Deal Radar 2010: Just Moulding , Maryland

Just Moulding is an interior design firm that is using a franchise model with strong online and software components to change a business “usually handled by skilled carpenters in an unskilled manner.”

Deal Radar 2010: LeadForce1 California, Michigan

Through its marketing automation 2.0 approach, LeadForce1 aims to provide the missing link between Web analytics and customer relationship management (CRM systems), thus enabling B2B sales and marketing teams to uncover previously hidden leads, new prospect opportunities, and critical business intelligence within existing accounts. LeadForce1’s SaaS product deploys a patent-pending intent determination algorithm that spots

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Deal Radar 2010: HyperQuality ,Seattle, Washington

When you make a customer service call and hear, “This call may be recorded for quality assurance,” that may be HyperQuality. The company listens to customer service calls and digs for patterns, trends, red flags, and important business intelligence that can affect company performance. It also specializes in working with clients who have outsourced to determine

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Deal Radar 2010: Preparis ,Atlanta, Georgia

On September 11, 2001, Armistead Whitney was an executive in midtown Manhattan. As news of the attack on the World Trade Center broke, he was quickly inundated attempting to locate and assure the safety of his more than 200 employees. Cell towers were overwhelmed, news sources were offering conflicting information, and there was no guidance

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Deal Radar 2010: EthicsPoint,Oswego, Oregon

EthicsPoint helps clients to mitigate and manage compliance and organizational risk. The company offers integrated telephone and Web-based reporting hotlines and case management services that clients can use to identify, report, investigate, and resolve issues and events that may not be in line with their codes of conduct or governance policies.

Deal Radar 2010: InHouse Inc ,Santa Ana, California

Among the allegations of misdeeds and unfair practices in the mortgage industry during and after the housing market implosion was New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s 2007 lawsuit of appraisal firm First American eAppraiseIT for collusion with Washington Mutual (WaMu). Cuomo claimed that First American eAppraiseIT allowed WaMu to pressure it to use appraisers who

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Deal Radar 2010: WaterFilters.NET, Minneapolis, Minnesota

It’s safe to assume that for decades, many Americans did not give much thought to safe drinking water. Access to clean water was a given in a wealthy, developed country. But the nation’s water treatment systems often fail to adhere to provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the New York Times’s Toxic

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Deal Radar 2010: Krawler

Krawler delivers Deskera, an on-demand enterprise application suite that is designed to offer a full suite of products – customer relationship management (CRM), project management, accounting, human resource management system (HRMS), learning management system; and leave and absence management – on the same platform at a low monthly price suitable for small and medium businesses.