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And Your Pick Is? Internet Startup Live! Showcase

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Steve Harmon
Steve Harmon
Oct 23, 1998

Tuesday through today we’ve showed you the firms that presented at Internet
Startup Live! Venture Showcase just a few days ago at Fall Internet World.
Today we wrap up the snapshot and ask once again – which piques your
interest the most and why?












































Internet
Stock Report’s
INTERNET STARTUP
LIVE! VENTURE
SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT

Who

Sagacity
Corporation / ShopInCities

Web

www.shopincities.com

Stage

early-stage

Sector

Commerce

Year established

1997

Employees

9

Strategic allies

Banc of
America, Storefront Owners, currently working out a deal with R.R.
Donnelley

Mission/market
strategy

ShopInCities,
International offers fast growing communities for direct market
penetration Web sites on
the Internet. ShopInCities has pioneered large-scale, Web-based
shopping malls for
Internet users to shop online at 18 malls so far, set up Personal
Shopping Pages, and
share ideas, interests and expertise.


In the spirit of Equal
Access for All,
Educators can set up Classroom pages geared toward education and
edutainment for students,
utilize private and public chat rooms, create online fundraisers for
their schools and
classrooms, and shop for supplies at the Teachers Tool Box. Merchants
can set up stores on
ShopInCities and either pay a monthly hosting fee, and/or, a sales
commission.


All visitors can access
the Web-Grab Search
Engine, create City specific Net Directory Pages, which offer a full
page of information
about their businesses including a contact form, link to an existing
Web site, and e-mail
address. The processes which allow visitors to use the site are fully
automated.












Who


SwiftShop
LLC




Web


WWW.quickpix.com/library.html




Stage


early-stage




Sector


Services




Year established


1997




Employees


4




Strategic allies


several under
development




Mission/market
strategy


We have direct
access to a virtually unlimited supply of original, high quality
content (global, near
real-time newsphotos, and local history photos), that have significant
value for portals
competing to attract users and keep them and their all-important
ad-perusing eyeballs on
their sites. In addition, we have developed a convenient, low cost
turnkey service, for
both content and transactions,that leapfrogs all technologies currently
used to input and
display images and associated descriptive text over standard-bandwidth
phone lines.


We have produced
multiple sites that
illustrate both business and consumer applications created with our
image-driven search
engine, natural user interface, and data compression.(see field 2
above) Review of these
sites will demonstrate why SwiftShop LLC’s idea offers equity investors
access to that
rare kind of start-up, a ‘first mover’ with a new platform for
transactions and content,
and an entirely new category of online marketing and advertising
tools.












Who


TelePost




Web


www.telepost.net




Stage


early-stage




Sector


Services




Year established


1996




Employees


60




Strategic allies


EUnet, SOL
Norway and Denmark, Telia




Mission/market
strategy


To become the
leading provider of Web-centric, value-added telecommunications
services that improve
business communications. TelePost differentiates itself in the market
by offering
services, as opposed to selling hardware or software platforms. The
company is
strategically positioned at the intersection of Internet and telephone
network
convergence.


But rather than focusing
simply on the
Internet (i.e. Internet telephony), TelePost’s technology uses the Web
to control the
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). This enables each network to
be used for what it
excels at – the PSTN for reliability and voice quality, and the
Internet Protocol (IP)
network for data and user interface simplicity. As a result, TelePost
provides ‘anyway,
anywhere, anytime’ communications services.












Who


Volatile
Media Inc.




Web


www.EZCD.com




Stage


early-stage




Sector


Commerce




Year established


1997




Employees


4




Strategic allies


Various record
labels and affiliates




Mission/market
strategy


Volatile Media
Inc./EZCD.com intends to be the premier custom compilation CD site,
specializing in
connecting music lovers and new music. Using personalization
technology, EZCD.com will
help discover tomorrow’s music superstars from the thousands of
independent artists out
today.













Who


Ziplink,
LLC




Web


www.ziplink.net




Stage


Early/Mid Stage




Sector


Services




Year established


1995




Employees


65




Strategic allies


WebTV Networks,
Cue Paging, Beepwear by Timex




Mission/market
strategy


Ziplink seeks
to be the premier service provider among national Internet service
companies by offering a
complete Internet access solution to a national network of businesses,
resellers, and dial
up consumers through direct and indirect channels.


Ziplink has a two tier
focus: (1) providing
wholesale Internet access through Dialnet relationships and resellers
and (2) developing
the Web appliance marketplace to add Internet and enhanced
telecommunications features to
every day consumer electronics products.








Of the above and those companies mentioned since
Tuesday, which do you think is a better
idea? email us now  your
votes tallied and
revealed next week (c) 1998 Mecklermedia,
Internet.com





Eyeballs.net also presented, although its data wasn’t submitted to us in
the above format. Please see its Website for details on what it is. It’s in
the eye of the beholder for sure.

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