Portfolio: Stackato

Hasn’t the cloud made life great? J/K. We’re all moving to the cloud for the same reasons: to save time, save money, gain flexibility, security, blah, blah, blah. That all sounds great, but the transition can be painful. When it’s time to get your apps up in the cloud, they won’t run on your PaaS—wrong language, framework, database…. Anyway it’s back to the drawing board.

So they recode it all again and get it working on the test server. Then they hand it over to IT and wait for weeks only to find that it’s going to take even more customization to get it working in the cloud so it goes back to the developer again…. The cloud had such promise, but now you’re working twice as hard just to deliver the pre-cloud level of work. All this inefficiency costs you a lot of time, and that wastes money, which makes your boss mad.

We show you how Stackato gives you the efficiency, control and security you always wanted from the cloud at a price you can afford.

Portfolio: Common Sense Coalition

Most people know we have substantial national debt, but few people realize how out of control it is. It’s not that we’ve never been in debt; just never like this. In the past, we would go into debt when the times called for it—like when we liberated ourselves from Britain or saved the world from a ruthless dictator. Then in the years following, the debt was responsibly paid off.

But since 1981, we’ve strayed from our age-old value of financial responsibility and started our country on a course unlike any we’ve ever seen. And instead of making every effort to get our country back on track, we keep recklessly spending money that our children will eventually have to pay back.

So why isn’t anything being done about this? Neither side wants to address these issues head-on, because they’re too concerned with protecting their own positions of power and proving that the other side has got it wrong. This bipolar way of governing can’t continue if our children are to have a future.

We introduce you to the Common Sense Coalition, a group that believes it’s time to return to our values and find common sense solutions to our pressing problems.

Portfolio: Pronto Marketing

Long, long ago the only presence your business needed was a sign and an ad in the yellow pages. Then along came the world wide web and all of a sudden you needed an Internet presence. So you jumped on the bandwagon and got yourself a website. Now it’s a few-ish years later and your site’s never been updated. It’s showing its age and it’s not doing anything for your business. Unfortunately, establishing a viable Internet presence these days takes a heck of a lot more time, effort and cash than just throwing up a site and hoping for the best. What if there was a partner who could develop and manage your Internet presence so you could focus on actually running your business?

We show you how Pronto Marketing helps you get the Internet presence you need without all the hassle and headache.

Portfolio: AlgoSec

Firewall. Could anything sound stronger or more secure? But your firewalls are more like fire extinguishers, dousing your business productivity and security with tangled rules and complicated policies. You’ve been there—putting in thousands of man hours trying to manage and troubleshoot hundreds, if not thousands, of rules on multiple firewalls from different vendors with separate teams all across the globe. And we haven’t even begun to talk about change requests. No wonder that that next security audit is looming over you, threatening to kick you when you’re down and mock you in front of industry regulators. Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could bring the fire back?

We show you how AlgoSec automates your firewall management so you can focus your newfound time on making the business more secure and efficient.

Portfolio: Protect Our Only Planet (P.O.O.P)

We love dogs. In fact, 1 in 3 American homes owns a dog. That’s a lot of canines, so that’s a lot of poop—over 55 million pounds every day. And when the poop isn’t properly thrown away, it washes into our water. Plus, we all know how we discover poop that’s not picked up…. So this is a problem. maybe not as big as school funding—but wait. What if we could give schools and organizations a better way to raise money with poop? Sorry, not actual poop, but poop pickup.

We show you how Protect Our Only Planet (P.O.O.P) is partnering with schools to provide environmentally friendly poop bags that are inexpensive, eliminate mess and easily decompose in a landfill.

Portfolio: Wavii

Facebook makes it easy to follow what’s happening with your friends as they input the details of their daily lives. But say you want to follow a topic besides your friends—something related to politics, business, celebrities, tech…whatever. For stuff like that, there’s no army of workers to input the details of every celebrity breakup, white collar arrest, startup acquisition or political victory into a feed like the one for your friends on Facebook. But what if there was a place where you could get something like that?

We show you how Wavii lets you follow just about anything you want, scouring the web for news and giving you a single feed with updates on everything you’re following.

Portfolio: AppFolio

Your property management business is booming. You’re taking on more and more units, but you’re still using your same old software that you were in the 90s. You’re buried in post-its, spreadsheets and printed work orders and things are starting to get out of control. You’re behind on processing rent payments, maintenance requests are getting lost in the shuffle and it’s taking forever to fill vacancies.

We show you how AppFolio property management software can bring your business into the 21st century and get you running smoothly and efficiently.

Portfolio: Ergo Depot

You have a horrible habit that’s killing you—it’s sitting. You see, most people think the reason they feel unhealthy is because they don’t exercise enough or they eat too much. But the biggest reason we’re fatter than we want to be and that some part of us is always sore is this: We sit, like, all the time. In fact, being sedentary kills more people than smoking. People with sitting jobs have two times the cardiovascular disease as people with standing jobs. The sad truth? Sitting is killing you.

Fortunately, there’s a groundbreaking technology that can reduce your sitting dramatically: It’s called your legs. You know—the things that bring you from your bed to your car to your desk to your couch. Now you might be sitting there thinking, well, I have to sit for my job. And so all kidding aside, there is a great solution, and that’s desks that let you stand—also known as adjustable desks. And there’s also chairs that are designed specifically for sitting and standing at these adjustable desks.

Seriously, getting yourself a standing desk might be the healthiest thing you could do for yourself—ever. And Ergo Depot is a great place to get both.

Portfolio: Axway Visibility

You need to track down a huge critical data file, and you’ve got your boss, the business line and accounting all asking: Where’s the file? Not easy to find in this ocean of data. The pressure is mounting and every minute counts. So where is it? The client has already confirmed that they successfully sent the file. If you can’t find it, it won’t be long before they lose confidence in your company’s ability to handle their business. Not good. Trying to search for the file is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and its’ making you crazy. You need visibility, but when it comes to knowing where mission-critical files are, you feel like you’re stumbling around in the dark.

We show you how Axway file transfer visilibity means you can stop looking for that needle in a haystack and get back to what matters.

Portfolio: MyRegistry.com

It’s really happening, and you already know what gifts you’d love when the big day comes. You just adore that floral dinnerware set or that new travel system stroller. You have to have it. But all that stuff you love is scattered across a thousand different stores, which means about a million different registries. So instead, you settle for a couple of the bigger stores that have some of the things you love. And that’s…um…yep—settling! It’s OK, but it’s not what you really want. After all, this is YOUR special day. Shouldn’t you be able to get exactly what you want?

We show you how MyRegistry.com gives you everything you want, from every store in the world, all on one registry.