Great Energy & Ideas at Startup Weekend: Storrs, 1/27/2012

Congratulations to PlatForum, Sobrio, and MailStack who tied for 1st Place at the inaugural Startup Weekend Storrs event! Honorable mention when to KidETA for most promising service to the community, and Life Raver for best name.

There were many terrific startup ideas presented, and many potential businesses in the pipeline. We look forward to seeing the success of groups move beyond this weekend.

Top Winners:

platforum – A mobile app to consolidate the forum experience

Sobrio – A mobile match service linking drinkers and sober drivers
Mailstack – A new way to organize your email inbox

Honorable Mention:

KidETA – A school bus location service using mobile crowdsourcing (for most promising service to the community)
Life Raver – A website to help visitors to a city find the fun things that locals do (for best name)

Other Participants:

• Eldercare Compare
• Busses2
• CloudSort
• GrowPix
• Sitterverse
• LiveIt!
• Joy In A Glass

 

Thanks go to the:

Mentors:

• Kevin Bouley, Nerac

• Ira Yellen, First Experience Communications

• Mark Van Allen, UConn R&D

• Ryan Duques, TutaPoint

• Bill Knight, Adams & Knight

• Fred Wergeles, Fred Wergeles & Associates LLC

• Ted Ives

• John Giaccotto, Lion Leaf

• Rita Zangari, University of Connecticut Office of Tech Commercia

• Nick Bereza, NE Computer Solutions

• Joe Wehr
  

• John Parkinson, Parkinson Design

Judges:

• Rich Hollant, AIGA Connecticut

• Kevin Bouley, Nerac

• Nat Brinn, Vital Financial, LLC

• Mary Anne Rooke, AIF & UConn Technology Incubator Program

• Danny Briere, Startup Connecticut & MoxMe.com

Organizers:

• Danny Briere, MoxMe! and Startup Connecticut, @startupct

• Derek Koch, Independent Software, @derekkoch

• John Shemo, MetroHartford Alliance, @jjdangerously

• Eric Knight, Remarkable Technologies, Inc., @i_eric

• Brien Buckman, FounderMatchUp, @BrienBuckman

• Christopher Levesque, University of Connecticut, CCEI

• Mike Roer, Entrepreneurship Foundation

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