SacStarts - Startup

VetAnyware

atwong — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:41:44 +0000

URL:

http://vetanyware.com

Phone:

949-689-6412

Founded:

2009

Employees:

VetAnyware is a Veterinary Business Software Solutions company. Our main goal is to enable veterinarians the ability to better manage their practice and provide better service through business software. Our first offering is commercial services and support around OpenVPMS, an open source veterinary practice management software providing electronic health records, customer relationship management, appointment scheduling management and pharmaceutical inventory management to veterinary clinics and hospitals (see more at http://vetanyware.com/products/openvpms).

People:

Albert T. Wong, Founder

Location

5107 Glide Drive

Davis, CA, 95618

See map: Google Maps

WorkHabit

Adam Kalsey — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:01:31 +0000

URL:

http://workhabit.com

Phone:

866-WorkHabit

Feed URL:

http://www.workhabit.com/rss.xml

Founded:

2007

Employees:

WorkHabit builds social software. Working with Drupal, Jive ClearSpace, and other products, we help companies add social features to their sites. Our products include fully-managed autoscaling hosting and solutions for global content delivery.

People:

Jonathan Lambert

Troy Angrignon

Aaron Stewart

Location

919 20th St.

Sacramento, CA

See map: Google Maps

MarkTend

MarkTend — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:50:30 +0000

URL:

http://marktend.com

Phone:

916-595-0007

Founded:

3/2008

Employees:

MarkTend is a service that focuses on delivering Trademark law firms succinct information about calendaring, similar trademark application and registration, domain name infringement, and online advertising infringement.

Our calendaring system is tended by our proprietary calendaring / docketing software and three Trademark Docketing secretaries. We use a four key system whereby three humans and our software calendar all items associated with each trademark. If one of the keys does not agree with the others we mark that trademark for review by all staff members. We then send out email reminders to our client one month before, one week before, one day before, and the day that the item is due. Beyond that we also alert our client when they login to our system of all calendar items that are past due.

Our monitor system searches the USPTO on a daily bases for newly filed applications and on a weekly basis new publications for similar trademarks. We then mark these trademarks for your review so that you can decide on the proper action (i.e. Opposition). The monitor system also searches the three leading search engines for any advertising that is generated based on the trademarked key word. Courts have consistently held that use of a trademarked term in the body of the search engine advertising constitutes infringement unless fair use. Finally, the system also reviews domain names to find infringing uses in domain registrations (i.e. google-seach.com or getcoke.com).

We have created a white label system that allows the law firm to re-brand our watch system and offer their client direct access to a client extranet under the firms name. Our goal was to create a non-technical user friendly system that allows for trademark calendaring and monitoring at a low cost that the law firm can share with the client. We have found that when the client is allowed to be involved with the monitoring process they become highly vested in protecting and expanding their trademarks.

We offer a split system of billing for our clients; our calendar system is offered at a rock bottom price level of about $1 per trademark per month and our watch service is offered separately per trademark at $249 per year. We have split the cost of service into two parts to allow the firm to calendar all of their trademarks while allowing the end client to choose to use the monitor service. We have found that most of our law firm clients are anticipating reselling the service to their clients under the firm name for 3-4 times the amount we charge.

Finally, our current firms are now able to review and offer further protection services to their clients that they did not have time to do before. In less than a minute the lawyer knows if there is a confusingly similar trademark going to publication, UDRP potential action or search engine trademark infringement cease and desist potential. All of these items enable the firm to offer extra services to their clients with minimal time input.

In essence, we make rain.

Location

4125 23rd St.

Sacramento, CA, 95822

See map: Google Maps

Chrometa

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:57:58 +0000

URL:

http://chrometa.com/

Phone:

(916) 254-0260

Feed URL:

http://timetrackingbuddy.com/blog/feed/

Founded:

2007

Employees:

Chrometa, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, was founded in 2007 to provide a simple software solution that helps you automatically track the time you spend working on various documents. The company’s founders previously worked in the consulting industry, where they saw firsthand the inexact science of tracking and reporting billable hours.

People:

Brett Owens, CEO

Chihab Bahhadi, CTO

Location

Sacramento, CA, 95816

See map: Google Maps

mySchoolBucks

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:48:33 +0000

URL:

http://www.myschoolbucks.com/

Phone:

916-577-2900

Allows parents to pay online for school expenses like yearbooks, library fines, and lunches.

People:

Bob LeVine

Location

2540 Warren Drive

Rocklin, CA, 95677

See map: Google Maps

RentWiki

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:30:57 +0000

URL:

http://rentwiki.com

A peer recommendation website on where to live. We all know moving to a new city is a huge hassle, where we end up calling random friends for advice, driving the streets, and searching dozens of websites. RentWiki hopes to change all of that.

People:

Jamie Gallo

Robert Turnbull

Eric Wu

Location

Sacramento, CA

See map: Google Maps

PeopleFinders.com

admin — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:38:23 +0000

URL:

http://peoplefinders.com

Phone:

(800) 718-8997

Feed URL:

http://www.peoplefinders.com/help/searchtips/rss.xml

PeopleFinders.com is the premier online service for consumers to locate, contact, and verify people and businesses. They are one of the largest owners of public records data in the United States, with billions of records that span the last 40 years.

People:

Rob Miller, Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Bryce Lane, President, Chief Operations Officer

Location

1821 Q Street

Sacramento, CA, 95811

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UrlTrends, LLC

jstrellner — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:47:25 +0000

URL:

http://www.urltrends.com

Founded:

December 2004

Employees:

UrlTrends provides search engine analytical services. We help business track their search engine rankings and trends as well as provide competitive intelligence reports and detailed ways to improve their rankings.

We also provide API access to our data, in which many companies access it to perform their functions. Some of our clients include Sedo (http://www.sedo.com), Moniker (http://www.moniker.com), SnapNames (http://www.snapnames.com), IZEA/PayPerPost (http://www.payperpost.com) and a few other known brands.

People:

Joel Strellner

Location

Roseville, CA, 95661

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Engine Yard

tmornini — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:24:34 +0000

URL:

http://engineyard.com

Phone:

866-518-YARD

Feed URL:

http://engineyard.com/feed/atom.xml

Founded:

Early 2006

Engine Yard provides managed hosting services for Ruby On Rails applications. The early success of Rails-powered sites like Basecamp and the professed ease of developing web apps quickly has led to an explosion of applications written for Ruby on Rails.

Engine Yard simplifies the process of hosting large-scale Ruby on Rails sites and allows developers to concentrate on building and selling their application. By buying “slices” from Engine Yard instead of buying individual servers developers can easily grow their hosting. Have growing traffic and need more capacity? Buy more slices. Engine Yard ensures that your slices are distributed across multiple servers for scalability and reliability.

Engine Yard was founded in Sacramento and moved to SF in late 2007.

People:

Tom Mornini

Lance Walley

Location

82 South Park

San Francisco, CA

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Tubes Inc.

Scott Hildebrand — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:57 +0000

URL:

www.tubesmusic.com

Founded:

2004

Employees:

The original vision of Tubes was of an alternative platform to the music industry for artists. Tubes is now working on multiple projects and is very much in stealth mode until a formal release.

People:

Scott Hildebrand

Location

Davis, CA, 95616

See map: Google Maps