Deal Radar 2009: SoloHealth

Launched in 2007, SoloHealth offers self-service health screening. Their inaugural product, EyeSite™ is an interactive kiosk that provides vision health information and customized vision reports, and also directs consumers to an eye care professional nearby. 

Deal Radar 2009: Zannel

Today’s Deal Radar company, Zannel, is another example of the move towards mobile convergence and the elimination of walls between the platforms people use to buy goods and services, communicate with friends, and find information. A mobile video and microblogging community, Zannel was the first mobile media company that allowed users to instantly share their videos and

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Deal Radar 2009: Hydro Green Energy

Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is a Texas-based renewable energy systems developer and integrator in the hydropower industry. Its proprietary hydrokinetic power systems, Hydro+, Current+, Tidal+ and Ocean+, generate power without the construction of any dams, impoundments or conduits. HGE owns two patents in the US and others internationally, and it is the only US company

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Deal Radar 2009: Coverity

One of the reviewers of EJ2: Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon wrote: “I don’t think it was appropriate to even mention venture capital or angel investors in this book.” My response was, “One of the nuggets that I have picked up from my experience navigating the entrepreneurial waters is that it is wise

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Deal Radar 2009: Enquisite

Enquisite is a newly launched search engine marketing company which offers marketers a unique solution to address their customer acquisition needs. For businesses that rely heavily on online traffic, Enquisite’s organic search marketing innovation promises to address an important gap in search marketing: driving more of the right organic search traffic.

Deal Radar 2009: EnterpriseDB

Deal Radar kicks the week off with yet another open source company, but one with rather large aspirations. EnterpriseDB was formed in an attempt to disrupt the three-company (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) oligopoly that controls the enterprise database market, of which Oracle owns more than half. The company says that as a result of this

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Deal Radar 2009: SodaHead

California-based SodaHead is a place where opinionated users of the web are found. SodaHead aims to be a community where users can meet new people with similar thought processes, which the company says differentiates it from other social networking sites which let people connect with existing friends. The company’s goal is to provide the online

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Deal Radar 2009: SpotMixer

There’s no question that shrinking ad budgets and the decline of print ads have shaken the foundations of traditional and often powerful media outlets, from ABC to the Boston Globe. Online video advertising, however, is growing in this poor economy, albeit at a slower place. One company taking advantage of this growth is One True

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