Cereal Hack Spring 2012 Recap
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Recap on our first Hackathon in Sacramento. Cereal Hack is brought to you by Hacker Lab, a grassroots Startup Community in Sacramento! BUILD CODE UNITE!
Cereal Hack Spring 2012 Recap
- 1. Hackathon Recap June 2012 a creation of Hacker Lab Friday, October 5, 12
- 2. Day 1: June 2nd, 2012 10:00 am 50 hackers, coders, designers and bus devs gathered, pitched ideas, formed teams, and commenced a 30 hour startup development competition. Friday, October 5, 12
- 3. Day 2: June 3rd, 2012, 6:00 pm Over 60 people assembled to watch 10 teams pitch their functional prototypes to a panel of investor judges, competing for prizes such as an iPhone 4s, and gift certi鍖cates. Friday, October 5, 12
- 4. The Results? First Prize: Raidarrr! A geo-location based mobile document sharing. Think Stumble Upon meets Google Maps. Youre an artist, a writer or a musician and want to share your work at speci鍖c locations with friends and strangers. Pull out our mobile device, upload the content, set the number of shares and let people discover your treasures. Second Prize: Bike Pool Melody is an avid cyclist and rides to work every day. Even the shortest distances can be dangerous as a solo rider. BikePoolApp is social-media based application that allows fellows riders to connect, shares routes and bike together for safety. Hey, while you are at it, share your weekend adventures and make some new friends on your two wheels. Third Prize: Textabl Say youre in the mood for Sushi, but its always more fun to roll with your friends. But how do you let them all know in an instant what youre thinking? Well, launch Textabl, connect via Facebook, create an event, invite your friends and each one will get noti鍖ed by text. Any response will be posted on the event page and in no time, youve got a party. Enjoy! Peoples Choice: ePoints.com To all employers and employees out there, take the pain out of your next open enrollment and make the process fun. Two thirds of the companies out there dont have software to manage this process. Lets start rewarding employees by introducing a fun and interactive process. Friday, October 5, 12
- 5. Sponsors Presenting Sponsors: Prize Sponsors: Supporting Sponsors: SARTA VentureStart App Matrix Tropo Sac Starts The Sacramento Press ioSafe Sacramento Angels Velocity Venture Capital Hacker Lab LCS Technologies Social Media Club Webify Labs Creative Marketing ooomf EZ Sac Game Hub Chrometa 3 Taps API PummelHead Media Sacramento Business Journal: First hackathon offers prizes in addition to VC exposure Sacramento hackathon gives birth to promising products Hackathon app-writing contest to debut in Sac Cereal Hack brings attention to Sacramento's tech community Sacramento Hackathon Set For Saturday Hackathon Aimed At Sparking Local Tech Industry Capital Public Radio: Hackathon Aimed At Sparking Local Tech Industry Sacramento Hackathon Set For Saturday Friday, October 5, 12
- 6. Judges Jacob Jorgensen Dan Koellen Chris Minnick Partner President Founder, CEO, Author Velocity Venture Capital Sacramento Angels Minnick Web Services Prizes Grand Prize 3 Taps API Challenge iPhone 4S $250 Apple Store Gift Certi鍖cate ioSafe Desktop External Hard Drive 2 $50 BestBuy Cards 6 Months Bootstrapping Space at HackerLab 1 Month Bootstrapping space $750 in services from WebifyLab Second Prize Most Tweets 1 Month Bootstrapping Space Portable 1TB ioSafe External HDD Kindle Fire Book: WebKit for Dummies iPod Touch Friday, October 5, 12
- 7. Team Charles Blas Gina Lujan Eric Ullrich Founder Founder, Director Co-Founder charles.blas@gmail.com gina@hackerlab.org eric@hackerlab.org 510.421.1786 530.219.3240 Communities We believe that technology can change the world and the starting point is education. Hacker Lab aims to educate folks and seed startups with community driven resources. Collectively we can build a brighter future using lean methods in both education and business. www.hackerlab.org Friday, October 5, 12