This week’s 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation included pitches from an online legal claim resolution service and a website/mobile app for price-matching grocery items.
Chris Lucas and Susan Lucas, co-founders of yurJURY, explained how their company works with lawyers and insurance companies, as well as plaintiffs and defendants, in testing the viability of their legal cases. The service is open to anyone who wants to pre-litigate by using an online mock jury that can be questioned and provide feedback in a confidential chat room.
“Attorneys just love it,” Chris Lucas said of the service, with results that can influence how a legal case is eventually tried or settled out of court.
Customers of yurJURy pay $495 for each mock trial, which typically takes three to five days to be decided. Mock jurors are paid $15 per case, which usually involves about an hour of their time.
Next up was Maureen Welsh, founder of My Strategic Shopping, previously known as KC Strategic Shopping. The stay-at-home mother of four from Overland Park said that her grocery price-matching website and mobile app provided the easiest method for families to cut the time and money spent on groceries “without having to cut a coupon.”
For a weekly fee of $2.50 (the first four weeks are free), My Strategic Shopping gives detailed lists of items at the different prices offered by multiple grocery store chains. Users are empowered to “cherry-pick the best sales,” Welsh said, by simply going to their preferred store that offers price matching. The average savings on groceries is 30 percent, she said.
The site also offers Welsh’s blogs and video tutorials on how to most effectively price-match, which she called an “underutilized strategy,” especially for healthy food items. My Strategic Shopping is available to grocery shoppers in Missouri and Kansas, with plans to expand to Nebraska this fall and in Oklahoma in the spring of 2015.