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The standard networking event fare of fancy finger foods and classy cocktails was nowhere to be found at last night’s gathering of entrepreneurs and innovators. The crowd too was heavily skewed toward the younger set. The room was crowded and hot and extraordinarily loud, but the excitement and energy was high at the Lean Into Spring event hosted by Lean Startup Circle Boston, a monthly Meetup group focused on lean startup principles.
According to the Meetup event page, 298 people RSVP’d to the event, and by the looks of the room everyone was crammed into, most of those people actually showed up. Braving the heat and frequent elbow collisions, the crowd was a mix of people with young startups, experienced entrepreneurs and freelancers looking to join those new ventures. And some of those ventures are sounding pretty interesting.
Here are the five new companies I connected with and what they do:
1Fastbite
Headquarters: Bedford, MA
People I met: Andrea Dacayanan, CEO/Founder, and Jim Krochune, EVP Sales/Co-Founder
What they do: 1Fastbite is an online order management system that sends orders to restaurants and provides status tracking of the order for customers. According to Dacayanan, they differ from similar services like GrubHub and Foodler by helping the restaurants build relationships with their customers.
Textaurant
Person I met: Joshua Bob, Founder and President
What they do: Textaurant provides a web-based service for restaurants to use text messages or a phone call to alert patrons when their table is ready, eliminating the need for the clunky, germy notification devices commonly used. This allows the patron to do other things, such as shopping, while they wait for their table.
StudioShare.org
Headquarters: Cambridge
Person I met: Andreas Randow, President
What they do: StudioShare.org connects photographers interesting in cutting costs by sharing studio space and equipment and finding professional services and staff members.
Couchange.org
Person I met: Jia Ji, CEO
What they do: Couchange.org develops a universal donation platform that allows people to donate abandoned assets to charities. Such donations include frequent flier miles and giftcard balances.
O Sole Mio
Person I met: Misha Kogan, Partner and Designer
What they do: O Sole Mio is developing an indoor tomato growing system that uses LED lights to grow tomatoes year-round, allowing for gardening in urban environments.
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