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RedBeacon Poised for National Rollout, Growth
I've been impressed with these enhancements and the "sensitivity" to the market shown RedBeacon's management. I also recently compared RedBeacon to other lead-gen type sites (including ServiceMagic) and found it, while imperfect, to be overall the best of the several sites I examined.
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Redbeacon - Find and Reserve a Service Specialist
Forget searching through the Yellow Pages for a qualified installation expert. Whether you need a plumber, a cable installer, a gardener, or a science tutor, Redbeacon is an application that will find a qualified professional in your local area who can handle the job at any time you want.
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Best of Bay
The San Mateo startup takes the angst out of a truly annoying task: finding a reliable fix-it pro.
Read ArticleCongratulations To Redbeacon, Winner Of Startup 2010!
Redbeacon lets users submit requests for jobs in almost any local service category, and forwards these requests to relevant participating service providers, who are invited to submit bids for the job and an appointment time at which they can complete it.
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Website of the Week
Users just type in the services they need and Redbeacon requests bids from trusted businesses. After reviewing the quotes, users can schedule a job for a specific time and place...
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The story of America's greatest idea.
The idea for Redbeacon was the result of a methodical search... Anyone who needed a part-time worker could contract immediately with available workers in the vicinity of the job...
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Leave Your Yellow Pages Behind With Redbeacon
Has there ever been a time when you needed a painter, subcontractor, plumber or another repairperson to come by your house at a short notice and did not have any recommendations from friends? If the answer is "yes", then consider Redbeacon...
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Growth Matters: Redbeacon Sends Batman to the Rescue
In the 1960s series Batman, people in despair would light up a red beacon and Batman would come to the rescue. Fast forward to the present and the red beacon is still alive...online.
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Redbeacon Fine Tunes Service, Goes Social, Continues To Be Awesome
Users go to Redbeacon and search for real world service providers (housekeepers, plumbers, handyman, personal trainers, etc.). The service sends you firm quotes from local service providers, based on price and other factors, such as previous reviews ...
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Redbeacon socializes local service listings
On Redbeacon, when you need a service (say a repairperson, or a cleaner, or a mover) you post a listing specifying the job and the window of time when it needs to be done. Different providers can bid on the job, and you choose from the bids based ...
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Need a Plumber? Redbeacon Adds Facebook Support to Its Service Provider Finder
Redbeacon, a site that matches users up with service providers (like plumbers, painters, personal trainers, and housekeepers), announced a few new options, most notably Facebook, that'll encourage a more social use of the site--and hopefully gain some users in the process. ...
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San Mateo's Redbeacon adds new social features and attracts investors
Redbeacon Inc. believes it's time to send out a new and brighter signal to the world. The site has refined its search function through the development of a new feature called "Friendly Advice," launched March 10. ...
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New wave of startups building 'the local Web'
Main Street, however, has been a tougher sell. True, Web sites have long been a marketing tool for merchants, restaurants and service providers, but the medium's interactive power has made a relatively modest impact on local economies. ...
Read ArticleRedBeacon Morphs into Social Platform
Yesterday the company held a WebEx to cite progress and announce a partnership with (parenting) group creation platform BigTent. They said this was merely the first of a number of partnerships. ...
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RedBeacon goes social, partners with BigTent
Last September, the local services company RedBeacon took the top award at TechCrunch 50 with an innovative approach to local search. Today, it announced a new set of social features and a partnership with BigTent, an online community. ...
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Redbeacon launches Facebook, BigTent deals
RedBeacon, an emerging startup with former Google employees as founders, on Wednesday announced a couple strategic moves to distribute its local jobs service. As part of its move to have a "white-label" service, RedBeacon has announced its first partner - BigTent, a social community for organizing groups with a lot of mothers as members. ...
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RedBeacon Takes Local Search Social
It is fascinating to see the power of people when they get together to create meaningful products that add real value to peoples' lives. RedBeacon's simple design garnered it the top prize at TechCrunch50 in 2009. The founders Ethan Anderson, Yaron Binur, and Aaron Lee are former Google product managers. ...
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Red Beacon Teams with BigTent, Adds "Friendly Advice"
Red Beacon, one of the new breed of social/local leads providers for SMBs, said it is now available throughout the entire Bay Area and teaming up with BigTent, a mega-moms network in the Bay Area with more than 100 local cells. BigTent will receive a revenue share carved from Red Beacon's 10 percent commission. ...
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Recession Spawning New Entrepreneurs
During a recession, the threat of layoffs and fears about money weigh heavy on many people's minds but for others a downturn in the economy can be a huge opportunity. While some frugal souls hoard their money and subside on a steady diet of Ramen noodles ...
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Startup of the Day
The Microsoft™ BizSpark startup of the day is Redbeacon, based in the US. You will find below an interview with Ethan Anderson, Co-founder of Redbeacon. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day!
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Connecting the dots
An Israeli MIT graduate and former Google employee with both business smarts and social vision has set up a new Internet site connecting consumers to services.
Read ArticleRedbeacon lights way for service providers, clients to find each other
Bay Area startup Redbeacon Inc. has taken the phone book and brought it into the Internet age. "Whenever we needed a local service, we really felt like it was a painful process," said Redbeacon co-founder Yaron Binur....
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Get Bids From Multiple Service Providers With Redbeacon
Redbeacon is a service that connects service providers (anything from a handyman to an accountant) to consumers who need such services. On the requesting end, all you need to do is select the service that you need, enter in the date(s) and time that you'd like it done...
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In the Red - The OpenTable of Odd Jobs
But sometimes you wish it were easier - as easy as snapping your fingers and summoning your own household savant. Enter San Mateo-based Redbeacon.com, an online odd job home base with a thousands-deep database of local accountants...
Read ArticleTC50 Winner RedBeacon Is Now Live In The Bay Area
The wait is finally over, at least for those lucky TechCrunch readers in the Bay Area. Today, TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon is opening its doors to San Francisco and the surrounding area, allowing users to submit requests to local service providers without ever picking up phone....
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Q&A: Yaron Binur of Redbeacon on exchanging local services online
The San Mateo-based company streamlines the model of online transactions in the same way that OpenTable did for restaurant reservations. Consumers can search for services like plumbers, bakers and contractors and arrange appointments through the site...
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Redbeacon Drives New Interest in SMB Appointment/Price Quote Services
The newest entrant to the horizontal mix is Redbeacon, a start-up founded in early 2009 by three Google alumni: Ethan Anderson, Yaron Binur and Aaron Lee. The company, which takes 10 percent of job fees in exchange for providing leads that actually get the job...
Read ArticleRedbeacon claims TechCrunch50's top prize
The winner of this year's TechCrunch50 Best-in-Show Award is Redbeacon, a Web site aimed at matching consumers with small business service providers such as plumbers, landscapers, lawyers or hair stylists...
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Winner of TechCrunch50 RedBeacon on The Rackspace Cloud
When you need a service done – maybe house painting, landscaping, or even plumbing– it can be time consuming to go out and find the best candidate for your job. You may go through your Yellow Pages, send an email to friends and family asking for a referral or even just Google it...
Read articleTechCrunch50 Winner RedBeacon Gets Some TV Love
RedBeacon, the new “OpenTable for local services” that launched at TechCrunch50 last week and took home the top prize from the event, gets a little attention from mainstream media. See founders Aaron Lee, Ethan Anderson and Yaron Binur on Fox Business, the clips are below...
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What I Learned By Entering the TechCrunch50 Conference
Larry Chiang loves observing how tier one MBAs network, self-promote and sell. He unearthed one HBS (Harvard Business School) grad rising named Ethan Anderson. He helped start RedBeacon and their visibility rose significantly after an industry conference called TechCrunch50.
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Redbeacon Is The OpenTable For Everything Else
You need a mover, or you need someone to fix that dent in your car, but you don’t know who to book, nor do you want to deal with the hassle of calling people up, find the prices, and then see if they have a opening for a time that’s convenient for you. Now you have Redbeacon...
Read articleHow To Fix Craigslist
...That brings me to Redbeacon, a startup that launched at this week's TechCrunch50 conference, which offers a promising vision for improving the sort of encounters we now look for on Craigslist. Redbeacon is a cross between Craigslist and OpenTable;...
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How Startups Can Win Big With VCs
Startups looking for VC funding need to make two things crystal clear when pitching to investors: One, how your company plans to distribute your product or services to the masses; and two, why it’s going to shake up the tech industry...
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RedBeacon.com - Booking The Right Local Services
A startup that has been causing quite a buzz recently, Red Beacon couples a simple and useful idea with a good execution. In principle, it will empower you to compare prices for these local services that you might be interested in and book the one that meets your requirements...
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Redbeacon.com's site allows consumers who need a service performed to find and interact with local businesses and professionals.
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Opportunopoly
Redbeacon, a new online competitor to YellowPages, Angie's List, and other online publishers, won the tech industry's version of the Palm D'or at TechCrunch 50 yesterday. You can chalk the win up to a compelling answer to the age old problem of matching local service...
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Ex-Googlers Win TechCrunch50 Prize For 21st Century Yellow Pages
A team of ex-Google employees won the top prize at the annual TechCrunch50 startup contest. Their company, Redbeacon, is sort of a modern-day Yellow Pages. It lets you search nearby service providers -- plumbers, painters, personal trainers, etc...
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Service Matchmaker Redbeacon tops TechCrunch 50
Redbeacon Inc., a startup that helps match service providers and customers, won the top prize as the most promising startup at this year's TechCrunch 50 conference on Tuesday. The San Mateo company helps consumers search for services like plumbers, bakers and contractors...
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Redbeacon from Former Googlers Takes Top Prize at Tech Conference
The 2009 TechCrunch 50 conference was held this week, and 50 start-ups each had a chance to make a presentation, and then the judges picked one grand-prize winner at the end of the whole thing to win $50,000. The winner this year, was a company called Redbeacon...
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TechCrunch50: Dot-com dreams
At the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, the focus is clearly on start-ups with solid business plans. Some are even making money already. But that's not to say entrepreneurs have given up on the attention-getting gimmickry that often characterizes such trade shows.
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TechCrunch50 Celebrates RedBeacon
TechCrunch50 Celebrates Redbeacon as Top Winner For Its 2009 Chapter - Simplicity Wins and So Does The Consumers! RedBeacon allows consumers who need a service performed to find and interact online with local businesses and professionals...
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RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009
The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors.
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TC50: RedBeacon, the market for local services, wins TechCrunch50 award
RedBeacon, a startup that helps people find local services like maids or repairmen, won best of show at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today. The startup is in many ways what Craigslist could have become for local services.
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TechCrunch50: Businesses that match you up
Local Bacon, Red Beacon, and Mota Motors, three newly announced start-ups have a very similar aim: doing something better than Craigslist, and making money off it. In Local Bacon's case, it's helping job seekers and employees find each other by simplifying data.
Read articleTC50: RedBeacon Lets You Hire Local Service Providers Online, Without Any Phone Calls
The web is loaded with sites offering listings and reviews for local services, with mainstays like Yelp and Craigslist leading the pack. But when it comes to actually executing a transaction with one of these service providers ...
Read articleTC50: Need someone to mow your lawn? Redbeacon creates a market for local services
Need a plumber? A gardener? Someone who can do another random job? A startup called Redbeacon says it can help you find the right person when you want, for the right price. The company demonstrated its service at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco.
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