City Scrapbook - Video!
Want to know what’s going on in your city without making it your full time job to follow every social media network?
Being socially connected feels great, but it’s work. You live in the real world.
City Scrapbook makes your time being socially connected payoff.
What neighborhood should I live in? Are there mom’s groups? How is parking..really? Good restaurants in the neighborhood? Where are the farmer’s markets? Who’s having wine tastings? Are there any upcoming startup events? Where are the hidden gardens? RVA Bucketlist?
Your work ignoring your peers while on your mobile device is finally paying off.
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CompanyBright, Inc. - Video!
Businesses have a hard time finding trained employees. Even the most qualified people need ongoing instruction in changing technology. Each year businesses spend over $100 billion on employee training. Most of this training is expensive, inconvenient and ineffective. CompanyBright will change that by allowing the best trainers to make their material available online to businesses of all sizes. Managers can assign courses to associates on a wide variety of subjects and then track and record their progress. Training increases productivity, ensures consistent quality, and contributes to employee development. CompanyBright will bring those benefits to a whole new class of businesses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBRKcQn9hw Check out this video from CompanyBright Inc. Executive Summary for CompanyBright Inc.
Dozer - Video!
BHVA Ventures is proud to bring our first product, Dozer, to the marketplace late summer 2012. As new parents, we found the one thing we continuously wanted more of was time. Dozer does just that. Instead of constantly rocking baby in his/her car seat to keep baby asleep, calm, or simply quieter - let Dozer do the work for you. Dozer , a lightweight portable device, rocks baby so you have time to do other things. Wash the dishes. Do the laundry. Do nothing and rest! Every minute counts when you're a new mom or dad. Let Dozer give you more time! Dozer will be available online for pre-sales in the coming weeks. Read more here: www.facebook.com/dozerrocker Executive Summary for Dozer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5BsCD90Jk Check out this video from Dozer
InLieu - Video!
Each year in the US alone, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on gifts for birthdays, holidays, weddings, and all other important life events. InLieu provides a unique and socially conscious alternative to gift giving. We transform the process of gift giving by providing a platform for people to direct monetary gifts to causes in need of support. Executive Summary for inLieu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5mCaFvVqME Check out this video from inLieu
Little House Green Grocery
Little House Green Grocery is a new kind of neighborhood corner store showcasing the best foods this rich agricultural and artisan area has to offer. Located in the Bellevue neighborhood on Richmond's north side, this grocery is a response to community demand for a fresh food source as well as an additional outlet for local farmers and producers. Owners Jessica and Erin have spent years working on food policy, artisan food production, and cultivating relationships with local vendors. Little House will keep the price of goods competitive by utilizing additional revenue streams (prepared foods, subscription services, and kitchen rental) and will offer a community focus through events and classes. Ultimately, this small model can be made adaptable to other Richmond neighborhoods in need of access to healthy food. Marketing will be through short cooking videos published online, through the store blog and community social media outlets as well as through vendor contacts.
Executive Summary for Little House Green Grocery
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New Way Fitness LLC
It is well documented that physical inactivity continues to threaten the future well being of millions of children and their families. Few will argue that the best solutions come when schools and parents effectively work together. At NewWayFitness, we've combined our experience and passion for living a healthy, active lifestyle with our understanding of how to combine best practices education, enterprise scale custom designed software, and new Wi Fi RFID and accelerometer technology to form a school - parent partnership that cost effectively achieves real results by motivating, tracking, and rewarding the physical activity levels of students at school and beyond! Executive Summary for New Way Fitness LLC
Richmond Young Writers - Video!
Richmond Young Writers is ready for a permanent home! Our programs introduce young people to the joy of creative writing through workshops taught by professional writers in the community. For the last three years, all after-school programs and summer sessions have been hosted by the ever-generous Chop Suey Books, but as the support and need for our services expand, we find ourselves in need of our own central nook where the wild creativity can keep growing. The vision for our permanent space builds upon our current offerings, including writing samplers, genre-specific workshops, free programs, and a quirky spin on community engagement (think staring contest fundraisers and local biz ping pong battles).
Like San Francisco’s 826 Valencia (http://826valencia.org/), Richmond Young Writers focuses on helping kids develop a dynamic, powerful relationship with words. We reach students ages 8-17 via school systems and community events like our annual write-your-heart-out marathon, and our programs have served hundreds of kids from Richmond, Henrico, Glen Allen, Chesterfield, Midlothian, Montpelier, Powhatan, Moseley, Mechanicsville, Afton, Rockville and Gloucester. We also raise money to provide scholarships so that any and all students can participate.
A permanent space will provide the much-needed platform for Richmond Young Writers to bloom into a full-force writing adventure for kids in central Virginia.
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SEElogix, LLC
SEElogix helps people "maintain their home in the cloud!" Each homeowner subscribing to SEElogix has a unique and secure website where they can develop a profile of their home, get maintenance reminders, purchase maintenance products, build a service team, store electronic documents, and measure their environmental stewardship. Everything they need to make home ownership a little simpler and help protect their most valuable asset, their home.
Shockoe Denim
Shockoe Denim is a premium denim manufacturer located in Richmond’s Shockoe District. Our jeans are designed, cut, and sewn by local tailors in our 15th Street manufacturing workshop, using denim from Cone Mills in North Carolina. A glass wall separates the manufacturing portion from the showroom allowing every Client to see the process of creating his/her jean. Each piece is unique, numbered, and initialed by the artisans. The Client will be able to select ready-to-wear jeans or create a custom jean by choosing his/her own denim, wash, thread, buttons, and accessories. Shockoe Denim will open its doors in summer 2012. Executive Summary for Shockoe Denim
Smart Projex, Inc.
Smart Projex is a flexible, user-friendly web application which helps managers and teams plan, execute and administer projects more efficiently – and with less frustration -- than the existing Gantt and Agile-oriented programs. Its unique features include pop-up help screens and process guides (which direct the novice user), as well as activity breakdowns (which display key metrics graphically). Small businesses, professional firms and non-profits will reduce costs and improve communications when they use the program to manage both large and small projects. A website, complete with interactive free trial, goes live in mid-May to test the project before marketing planning begins. Smart Projex has now launched at www.smartprojex.com. There is a demo on the Features page and you can check it out without any commitment.
The ARTisan Cafe: A Taste of Richmond for Locals and Tourists - Video!
Based on a successful special events model, The ARTisan Café will operate as a year-round indoor retail market in downtown Richmond for underrepresented and undercapitalized entrepreneurs. Featuring a curated selection of art, jewelry, clothing, home decor, wine, food, and live music, the Café will leverage an innovative social franchising structure allowing it to scale to other markets while creating local jobs. This model will ensure franchising fees benefit the RVA economy through regional strategic partnerships. This much needed, culturally rich, and affordable work-sell space for artisans will launch the next creative center of small business commerce in Richmond. Executive Summary for The ARTisan Cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxS2sdujH7g Check out this video from The ARTisan Cafe
Wag-in-a-Box
Soon dogs will love mailmen, local pet-store proprietors will find a friend in the Internet, and busy dog parents will have one online destination for sampling pet products, learning whether Fido can eat ____, and donating to dog-related charities. Wag-in-a-Box is a socially driven, content-meets-ecommerce site for dogs and the humans who love them. Every month subscribers receive a box of treats and toys for their dogs, plus discounts on items that can be purchased on the site or at partnering local pet stores. We combine the sound subscription ecommerce model with the $52B pet industry to motivate tail wagging all over the world. For more information, go to www.waginabox.com.
Runners-Up
Citizen
The Richmond Central Business District restaurant that offers a different lunchtime dining experience with emphasis on fresh, healthy and innovative cuisine at a reasonable price. We strive to purchase our products from local purveyors and producers and support community sponsored agriculture. As a bare bones beginning we have had to build slowly. Sometimes things are really hectic and we have to develop solutions on the fly. We hope our continued success will give us the opportunity to realize the potential this business is capable of. So far we have been very successful with our word of mouth campaign. It has been simple, people must love your product and they will tell others.
Iberian Inspirations LLC
Iberian Inspirations produces affordable, natural & organic body polishes and butter balms that leave your skin feeling, looking and smelling great. Superior ingredients, with clinically demonstrated benefits are carefully blended to provide noticeable results. All products are free of: sodium laurel sulfates, petrolatum, mineral oil, parabens, phthalates, man made fragrances and artificial colors. Everyone needs safe personal care products that won't cause their body harm. Current marketing channels have been through women's networking organizations where I've secured a few retail stores that are carrying my products. I'm working on securing other retail outlets as well. Executive Summary for Iberian Inspirations
Love RVA
LoveRVA.com is the newest deal website and the only one based here in Richmond, VA. With LivingSocial & Groupon, 50% of all money raised leaves Richmond. Love RVA is local and we're turning the "daily deal model" on it's head... Each week Love RVA offers amazing deals from a local business. We help pair the local business with a local charity so that they can both share in the success of our marketing efforts. The participating business receives a much larger cut of 80% and in turn they share 20% with their local charity they chose. As our company grows, it's easy to see the effect we can have raising money and featuring our amazing local non-profits and businesses. Love RVA is a project of local company Bark Marketing who’s members have served Richmond with video and creative services for over ten years .
New World Sports
My name is Sue Murphy, former D1 college coach at TOP TEN women's lacrosse program University of Richmond and USA coach. I have spent so many years recruiting with scholarship to bring young women into higher education to play at the highest of levels in this great sport. But now...I work with young girls grades 1-12 and HELP THEM to find passion and love for this great sport of lacrosse - and we even placed 10 (yes 10) girls into college!! New World Sports touches even more than just girls lacrosse travel teams, youth programs including clinics and camps. We organize and run the same for boys lacrosse and field hockey. We also educate and successfully operate a recruiting service. Our event business brings hundreds and thousands of outside groups to Richmond as we run Southern Lacrosse Cup (tournament for girls), Firecracker Shootout (tournament for boys) as well as smaller events in the Fall & Spring. Our business plan is special in that we utilize an advisory group of high level coaches with USA and college coaching backgrounds to work with the youth of Richmond, consultants and advisors that have a vested interest in their own children to dictate the direction of this new company. Our consumers are young student-athletes grades 1-12 of which, even in a tough economy, their parents want a positive experience through sport. We offer the 'extras' most groups that service this age do not - college recruiting education, video highlights, free skill videos, networking the local coaches with college coaches and on-site free lessons from top notch coaches! This company is about Richmond families. Trust and loyalty...doing the right thing for each and every young participant we touch. I personally travel to youth, middle schools and high schools in the area and provide onsite free instruction, lesson plans for coaches and recruiting seminars for players & families. We drive traffic to our site by providing FREE high end videos that will allow coaches and players to benefit from our skill sessions. It give them a taste of our caliber and then they want more...clinics, camps, service and travel teams. We have seen our numbers grow so much in less than one year...but more importantly we have seen our local families BELIEVE in our service. Having had one year working under SportsQuest in multiple roles including President of Events (April, 2010-June, 2011) I certainly learned a lot about business, good and bad. My partners that I had once crafted there followed me and now are on board with NWS - Marriott, Downtown Athletics, Under Armour, Chic Fil A, Richmond Visitors Bureau, JBS Sport Event Planning, CJW Sports Medicine, CaptainU and local Monarch Productions. Our outreach is not just our website but through the help of our partners' promotions, national and local publications and our narrowed distribution lists. We fortunately have repeat customers and many that are happy to help us with the best form of marketing - word of mouth because they are so happy with the service. I am very PROUD of what we have accomplished in less than one year to impact so many young people and families here in Richmond (and Cville, Fburg and Wburg). Thank you for your consideration...Sue Murphy
Noisewerk
Noisewerk is a large multi room (20 or more) rehearsal facility with accompanying recording services studio, video production, and live performance space. Noisewerk caters to the troubling lack of rehearsal space currently a problem in Richmond while offering self promotional vehicles of recording, video and performance. The facility offers price tiers for term leases, and space for short term uses. The on location recording studio and video production service function independently, as well as, as a affordable option offered at a small discount to leasers and contributes to the generated income. Low overhead and low build out costs. Operation could start generating income with in 3 months of location purchase through rehearsal space rental-lease. Consumer reach is through the music and arts community, social media, event sponsorship and in house live showcasing. The opportunity is strong to expand and grow into the areas of event hosting, artist development, promotion, broadcast, and marketing. Noisewerk is at its core a company that provides space. Space for music rehearsal, artist studio, photography, and local event functions, video and film shoots, or any endeavor with a space requirement. A time based business for the creative arts and functions.
Producia - Video!
Imagine a College-Based Amazon.com that used student's time and underutilized resources as the currency of its marketplace (called Time Dollars) instead of cash. Producia is the fun, barter-based marketplace with a cause. It's a marketplace, social network, and a startup incubator all-in-one that uses a new strategy called gamification to incentivize passionate production and social good within communities. We help guide our members to give their talents to the community as social entrepreneurs for the goods and services they need and want using the world's first digital barter currency for social entrepreneurs, The Fini. Executive Summary for Producia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZbcjKjJnc Check out this video from Producia
The TLC Kitchen.com - Video!
For many different life events, we are here to help show someone you care by sending them a delicious, homestyle meal prepared in our USDA approved kitchen. Our three online food websites are; www.sympathyfood.com, www.themealstork.com and www.getwellmeal.com. They allow people nationwide to continue the timeless tradition of "bringing over" a meal to someone who is experiencing a loss or an illness or to someone who has just welcomed a new member to the family. All of our 24 different meal packages are chef prepared, flash frozen and shipped nationwide by FedEx in 1-3 days. We are trying to reach our consumer by SEO and establishing affiliate partnerships with funeral homes, hospitals, hospices, baby registries and HR departments. Flowers have always been a "fall back" type gift to let individuals know you were thinking of them during one of these three life events. A lot of people feel like flowers can be a waste sometimes. Food has always been a welcome gift, but distances or schedules sometimes don't allow for preparation or delivery. The TLC Kitchen has bridged that distance and schedule gap! Executive Summary for The TLC Kitchen Check out this video from The TLC Kitchen
Thought™, Inc.
Thought™, Inc. is poised to revolutionize the way we tell stories on the Internet by developing and distributing tools that capture our ideas, our events and our lives in a complete, easy to use, multi media format. Thoughtbooks™, built on our proprietary technology platform, invest user generated content with intelligence that makes the content aware of it’s context, its users, its purpose and its audience. Because Thoughtbooks™ are built on a trust framework, they protect intellectual property, help define identity and ensure appropriate interactions. Executive Summary for Thought, Inc.
ViM: Video in Music
Video In Music (ViM) is a mobile app that will revolutionize the way we experience music. Through a game-like setting, musicians and non-musicians alike will engage in audiovisual creativity. With the touch of a finger, users intuitively build and record visual representations of beats, chords and melodies. These tracks then power the global ViM Hub and connect users through a social network for sharing, collaboration, content upgrades, recording artists’ ViM interaction and more. Whether inspiring first-time composers, offering a new competitive gaming experience or fueling crowd-sourced live concerts, ViM will literally transform how the world views music. Executive Summary for Video in Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Vn5CSMa6E Check out this video from Video in Music For more information, go to www.VideoInMusic.com
Your Chow Hound
It’s 3:00 PM; do you know what's for dinner? Tired of the same old fast food restaurant fare when you're on the go? Get on you tablet, PC or Smartphone and let Your Chow Hound track down better food for you from your local grocer's fresh prepared foods. Order it, pay for it and tell us when you want it - It will be ready when you arrive at the store. You just pick it up, get on your way, and enjoy. Better food when you want it without the hassle. Your Chow Hound will have you enjoying a great meal in no time. Executive Summary for Your Chow Hound
