Day5: Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Azure @ Atlanta 13Nov09

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11/16/2009

You may see the prior coverage from Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Azure at Atlanta (Day5, 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. Ben Dyer, TechDrawl

2. James McDonough, Fish & Richardson P.C.

3. Larry Gregory, Microsoft

4. Mark Barry, OpenView Venture Partners

5. Mike Schinkel, Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs

6. Said Mohammadouin, TechOperators

7. Sanjay Parekh, Startup Riot

Startup teams worked very hard with their on-site advisors (Ahmed El-Ramly, Chad Brooks, Chris Brooks, Glen Gordon, Heinrich Gantenbein, Murray Gordon, Piyush Saggi, Sanjay Jain) and Dmytro Ivanov from SoftServe and Andy Hopper and Jeremy Likness from Wintellect. Each startup team presented their pitch and a brief solution demo to the panel judges

BizSpark Startup	Solution
ChasingSavings.com	Online Coupons
CoreMotives, LLC	Cloud based B2B Marketing Automation using Azure and Microsoft Dynamics CRM
EyeMail	Audio/Video emails
FandomU	Connect Fans across the world
Izenda	Self-serve Business Intelligence in Cloud
LessMeeting	Productivity and efficiency for Enterprise Meetings
Linxter	MonitorGrid – manage servers from cloud

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 got the following two award trophies.