We’ve got a special event tonight in New York that has become an annual tradition. We’re hosting IDC Herzliya’s 2009 Zell Entrepreneurship Program grad students for an American Idol style competition to crown this year’s top startup. The student teams are coming from Israel to present their startups to 200 TechAviv NY members followed by group Q&A and live SMS voting. We’ll update the bottom of this post with the results. This event will be held at the beautiful Engelman Recital Hall thanks to our hosts Hillel at Baruch College.
Presenting Startups: (Web sites in stealth mode)
- Wisebo – Browser plugin that displays your Facebook and Twitter friends opinions on movies and other products you see while surfing the web.
- Funkkit – Web site that lets anyone design, buy and sell sneaker stickers for almost any shoe. Think Zazzle for sneaker stickers.
- LockTell – Patent-pending screw-bolt automatically signals when loose. Saves millions in plane, train, automobile and housing maintenance.
- GameSpeak – Enables PC gamers to text and voice chat using their existing IM accounts (e.g. Skype) while playing games in full-screen mode.
UPDATE: VOTING NOW CLOSED (See photos)
Congrats LockTell, TechAviv NY’s top IDC Zell Startup of 2009!
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Good luck for everyone!
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Nice presentation everybody, I put my guts and feeling in the gamers team.
I think Funkkit may be pretty similar to http://www.sneakart.com
Re: Funkkit.
No offence meant here guys, but:
IMHO “Funkkit” is not a great name for the product marketing – better change it.
It sounds like “Fukkit” which is not a good word – and it is not product-specific enough, so the title alone does not convey the type and category of the product.
I suggest calling it something like StickSneak or Stick-On (a la Head-On) or even StickOnSneaks… something along those lines just to give you some ideas.
Good luck with your product though, clearly you are closer than anyone to an actual execution of a sale of the physical product.
You all done very good job with great presentations, Good luck!!
How come no contact info for any of the groups?
To get in touch with any of the student startups you can email Zell Entrepreneurship Program Executive Director Liat Aaronson at liat.aaronson@idc.ac.il.
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funkit is just a rip off of sneakart, sorry guys not original
Hi
to contact LockTell , please send to roni@lock-tell.com , or
arnon@lock-tell.com
thx,
It’s official. LockTell selected by TechAviv NY as the top IDC Zell Entrepreneurship Program student startup of 2009. http://bit.ly/1PDcQ
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Congrats Arnon and Roni.
To contact FunkKit:
contact@funkkit.com
Congrats Arnon and Roni.
To contact FunkKit:
contact@funkkit.com
Official. LockTell selected by TechAviv NY as top IDC Zell Program student startup of 2009. http://bit.ly/1PDcQ Congrats Arnon and Roni!
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