Seventh Startup Weekend Kansas City yields 11 teams

With the goal of creating a startup from scratch, Kansas City’s seventh Startup Weekend formed 11 teams Friday from a pool of 62 attendees at Rockhurst University’s Helzberg School of Management. Today, the teams will continue to work on their ideas and present to the panel of judges at 4:30 p.m. in the Science Center,…

Attendees gather at Rockhurst University for the seventh Kansas City Startup Weekend.

With the goal of creating a startup from scratch, Kansas City’s seventh Startup Weekend formed 11 teams Friday from a pool of 62 attendees at Rockhurst University’s Helzberg School of Management.

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Today, the teams will continue to work on their ideas and present to the panel of judges at 4:30 p.m. in the university’s Science Center, Room 115, following speaker Sam Meers, president and CEO of Meers Advertising. The event is open for the public to register on the Eventbrite site and a live stream is available at Ustream.

The teams provided a description along with other information, which can be found on this survey site. Here are the teams and a summary of the descriptions they provided:

  • AntlerAtlas (@antleratlas): Allows hunters to upload pictures of their big game trophies and tag them geographically.
  • Gitalytics (@GitalyticsApp): Know your team is Git’ing stuff done.
  • Code Your Own (@CodeYourOwn): Build your own customized code learning experience.
  • Shopily (@iShopily): Simplifies the retail experience for consumers and provides rich insight into behavior for marketers.
  • Open Gardens (@OpenGardensKC): Connects growers and communities to nurture collaboration and promote sustainable living.
  • VidSpective (@VidSpective): Where you can go to experience an event as it happens.
  • Mingle (@MyMingle): A digital networking application that makes making the connections you need fast, easy and efficient.
  • AquaLife (@AquaLifeApp): Pairs your water bottle to your iPhone to ensure you don’t get dehydrated.
  • LittleHootz (@LittleHootz): Digital scrapbooking app that makes it easy to create, archive and share the unexpected and hilarious things your kids do and say.
  • All Dogs (@AllDogsKC): Dog breed matching web and mobile app.
  • Pluginy (@Pluginy): Dynamic content optimization and help for non-technical and IT professionals to make changes to website content efficiently.
Follow the activity of Kansas City Startup Weekend on Twitter: #KCSW.
 
 
Credit: Photo courtesy Erin Likins, an organizer of Kansas City Startup Weekend.

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