Rapturepreneurship: The newest, possibly last trend in business
Beware! The end is near! Which means, of course, you’d better cash in while you can. Some entrepreneurs have seen a market ripe for harvest: future raptured souls. See, when the end comes (which may be soon. May 21 didn’t pan out, but 2012 is right around the corner, and this whole debt ceiling thing could spell doom for us all) and hundreds of thousands of people disappear, how will life on earth continue? Well, there’s an app for that:
Keith Preston, owner of Rapture Ready Consulting in Kenton, Ohio…estimates his company grossed $380,000 in 2009 by selling products like…a smartphone app for $4.99 that tells you if you’re in a flood zone. Although sales plummeted to $200,000 in 2010—the short-lived economic uptick, Rapture-sellers say, cast a pall over the sector—Rapture Ready rebounded this year.
Preston isn’t the only one making a move on this market. Take a look at the full article for the other examples.
Full story on Businessweek.
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"Trend Compass".
TC is a new concept in viewing statistics & trends in an animated way
by displaying in one chart 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size & Bubble
color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. Discover trends
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presentation etc. In different business sectors, to name a few we
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Link on Drilling feature (Parent/Child) – Just double-click on any bubble:
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NBC presentation on TED using Trend Compass exported Videos on CNN
Money/Fortune:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/21/from-laughing-to-judging-in-fifty-years-the-evolution-of-televised-emotion/
Link on our new Geographical Trend Compass (Earthquake in Japan – Mag
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http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/japan-earthquake
Link on Ads Monitoring on TV Satellite Channels.
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http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/us_insurance_funds/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aaim_fund_performance/
Link on other KPIs :
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/hospital_performance/
Link on Chile’s Earthquake (Feb 27th 2010):
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Link on weather data :
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Bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers
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Misc Examples :
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/
Princeton University project on US unemployment :
http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf
A video presentation by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of
Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and currently
Chief Economist at the US Treasury:
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1
You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export
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can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.
http://www.epicsyst.com/TrendCompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1.2.2.zip
Video on Trend Compass:
Since we already develop 3D Virtual Reality applications, please find
below a link on a prototype for a new 3D VR Trend Compass application:
Regards.
Amr Salah
Trend Compass Team
Epic Systems
http://www.epicsyst.com