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Support Local -A Pitch at Technori, Chicago
Through our connections with hardware accelerator Catalyze Chicago, we were invited to 'pitch' at Technori on a cold February evening. We chose to explain the Design House process and provide an example story to demonstrate how we go through manufacture research, the jam, prototyping and eventual launch.
The challenge of the 'pitch' was to deliver the presentation in exactly 5 minutes, which calls for trimming the information down to the most important elements . Pam gave a great presentation and seemed very relaxed in her delivery despite the jam-packed audience of over 250 people.
Paul Hatch joined her for the Q&A, and the topics were geared mostly towards the business and structure of Design House and less about the process or missions. The theme of the Technori evening was about startups and the Maker movement, so the audience was interested in the business model behind Design House and how it can function as a not-for-profit. Full 5 minute video of Pam's Technori pitch.
Catalyze Members Sweep Technori
Technori, a monthly pitch event focused on promising startups, shifted their usual spotlight off software and instead turned it on the Maker Movement. Five of Chicago’s leading hardware startups presented in front of a sold-out crowd of over 500 people at the Chase Auditorium.
We’re thrilled to report that all five presenters are Catalyze members!
The night kicked off with a Panel among leaders of Chicago’s maker movement. Chicago Public Library’s Andrea Saenz, Lane Tech’s Jeff Solin, Inventables’ Michael Una, and our own founder, Bill Fienup were on stage to discuss the growing presence of the movement and how it has infiltrated education, entrepreneurship, product development, and manufacturing. The panelists were especially optimistic about the rising tide of the movement, and how it will further shape the product and service solutions of the future.
After the panel, each presenter had just five minutes to tell their story:
Josh Billions presented Mobile-Therm, a temperature-logging service for commercial refrigerators. Aimed at the restaurant owner, this device ships already working and communicates through an app, providing easy and intuitive setup and monitoring. Video of the presentation can be found here.
Joe Born and Alex Kemmler presented the relaunch of Aiwa with its new Exos-9 Speaker. Focused on home audio with serious sound quality, this battery powered, Bluetooth speaker packs quite a punch for only $299. Video of the presentation can be found here.
Pam Daniels presented Design-House, a collective of Chicago designers advancing local manufacturing. After a successful Kickstarter raise, they’ve recently launched their first product with the metal fabricators at Skol. Video of the presentation can be found here.
Mike Tortorello presented Hyper-Tilt, a highly efficient and scalable wind turbine design. With the help of an on-stage demo, he discussed a few details of the design and how it is poised to disrupt the expensive and inefficient “Big Wind” market. Video of the presentation can be found here.
Joe Parisi presented Guard Llama, a Bluetooth enabled “alert” device for at-risk individuals. The remote is synced with the user’s phone, so that a simple press of the button begins the process to bring police to your location. Video of the presentation can be found here.
It was a very exciting night for these young companies, and the Chicago maker community as well. For more information on the night and some additional photos, John Carpenter, a friend of Catalyze, wrote up a wonderful piece for Blue Sky.
A big thanks goes out to the folks at Technori for granting our members this opportunity. If you have any questions for us here at Catalyze, as always, just send us a message and we’ll get right back to you!
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Colder than Boulder
Hello interwebs. I am literally amazed at how quickly a week passes here. It's astonishing how fast a week can elapse without me having time to write here. Of course, you never have time for anything; you make time for the things you like to do. Deep shit, I know This past week brought a lot of cool discussions among classmates and instructors, and we have now (nearly) completed our first CRUD app. I'm really starting to feel like I can go off on my own and read the rails guides or the ruby/rails documentations. It's a great feeling, but I'm really excited to be able to build things. Right now I feel like the main things holding us from being able to make incredibly powerful apps are, 1) validating the information that we take in; i.e. making all of the information in our databases uniform, and 2) making associations between different resources in our applications (for facebook, this means linking a user to their posts, or a post to its comments and likes). We're so close and I really think that we'll be building great things soon. I have plans to make a blog from the ground up soon. I had some great times with the TSL guys (not many gals though, unfortunately) this week as well. Friday evening we went to a bar and then over to the "full stack house" for some hookah and a few drinks. The full stack house is where Arvin, Raghu, and a few other Starter League alumni /students/instructors live; it's a really nice place and the guys are very inviting and cool. Today, about 15 of us TSL students made our way over to chase auditorium for an event put on by Technori called the Pitch, or something similar. I had heard some great things, but I really was a little underwhelmed. There were some decent ideas, and one or two relatively charismatic presenters, but that's it. Three of the five presenters were really poor speakers and didn't have clarity in their pitches. Anyway, it was a good time and it was really cool to see Harper Reed, the CTO for Obama's recent campaign; he was an awesome speaker and had some good things to say. We've been doing a lot of brainstorming recently for demo day projects, and I think we're getting pretty close to actually starting on one. My buddies (Ty and Ankur) and I are pretty excited about it and I think if we find some designers interested in joining us we'll be on our way. In completely unrelated news, I think I'll be going to the Michigan vs. Indiana basketball game this saturday. That's #1 and #3 nationally... And the Super Bowl is on sunday. Happy surfing, you interwebbers.
Here's a post I wrote on how to get more (and retain more) while hanging out with smart, experienced people...