From keeping in touch to managing your money, the old way isn’t always the right way – sometimes we simply don’t know any better. Thankfully, these startups do, and their fresh digital solutions to time-old problems are here to make life a lot easier, cheaper, and more rewarding.
Revamp Your Entire Business with RevUnit
RevUnit is a digital product development agency, whose top-tier technology experts provide inventive digital solutions for brands big and small.
How do they challenge the status quo?
From the physical space your business occupies to customer interaction, the potential for improvement through digital is infinite – if you know where to look. RevUnit applies a fresh pair of expert eyes to your complete business life-cycle, helping you to see your business in a whole new light, and create new, better ways of doing things across the board.
Whether it’s rapid prototyping techniques or tailored tech office solutions, unconventional marketing methods or digital reputation management, RevUnit’s mantra of “build small, learn fast, iterate often” aims to help your business reach its fullest potential in record time, boosting your bottom line in the process. Sounds sensible, right?
Manage Your Money in a Swipe with Moven
Moven is a mobile first platform, giving users in the US a new way to manage their money via a digital bank account and partner app.
How do they challenge the status quo?
With a digital account, card, and app built specifically with spend tracking in mind, you can hit delete on that homemade worksheet, and start a new financial habit that requires zero effort on your part.
Purchases with the Moven card are automatically categorized on the app, giving you instant access to your spending trends; spending spike alerts notify you when you’re spending faster or more than usual; and the money path graph charts your daily spending against your average. Whether it’s a new car or a new dress you’re ogling, these real-time insights empower you to make smarter financial decisions on the spot, rather than waiting until you’ve tallied up column totals or checked online statements.
On a mission to “bring banking to the digital and mobile age,” Moven’s five-step solution is an automatic, insightful, stress-free way to manage your money, and one they hope will mean you never worry about your finances again. Simply apply, load, spend, track, and control for your all your spend tracking needs, sorted.
Swap Your Landline for Crystal Clear WiFi Calls with NetTalk
NetTalk is a free digital home phone service via wifi and dedicated apps.
How do they challenge the status quo?
According to NetTalk, it’s “time to fire your phone company,” and replace your landline with their digital phone service.
A revamp of the traditional home phone service, NetTalk Duo WiFi works with a standard phone handset, using high speed internet to provide crystal clear calls worldwide. Plus, you can use your home phone number and service on the go with the Connect Talk App on your smartphone, ensuring you can always stay in touch – reliably and at an affordable rate – wherever you are.
There’s no monthly line rental fee either. One bill of $39.95, once per year gives you everything you need for your home phone service, set-up takes just a few minutes, and a range of call plans – including international pay-as-you-go – ensure you’ll only pay for what you need. Plus, free Duo to Duo calls worldwide make it a great way to keep in touch with loved ones living abroad – without breaking the bank or worrying about poor connection.
Time to cut the cord and enjoy crystal clear calls over WiFi? They’ve certainly made a good case.
Get a Global Degree with Ubiquity University
Ubiquity University is a social innovation platform delivering whole brain whole system learning through virtual BA programs, MA courses, and other certificates.
How do they challenge the status quo?
With 50% of recent US graduates unemployed or underemployed, it seems sitting back and enjoying the traditional University experience – for those who can afford it – is no longer going to cut it.
The world’s first truly global university, Ubiquity’s mission is to change the focus of higher-level learning – away from specific institutions and the degrees they offer, and onto the student and the skills they need in a radically changing world. A combination of academic study, self-mastery, and creative collaboration, each Ubiquity course is designed make education more relevant to today’s society. Global pods allow students to interact and collaborate with peers worldwide, and a unique methodology – including real-life missions, personal development exercises, and more – ensures that learning is always relevant to life outside the traditional classroom.
Affordability is also one of Ubiquity’s key differentiating factors. In a market where tuition fees are escalating dramatically year on year, an Ubiquity BA starts at just $3,000 per year. Stopping the debt trend before it’s even begun, this also makes Ubiquity accessible to some of the 100 million qualified students who each year are unable to pursue a degree due to poor infrastructure or lack of funds.
According to Founder CEO, Jim Garrison, “The critical need now is not for industrial workers, but for creative leaders able to think outside the very system that produced them.”
With a mission to ignite, nurture, and amplify the profound genius of each student, it seems Ubiquity is more than moving with the times, it’s reinventing them.
