I am at AlphaLab this morning, and I will try to get a short blurb off on each presenting company – looks like a great set of companies and nice audience.
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AlphaLab Demo Day – Sonya Labs
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Last up today is Sonya Labs, the creation of Rodrigo Guzman, Nathan Collins, and Walter Chen. These three Pittsburgh imports are creating the “Google of legal research.”
The legal profession today uses LexisNexis and Westlaw to find legal information to buld cases, but these resources are old-school, mostly manually based sources of legal information. SonyaLabs is [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Skill-Life
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Founder Felix Lloyd used to be a school teacher in Washington DC, and he hopes his startup, Skill-Life, willl be able to help school-aged children learn about personal finances. He likens his idea to “SIMS meets Quicken.”
Felix is a great salesman, and his entertaining walk through the Skill-Life online virtual world, Cents City, showed off [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Game Huddle
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Game Huddle is the creation of a couple avid gamers, John Carson and Tyler Ewing, likened to “eHarmony meets Facebook for gamers”.
The site provides a toolset for other big gamers that allow them to ply their passion in a social medium that gives them the ability to chooose who they play with, what news they [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – crono (Skedit)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Next up is crono, a CMU spinout of Jarun Ngamvirojcharoen, Liz Crawford, and Manuela Velloso. They have created an application that makes the process of scheduling meetings easier.
Currently, they don’t have a website (that I could find), and their alpha product only works in Google Calendar. They are targeting other polular calendar programs, such as [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Chogger
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Next up is online comic strip creation startup Chogger. Founders Jeremy Herrman, Alex Moore, and Jim Keder are behind what looks to be a very colorful and attractively designed site. On Chogger, you can create and distribute any type of digital comic you would like.
This is an interesting corner of the otherwise over-crowded social media [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – BlenderHouse
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
BlenderHouse founders Jason Wilburn and Mike Cham kick the morning off, introducing their startup that provides social media “apps” to popular sites such as Facebook, Hi5, mySpace, etc. They have built two apps thus far, WhichWheels? that helps Facebook users decide which car they should buy based on recommendations from friends, and a “white-label” app [...]