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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.

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Redbeacon 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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Demo Girl

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...

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TC50 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...

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Redbeacon 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...

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TechCrunch50 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...

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How 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.

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TC50: 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 ...

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TC50: 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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