Miss out? Catch up!

Weren’t able to make it to Startup Weekend Chandler? Here are all the links to help you catch up everything you missed!

Startup 101
Kathy Sacks, VP of Communications for Infusionsoft, and Steve Swedler of Simple Seating, share best practices on building businesses for participants before the weekend begins.

Sunday Night Demos
The Twilio Team shot flip footage of the Startup Weekend team demos on Sunday night. Additionally, our volunteers live blogged the demos on Cover It Live.

Photos
We took more than 200 photos of the event through the weekend. Be sure to tag yourself and leave your comments!
Photo Album One and Photo Album Two.

Teams Demos Tonight

It’s time to see what our teams have been up to the past 54 hours. At 5:00pm, the following teams will demo their product and pitch their idea to our audience. Each pitch is five minutes, with two minutes for audience feedback/questions.

Carrot Dangle
CarrotDangle.com
@CarrotDangleCom

Lose 5 pounds. Clean your room. Write a novel. Run a marathon.

Completing your goals can be tough, use your friends, family & social connections to help keep you on-track and give you a reward – we call it a “carrot” – for your successes. When you share your goals with others, you are more likely to accomplish them to avoid disappointing them.
Carrot Dangle taps into the base human emotions of curiosity and community to help people complete their goals and fulfill their desire for a sense of accomplishment, personal validation, applause/slap on back and even rewards. Carrot Dangle capitalizes on this new goal-oriented social network by amping up the rewards with valuable offers from businesses.

With a simple click, your friends are personally involved in helping you reach your goals — isn’t that what friends are for?

Donors Assure
Donor Assure is excited to present this Startup Weekend with our mobile app for iPhone that will be a offered as a free download for blood donors. Our concept is to enhance a blood centers’ current marketing efforts by providing a real time app that allows donors to schedule an appointment from a mobile device. Our app ties in with a blood centers internal systems and give a blood donor real time scheduling, donor communications and donor profile information.

Chow Locally
Chowlocally.com
@ChowLocally
On Facebook
Bringing local farms to local tables, Chow Locally is an online marketplace for your community to connect with the best local foods available. Be amazed by the wide variety of local foods your region has to offer, and taste the difference of fresh and local foods.

RhinoDough
RhinoDough.com
@RhinoDough
On Facebook
RhinoDough is a comprehensive Internet-based company dedicated to helping the 28 million Americans who lack a strategy for managing their 401(k). RhinoDough eliminates the intimidation of financial planning and extends its service to all 401(k) plan participants by providing independent, employer specific 401(k) portfolio management advice accompanied by simple step by step implementation instructions FREE of charge. The website offers a 5-minute, 4-step process that balances growth needs and risk tolerance to generate their recommend portfolio. Users are provided a step by step instruction sheet explaining exactly how to implement RhinoDough’s advice.

ipatient
ipatient.com
@danmunro
On Facebook
Tagline: New tools to help the consumer navigate the healthcare maze.
Mission: Transforming the patient-provider dialog

Armored.io
Armored.io
@armoredio
On Facebook
Armored.io offers expert cloud-based hosting for the security-conscious. Our client back-end features the ability to monitor and visualize Snort logs, so customers can see the threats against them in a meaningful way. In addition, our network infrastructure is secure by design. Everyday, breaches against hosting providers is more common. We hope to appeal to new clients where data loss and unavailability are not an option

Surpriz.es
Surpriz.es
Surpriz.es Blog
@surpriz_es
Surpriz.es is a mobile app that allows anyone to find and redeem local freebies in their area on their birthday. In addition to finding and discovering unique local deals, Surpriz.es will also tackle the problem of “What do I get for them on their birthday?

E-Intro
E3Intro.com
@eintro
On Facebook
An introduction organizer creates a template online introduction through the website via a simple interface. This online introduction is colloquially referred to as “an E-Intro”. The host selects profiles of contacts and E-Intro sends email introductions to the contacts. Each contact picks one categories: “Accept”, “Decline”, “Maybe” and recieves a call to action to follow up on the introduction
iNtroduce two of your contacts and create value for yourself as a connecter in 4 easy clicks.

The Write Zone
TheWriteZone.org
Nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting youth ages 11-18 with their creative writing skills.

Card Jolt
CardJolt.com
CardJolt brings the power and reach of mobile marketing to businesses at an affordable cost. CardJolt utilizes the emerging NFC (Near Field Communication) tags and QR (Quick Response) Codes printed on business cards. These NFC tags and QR codes can also be located in front of retail stores and kiosks. When a potential client swipes his NFC enabled phone to the NFC chip or scans the QR code, the phone will display the business’ contact information, audio visual advertising, social media information, current promotions, and so much more. CardJolt provides the merchant a quick and easy way to produce this interactive mobile presence using a server based wizard. The prospect will have the option to save the business CardJolt profile within the CardJolt app. Businesses will leverage emotional triggers in a multi-media commercial to increase sells and build a long-term mobile connection with their clients through client subscribed promotions.

Ardifacts
Ardifacts.com
@ardifacts
On Facebook
Ardifacts is a website tells company stories through user submitted artifacts. Founders, employees, customers, or anyone who has history with a company can submit an image to tell a company’s story. Examples of artifacts that are already on the site range from Mark Zuckerberg’s “I’m CEO Bitch” business card, to the waffle iron that was used to create Nike’s high traction athletic shoes. By making companies more transparent, Ardifacts aims to be the best company discovery tool on the Internet.

Nuke It
Element 92 is an iPhone game where you are an atomic particle trying to grow large enough to escape a sun about to go super nova.

Say hello to our teams!

We had 28 Startup Weekend Chandler attendees jump up out of their chairs when we kicked off pitches this evening at 8:00pm. After sticky note voting, we whittled down that number to 16 and then 14 after a little more campaigning.

Say hello to our 14 Startup Weekend Chandler companies:

Charitivize – Help good nonprofits create fundraising campaigns and identify potential contributors

Chow Locally – Connect local food vendors with local farms to bridge the gap, helping citizens eat locally

Surprises – Mobile app to find local freebies on your birthday

RhinoDough – Free 401K advisory site geared toward the younger generation

E-Intro - Social email that personalizes connections through a series of customizable templates

iPatient – Consumer healthcare solution look to build a mobile app

Armored.IO

Donor Assure – Mobile app for blood donors to check CRM

The Write Zone – Nonprofit writing center for teens geared towards self-publishing

Class Project – Help companies tell stories through user-submitted artifacts

Nuke It – iPhone games using physics

Card Jolt – Convert business cards into audio-visual commerical

Alertosaurus – Authority Labs new project

I Crashed – Crash sensor combined with tracking software to create an ‘OnStar’ type response for endurance athletes (bikers, distance runners, etc)

Startup 101 Agenda

For registered Startup Weekend Chandler participants, we have an extra event in the afternoon to get you prepared for the next 54-hours. Startup 101 will cover team building, formulating your product idea and working through version 1 once you have a team put together. Our speakers have a wealth of ‘been there, done that’ knowledge that will help you avoid their mistakes.

The event will take place at the Downtown Chandler Public Library (22 South Delaware Street, Chandler, 85225) on the second floor, in the old council chambers.

Agenda
1:30-1:55pm Registration/Check-in
2:00-2:45pm Team
2:45-3:45pm Product
3:45-5:00pm Execution

Team
A team should be made up of people with different skills and experiences. A team should not be all developers or all idea people. You need someone to plan, someone to execute, and someone to sell. Team members can take on multiple roles, but all critical roles should be represented. This panel will discuss what a team should look like in the context of multiple business models.

• What does a team look like?
• Responsibilities
• Conflict Resolution

Our speakers are Derek Neighbors and Jade Meskill, co-founders of Gangplank and owners of Integrum Technologies, an Agile consulting company based out of Gangplank.

Product
Your vision may be amazing, but when you get real about it, it may not be reasonable for a 60-day launch. This section focuses on how to define your product for the highest possibility for success and deliver the highest value in your first release.

• Market Research and Competitor Evaluation
• Creating the simplest effective product

Our speakers are Angelo Coppola, Vice President of Marketing for Axosoft and AZ Disruptors team member, as well as the developers behind the web service API Twilio Cloud Communications.
Execution
Ideas are worth nothing without execution. How you execute is the difference between success and failure more than anything else. In this section we will explore best practices in focusing your energy on the highest yielding activities.

• Decision making: How do you decide what to do when you encounter a fork in the road?
• Version 1: You can’t have every bell and whistle. Learn to evaluate what you need to launch, versus what can come later.
• Last 10%: Your first release won’t be a polished gem. In this phase, you must set the foundations for growth.

Our featured speaker is Kathy Sacks, Vice President of Communications for Infusionsoft. Also speaking is Steve Swedler of Simple Seating.

Overview Date Added

Due to overwhelming response, we have added an additional Startup Weekend Chandler Overview & Workshop date on Wednesday, June 8th at 7:00pm. You can RSVP here.

This event will provide an overview of expectations for Startup Weekend Chandler, as well as a discussion of idea validation and lean startup methodologies to give participants a head-start on their business.

Recommended for all, including SW alumni. We’re changing the way Startup Weekend is done. You do not need to be registered for Startup Weekend Chandler to attend.

If you have already registered for the event, this a great opportunity to recruit team members and practice pitching your idea.