Note: The date of the event is incorrectly represented in the video as February 4, it should be March 4.
To wrap up our coverage of Startup Weekend Des Moines, we’ve edited down our video of Sunday’s three-hour final pitch session to an hour and fifteen minutes, presenting all 16 team pitches and the award ceremony to top it off.
Here are winners of the weekend, as selected by judges Ben Milne of Dwolla, Mike Colwell of Business Innovation Zone, Milt Milloy of Springboard Consulting & Capital, and Tej Dhawan and Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines on the criteria of business model, customer validation and execution:
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- doodle cloud. An iPhone and iPad app that allows children to snap a photo of a cloud, draw and decorate it with stickers, then send it to loved ones.
- myKitchenGenie. A reverse recipe app that gives you meal suggestions based on the ingredients already in your home.
- Roadrageo.us. A web app that allows you to leave “rage tickets” for bad drivers based on their license plate numbers.
For more on the winning team, see our post: “Kid-friendly doodle cloud wins Startup Weekend Des Moines“.
Here’s the order and times of the team pitches in the video above:
- 00:00 – kindaLike.me
- 04:10 – Yooooga
- 06:40 – df chat
- 10:30 – Dance Vs
- 14:30 – GoTraffix
- 18:45 – storling
- 22:55 – doodle cloud
- 27:05 – #ketchuponsports
- 31:25 – Rxminder
- 35:00 – embarkus
- 38:50 – eventurist
- 43:00 – Cliperist
- 47:30 – Auto Affirm
- 51:30 – Roadrageo.us
- 55:35 – My Kitchen Genie
- 59:50 – NoMo Meetings
- 01:04:10 – Awards Ceremony
For more on Startup Weekend, see our roundup of coverage from SPN, the Des Moines Register, the Iowa State Daily and the Des Moines Business Record:
- SPN: “The Final Fifteen: Projects From Startup Weekend Des Moines” and “Kid-friendly doodle cloud wins Startup Weekend Des Moines“
- Des Moines Register: “Chicagoan (not me) in Des Moines just for Startup Weekend“, “47 to 10-ish; Startup Weekend idea pitches are done“, “Startup Weekend ideas unveiled“, “The one where I admit to being naive about Startup Weekend“, “The genesis of an idea“, “How awesome are you?“, “And the Startup Weekend winner is …“, “Startup Weekend brought collaboration, friendly competition” and “Des Moines startup conference full of tech development, pitches“
- Iowa State Daily: “Starting from scratch: 16 teams compete at Startup Weekend Des Moines” and “Startup Weekend: And the winner is …“
- Des Moines Business Record: “Startup Weekend event draws more participants and ideas“