By: Co-Editor, RB:

Here is a site that seems like more of the same. But on further inspection it has some merit and originality. TeamLab.com is a collaboration platform developed by Ascensio System SIA, a Riga, Latvia company providing IT solutions for corporate and personal use.

TeamLab.com is an open source free platform for project management and business collaboration. TeamLab allows employees to organize business tasks and project milestones, monitor project member’s activity, share documents, and maintain a corporate blog, forum and events feed.

TeamLab is provided in two deployment solutions: as a hosted version in the cloud (free) and as open-source software.

TeamLab acknowledges that there are numerous services operating in this space but they point out that they are either payable, ad-based or offered free with very limited basic
functionality.

TeamLab.com gives away TeamLab with no limitations, at no cost and it is ad-free. Moreover, they have an extra guarantee for data safety of a corporate client, in particular the availability to back up their own portal and deploy it on their own servers at any time.

TeamLab is a free and easy software solution for corporate and personal use.

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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Today, I will discuss a site that can be an extreme help to our readers and small businesses and startups everywhere. The site is called docstoc.com.

Docstoc.com is the premier online community and marketplace to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.

Docstoc, Inc was founded by Jason Nazar and Alon Shwartz. Its product was subsequently launched to the public in November 2007. It is backed by the venture capital firm Rustic Canyon. They founders also received funding from the co-founders/investors in MySpace, LowerMyBills.com, Mp3.com, PriceGrabber and Baidu. The company is located in Santa Monica, California.

Docstoc also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media.

On March 3, 2010, the document-sharing site announced the opening of a marketplace to enable any business owners to buy and sell professional content through the DocStoc platform. The company is calling it an eBay for business resources and documents.

The company has partnered with LegalZoom who is selling its content throughout the site. Docstoc is one of the fastest growing internet companies targeting Small Business, it currently reaches over 20M unique visitors a month, and are aiming to be the largest trafficked site on the internet for small business

The company is offering deals with this new marketplace. You can keep 100% of all revenue for the first 60 days (then split even 50/50 between the content owner and Docstoc, no other fees or charges).

With more than 240,000 business start-up documents downloaded last month alone and the average business start-up plan retailing for $15 through the DocStore, there is an opportunity for a marketplace where small businesses owners can sell proven documents to budding entrepreneurs.

Business owners can buy legal agreements, tax forms, HR templates, research reports and more for a fraction of the cost of obtaining them directly through lawyers, accountants, consultants and analysts. For instance, to have a lawyer draw up a partnership agreement would cost a minimum of $500, compared to $25 through the DocStore.

So if you are a startup or small business and are locking to cut professional costs and costs associated with document preparation, I urge you to visit docstoc.com.

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