From
Demo
2008
Blist
- Company Address
- 101 Yesler Way, Suite 502
Seattle , WA 98104
- Phone
- 206-340-8008
- URL
-
www.blist.com
- Corporate Officers
- Kevin Merritt, CEO & Founder
- Market Segment
- Consumer Software and Services
- Funding
- Private investors, less than $1 million
- Competitors
- Quickbase, Dabble DB, Zoho DB, MS Access, Filemaker Pro
- Product Description
- blist
is the world’s easiest database. blist is all about
discovering,
sharing, publishing, distributing and subscribing to data at home and
at work. blist’s strikingly visual and intuitive user
interface enables
non-technical people to work with data as powerfully as if they were
supported by an IT staff — without requiring that resource.
blist makes
relational database creation and management as easy as using a
spreadsheet.
- Market Opportunity
- $13.8
billion commercial relational database market (Gartner, 2005). $1.5
billion desktop database market, excluding use of Excel as a database.
blist’s market opportunity includes the bottom 20% of the
relational
database market and the desktop database market.
- DEMO Says
- blist
set out to create the “world’s easiest
database” and it’s achieved that
goal. Sure, you could argue that there are consumer database tools that
are simple to use, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one
that is
simple and highly functional. The blist drag-and-drop user interface
lets individuals build complex databases by thinking about their
information and how they want to use it. The smart go-to-market
strategy -- which turns non-paying consumers into for-fee business
customers -- should set blist on course to be the preferred SaaS
provider of database application services.