Present your startup

• Buzzer o’ Matic - Matt Steckler and Andres Krogh
  • Bio: Matt has an AA degree, and also has a degree from UC Davis. He has 12 years experience working for high-tech software companies in the area, including a long stint at Microsoft. Andres has a BA in Business from the UW, and has 8 years experience working in design and high tech for ad campaigns and a smattering of local startups.
  • Company: Buzzer o’ Matic, recently nominated community pick for Entrepreneur Idol, is a virtual doorman. It makes your apartment buzzer smarter and more flexible - using only your phone, no additional hardware required - we use what your already have installed. Once you subscribe, and set up your door buzzer, you can customize how your buzzer behaves – you can set up time-sensitive passwords for folks to let themselves in with, or have it call a bunch of numbers until it finds you (similar to Google Voice), or both. You can also let people leave voice mails at the door, if all else fails – so for instance, the UPS guy can just leave a message to tell you when he’ll be coming back if you miss him the first time.
• Serra Media - Mark Briggs
  • Bio: Mark Briggs is CEO and co-founder of Serra Media. He is the author of “Journalism 2.0: How to survive and thrive in the digital age,” which was published by J-Lab and the Knight Citizen News Network in 2007 and downloaded as a PDF more than 185,000 times in English, Spanish and Portuguese. His new book, Journalism Next, will be published by CQPress this month. Previously, Briggs was assistant managing editor for interactive news at The News Tribune in Tacoma and new media director at The Herald in Everett.
  • Company: Serra Media is a technology and services company that’s taken a unique approach to the digital challenges for local publishers. We power websites and provide mobile solutions to build community for hyperlocal news, information and shopping and help companies capture local advertising dollars shifting from traditional print publications.
• Bluyah - Richard Luck
  • Bio: Richard first became interested in the internet back in 1994 when he began “publishing” friends’ poetry and short stories on the web so they could be indexed by WWW Worm. This would lead to the founding of Pif Magazine, one of the Net’s oldest continually published literary magazines, a few months later. Continually in search of interesting problems to solve, Richard has been instrumental in helping companies like Illuminet, Bazillion, Amazon.ca, T-Mobile, NEXT Online, and TTM solve some of their more complex business and systems issues.
  • Company: Bluyah is a Swiss Army Knife for IT. Through it’s secure web-based service, Bluyah enables businesses to save time and money by outsourcing their repetitive and mundane tasks that would otherwise be handled by in-house custom developed software.
• PicTranslator - Justin Wilcox
  • Bio: Justin Wilcox is the Co-Founder of two, almost entirely unrelated companies - Nimbus Health and Fotozio. At Nimbus Health he helps hospitals share electronic medical records with other healthcare providers, insurance companies, patients, and the like. At Fotozio, he helps foreign travelers translate signs, menus, newspaper articles by taking pictures of them with their iPhones. When he’s not trying to run two companies simultaneously, he’s... well, that’s all he does.
  • Company: Fotozio’s first iPhone app, PicTranslator, made the top #10 travel apps list in less than 24 hours after launch. 10 days later, it was featured by Apple in the New & Noteworthy section of the iTunes store. iPhone app success story? Eh... Find out where we went right, where we went wrong, and what we’ll do differently next time.