On Monday, June 25, Startup City will highlight the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, giving attendees an exciting sneak peak of the newest ideas entering the market. Startup City provides an area for startups and aspiring entrepreneurs from Techweek LAUNCH to demo their products and network with potential investors and customers.
Each day leading up to the event we’ll feature a group of Startup City participants.
ChoreMonster
Described as allowance meets Pokemon, ChoreMonster is a fun, interactive way to get kids to do their chores.
Parents create chore lists, complete with tasks involved and due date, and for every chore completed, children can gain points. They can then save those points to earn real-life rewards. Kids can also collect and trade monsters as they complete more and more chores.
Sign up to be a beta tester on the official ChoreMonster site.
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Gamers Portal
Currently in beta, Gamers Portal is working to create a place where gamers can go to interact, share stories and meet others. Although the site has yet to launch, excited gamers can sign up now.The end result will boast user-profiles, proper team management/recruiting tools, integrated social features, and more.
Interested? Check out video previews of the site here. You can also sign up here.
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gDine
Planning a restaurant outing in Chicago? gDine has you covered.
gDine is making it easy to get groups together to enjoy fantastic meals at the Windy City’s best restaurants. By booking reservations through gDine, diners can enjoy excellent Chicago restaurants at reduced prices. By filtering options according to date, time, and the number of guests, users then see what dining options are open to them. Users pay for their dinner, including tax and gratuity, at the time of booking, and gDine even offers a check-splitting option for large groups. That means no complicated division and no headaches when the check comes.
Check out gDine by creating an account, or signing in with Facebook, here.
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helloalbums
Get those photos off your iPad and into long-lasting photo books.
helloalbums is division of the personalized greetings company RUVAcards, and their bringing their expertise to the world of photo albums. The helloalbums app allows user to quickly and easily make beautiful, high quality photo albums, and all without putting down your iPad. User get 9 free album designs to choose from, and can email, print and ship, tweet and share via Facebook. Even Instagram, Diptic and other app-edited photos saved to your camera roll can be included in your albums.
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BigMarker
Put simply, BigMarker is a community manager’s dream come true.
Based in Chicago, BigMarker offers web conferencing solutions and project management tools for communities, making collaboration and communication even easier. When a community manager creates a BigMarker conference room, they are able to record their conferences, share desktops and share presentations. Community members also have access to collaboration tools, community bulletins and community calendars. The best part? These public community tools and conferences are available to BigMarker members for free!
Check out this video to see how it works.
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More information
To learn more on these startups, stop by and talk with Startup City participants at Techweek on Monday, June 25 in the exhibit hall.
