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A platform to help farmers in India to manage their crops and sell directly to consumers over the internet. In the short time since launch, it has sold $1.6 million worth of produce.

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5 years ago

The company was founded by Ramy El Bannaoui and Chris Curtis, who had previously founded the company in 2007 and sold it in 2011.

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4 years ago 1 views

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

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5 years ago 1 views

In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.

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5 years ago

The startup is building a platform for house-hunting in India. It’s a service like Zumper or Realtor.com but for a country where 40% of houses are bought and sold on a daily basis.

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5 years ago

The company is building a platform for people to create and share videos of what they're building. The company's founder says that they've already sold their first video to a client.

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4 years ago 1 views

A company that creates digital prints from the images of people, who upload their own images and the company’s prints are then rendered by using a computer vision. The prints can be sold as prints, clothing, or art.

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2 years ago

A startup and mobile app for selling tickets to events, which can be refunded if a show gets cancelled, or resold if there isn’t enough demand.

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5 years ago

A bot that can automate the process of selling products on Craigslist, on Craigslist, and on other sites where it can be sold. The product is geared towards online retailers.

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4 years ago

A startup that sells an app that lets you take a photo, track it, and then immediately see where that item was sold. The company is based in the Bay Area.

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4 years ago

A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.

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4 years ago

A meeting scheduling platform in the vein of Doodle. The startup is another one that’s building its service (and product) in the U.S. It’s already sold over $15 million worth of its services to companies like Airbnb, Airbnb, and Google.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building an online platform for people who want to build and sell their own custom iPhone cases. The startup’s founders say that about 1% of the cases sold in the US are custom-made, and a handful of startups have tried to build their own platform for selling such cases, without much success.

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5 years ago

A startup that is using data analytics to help small businesses make better decisions. The company says it can help a company make a better marketing decision by determining which of their customers are the most likely to buy, or which of their products are most likely to be sold, based on behavioral data.

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5 years ago

A fashion marketer that sells online clothing at $20 per dress. It’s already sold over 5,000 dresses and is on track to make $10 million in revenue in 2019.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can send in their old books and they are sold to people in developing countries

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5 years ago

An ad tech company that’s building a new technology that they say has the potential to significantly change the way digital advertising is purchased and sold. The company’s technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital advertising market by giving advertisers complete control of their ad campaigns, directly from their desktop and mobile devices.

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5 years ago

A startup that sells a new take on a very old concept: Visa debit cards. The startup has over 1,000 customers, ranging from Nike to Goldman Sachs, and has sold over 5 million cards.

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5 years ago

The online marketplace where used cars can be bought from sellers and sold to buyers. The startup is private and hasn’t released much information on its model, but it’s looking to build a local network of auto sellers and buyers who make purchases through a mobile app.

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5 years ago

A technology company that takes photo and video content, and makes it into a product that can be resold as an image or video stock. They’re also developing a platform to enable photo and video creatives to get paid for their work

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5 years ago

An API for buying and selling cars, with over a million cars already sold.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to source and sell used cars, cars that have not been bought and sold through a dealership.

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5 years ago

A blockchain-based payment platform for digital content. The startup wants to replace the current system of content being bought and sold with a new one that’s decentralized, with long-term protection for the content and payment for publishers.

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5 years ago

A SaaS platform that builds and sells business software. Their most recent product was a payroll software for restaurants, which they’ve sold to multiple chains.

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5 years ago 1 views

A startup for customers to imagine products and then build them from scratch, for customers to create their own products, products that can be sold on Amazon.com

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5 years ago

A fitness tracking device that’s been downloaded over 3 million times, has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on the App Store, and was sold to Apple. It’s been used by over 60 million people and is now the best-selling fitness tracker on the market. It’s profitable and has a $300 million valuation.

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5 years ago

An online service that helps people sell used clothes without dealing with the hassle of eBay or try-before-you-buy services like Grailed and StockX. The company says it has already sold over $1M worth of used clothes.

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5 years ago

A lot of companies are selling mobile phone cases with custom designs, but Nines offers custom design and production of phone cases, which will be sold in retail stores.

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5 years ago

BookNow is a service for online ordering and payment for food, flowers, theater tickets, and more. The company claims it has sold over $10,000 worth of tickets in four months. They’re also getting some attention from investors.

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5 years ago

building a tool to help small businesses manage their paper files, like sales invoices, in a way that’s really convenient for everyone. The startup’s CEO says that they’ve already sold their product to three big companies.

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3 years ago

A software company that helps people sell and buy cars that’s 90% sold through its own app.

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5 years ago

A hardware startup that’s building ruggedized bitcoin hardware that can be sold to businesses and consumers. The company is currently working on a $1,000 device that it says can be used for up to a year on a single battery.

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5 years ago

Tracr is a B2B startup that allows companies to buy and sell tickets on the same day. They currently have 50,000 tickets sold daily, with a 4% take rate through the app.

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4 years ago

Fostr is a marketplace where people sell their unused clothes. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding and says they’ve sold over 30,000 items in the last two years.

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5 years ago

A digital storefront for selling and marketing your art. The company is currently focused on artists whose work is sold by galleries, but it wants to expand into more verticals.

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4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses sell telecommuting services. They’ve sold over 20,000 hours of telecommuting time.

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5 years ago

An online platform for people to sell and buy their own cars. The company has already sold over $200,000 worth of vehicles, and has signed up over 400 sellers.

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4 years ago

A platform for books, movies, games, and TV shows to be sold online. They’re a startup of a publishing company, who are using it to build their digital catalog.

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5 years ago

Fusion is a real estate software company that allows real estate agents to list their listings online and receive notifications whenever a home is sold.

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4 years ago

A monthly subscription service for home laundry detergent that offers recommendations for how much to buy, when and how to use it. The startup has already sold more than $2 million in the past year from its first customers–with over 25,000 subscriptions.

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5 years ago

A startup for freelance writers, editors, and translators. The startup is in its pre-launch phase, but has already sold $3,000 worth of services. It’s not a traditional marketplace, instead relying on a closed community of writers and translators who are all working on the same project.

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3 years ago

This is a platform for people to sell and buy tickets for physical events. The company is building an API that allows anyone to sell their tickets through the app, and has sold $2.5 million worth of tickets in the last year.

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5 years ago

A Chinese startup that wants to help people learn English faster and easier. The startup writes questions and answers on cards and puts them on a string, which people can play around with. And their idea is proving popular in China, with a million cards sold in three months.

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5 years ago

A company that helps people come up with products and services that can be sold on its e-commerce platform.

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3 years ago

A company that has created a device designed to keep people active under the guise of being a “gym ball.” The startup is currently focused on helping people age 65 or older maintain their fitness level, and the founders say they’ve sold over a thousand of the devices so far.

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4 years ago

A platform for selling and buying your car or truck, financed with a monthly payment. The startup sold its first loan in May with former GM executive, Mark St. Pierre, leading the company.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps companies get energy-efficient lightbulbs into their warehouses. They’ve already sold over 1,000 LED bulbs in a few months.

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4 years ago

A software company that uses machine learning to predict where the next Kindle Fire or Google Pixel will be sold.

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4 years ago

A company that helps companies setup a single cloud-based site, on the site a mixture of physical and digital products can be sold through an e-commerce platform.

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4 years ago

A platform for sellers of physical goods to get digital goods in return, which can be sold on other platforms.

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2 years ago

Building a platform for video producers to sell their services, allowing them to create and manage videos and have them pre-sold to customers.

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5 years ago

Senses , a service that turns your smartphone into a personal assistant, is being developed by a team of veterans of Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, as well as a company that sold the Siri app to Apple.

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2 years ago

A startup that will let anyone who’s ever sold an item on Amazon understand whether the customer paid.

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4 years ago

Nota is building a tool that helps companies calculate their cost of goods sold on on each unit of product they sell. The startup built a tool that can predict and measure the cost of goods sold within an hour.

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5 years ago

A group of startups that wants to build a more flexible alternative to the more common SaaS model. The startups want to build tools that let people customize their solutions into “custom apps” that can be sold to customers directly.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps people share their bicycles in the hope of getting them fixed, or sold.

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3 years ago

Thinking of building the most advanced and simple way to get customers to pay for their stuff. The company has already sold $1 million worth of credit cards, and they plan to expand to other countries.

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4 years ago

A platform for creating and distributing podcasts. The company is currently in private beta, and has already sold $2 million worth of ad-free podcasts, which are spread across categories like health, finance, travel, and parenting.

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4 years ago

The startup provides software to help reduce food waste by connecting retailers with nearby farms. The startup has sold $115,000 worth of the software since its launch in January.

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4 years ago

A startup that makes lightweight, ultra-thin notebook computers. In the past couple of years, the company has sold 150,000 of its computers to companies in the enterprise, education, and healthcare industries.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace for the private sale of used cars. It's a Craigslist-like service, except the cars are owned by the users, not the site, and are sold between users.

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4 years ago

This startup helps to deliver a new kind of photo book with a digital book that can be sold or shared online. It’s a premium service that costs $600 for a year.

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3 years ago 1 views

A startup that wants to build a company that will take care of the sales tax and paperwork for any item sold on Amazon.

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3 years ago

A travel booking and marketing platform that makes it easy for travelers to secure tickets from their phones, even ones that have sold out.

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4 years ago

A startup that brings the best talent from the world's best schools to teach you how to be a better coder. The startup is an elite teachers program that has sold out its next batch of spots to students from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and Israel.

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3 years ago

A network of young designers who use their own personal resources to make a product that can be sold online. The company offers a “design-to-order” service for consumers, who can choose from a number of product options, including customization of colors, fabrics, and packaging.

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4 years ago

A unique, third-party app that helps you track your shipping from UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, and Aliexpress. The company has sold $20,000 in products since October 1, 2016.

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4 years ago

A “programmatic” ad platform that changes the way ads are bought and sold, letting companies create ads in real-time, without having to have an existing relationship with a publisher. The startup has raised $4.3 million to date, and has plans for an IPO in the next year.

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4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to teach a robot how to paint and then make unique works of art that can be sold to customers.

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3 years ago

A platform for enabling automatic payments and refunds to people who’ve paid for subscriptions or products online. It’s sold on a freemium model.

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5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building machine learning software that helps people create smoother panning and zooming in videos. The startup previously sold a product called Flycam that helps camera operators smoothly move from one part of the scene to another.

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3 years ago

Jaunt is building a platform for immersive VR experiences that can be produced and sold as a service. The startup wants to build a content platform where brands sell VR experiences to their customers.

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4 years ago

A platform that empowers artists to create and sell their own merchandise. To date, the company has sold $1 million in merchandise since launching in 2014.

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4 years ago

A B2B SaaS startup focused on helping companies find, manage and automate their supply chain. The company is led by former McKinsey consultant and CEO, who previously started and sold several companies.

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3 years ago

A company that uses AI to help companies protect their brands online. The company says it has sold more than $5,000 in domain names in the past year.

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3 years ago

A platform for apps and games to be sold as subscriptions. The startup will allow developers to create recurring revenue.

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4 years ago

A digital advertising platform that serves as an intermediary between publishers and advertisers. The startup takes a 30% commission from ads sold.

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3 years ago

A startup for products to be sold and bought online

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3 years ago

A “remote marketplace” that allows services to be sold and bought between members

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3 years ago

A tool for homes that helps predict and address emergency situations like fires and floods. The startup says it’s already sold over $1 million worth of its fire and flood sensors since launching in early august.

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5 years ago

A startup that pays people to do research on topics they are interested in which is then written up into a paper and sold to students

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4 years ago

The list of 30 companies below is generally regarded as the best of the best in the world at the time of the nomination, but they have since been acquired or sold, or have left the market.

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4 years ago

A startup for food waste and unsold food, connecting restaurants with chefs, farmers and consumers.

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3 years ago

A tool for selling tickets for events, with a built-in ticket-buying tool and a way to share them across social media. The startup has a $1 million seed round, and has sold $5 million worth of tickets.

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3 years ago

A company that helps people sell their houses using a mobile app. Instead of just paying a realtor, users can put their house on the market and pay rent to the app. Once a buyer is found, the house can be sold quickly, and the buyer can then buy it.

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4 years ago

A startup for selling home goods. Things are sold from the company's warehouse, shipped to the buyer, and then the item is sold on Amazon.

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3 years ago

A supply chain management platform that helps companies discover when they are overstocked, and when they are undersold.

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2 years ago

An online marketplace where people can buy tickets to events, concerts, and other things they can’t get normally. Think StubHub but for events that aren’t sold out.

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4 years ago

The startup has built a product that enables brands to send targeted ads to a specific group of consumers. The startup says it has already sold over $100 million of its software to a number of companies.

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3 years ago

A startup for items that are in high demand, like event tickets, that makes it easier for people to buy and sell their tickets. They’ve carved out 50% of the tickets sold to date.

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3 years ago

A platform that lets you upload and sell your own book. Williams has sold 30,000 copies of his book, which is currently in its second printing.

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3 years ago

A platform for renting and selling cars, with an app that lets customers rate their cars and have them rented or sold in their own circles. The startup says it’s already working with several hundred auto dealerships.

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3 years ago

A startup that streamlines the process of buying plane tickets and other plane-related services. It’s sold a few thousand plane tickets per day, and

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3 years ago

An IoT-connected lavatory that can send a notification when someone needs to go. The startup says it’s already sold to a company that owns a restaurant chain. They have a few more customers in the US and Europe waiting for the product to hit their backlog.

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3 years ago

This startup helps brands reach their customers on Instagram, based on a user’s browsing history. They say they have sold over $50,000 worth of ads since launching in April.

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4 years ago

A platform for buying and selling and exchanging surplus shoes that otherwise wouldn’t get sold. The company has sold about $4,000 worth of shoes since launching in December.

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3 years ago

A startup that allows people to pay for goods in exchange for a percentage of the goods sold. It’s similar to the concept of a reward card and is an alternative to services like Swagbucks and other similar programs.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to replace the ancient, insecure, and expensive fax machine with a paper-less, secure, and cheaper system. The startup is working with large corporations to do this, and has sold $100,000 in the last month, with a 2.5% take rate.

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3 years ago

The startup’s focus is on helping brands drive more sales by taking their product to the consumer before it hits the shelves. It's building an online store that helps retailers decide what consumers want before the items are sold in the stores.

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3 years ago

This startup helps content creators sell tickets for virtual events. They have sold over $47,000 in tickets.

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4 years ago

A startup for the sale of used cars in the US. The company says it’s already created a marketplace that matches dealers with customers, and says it’s already sold over 20,000 cars.

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3 years ago

A startup that promises to deliver the “cheapest tickets in the city” for all events, from concerts to movie screenings. The startup has made its money off selling tickets to events that would have been sold out.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps people to choose which health insurance plan to buy. It’s sold in the UK and the US.

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3 years ago

This is a new way to help small businesses track the quality of the products they sell online, counting the items sold and the number of clicks to determine which products are the most popular and effective.

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2 years ago

A company that makes a product called “Aquaman” that cleans water with the help of the sun, but also uses intelligent algorithms to determine the best times of day to clean the water, what household items can be used to filter the water, and what types of water-cleaning products would be best to buy. Aquaman’s website says they’ve sold $2.75 million in their first four years of operations, and that they’ve serviced 200,000 customers worldwide.

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2 years ago

A new kind of social network for the United States military, looking to help soldiers stay connected with loved ones and build camaraderie.

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3 years ago

An online marketplace for already-owned properties to be resold, with financing options.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps retailers track where their products are being used, and where they should be sold.

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3 years ago

A decentralized app store that lets people sell their personal items on the blockchain, with “personal item” defined as anything that can be legally bought and sold. The startup aims to be the first to sell physical items on the blockchain, including “vintage art”, “new, rare tech”, “antique furniture”, etc.

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2 years ago

A company that provides a platform for those with a medical condition to sell clothing and accessories online, while offering a way of tracking the inventory as it’s being sold.

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2 years ago

A business that helps people sell their unused airtime. The startup has sold over $1,000 worth of unused minutes in the last 30 days, and is used by over 1,000 customers.

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2 years ago

This startup isn’t a direct-to-consumer model, but rather a service that allows businesses to run their own in-person promotional events. The startup says they’ve seen great success with the model, having sold out of the first batch of tickets they sold and plans to sell out of the second batch they sell and their third batch as well.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps family businesses stay on track. Co-founder Zachary Berg says that they’ve already sold to a private biz and a few nonprofits.

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2 years ago

A platform for assembling apps, focused on developing mobile games. The company specializes in two categories: “advergames”, which are games that the company makes itself, and “mobile games”, which are made by third-party developers and sold through the portal.

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2 years ago

The startup is building an online platform that helps match buyers and sellers of used cars. The startup is a new way to buy a car after it’s already been sold.

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2 years ago

A startup for restaurants to list (and track) their current menu items, and to let customers know if and when a dish is sold out.

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2 years ago

A company that wants to make sure your data is being used for the right reasons. They’re building software and hardware that lets you know if your data is being sold or used.

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2 years ago

An email management system for the United States Army, designed for the iPhone. The Army is using the app to communicate with foreign armies and to train its own soldiers.

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2 years ago

A tool for making custom paper mache jewelry. The startup has sold more than 50,000 paper mache pieces since launching a year ago.

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2 years ago

A London-based startup that wants to help you keep track of the things you’ve sold online, so you’re not stuck with a bunch of inventory you can’t sell. When you’re done with something, you can sell it to someone else, and you can make money off of it.

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2 years ago

A wireless data device that translates between human and machine language, in a similar way to the company’s previous product, the Speakit. The founders say they’ve sold $1.4m of the devices.

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2 years ago

A PC-based chatbot that helps make sales calls and handle customer service. It’s a retooled version of the company’s prior product, Promoter, which was sold for $1.9 million to a competitor.

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2 years ago

A self-promotion platform for makers, makerspaces and makerspaces. It offers services like a blog, a newsletter, and listing on websites like Etsy, and the tools to make any item sold via the platform.

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2 years ago

A “mobile-first” venture that seeks to bring the next wave of car companies to the US with a startup they call the “Tesla of the auto industry.” They’re building a self-driving, electric, and fully autonomous vehicle that can be sold to people at a rate they can afford.

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2 years ago

A startup looking to help find homes for abandoned mobile devices. The startup has a team of data scientists and machine-learning engineers who scour places like garbage dumps, recycling centers, and landfills to find phones that can be resold.

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2 years ago

A startup that makes custom-branded leather bags that are sold in some of the country’s best-known chain stores.

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2 years ago

A company that offers an API that allows customers of its software to take a photo of a receipt and it’ll scan the bar code to find the item, then show the item’s price on the screen. The startup’s CEO says the company has sold $30,000 worth of software since the beginning of the year.

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2 years ago

A company that wants to help people make money in their spare time. The startup’s app is meant to encourage users to write reviews for products that they’ve purchased (as long as the product is still being sold) and then share those reviews with people they know in order to generate revenue.

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2 years ago

The idea for a startup is to make something that solves a problem and can be sold. The founder, the vision, the product, the technology, and the business model have to be great.

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2 years ago

A data feed for the Crepe suzette industry, which uses CRS to track the price of ingredients and volumes sold.

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2 years ago

A startup for the US military that lets soldiers create and manage profiles for their family members.

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5 years ago

Idea: A ‘gig economy’ labor marketplace for graphic designers. The startup says it’s growing 1,000% month-over-month, and has already sold $3,000 a week in design work.

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5 years ago

Idea: A new edition of the classic novel “The Little Prince”, translated into Arabic The publisher says that it’s sold $15,000 worth of ebooks already with a plan to get to $100

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5 years ago

Idea: A way to track the usage and performance of digital ads The startup has already sold several $15,000 contracts

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people ship their used items to buyers. The founder says that she’s already sold $3,000 worth of items in her first two months.

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5 years ago

A company that makes a small device that connects to a circuit board. The device is meant to be used by people who don’t know how to solder, to fix their electronics.

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4 days ago 1 views

A startup connecting urban gardeners with local restaurants, allowing excess homegrown produce to be sold directly and reducing food waste.

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11 days ago

A platform that turns unused rooftop space in urban apartment buildings into automated vertical farms, managed remotely with IoT sensors and sold directly to residents via an app.

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