Tonight I had the opportunity to hear the final pitches at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2012 at Georgia Tech’s ATDC. The teams did a great job, especially considering they only had a weekend. With over 120 people, Atlanta Startup Weekend continues to be one of the largest annual startup events in town.
Here’s a summary of the different projects:
Wink (overall winner)
– winkandlink.co
– Meet friends of friends
– Dating site
– $2.1 billion industry, 1,500 dating sites
– Use Facebook social graph
– Matching through mutual friends
– Target U.S. young-to-middle age
– Freemium model
– Daily deal affiliates sales to make money
SceneFlow
– Way to turn an idea into a fleshed out screen play for movie
– Don’t worry about scripting formatting — it’s automated
– Subscription service on a per-user basis
– Collaborate with multiple people on the screen play
– Script, scenes with description, list of scenes, WYSIWYG editor for the scene, multiple people can work in editor at same time from different browsers
– Give me the script button generates a fully formatted Word Doc
– API already available
LoveBug
– Mobile app for couples to communicate in a romantic and fun way
– Communication is number one reason for breakup and divorce
– Pair launched and quickly reached 100,000 downloads
– Competitors: Facebook, Path, Pair
– Fun games like quizes, voice notes, recommendations for products based on pins/likes
SayRoom
– Social space for people to capture 10 second audio bites
– Serves the casual user as well as businesses to help share their short messages
– Audio is stronger than text
– iPhone app to record and broadcast audio
– Emotion driven alternative to texting and Twitter
Tuxedo
– Weddings are $40B annually
– Avg wedding is $25k
– Making weddings easy, fun, social, and memorable
– Text, images, audio
– iOS initially
– Stream view of the wedding
ServicePunch
– Manage your services and products
– Avg household has 26 products that need regular maintenance
– Car servicing, oil changing, home A/C filter, etc
– Reminders by email, text, and voice
FinishBig
– Track, log, compare, and share your official race results
– Target is the running enthusiast = 2 million runners
– Runners want to track results plus more like weather, location, satisfaction, etc
– Data is super valuable
– Deliver recommendations for your own personal awesome sauce
– @finishbigapp on Twitter
OnSlyde
– Real time audience interaction
– @onslyde
– Presenter performance, audience engagement, detailed analytics on presentation
– Users include public speakers, sales professionals, professors
BeanStock
– Children’s educational game that teaches about money and financial management
– $300M market for education apps and kids games
– Gap in the market for kids learning about money
– 60% of children ages 4-8 use apps
– Targeting ages 5-9
– Freemium — free app with $.99 per additional stage
RealVision (came in 2nd place)
– Commercial real estate software to analyze cash flow and value of properties
– Argus is industry standard – $4,700/yr/computer – $90M revenue
– Argus is out-dated and Windows 3.1 like
– Idea is a cloud-based app with smart phone component for brokers, owners, and lenders
– Test cash flow assumptions, sensitivity analysis, etc
– http://www.getrealvision.co
Real Time Today
– Improve skills to get a better job
– Find best candidate in the market
– Current online recruitment sites have several issues
– Settings to better match candidates
Leave.im
– Developers occasionally have to put on IT hat and help people
– Fastest way to share files locally over WiFi
– Browsers can geo locate so you know where the file is left
– iOS mobile app ready
– Can share photos and or any type of file
– Files expire after an hour
– Paid accounts to have the files last longer
Splitango
– Splitting costs is difficult
– Trust is the main issue for co-ownership of property
– Splitango handles the legal side of sharing ownership of property
– People are interested in owning things with their friends
– Meetup meets Kickstarter
QuitFor
– Mobile app to help people quit smoking
– No comprehensive digital tools out there to help quit smoking
– Key learnings: ready to commit, anonymity required, physical and mental distraction needed
– Buttons: I smoked | I beat a craving
Trustable.com
– eBay reputation is a brilliant idea but it’s only on eBay
– Single site to get reputation from all your sites and centralize it
– Allows you to prove you say what you do
– People are worried others will cheat the system
Again, great job to the presenting teams.
Thanks for the great, and comprehensive, list. It was amazing to see what all we got accomplished in a weekend, building out a functioning MVP for RealVision. Now back to more Customer Development.
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Thanks for this really great, concise summary of all our companies. It was good to look back over and remember the teams (also interesting to see what you considered the highlights of our pitch – Tuxedo). Thanks so much!