Top 5 Innovative Startup App Ideas To Create Change In 2021 Around The World!

Digital evolution has created a promising space for people to be influenced by the technological world in the means of mobile apps. With new genres of apps becoming available to the public such as Spotify, Tinder, and Uber. The development of these apps is resulting in an increase in popularity and success around the world. We have compiled a list of the 5 best app ideas for startups, especially if you are in search of new mobile app ideas!

1. Airbnb For Cars App

There has always been a form of Uber, Lyft, Didi, and Grab for short-distance travel. However, when it came to long-distance travel most had trouble securing a ride until Airbnb for Cars was created. Prior to this star-up app, many had to rely on the traditional car company rentals to take them places. However, this was both highly-priced and poor on advertisement, hence hard to find a trustable and noteworthy company to work with. Airbnb for cars made this possible!

2. Snow Removal App

Winter is a season that impacts many parts of North America for several months of the year. Imagine waking up on a busy work morning getting ready for work, anyone's last wish is to be outside in the cold attempting to shovel snow off of your driveway, car, porch, etc. With a snow removal app, you’ll kick start an amazing business plowing through a variety of services to make every morning a good morning!

3. Peer-To-Peer Self Storage App

The need for additional storage space is necessary to be organized. It is, however, difficult to find a suitable space that can accommodate your things. But it is now possible to associate people who have extra storage space with renters who are in desperate need of space to transfer their items with a self-storage app, such as Neighbor Network for renters and hosts. So, by creating an effective storage app platform that can be beneficial to them as well as to you as a company, you can kick start your business.

4. Al-Based Picture Translation App

When traveling, being able to speak a foreign language to get directions or communicate where you would like to be dropped off by your driver can get difficult. With the use of an Al-Based Picture Translation app, you can communicate and understand boards, images, texts, and ask for directions in the hands of a mobile app. The features on the app allow one to listen, read and ask to translate just about anything. When traveling becomes possible again, this app can make the biggest difference in any traveler's life!

5. Scan and Shop

Shopping can get crazy especially around the holidays. Scan and shop provide an innovative system where shoppers can take pictures to scan products, where the app will direct them to other similar or alternative products with the same ingredients, products, size, etc. This potential start-up app can become highly successful in developmental companies that have experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. This app can be a life-changer especially in times like Covid when going to stores to search for exact or similar products can be difficult and now could be done through the comfort of your home!

Reach out to one of our experts at ISU Corp, to get started, or if you have any additional inquiries about creating your own app!

Why Choosing The Right Website Design Company is Important and Our Top 10 Picks

If you need to create a new website, it is important to make sure that you select a reliable, easy-to-use website design company that can accommodate all your needs. In 2021, websites must follow three main requirements in order to meet existing web standards: 

• Loading Speed

• Aesthetic

• Cross-Device Compatibility 

Without meeting these specific criteria, your website could be associated with issues such as: 

• A high Bounce Rate (People landing on your website and leaving immediately)

• Negative brand perception

• Low Search Engine visibility

Two Important Factors In Your Website Design

The 2018 “Best Practices” website acknowledges the need for websites to be elegant, functional, straightforward, and reasonable. Since people are using all sorts of devices to navigate the web these days, responsive design using HTML5 and CSS3 is crucial. 

1. Your Website Will Be Accessed By A Variety Of Devices

Android, iOS, tablet, laptop, smartphones, desktop -  your site needs to load easily, look fantastic, and be compatible with all formats and devices which could potentially access it. A responsive design automatically adjusts your site to optimally display on the device accessing it. 

2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

These days, SEO is a big element that can be designed into a site in the early days of planning, ensuring that the site meets best practices. This can avoid the blacklisting of popular search engines like Google and Bing and making sure your site reaches those intended. 

Google’s new search engine rule has been changed and its new key priority is the transparency on who owns a website. This ensures that it's imperative, in order to be trustworthy, to share information on who you are, have easy access to Contact Page, and a visible Privacy Policy. 

Top 10 Website Design Companies in Vancouver (+ A Bonus)

1. Forge and Smith 

With UI/UX, Digital Strategy, Content Marketing, and 70% of Web Design Focus.

2. Graphically Speaking 

With Digital Strategy, eCommerce, and 50% of Web Design Focus.

3. Stigan Media 

With Branding & Logo Design, SEO, Content Marketing, and 30% of Web Design Focus.

4. Daniel Choi Design 

With Branding & Logo Design, UI/UX, and 60% of Web Design Focus.

5. ImageX

With 90% of Web Design Focus.

6. Blueberry Cloud

With Branding & Logo Design, and 75% of Web Design Focus.

7. BragDeal Inc.

With Digital Strategy, eCommerce, and 50% of Web Design Focus.

8. Burst Creative Group

With Graphic Design, SEO, and 30% of Web Design Focus. 

9. Aroma Web Design 

With Branding & Logo Design, SEO, Digital Strategy, Content Marketing, and 20% of Web Design Focus. 

10. Witty Cookie 

With Branding & Logo Design, UI/UX, Digital Strategy, Content Marketing, and 20% of Web Design Focus. 

11. Real Story Marketing 

Although based in Waterloo, Ontario, this company uses Story Brand Marketing for their web design to implement making audiences feel like the hero in need of guidance. Their process goes even beyond the hero-guide aspect by ensuring thoughtful designs that work.

Reasons Why These Companies Are The Top Website Design Companies In Vancouver

The Top 10 websites listed are currently focused on web design. The ranking criteria are based on a variety of significant contributing factors, including credibility and reviews, length of time in business, service, and portfolio.

Sometimes when you create a new website, you have secondary needs and you should weigh them when selecting the best company for your project. These requirements may include Graphic Design, Branding, Logo Design, UI/UX design, Digital Strategy, Online Marketing, SEO, and CMS & eCommerce website development.

If you are interested in learning more or want to create your own website, reach out to one of our experts at ISU Corp.

Technologies and the New Way of Work by David Mansilla

In today’s economy, technology is enabling a new wave of independent workers called “the gig economy players”.

Since the industrial revolution and the introduction of the 9 to 5 workday, we got used to working for a large employer. This came with the hopes of a good pension when you retire, while having financial certainty most of the time.

However, this was not the case for most of humanity’s history. If you research it, you will find out that most people were independent workers for most of our existence. In fact, the human economy was based on your local geographical location. As we started cooperating more and more, we started specializing in providing value based on a single trade, like farmers, butchers, etc. As technology started to expand, it allowed humanity to play on a larger scale; for example, when we developed bigger and stronger ships, we were able to make trades with other continents. Did you know that the stock market was invented in the Netherlands as a way to hedge risk from sail ships failing to bring and send goods over the oceans?

According to Sofi.com here is the stock exchange timeline: 

• the Late 1400s: Antwerp, or modern-day Belgium, becomes the center of international trade. Merchants buy goods anticipating that prices will rise in order to net them a profit. Some bond trading also occurs.

•  1611: The first modern stock trading is created in Amsterdam. The Dutch East India Company is the first publicly traded company, and for many years, it is the only company with trading activity on the exchange.

• the Late 1700s: A small group of merchants made the Buttonwood Tree Agreement. The men meet daily to buy and sell stocks and bonds, a practice that eventually comes to form the New York Stock Exchange.

•  1790: The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is formed, helping spur the development of the U.S.’s financial sectors and the country’s expansion west.

•  1896: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is created. It initially has 12 components that were mainly industrial companies.

•  1923: The early version of the S&P 500 is created by Henry Barnum Poor’s company, Poor’s Publishing. It begins by tracking 90 stocks in 1926.

•  1929: The U.S. stock market crashes after the decade-long “Roaring 20s,” when speculators made leveraged bets on the stock market, inflating prices.

•  1941: Standard & Poor’s is founded when Poor’s Publishing merges with Standard Statistics.

•  1971: Trading begins on another U.S. stock exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, otherwise known as the NASDAQ.

•  1987: Corporate buyouts and portfolio insurance helped prices in the market run-up until Oct. 19, what becomes known as “Black Monday.”

•  2008: The stock market crashes after the boom and bust of the housing market, along with the proliferation of mortgage-backed securities in the financial sector.

And now with the emerging new technologies like personal computers and the Internet, it seems that we are now embracing a new era of independent work pretty similar to preindustrial times, but this time with much more comfort and abundance.

Here are the top freelance gigs that are dominating the market today:

• Software Developer

• Graphic Designer

• Ghostwriter

• Copywriter

• Digital Marketing

• Photographer

• Videographer

• Translation services

• Public Relations

• Drop-Shipping reseller

• Information Products developer

• E-Commerce retailers

What types of technologies are enabling these new ways of doing business?

As we previously stated, it is thanks to the technology that we are now able to break free from the status quo and be independent when it comes to generating an income. In today’s economy, the Internet revolution is enabling a new set of human experience transformation technologies that I believe will be responsible for our growth in all areas of our lives. According to one of the people I admire the most on this topic, Peter Diamandis, we can see these trends in technologies that will revolutionize humanity:

• Biotech

• Hyper-Connectivity (5G and beyond)

• Nanotech

• 3D printing

• AI

• Renewable energy

• Genomics

• Blockchain and Distributed technologies

And this is just the beginning. However, the bigger question is why are people choosing to become independent over having a stable, secure job? It’s funny because this question is the entire reason why I became an entrepreneur. The simple answer is FREEDOM! We will give anything for freedom, even certainty, and economic stability. You see, I actually grew up in the corporate world, jumping from big corporations to even bigger ones, making huge salary increases along the way. But I always felt trapped in the rat race. When it got so unbearable, I decided to roll the dice and go out on my own. Bear in mind I had a wife, 3 kids, and a mortgage to pay, and… it did not matter. I still jumped into the black void of uncertainty. Now, after 15 years, I must say it has been one of the best decisions of my life. Don’t get me wrong, the first 10 years were so hard I actually almost died from a heart attack. But now, looking back, I am living life on my own terms, using technology to the max, and making incredible abundance along the way. So, what was it? Again, for me and most independent people out there, it was the freedom of controlling my own time! 

I wrote a book about it last year called “Breaking out of Corporate Jail” and it quickly became a number one Amazon bestseller, and you know why? Not because I am a great author – far from it! I actually had to hire a ghostwriter to get it done. It actually became a best seller because most of us are looking for freedom among all else, and now in today’s economy, we have the technologies that allow us not only to survive on our own but to thrive. As I am writing this note, I have over 45 software engineers working with me, soon to be 50 and I consider them the best in the world. I have developers that have been with me since the beginning (2005) and you know why they stay? Because I give them the freedom I was looking for when I was a corporate employee. We have people on our team representing over 8 countries, and we are getting stronger every day. Why? Because we are using technology and freedom to our advantage.

My good friend Olavo asked me to write this article as he is teaching a Masters class at a University and now you know too, how I would not be surprised if by 2040 most of the workforce consists of independent individuals doing what they want, when they want, with whom they want, while creating incredible abundance for them and others.