November Demo List
* Final Reminder * Fill Out Team Survey If You Want To Present. Here is the presentation order (from the teams that already filled it out at http://startupweekend.org/teamsurvey)
* Tech Check * Sign up at the front of the room for your tech check to make sure your presentation will work.
* Presentations * 5 minutes to present, 2 minutes of Q&A
OxyMusic
NoteHub
Instafame
AskWhoWhat (107.6.84.30)
AskWhoWhat solves two major problems with market research.
For businesses, AskWhoWhat utilizes technology to eliminate the middle men. We make it easy for everyone and anyone to obtain hyper-focused answers from their target market without consultants or the extra legwork.
For users, we made sure surveys get them cold hard cash and products they can pickup right away from local businesses No more annoying points systems or sketchy survey sites with the “”chance”" to win an item.
Schware (http://shareitsideways.com)
community resource sharing
How I Bling (formerly If I Win) (www.howibling.com/lottery)
Our website allows users to experience the thrill of divvying up their (virtual) lottery winnings while checking the winning lottery numbers. They can spend their hypothetical jackpot on a host of items, ranging from consumer electronics to luxury cars (reflecting real world pricing), by filling a virtual basket.
Urban Safari (http://urbansafari.mygamesonline.org/form.php)
Have fun at next networking event, use Urban Safari to target who you meet and break the ice in a fun and engaging way.
amusemi (http://amusemi.com/wordpress/?gallery=amusemi)
Amusemi is the best way to meet new people.
Look through profiles, choose people you’d like to meet, say which days you’re available. Amusemi will set up a group dinner where you get to meet at least one of the people you chose.
Closed Capp (http://www.closedcapp.com/)
Closed captions for your everyday conversations!
Don’t know sign language? Need to get your message across clearly? Speak into your phone and the words are projected large on the screen. Talk with anyone face to face using Closed Closed Capp.
Eventiply (http://eventip.ly)
Post. Bid. Celebrate! Reinventing the world of event planning
CK Tech (www.cindiathome.com)
Building a prototype that enables us control home appliances remotely to facilitate lifestyle change to a more efficient way of life, and also to support going green by saving energy
HealthShare (http://twitter.com/nutritelligence)
An application to track and share your daily health; food logs, exercise, and glucose levels with your personal physician.
Poll US (pollus)
Poll US is a platform to rapidly and inexpensively generate polling data for political candidates. We are constantly acquiring data through polls on our platform, so our information is as recent as possible.
PitchRack (www.pitchrack.com)
A platform for pitching ideas and getting feedback. Choose a problem. Pitch a solution in a one-minute video. Get crowd-sourced feedback. See which pitches get the most support and use the feedback to improve upon the ideas.
Kastr (www.livekastr.com)
liveKASTr brings you the ability to broadcast LIVE video from your mobile device and have thousands of viewers around the world NOT ONLY watch your liveKAST, but actually interact with you live — providing feedback via Tweets and posts, and even telling you which way to turn and what to film next.
Outovate (http://outovate.co)
Outovate is an innovation crowdsourcing platform for consumer products. The idea is to do for consumer product innovation what Twitter did for news: give the power to the people. Outovate will connect great product ideas with companies to bring them to market, while helping those companies innovate and validate like lean startups.
Motive List (http://www.motivelist.com/)
Most people’s current todo list program has them leaving behind a trail of unfinished todos and long-forgotten lists. Motive List will change all of that – it’s a todo list which takes productivity to the next level by connects them to real-life rewards and punishments.
Park.IT (www.theparkitapp.com)
Park.IT is a crowdsourced, mobile based real-time app that guides its users to the city’s best parking spots. Parking spots that are available include street parking, garage parking and individually offered parking by community members. The application connects strangers to share unused and underused parking spaces throughout the city and bring people together transact.
Postd (50.57.186.209)
Postd is a platform for connecting people with their favorite influencers in physical, printed form.
TaxiKnow.me (http://unbouncepages.com/taxiknow-me/)
TaxiKnow.me is cool way to save money on cabs and connect with friends. Use TaxiKnow.me to find nearby friends who are traveling in the same direction and are also looking for a cab.
Reading Buddy (www.readingbuddy.me)
Improve reading comprehension of students K-8 through an e-reader tool
Waag.it (www.waggit.com)
We’re a cooky gang of designers, marketers and developers that are trying to solve the problem of ‘who’s going to watch my dog this weekend?!’
By creating a trustworthy and fun online community of dog lovers, we’re pushing for people to discover their local pets and form connections that go beyond casual meetings at the dog park. We’re all about dogs and we’re all about people loving dogs.
November Startup Weekend Info
TICKETS
Released in 2 batches
First Batch – 10/26 at 1pm
Second Batch – 11/2 at 1pm
Order tickets based on your background:
Technical = You will be writing software to build a groups project over the weekend
Designer = You will be creating the visual design of your team’s project
Business = You will be contributing to the business direction of your team’s project
If there are no tickets for your discipline, wait until the next batch and put yourself on the waitlist.
If you sign up for a ticket type that you are not qualified for, your ticket will be voided and refunded.
PITCHES
Pitches on Friday night will be in a “pitch-fire” format, which means you will have just 60 seconds to get the audience interested in your idea. You will have no slides or props -just your voice. You won’t have time to go over features, so just focus on the core of the idea and make your enthusiasm contagious. Here is the format for pitches that we recommend:
Who are you and what is your background? (5-10 Seconds)
What is the problem that your product is solving? Or, begin with a story (10-20 Seconds)
Explain the product and how it solves the problem (10-20 seconds)
Who do you need on your team (a developer, marketing, designer?) (5-10 seconds)
Finally, make up a name for your startup so the facilitator can give it a title
VOTING & FORMING TEAMS
After pitches, you will have more time to mingle.If you pitched an idea, this is your time to start recruiting others that may be interested in your idea. If you did not pitch, or if you are having trouble finding others to join your team, use this time to seek out those that pitched other ideas that you found interesting.
Next, the crowd votes on their favorite pitches. This is simply a way to encourage quick team forming. This is by no means an exclusive process and if you pitched an idea and it is not voted as one of the top ideas, you are more than welcome to work on it if you find some other people who want to work on the idea with you. From there we will form teams and these are the startup ideas that will be worked on over the weekend.
FAQ
Check out some FAQ on the Startup Weekend site: http://startupweekend.org/about/faq/
SCHEDULE
Friday:
6:00pm – Doors open – Mingle @ General Assembly’s Open House (delicious pizza served)
6:45pm – Kickoff
7:00pm – Speakers and API Demos
8:00pm – Pitches Begin – (60 seconds per person)
9:30pm – Mingle and voting
10:00pm – Team forming – then start working!
11:00pm – Roll out
Saturday:
9:30am – Doors open. Breakfast served
10:00am – Teams continue working. Mentors arrive and begin working with teams.
1:00pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Team check-ins
7:00pm – Dinner
11:00 pm – Roll out (You need to leave)
Sunday:
9:30am – Doors open. Breakfast served
1:00pm – Lunch
3:00pm – Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm – FINAL PRESENTATIONS
6:30pm – Dinner, Judging & awards
7:00pm – Wrap up and go home!
August 2011 Startup Weekend Winners
1st Prize: ShareWith911
- Incorporation Package from Cooley
- SendGrid Silver Level Account
- 2 General Assembly Classes
- 2 Skillshare Classes
- Amazon Web Services Code for $200
- 6 Months Shopify Credit & Chat with Shopify Execs
- 1 hour consulting time with DFJ Gotham
- Free Account at Silicon Valley Bank
2nd Prize: Readbak
- SendGrid Bronze Level
- 6 Months Shopify Credit
- 1 General Assembly Class
- 1 Skillshare class
- 1 hour consulting time with DFJ Gotham
- Free Account at Silicon Valley Bank
3rd Prize: StyleCrush.es
- SendGrid Bronze Level
- 6 Months Shopify Credit
- 1 Skillshare Class
- 1 hour consulting time with DFJ Gotham
- Free Account at Silicon Valley Bank
Honorable Mention: Legal Sailing
- 1 Skillshare Class
- 1 General Assembly Class
Spirit Of The Event: What The Founder
- SMASH Summit with Dave McClure Ticket
- 2 x 1 month NWC Day Tripper memberships
- 1 General Assembly class
Best Design: Walky.me
- Future of Web Design Conference 2day pass
Best Design (honorable mention): Froosh
- An Event Apart Conference Pass
Best Technical Achievement: inboxdr
- CodeConf Ticket
- 2 Pragmatic Programmer ebooks per team member
Best Technical Achievement (honorable mention): Readbak
- 1 Pragmatic Programmer ebook per team member
Most Fun: Tractorbe.am
- 2 Gamification Summit 2 day passes
August 2011 Startup Weekend Teams
I’ll Eat It!
Ever seen a tasty treat on food show, and you thought to yourself, ‘I’d eat that!’ You’re in the right place! We’ll help you find the delicacy of your choosing at a location near you. If we can’t find it there, we’ll send it to you!
PatMyBack
Resisting your impulses is hard – join a community of people who understand just how hard it is. Maybe you don’t need a weekly self help group, but don’t you want to tell somebody about those little victories? It’s those moments throughout the day when the craving hits, and you beat that sucker down. No steps, no sign-ups, no religious overtones – just will power.
Foodalicious
Foodalicious is a service that allows you to rate not just restaurants but the individual food items at restaurants. This will not only allow users to make a more educated decision on their food choices but also allow us to make recommendations to users on what foods they could potentially have (Pandora for food!)
Hidden Gems
A school administrative tool that is a Web-Based Disciplinary Tracking system that will connect students to Community Organizations to target their social and behavioral issues to make them better social citizens.
Walky.me
Wayfinding through buildings. Formerly known as Cover Me.
What The Founder
You think you’re a startup? Prove it.
Find out if your founding team is on the same page. Get your Startup Compatibility Score ™, fix what’s partially working or reject what’s broken.
Lockeroom
Lockeroom lets you create tournaments on demand.
Readbak
Turning all the world’s news text in to audio. Then delivering it to you cross platform, however you want.
Pawtrackr
an Android app focused on making it easier for dogs to connect with other dogs to have fun.
Froosh!
Froo.sh features the latest local specials by connecting consumers who are passionate about locally sourced foods with local specials at restaurants within their area.
Style Crushes
Style Crushes hunts for fashion items you see on the street and provides recommendations for different products at a more affordable price point
Legal Sailing
Interactive decision tree for start-ups to obtain legal advice
OinkerBox.com
To integrate security deposits and dispute resolution for sublease agreements
inboxdr
Email analytics
Plugs and Wifi
Find a place to work near you for an hour or an afternoon.
Postcards From Anywhere
Send real postcards from anywhere in the world to anyone with personal, handwritten messages. For fun. For flair. For your collection. Or for your alibi!
DoughMine
A budgeting mobile app. designed to assist high school to young professionals to have a visual aid in managing their budget.
TractorBe.am
Invite only sites for invite only sites
Airrands
A web-based platform for local errands and niche services
Share With 911
Creating emergency information network that enables 911, First Responders and Citizens to share information bi-directionally via mobile and web.
August Startup Weekend Info
PITCHES
Pitches on Friday night will be in a “pitch-fire” format, which means you will have just 60 seconds to get the audience interested in your idea. You will have no slides or props -just your voice. You won’t have time to go over features, so just focus on the core of the idea and make your enthusiasm contagious. Here is the format for pitches that we recommend:
Who are you and what is your background? (5-10 Seconds)
What is the problem that your product is solving? Or, begin with a story (10-20 Seconds)
Explain the product and how it solves the problem (10-20 seconds)
Who do you need on your team (a developer, marketing, designer?) (5-10 seconds)
Finally, make up a name for your startup so the facilitator can give it a title
VOTING & FORMING TEAMS
After pitches, you will have more time to mingle.If you pitched an idea, this is your time to start recruiting others that may be interested in your idea. If you did not pitch, or if you are having trouble finding others to join your team, use this time to seek out those that pitched other ideas that you found interesting.
Next, the crowd votes on their favorite pitches. This is simply a way to encourage quick team forming. This is by no means an exclusive process and if you pitched an idea and it is not voted as one of the top ideas, you are more than welcome to work on it if you find some other people who want to work on the idea with you. From there we will form teams and these are the startup ideas that will be worked on over the weekend.
FAQ
Check out some FAQ on the Startup Weekend site: http://startupweekend.org/about/faq/
SCHEDULE
Friday:
5:00pm – Doors open – Mingle @ General Assembly’s Open House (delicious pizza served)
6:15pm – Kickoff
6:30pm – Speakers and API Demos
8:00pm – Pitches Begin – (60 seconds per person)
9:30pm – Mingle and voting
10:00pm – Team forming – then start working!
11:00pm – Roll out
Saturday:
9:30am – Doors open. Breakfast served
10:00am – Teams continue working. Mentors arrive and begin working with teams.
1:00pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Team check-ins
7:00pm – Dinner
11:00 pm – Roll out (You need to leave)
Sunday:
9:30am – Doors open. Breakfast served
1:00pm – Lunch
3:00pm – Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
5:00pm – FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm – Dinner, Judging & awards
8:00pm – Wrap up and go home!
