Comments on: Amazon Names Finalists For $100,000 Startup Challenge

By: video encoding

video encoding — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:38:21 +0000

great competitors. would be great to have a review of how they are doing a year after the competition.

will there be a 2009 competition?

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[...] Ron Conway, and other angels. The company was very much under the radar until it showed up as a finalist for the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge last month (see video below). The company is built [...]

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By: Micheal

Micheal — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:58:25 +0000

And the winner of the 2008 AWS Challenge is…

YIELDEX!

Way to go!

By: Ravi S

Ravi S — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:52:06 +0000

Zephyr is a great looking app and I am glad enterprise 2.0 is still kicking,
Go Zephyr Go!

By: Michael Bragg

Michael Bragg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:29:44 +0000

Congrats to the selectees! I’m disappointed we didn’t make the cut, but I can see these start-ups are much farther along than we are. We’ll watch their progress, and maybe we’ll learn enough to be ready for the next AWS challenge.

Michael Bragg
michael.bragg@fuelclinic.com
http://www.fuelclinic.com

By: huh

huh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:15:25 +0000

I could never get tired of the word ‘cloud’.

By: Income Tax India

Income Tax India — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:39:37 +0000

I vote for encoding.com !!

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:02:20 +0000

The issue that I saw with them, is many of them already have VC or Angel funding… Some of them quite large amounts, Encoding and Knewton, for example, have already received $10 million and $2.5 million, respectively. In fact, for most of the finalists I was able to find their funding sources and saw that a lot of them were already well on their way financially, even without this contest.

By: Shailesh’s Blog » Amazon shortlists Zephyr

Shailesh’s Blog » Amazon shortlists Zephyr — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:50:56 +0000

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By: Josh Chandler

Josh Chandler — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:44:59 +0000

Although they are not directly related, both Microsoft and Amazon are making some very positive strides with startups, I certainly think that Amazon is THE startup platform, but Microsoft could prove me wrong.

By: Oxyfish » Blog Archive » Yieldex is a Finalist in AWS Startup Challenge - Yieldex CEO Tom Shields' Blog

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:12:08 +0000

[...] (apparently 900 applied last year, don’t know how many applied this year). We even got a TechCrunch mention – can’t wait to see what that does to our web site traffic. For the record, our web [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:11:05 +0000

or ‘cloud’

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:09:46 +0000

Anybody sick of the word ‘could’ yet?

By: Sandip

Sandip — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:58:27 +0000

WOW, looking at Zephyr, seems like Enterprises are now finally moving to the cloud computing.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:41:08 +0000

i think knewton should take it. really impressive idea, hot space, and great use of the cloud.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:37:38 +0000

great incentive to develop on amazon cloud platform

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:00:39 +0000

“The prize will go to the most innovative startup built on Amazon’s cloud-computing infrastructure.”

Incorrect. The prize will go to the most innovative *US based* startup built on AWS.

That’s probably only about half the pool, if that.

It’s kind of like the so called “World Series”, that features only American teams. Nevertheless, there are some interesting startups here, I look forward to checking them out.

By: Prasad Thammineni

Prasad Thammineni — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:59:58 +0000

Dear @dks123,

We understand your concerns about Pixily pricing. The $60 you mentioned here is for a 4-envelope pricing per month. That is, you can mail documents in four first-class prepaid scanvelopes. These documents are scanned into your account and are made searchable. The documents are then mailed back to you in pre-paid envelopes. From our research, we found that an average household tends to collect about 50 sheets of paper per month and a small business accumulates about 200 sheets.

For people who would like to scan their own documents or have gone paperless, they can subscribe to the digital plan for $4.95 a month. You just have to upload them into your account and take advantage of the visual search, share and labeling features. More importantly, you now have anywhere, anytime access to your documents.

If you do exceed your monthly storage limit, you can purchase additional storage at 15 cents for every 100 pages.

If you do have further questions, please do not hesitate to either call us or email us.

Sincerely,
Prasad Thammineni
Pixily Customer Care
888-ORG-NIZE
contactus@pixily.com

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Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:57:50 +0000

[...] names Startup Challenge finalists — Six companies are finalists in the $100,000 competition: Encoding.com, Knewton, MedCommons, Sonian, Pixily, Yieldex and [...]

By: dks123

dks123 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:21 +0000

pixily.com pricing is steep. $60 for scanning 200 pages. And total of 12000 pages of storage is not that much. In couple of years you can easily store that much. Now that most of the places provide you downloadble files (brokerages, phone companies, credit card companies, turbo tax and many more) I can easily store it myself. Searching/sorting and text recognization are pluses, but price is still high for that.

By: Mike Ford

Mike Ford — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:55:55 +0000

Congrats to Prasad, Vik and Anand at Pixily.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:48:50 +0000

I liked the yieldex.com and pixily.com

By: pj

pj — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:45:38 +0000

ummm, these are not all consumer facing companies. using traffic to pick a winner amongst them makes no sense…