54 Awesome Pitches!
- Scott: Improving ways for entrepreneurs to find capital, crowd-source online
- David: He’s a programmer! Uses mint.com, but what happens to our banking account passwords? Create open-source alternative
- Kyle: Finding other complements to your startup, dating site for cofounders(!)
- Amit: Web-based/app retrieving audit logs within different hospital systems
- Toby: DIY Cooking—home food delivery service with cooking kit and instructions
- Thiru: Develop character-recognition software for the book industry, scan books to receive copy in a pdf/word doc
- Jacob: Mobile app encouraging people to get involved in the community—users can become city ambassadors
- Joshua: app/engine to search thru lyrics, match song lyrics, pronunciation
- Rahul: Tool to access open parking spots (mobile marketplace), e.g. can post open spots and travelers can search for them
- Bilal: visual multi-tool that is like a color sampler, can also wirelessly store colors onto computer
- Seth: solving pains of comment lists—help engage in meaningful conversation
- Chad: Facebook but way awesomer! Social networking platform to manage multiple profiles, and pay to post
- Sachin: Crowdsourcing alpha users (aka early warning system for people to build something people want)
- Sean: Personal transportation system for AA to find possible routes that are suitable
- Demien: Online shopping experience to mix&match clothes esp. for females ages 18-35
- Jonathan: FoodCircles=dating for best friends. Aggregates food & life preferences—restaurants get to go after demand
- Josh: Creating avatar for online clothing shopping, works with databases of clothing co. Clothe it online to see if it fits!
- Shaun: App to integrate social networking tools matching names to profiles to help remember names
- Dan: Solving wasted creativity + brainpower, creating database of ideas that have already happened (or not), and pulling key people
- Scott: Metacritic for products showing what’s good and what’s not, comparing various reviews
- Bhargav: Develop socially networked mobile game to help encourage applications to a school (e.g. UM)
- Morgan: Connects middle-aged women with hot undergrads to workout; better looking trainer for cheaper! Cougar Training
- Kyle: Web app to have homeless people earn money, gain reputation by helping solve problems + work with co.
- Kevin: Creating a richer news experience online via a format that’s based on what you’re interested in
- George: Improving ticket donations to help out disadvantaged children to go see something they otherwise wouldn’t be able to
- Billie: creating virtual currency you can use at your local business that help earn points (city-wide customer loyalty program)
- Hannah: Helping people match up the right pharmacy to the right prescription to the right person
- Vinayek: Know Thy Neighbor—provides specific info you want to share with people around you
- Dhiren: Restaurant recommendation engine linked with your friends’ preferences to find the real good stuff
- Sharad: App that combines all of your store cards + coupons so you can throw away those lengthy receipts (and buy diapers)
- Bart: Music stand that helps you press a pedal to turn the page when necessary (esp. for solo musicians)
- Terry: Dialysis social networking site for patients + place for businesses to contact the patients
- Alan: Evolved way of discussing—limit on what you can post to help stay relevant
- Seif: Helping track the influence and impact of your actions online
- Dan: Drunk or child? Vote on experiences—were you naked on that tricycle as a kid or as a drunk?
- Ryan: QR codes—be able to redirect QR codes after it’s been printed
- Mike: Not Facebook—but connect incoming int’l students + American foreign language learners to encourage cultural & language exchange
- John: Sportly brings rec sports functionality in Facebook—quickly discover sports to play via your networks
- Lance: Improving email clients to help you sort through all of your mail + easily switch thru accounts
- Amanda: Thinking of You app—put up when you’re thinking about someone, find out data to see when/who is thinking about you
- Srini: Lasagana—identify what food is cooking around you and you sync up to grab extra food vs. takeout
- Brandon: Location-based reminders: e.g. pay this bill when I get home. Or tag what you want to reminded of and send to others: e.g. Mom buy me good food at Hiller’s Market
- Adam: Tap your phone against someone else’s to schedule a meeting, making meeting up easier for consumers
- Paul: App that compares prices of foods for you, so you know where to get a great deal on your groceries
- Rachita: Better facilitating conversation within an enclosed environment, e.g. in an airplane
- Dave: Optimizing web-enabled TV devices
- Gint: Locally based-online contest that helps pull together local businesses and local users
- Farruk: Publishing wait times so that consumers can decide on how to use time, what to do next
- Dan: Helping filmmakers reach potential audiences to better incentivize groups to drive more watchers
- Anuj: Parents don’t pay for bad grades—make kids answer practice problems before they text
- Dennis: Helping fix up the healthcare system so that patients can take drugs they know that will help, not hurt
- Mohammed: Helping deliver creative products thru a better design process that has a stronger system that collects all notes to create best product possible
- Mark: Creating widget/method to help strengthen Mark’s current service
- Derrick: App that helps you list all the books you want, and calculate full cost of shipping + costs
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