StartUpCue
Get Your Idea Out There. In 150 Seconds.
Video of our Winners!
If you missed the StartUpCUE, here’s your chance to see the presentations of our three winners. 1st Place: Judd Knight, Trainiac 2nd Place: Meredith Turk, Impossible Museum 3rd Place: Jeff Lewis, Twain Lighting System Read More →
1st Place: Judd Knight, Trainiac
Judd Knight, creator of Trainiac was our 1st place winner. We’ve asked him a few things about his company and how he got started. 1. How long have you been working on Trainiac? We have soft launched our Trainiac offering here in the USA in 2009, based in Saint Louis. Our business operations are 8 years old where we have been serving clients in Europe and Africa. 2. What inspired Trainiac? The idea, to use visual content and experiences to help people learn, is of course thousands of years old, but we were struck by two feelings. One, that business content was so uninspiring, and two, that it was becoming so convoluted. So we had a paradox, being both underwhelmed by boredom and overwhelmed by complexity. Going back to basics was critical.... (more...)
3rd Place: Jeff Lewis, Twain Lighting System
Our 3rd Place winner was Jeff Lewis. He’s created a municipal lighting system that combines solar and wind power into a public light that can be set up anywhere and runs on it’s own. It’s a great green solution for almost any public space that needs to be lit. He took a minute to answer a few questions for us. 1. How long have you been working on your idea for the Twain lights? Three and a half years. 2. What inspired you? News clip about city residents needing street lights for homes built in the early 1960’s. Street lights were not required in building codes back then. Now due to electric location it would be too costly to install traditional street lighting. Residence questioned about solar lighting. 3. What stage... (more...)
Video of our Winners!
If you missed the StartUpCUE, here’s your chance to see the presentations of our three winners. 1st Place: Judd Knight, Trainiac 2nd Place: Meredith Turk, Impossible Museum 3rd Place: Jeff Lewis, Twain Lighting System Read More →
Welcome to the Start-Up CUE
If you’ve got a great idea, and you’ve been looking for a place to show it off, this is it! Read More →
Some Example Pitches
So you’re bubbling over with excitement at finally getting to pitch your idea, but you’re not sure how to do it? Never fear! The internet is full of entrepreneurs that have gotten up on stage to show off their world-changing innovations, and it’s equally full of videos of them doing it! Here are a few examples of great pitches. Some of them have live demos, which we’re not doing (PowerPoint only), so ignore that part and focus on them getting up in front of an audience and talking about their incredible new ideas. Yelp: HelpGuest Elevator Pitch… In An Actual Elevator: Graph.me,... (more...)