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Startup Profile – FillAnyPDF.com

Startup Profile – FillAnyPDF.com

Brian Wiblin is the founder of FillAnyPDF.com, an online tool that allows form-filling and form sharing, as well as digital signatures. With FillAnyPDF.com, Wiblin is a graduate of the Tech Wildcatters boot camp, at 12-week program that provides office space, mentoring, some seed money, and help with refining their product and business strategies.

FillAnyPDF.com grew right out of Wiblin’s consulting business. He saw the need for a solution like his in a market where he believes other products are too complex. His focus is on making things simpler compared to every other product, which Wiblin says are way too difficult for many people to use.

His biggest challenge at the moment is to build a team to help promote his product. Currently he’s running the operations himself and is looking for help with his business development efforts.

So, how is business these days? Despite the current market, Wiblin is not too concerned with today’s “less than robust” economy. He sees a window of opportunity now, and is not looking back.

Startup Profile: Image Vision Labs

Startup Profile: Image Vision Labs

Give us the 30-second elevator pitch of your company

Commercial web sites, such as Photobucket, which accept user generated content, employ or outsource employees to visually inspect uploaded content to ensure it falls within acceptable usage guidelines. Image Vision Labs (IVL) is a software company pioneering advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and visual object recognition techniques to reduce web companies’ content moderation expenses by automating the detection and filtering of user generated and uploaded content. Currently, IVL visual recognition capabilities include image and video pornography detection, visual fingerprinting, and human gesture recognition.

Tell us about the founders, who they are, backgrounds, and why they are passionate about your company

Steven White has been working in Telecom for the last 15 years and is the thought leader behind the IVL recognition platform.  Steven is passionate about pioneering developing new markets and finding new ways technology can improve our lives.

Mitch Butler has been in Telecom business develop and sales for the past 20 years and heads the IVL technical operations and sales team.  Mitch Butler is passionate about making the Internet a cleaner place for all.

Do you have funding? How much?

Self-funded by founders as of Jun 2010.

What are your startup’s goals for this year?

This year’s goals for Image Vision labs includes first customer deployment and continued optimization and improvements in recognition techniques.

ImageVisionLabs.com

Startup Profile: CollegeJobConnect

Startup Profile: CollegeJobConnect

Give us the 30-second elevator pitch of your company

Companies need to recruit top talent in order to stay competitive, and they need to do it in a way that doesn’t disrupt their core business or drain their wallet.

On campus recruiting is a great way to meet and hire talented individuals that can add immensely to any organization.  However, developing a recruiting program presents many challenges: traveling to campuses is costly and time consuming; there is no guarantee of success, and connecting with candidates outside of your geographic region is challenging or impossible.  CollegeJobConnect modernizes undergraduate recruiting, making it faster, easier and less costly than the traditional on-campus approach.

Tell us about the founders, who they are, backgrounds, and why they are passionate about your company

Jeff Iacono graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a B.A. in Economics. After college he worked at Lehman Brothers for just under 4 years. He was a member of the Sales and Trading Department, working within the Hedge Fund Consulting group. For the past year he’s been running an independent consulting venture, named The ElegantBuild Company, where he’s won several client engagements that range from a major investment bank to small independent companies.
Paul Rosania graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 and has a B.S. in Computer Science. He is currently a Senior Analyst at a boutique financial services consulting firm in Boston. Prior to that, he spent nearly 2 years as a technical co-founder of Careplace, a network of online support groups for people with chronic illnesses.

Do you have funding? How much?

Yes. We are part of the Tech Wildcatters introductory class (TWC S10).

What are your startup’s goals for this year?

CollegeJobConnect enables companies to easily and inexpensively recruit from the Ivy League and other Top Tier schools.

We are seeking to offer Dallas-based businesses a conduit into these untapped resources.  We believe that Dallas and its economy should be the destination for today’s young talent, and we seek to drive this vision forward.  By leveraging our service, companies are promoting the North Texas community, while simultaneously building a competitive advantage and increasing their professional footprint.

CollegeJobConnect.com