EFactor: The First Entrepreneurial Platform to Launch Free Video-Conferencing

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EFactor, the world's largest network for entrepreneurs, will be the first entrepreneurial online platform with videoconferencing technology. It has partnered with ViVu, a leader in desktop videoconferencing solution, to provide global entrepreneurs a virtual environment that makes business meetings, webinars and eLearning a much more accessible and personal experience. As the first entrepreneurial online platform with videoconferencing capability, EFactor is supporting the way entrepreneurs execute business partnerships, communicate with clients, contact investors and sponsors, and absorb knowledge from mentors in the most convenient and interactive way.

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Unlike videoconferencing in other social networks, EFactor's new feature is HD quality with extremely low bandwidth consumption that does not require any installation of hardware or software downloads, enabled by ViVu's MXTP™ technology. One-on-one video chat is free, while group chat up to 8 people costs only $6/month.  Users will even be able to invite non-EFactor members to videoconference or choose different degrees of audience interaction suitable for a video presentation.  EFactor will soon launch a campaign to promote this feature: "Founder-to-Founder, Face-to-Face," which will highlight the community as a revolutionary force, showing the way local and global entrepreneurs conduct business around the world.  Combining videoconferencing with EFactor's various events and tools such as its Mentor Program also aligns with the vision of "making the world a better place."  By giving immediate and easy video access to an incredible lineup of mentors, experts, webinars and eLearning, EFactor continues to elevate the success of aspiring and present entrepreneurs.

"We want to help business owners better communicate with each other while saving cost," Marion Freijsen, co-founder and COO of EFactor, states.  "Adding ViVu's great technology to EFactor's made sense as one of EFactor's core philosophies is the fact that you do business by meeting one another, getting face-to-face. We feel strongly that this new functionality will assist us in helping entrepreneurs receive knowledge and funding, taking part in or running conferences in a visual meeting format."

About EFactor:

EFactor, the world's largest entrepreneurial community, provides its members with the people, the tools, and the expertise to succeed. With close to a million users in 185 countries, EFactor offers a unique mix of online and offline events and meeting places around the world to make real and lasting connections, acquire knowledge, generate business, find financing, and save cost. EFactor is incorporated and headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A. www.Efactor.com

For more information please contact: Wendy Hung, Marketing Director at EFactor. EFactor: [email protected], online at www.efactor.com/wendy or Twitter: @WendyEFactor

About ViVu:

From the executive suite to the trading floor, ViVu is the first company to deliver HD quality multiparty video collaboration to PCs, Macs, iPads and Android phones, through its patented MXTP™ technologies.  ViVu's cloud based solutions can massively scale to provide quick and secure video collaboration at every enterprise desktop with zero proprietary hardware and no client software. Fortune 500 companies have leveraged ViVu's video-over-the-web expertise to provide a more personal, and therefore more compelling meeting experience than other meeting solutions deliver.  Founded in 2008, ViVu is a privately held company with corporate headquarters based in Cupertino, California.  For more information, go to www.vivu.tv or Twitter @ViVuTv.

SOURCE EFactor