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TechStreet, a Thomson company Ann Arbor, MI |
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Techstreet has a simple mission, elegantly realized. By centralizing content from hundreds of national and international standards
bodies and adding value in a number of ways, Techstreet has created a centralized standards repository and delivery platform with
strong workflow characteristics. www.techstreet.com MofE Profile Andrew Bank, Director, Business Development | |
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NOZA Inc. Santa Barbara, CA |
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NOZA has built a simple and very powerful database of charitable gift givers, both individuals and organizations, and the size and
nature of their donations. The database now contains a remarkable 25 million donor records dating back to 1994. The database is
used by nonprofit fundraisers and other researchers. www.nozasearch.com MofE Profile Craig Harris, Founder and CEO | |
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Owen Media Partners Inc. Toronto, Canada |
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MacRAE’s Blue Book, the nation’s oldest industry buying guide publication, founded in
1893, was left for dead as a print product in 1999, then re-launched as an online-only
product in 2003 to tremendous success. In addition to this unusual heritage, MacRAE’s
provides a wonderful example that the classic buying guide model can and does work
extremely well online. www.macraesbluebook.com MofE Profile Hugh Owen, CEO | |
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Conducive Technologies Inc. Portland, OR |
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The FlightStats website is a tour de force of powerful and elegant data aggregation, interpretation and presentation. Simply put,
it tells you as much as you’d ever want to know about any specific airport, airline or specific flight, valuable information ranging
from on-time performance statistics to real-time tracking of planes in flight. www.flightstats.com MofE Profile Jeff Kennedy, CEO | |
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PublicRoutes.com New York, NY |
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Currently serving 21 metropolitan areas in the United States as well as London, PublicRoutes.com provides an interface similar to
that found on other mapping sites, but with options to specify mode of transportation: bus, subway, rail, even ferry, or the best
combination of transport modes to get from one point to another. PublicRoutes.com will even provide the best route between two
points for people who -- gasp -- want to walk. www.publicroutes.com MofE Profile Marc Sellouk, CEO | |
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RigData Fort Worth, TX |
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Using an in-house research group, RigData tracks who is drilling what and where along with numerous other details important to the
U.S. drilling industry. It monitors new drilling permits, and conducts regular telephone surveys to identify important activity in
the field. Every business day of the year RigData tracks more than 700 oil companies, 300 drilling contractors and 2,200 drilling
rigs all across the country. www.rigdata.com MofE Profile Ed Seifert, President | |
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A.M. Best Company Oldwick, NJ |
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For researchers and analysts, workflow integration more often than not means a tight integration between a publisher’s database
and Microsoft Excel. Serving a base of financially-savvy analysts, A.M. Best knew it had to do more with its Excel interface
than simply dump data. The result is BestLink for Excel, a user interface that now front-ends A.M. Best’s global insurance and
banking database. www.ambest.com MofE Profile Arthur Snyder, President & CEO | |
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GreatSchools Inc. San Francisco, CA |
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The non-profit venture GreatSchools.net allows parents to learn about and compare any elementary, middle or high schools in the
nation. Data, which are obtained from state education departments and the National Center for Education Statistics, are integrated
and normalized. Users can look at basic school statistics, student and teacher demographics and test results. www.greatschools.net MofE Profile Bill Jackson, Founder, President & CEO | |
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CarFax Centreville, VA |
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CARFAX collects title and registration information on every automobile from the 50 state motor vehicle departments. On top of this
base, it layers information obtained from police departments, insurance, car rental, and automotive warranty companies, along
with dozens of other sources, building a database currently in excess of 2 billion records. www.carfax.com MofE Profile Richard Raines, President | |
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TitleZ Palo Alto, CA |
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TitleZ has a simple and fascinating content model: building a giant database of historical book sales trend data by collecting book
sales rankings from Amazon (with permission). With Amazon driving so many book sales, its book sales rankings are increasingly
used as an indicator of how a book title is doing in the marketplace. There’s only one limitation: Amazon only reports
current rank, so it’s impossible to see a trend over time. Enter TitleZ. www.titlez.com MofE Profile Rhonda Abrams, Founder & CEO | |
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PayScale, Inc. Seattle, WA |
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Comparable, trustworthy and current salary information is hard to obtain, but Payscale has found an innovative approach that is
elegant in its simplicity. Users anonymously contribute information about their jobs and salaries, and in exchange are able to
access and receive an apples to apples match of people just like them. www.payscale.com MofE Profile Michael Metzger, CEO | |
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Oodle, Inc. San Mateo, CA |
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While at first glance Oodle may appear to be just another aggregator of classified advertising, it has actually gone to great
lengths to differentiate itself, with an impressively searchable database and innovative twists on the data it brings together. www.oodle.com MofE Profile Craig Donato, CEO and Founder | |