Deal Radar 2010: CampusBookRentals.com, Utah

CampusBookRentals.com (CBR), which describes itself as being like Netflix for textbooks, rents textbooks to college students for prices that can be more than 50% off the purchase price. The company is an early entrant in the burgeoning market of textbook rental, where students pay to keep books for a certain period of time. 

Deal Radar 2010: Zong

Zong is a mobile payment service used by online gaming and social networking sites. It leverages direct connections with mobile network operators around the world to provide consumers, merchants, and publishers with a a secure payment solution. It claims that its payment experience converts shoppers into buyers at rates up to ten times greater than

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Deal Radar 2010: Avisena

Avisena provides revenue cycle management (RCM) technology and services to medical practices à la athenahealth. The Avisena business model combines proprietary practice management technology delivered through the Web with a back-office service organization staffed with a team who manage collections and help physicians to better understand and improve their revenue cycles.

Deal Radar 2010: Thread Logic

Thread Logic creates custom logo embroidered apparel for businesses and organizations. Products include everything from polo shirts to aprons to fleece blankets. In a business that has been slow to go online, Thread Logic has focused almost exclusively on Internet sales while maintaining close customer relationships.

Deal Radar 2010: HealthYes!

HealthYes! is a preventive medical screening company for asymptomatic life-threatening medical conditions and diseases including heart disease, stroke, abdominal aortic aneurysm, peripheral artery disease, diabetes, liver disease, and osteoporosis.

Deal Radar 2010: JanRain, Portland, Oregon

JanRain helps organizations to succeed on the authenticated Web with its user management platform. A key component of the platform is RPX, an enterprise-class solution that enables a website to expedite the registration and log-in processes with a user’s third-party account, import user profile information and address books, and make it easy to publish website

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Deal Radar 2010: Egnyte

Egnyte is a software-as-a-service provider that offers an integrated, on-demand solution to the three most common technology challenges facing small businesses: data storage, information sharing, and computer backup. 

Deal Radar 2010: Servoy, Amsterdam, Holland

Deloitte Fast 50 company Servoy BV is the developer of a hybrid (SaaS and on-premise modes) platform to help build and deploy applications faster than traditional development environments. Applications can be deployed both modes from a single code base. Servoy is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop entire vertical and horizontal applications and by internal

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