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15.09.2011

B2Brev

is like Yelp for business services. It's meant for business owners to review services like Groupon and Living Social, and comment on how those services have helped their business or not. Their daily deals initiative brought in 160,000 worth of reviews for various daily deal services. Business owners can now read reviews from other business who have tried the various daily deal services to decide if joining such a program is right for their business. B2Brev, in beta, plans on monetizing via an affiliate fee for connecting businesses to services and products provided by other businesses. For now, they are selling research reports.

OpenSesame

is an online marketplace for corporate training. Their goal is to make buying and selling corporate e-learning courses as easy as downloading a song from iTunes. The marketplace will be crowdsourced with an aim to provide a fresh and broad selection of courses. Sellers can add courses just by setting up a profile, uploading a course (.zip, SCORM, AICC, or video file), entering a description and pricing, and validating it to make sure it will display in any learning management system. After the course is validated, OpenSesame promises to review and publish your course to their marketplace within one business day.

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