Tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village Recap

Over 450 people registered for tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village. I met several BigCo people there for the first time to explore what this whole “entrepreneurship” thing is all about. One from DHL; one from Nokia.

Some really exciting companies presented. Here is a recap:

SiftIt

Simply connecting restaurants with suppliers
Get rid of filing cabinets that chefs use to store suppliers’ info
A mobile technology solution
Auto generates orders out to suppliers
In 20 Atlanta restaurants so far
Process patent pending

Cubic.fm

Debating between Atlanta and LA for their startup
Waaaaay too many words on their slides. Bad bad. Someone needs to say something to them.
Demo was presented by a co-founder calling in from Turkey
Fits music to the weather, time of day, and activity you’re doing
Radio stations are formed based on many environmental or situational attributes

Abate Solutions

Restaurant ordering technology
The website design needs work, not very good looking, fonts too small
Maybe customers don’t want restaurants to know that much about them, sorta creepy
Goal is to maximize the tables in a restaurant. This technology solution is designed to make things more efficient and more pleasurable for the guests

Dragon Army

Launching brand new game: Robots Love Ice Cream
A 2 1/2 degree game
Monetization through the in-app purchasing of better weaponry
Additional objectives available on each level to add replay-ability
13 developers, 2 games in development at any time

Yik Yak

An anonymous social networking app that uses the GPS
Huge user growth
Perfectly times with other anonymous apps coming out: Secret and Rumr
Targeted at college campuses
Up and down votes available
5 down votes deletes it
Yaks shown from 1.5 miles around you locally
Anyone can see it
About to break 700k users, all from word of mouth
Not worried about monetization
They geofence high schools and the app is rated 17+

It was a great event and really fun to see so much activity in the new Atlanta Tech Village event space.

What were your favorite moments of tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village?