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The Deal LLC New York, NY | |
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The Deal's Pipeline content includes both buy-side and sell-side information with broad coverage of coveted middle market
deals and private companies. The Deal Pipeline calls itself a platform not a product or service and that's really what it is.
A clean and well designed page delivers quickly customized views of the deal economy. Controlled by either parametric search
or through alerts crafted by the individual user, Pipeline delivers what's relevant just to you.
www.thedeal.com MofE Profile Kevin Worth, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Evaluate - Reference & Intelligence Business Model: Subscription Content Model: Original Compilation - Primary Research, Manual; Aggregation - Indexed Distribution Model: Direct Sales - Captive | ||
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Capterra Inc. Arlington, VA | |
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The business of Capterra is simple: it's an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers
of business software. What distinguishes Capterra is its scrupulous attention to detail to
optimize the time-consuming task of product discovery and sourcing through top quality data,
an outstanding user interface and an innovative approach to user reviews.
www.capterra.com MofE Profile Mike Ortner, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Locate - Buying Guide Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorships - Free Listings with Paid Enhancements Content Model: Original Compilation - Primary Research, Manual Distribution Model: Direct Sales - Captive | ||
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Bizo Inc. San Francisco, CA | |
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Bizo is a data-enhanced B2B ad network that targets advertising based entirely on
bizographics: a person's company size, industry, gender, education level, location and
more. Bizo's business is using data - massive amounts of anonymous data - to
improve the quality and value of advertising impressions.
www.bizo.com MofE Profile Russell Glass, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Buy/Sell - Opportunity Finder Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorships - Advertising (tbd) Content Model: Original Compilation - Primary Research, Harvested Distribution Model: Direct Sales - Captive | ||
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OurParents.com Reston, VA | |
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OurParents.com provides a free "match.com"-like service for connecting families seeking elder care and care providers. Detailed
reports of providers in their database are available for free and special search and screening tools are available to help care
seekers find and compare providers that meet their needs. Unlike most available placement services in the elder care segment,
there is no fee for care providers to be listed in the database.
www.ourparents.com MofE Profile John McKinley, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Locate - Buying Guides Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorships (tbd) Content Model: Aggregation - Public Domain; Aggregation - Licensed; User-Generated - Closed Data Pools Distribution Model: Direct Response - Web-Based | ||
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Panjiva Inc. New York, NY | |
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Panjiva has constructed an innovative and sophisticated data product designed to help companies discover, evaluate and monitor
offshore vendors. Then they layer on third-party data to make the resulting product even more useful as a powerful tool for supply
chain management. www.panjiva.com MofE Profile Josh Green, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Locate - Buying Guides Business Model: Subscription - Subscription Content Model: Aggregated - Public Domain Distribution Model: Direct Sales - Captive | ||
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NetProspex Inc. Waltham, MA | |
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NetProspex offers an accurate and verified directory of over 7 million business contacts from about 600,000 US and Canadian
companies. Credits can be earned for submitting new information or users can pay directly to download data.
www.netprospex.com MofE Profile Gary Halliwell, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Buy/Sell - Networking Business Model: Subscription - By-the-Slice / Subscription - Subscription Content Model: User Generated - Closed Data Pools Distribution Model: Direct Sales - Captive / Direct Response | ||
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GoodGuide San Francisco, CA | |
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GoodGuide has developed the world's largest database of information on the health,
environmental, and social impacts of products used in the home and the companies
that make them. Then they put this data together with an easy to use interface and a
proprietary rating system.
www.goodguide.com MofE Profile Dara O'Rourke, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Locate - Central Catalog / Evaluate - Performance Ratings Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorships - Piece of the Action / Subscription - Subscription Content Model: Original Compilation - Primary Research: Manual Distribution Model: Direct Response - Direct Response | ||
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Unigo LLC New York, NY | |
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There is no shortage of both online and print college admissions guides, and with colleges
willing to pay handsomely to attract qualified candidates, the competition in this space is
fierce. Most of these guides are data]driven and offer parametric search, and most share
another characteristic: they are deadly dull recitations of facts about schools. Enter Unigo, which has consciously
positioned itself as a counterweight to this traditional model for college guides.
www.unigo.com MofE Profile Jordan Goldman, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Locate - Buying Guide Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorships - Advertising Content Model: User-Generated - Community Distribution Model: Direct Response - Web-Based | ||
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Boardroom Insiders, Inc. San Francisco, CA | |
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Boardroom Insiders represents an ambitious effort to use public source data to build deep and
insightful profiles of C-level executives at major companies nationwide. In terms of the depth of
its data and its hand-tooled creation, you might think of a "Hoover's for executives." In
terms of its deep mining of the web for background information, you might think of ZoomInfo,
but with researchers, not machines, building the profiles. In many respects, it reminds us of a
database of journalist profiles called NewsBios, but targeted at C-level executives, a much larger
and more lucrative market.
www.boardroominsiders.com MofE Profile Sharon Gillenwater, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Evaluate - Reference & Intelligence Business Model: Subscription - Subscription Content Model: Orginal Compilation - Primary Research (Manual) Distribution Model: Direct Sales -- Direct Sales (Captive) | ||
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Telnic, Limited London, England | |
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The concept behind the .tel domain is both audacious and sublime. The companys primary
service, ".tel," is an Internet Top Level Domain (TLD) that is technically identical to other TLDs
such as ".com" and ".net." It is there that the similarity ends. While other TLDs function to
invisibly guide you to a destination website, the .tel domain is a destination unto itself using
the DNS to store contact information as NAPTR, LOC and TXT records .
www.telnic.org MofE Profile Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO ICG Classification: Applications Models: Organize - Root Dataset Business Model: Advertising & Sponsorship - Paid Participation Content Model: Orginal Compilation - Advertiser-Supplied Distribution Model: Third Party - Channel Sales | ||
Please note that beginning in 2009, ICG has changed the Models of Excellence into a two-step process. Now, we
will publicly announce MofE nominees up until approximately 60 days prior to the date of the Data Content
conference that year. At that time, a maximum of eight MofE winners will be selected from among the pool of
finalists. Once announced, listings on this page will be updated to clearly identify the 2009 winners.