wisheo
Location: 320 Adeline Avenue, San Jose, California 95136, United States United States
Founded in: 2008
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 1-5
Short URL: vator.co/wisheo
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Followers (3)

wisheo

A new approach to group gifts and wishlists
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.wisheo.com
About
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Company description
Wisheo takes a new innovative approach to group gifts and wishlists. Its unique approach enables people to give or receive a few good gifts instead of many "unwanted" gifts. Users can setup group gifts and wishlists for special occasions and have multiple people contribute towards the same gift. It allows people in an easy and fun way to pool their money together and buy a few epxnsive gifts. It eliminates the hassle of sending emails back and forth and collecting all the contributions. Best of all, people can leverage their facebook connections.

 

People can setup and organize group gifts for their friends, invite friends to participate, collect contributions via Paypal, and buy the gifts. Wisheo also allows users to setup wishlists for themselves. In contrast to generic wishlist services, Wisheo enables multiple people to fund the wishlist. This allows people to put a lot of nice items on the wishlist since all the contributors will share the cost.

 

Whether it is a group gift for a friend or a wishlist for oneself, Wisheo's goal is to give people everything they need to simplify the group gift and wishlist process.

 

Team

Matthias Zeitler - Technology
Matthias is a pioneer in global content lifecycles and translation process automation with lots of international business experience after leading an offshore software development organization in Russia and working in multiple countries. He currently works as a business consultant at SDL international. He holds a BS in CS and is currently working on his MBA at SCU.

 

Stefan Pongratz - Marketing
Stefan works at Anritsu as a product marketing manager. He has more than nine years of varied RF experience and brings five years of product management experience to the group. He holds a BSEE and MSEE and is currently working on an MBA at UC Davis.

 

Benjamin Bigaut - Graphics-User Experience
Benjamin has a strong interest in graphic arts and digital photography and is fluent in Photoshop. His artistic skills and experience will provide Wisheo's users with the best graphical interface. Benjamin has over seven years of experience in the field of manufacturing engineering and is currently working as a manufacturing engineer manager at Anritsu. He holds a BSEE from Virginia Tech.

Business model

Affiliate commision with partners.

Every time a gift is funded and purchased from Wisheo, we get commission from our partners

Competitive advantage

 - Fit (Address the entire group gift process from start to finish). competitive products provide a sub-set of the features and services we offer. We address the entire process from start to finish: set up group gift, suggest group gift, personalize invite, invite friends, collect contribution via paypal, monitor contributions from Wisheo, send out reminders, buy the gifts from Wisheo

 - The only complete solution on Facebook