Location: 19046 Bruce B Downs Blvd #225, Tampa, Florida FL, United States

Founded in: 2007
Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 1-5
Profitable year: 2012
Short URL: vator.co/mini-cities

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Mini Cities

Connecting Local Business and Local People
Startup/business
Florida, United States United States

http://www.minicities.com

Mini Cities Social Local! Mini Cities social networking in your neighborhood and your community. Online communities of real communities.

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http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/26/7957069-internet-a-top-source-of-local-info-pew-report on September 26

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Congratulations to all round 2 of the Splash Event! on September 19

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Shanna Banana at 04:12pm September 19

Ana--Congrats to YOU & Mini Cities for making it to round 2! Hope you got my emails. :D Best, Shanna

Mini Cities received a vote in the competition: Splash Competition San Francisco (Sept. 2011)

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Company description

Mini Cities brings real communities together online with their own local website. Each Mini Cities site caters to a specific community and offers business listings, coupons, reviews, BIG DEALS and events for that community. Mini Cities launched the first local search and Group Buying internet based franchise and is currently offering franchises nationwide.Mini Cities offers local search and community websites to communities that surround major cities.

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Ana Abraham

Founder - CEO

Ana Abraham is one of our founders. She has served as the Company's President and as a member of the board of directors since our inception on November 21, 2006. Ana Abraham has over 16 years experience developing winning online software and marketing strategies for some of the biggest Web brands today. Ana was a pioneer in the online space creating one of the first online real time chats for the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. The real time chat hosted questions from patients across the United States to physicians attending their annual conference in San Francisco. This was one of the first internet events and put the association on the map as a patient centered organization. Ana went on to lead the development team and was responsible for the user interface architecture and online buying experience for 1-800-Flowers which lead to 1800Flowers.com moving from a small phone-based company to a public internet-based company which went on to beat the giant FTD in the online market space.

Steve Abraham

Founder - CTO

Microsoft Technology Expert, Steve Abraham, holds 8 Microsoft certifications and attained all but one of the certifications within the span of 19 days passing all tests on the first attempt. The SQL Server 2008 exam was also passed on the first attempt but at a later date.

Along with having the above certifications, Steve has also contributed to the development of 4 Microsoft certifications covering SQL Server and ASP.NET. He has participated in writing the objective domain, writing exam questions, reviewing other SMEs exam questions and helped to set the pass / fail criteria for multiple exams.

Steve has also presented at the VBUG developers conference on the Microsoft campus in Reading, UK. Steve is also a contributing author on Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide and SQL Server 2008 Deployment Guide.

Business model

Mini Cities locations help local business owners be found online, have online coupons and very localized Big Deals (Group Buying). Revenue comes from online advertising and Big Deal selling.

Competitive advantage

Mini Cities competitive advantage is the vested feet on the street with our franchise model. Each Franchisee or “Community Connector” lives and loves their community. Not only are they a trusted resource for local search, but they are a resource for the community. Each franchise lives in that community and is vested in that community. Our platform is multitenant and in version 4.0

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Mini Cities was featured in a VatorNews article: "At #SplashLA: Will VCs open their wallets?"

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