Day5: Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week @ Boston 09Oct09
Wow! What an exciting week. Don't miss the prior coverage from Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows 7 at Boston (Day4, Day3, Day2, Day1, Announcement, Twitter-Feed #MBIWk).
Larry Gregory started the day with Panel Judges briefing. We were fortunate to have following panel judges, who shared their deep insight with startups:
1. Dug Levin, Black Duck Software
2. Ham Lord, Launchpad Venture Group
3. Larry Gregory, Microsoft
4. Mike Werner, Microsoft
5. Stephen McCormack, Commonwealth Venture Capital
6. Wan Li Zhu, Fairhaven Capital
Startup teams worked very hard with their on-site advisors (Bob Familiar, Curt Devlin, Jason De Lorme, Jim O'Neil, John Pelak, Rich Crane, Venkat Hari) and off-shore development team in Bangalore, India (Proteans). Each startup team presented their pitch and a brief solution demo to the panel judges.
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BizSpark Startup |
Solution |
Target |
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AnswerPoint Medical Systems
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Medical Office Automation Systems |
Electronic Health Record (EHR) |
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Baydin
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Serendipity Through Email
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Information Worker |
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BumpTop
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3-D Desktop |
Consumer |
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Panopto
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Presentation Capture and Playback |
Knowledge Management |
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SocialGrow
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Grow Your Personal and Professional Social Network |
Social Network |
I know you can’t wait to hear the winners. Every team is winner. The fact that each team got invited to this event is itself a big recognition and in addition each team got a colorful Graduation Certificate, presented by one of the judges. Two teams won the following award trophies.
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Award |
BizSpark Startup |
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Most Viable Business |
Panopto
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Technical Innovation |
BumpTop
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Enjoy today’s pics..
Sanjay Jain
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
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