is, absolutely nothing). The second value is for advertisers: by providing their products for the site’s raffle, they don’t risk to lose out on a large-scale advertising campaign, but gradually invest in a small but guaranteed target audience. +++

“Over the past 6 years, I changed 7 countries of residence and noticed that in each country Russians are drawn to each other. In each country, as a rule, there are 2-3 forums for Russians, where some systematic, sorted communication takes place.
However, in no country is there a simple easy way to make new friends in a new place. So I thought - and it would be interesting to just go somewhere and chat with random Russians - to discuss today's events in Paris or Stockholm, for example.
Despite travel experience and fluent English, I am sometimes curious to hear the opinion of a compatriot. Therefore, I am registered in more than ten different forums for expatriates. ”
In order to somehow indulge his unquenchable need for communication with two-dimensional compatriots, Denis Mysenko, who owns the quote, came up with RadarSpeak . +++


The audience of the mobiRef service are adherents of online games who buy their artifacts more often than clothes for real life.
The essence of the project is to facilitate the already difficult life of gamers, turning the SMS-payment of artifacts from the tedious exchange of codes into the most simplified mechanism, reminiscent of online shopping.
Such services already exist, but are created only for smartphones (iPhone, Android, Windows), while mobiRef can also work on regular cell phones (of which there are still twice as many as smartphones). +++