Kyle Rogers of Bold Predictions markets his idea – and rocks a Movember beard – in the voting session. Photos by Danny Schreiber.
The coffee has been poured and the laptops are heating up, the second day of Startup Weekend Kansas City is well underway with 12 teams building out the ideas pitched Friday night. Following the pitches, the more than 30 individuals that pitched ideas held up or their idea on a poster board for a voting session – if a participant liked an idea, they added one of their three allotted sticky notes to the poster board. The ideas that received the most votes or had a team that formed around them were then solidified as the 12 teams of the fourth Startup Weekend Kansas City, taking place through Sunday evening at Cerner Innovations Campus.
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Disclosure: In addition to covering Startup Weekend, Danny Schreiber, the author of this post, is serving as one of four judges.
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The voting begins
Participants with ideas persuade others to place one of their three votes for their ideas on their poster board
Royce Haynes’ “Dog BnB” idea received enough votes to have his idea chosen for one of the final 12 teams (Haynes is one our Silicon Prairie News contributors in Kansas City)
Following the voting, participants with the highest-voted ideas stood in the front of the room to recruit team members
Here are the 12 teams of Startup Weekend Kansas City:
Fame In
Clout-based loyalty marketing platform
Horsebot 3K
Trying to gauge validity and intellect of reviews based off the intelligence of its author
Gig With Me
Musicians getting online and being able to play together
Bold Prediction
Time-stamp predictions for future events, and then it gives users ability to brag about past predictions online
DawgBnB
A way for pet owners to find people to board their dog
Where’s My Twin?
App to match people who share similar physical attributes
Representin’ Me
For users that wants to make an informed voting idea with one unbiased source
Graphtershock
Takes 2D graphs and large data sets and turns them into 3D and 4D engaged intelligence
It’s Geek Night
Connecting groups of people to the venues that can accommodate them
Happy Plate
Meal-planning website and mobile app
CookingClasses.com
Mobile app to give users a healthier, more exciting menu (six team members not pictured)
Snap Software
Dynamic strategy application for coaches (one team member not pictured)
Also, there’s one team working this weekend on a previously started project –
Instantly.In
A way for companies to do Twitter-based marketing
And finally, the Horsebot 3K unicorn
