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Rocket Hatch Will This Fly 2016

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Huntsville’s Rocket Hatch Will This Fly 2016 pitch competition is set for Saturday, May 7, at the Stone Event Center, Campus 805.

The pitch competition is part of Innovate Huntsville 2016.

Will This Fly showcases up-and-coming innovators based on a pre-selection process. 16 Semi-finalists (listed below) will compete to pitch to a jury that includes representatives from PROJECTXYZ, Boostphase, Alabama Launchpad (featured in one of the earlier 2015 episodes of the Ignite Alabama podcast) , the Innovation Depot, GIGTANK and the Tonic Regional Fund.

Tickets are available here: http://www.willthisfly.org/tickets

Ticket prices range from $10 to $75.

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Sixteen Will This Fly Semifinalists

  • FETCH: Talent driven hiring platform that matches talent with employers in a transparent & affordable way
  • GoGetter: Social networking web app that hosts classified ad listings exclusively on the web portals of college student populations.
  • Oodle Networks: Oodlenet technology, “Breaking the Internet Speed Limit™.” Wants to bring gigabit Internet speeds to everyone.
  • Rideversity: Ride matching app that connects students and faculty members with safe, reliable, and affordable transportation.
  • InSpace Resources: Will mine water from lunar soil and recover water from spacecraft waste for the efficient use of space resources.
  • Rock Paper Sold: Rock Paper Scissors tournaments, over the internet, for prizes.
  • Honor Call: Veteran-owned business that creates the opportunity for members of the community to support other veteran-owned businesses by listing the companies in our online directory and encouraging our members to rate them.
  • ApproXie Health: Mobile-first on-demand software solution that provides access to healthcare through digital connectivity for BOTH patients and providers.
  • NitroPCR: Enables smaller EMS providers to manage required reports in less time with better info, comply with growing regulations, and get paid faster.
  • Spruce Planner: Planning and goal setting app designed especially for on-the-go women. It’s a powerful and collaborative app where you can manage your calendar, to dos, notes, and goals all in one place.
  • MedExcess: Online inventory management platform for the healthcare industry.
  • Real Estate Row: The one stop real estate shop making home buying faster, better, & easier.
  • Spiinpiin: Unfiltered and unbiased view of live news from around the world, by geo-locate media and text on a live feed through public and personal channels.
  • American Wind, Inc.:  Micro Cube/WindWall technology developing 1Kw power from small form factor wind turbine.
  • NextGigg: Website connecting businesses to ridesharing drivers for in car advertising.

Rocket Hatch – Huntsville’s Creative, Startup Community

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Antonio Montoya of the Rocket Hatch in Huntsville is the guest on episode 14 of Ignite Alabama podcast, a Shinecast® show by Sheree Martin.

Welcome to episode 14 of the Ignite Alabama podcast.

This week’s guest is Antonio Montoya, an entrepreneur and one of the forces behind the Rocket Hatch, a startup and creative community  in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Rocket Hatch Investor Day

The Rocket Hatch Investor Day is set for Thursday, September 10, 2015. The Investor Day event will bring together investors and entrepreneurs from across the Southeast to share experiences related to investing, pitching, launching and growing high tech startups.

The event will include panels on startup investing and pitching and will conclude with an open networking event at Sip+Hatch. Details here.

Antonio talks about the upcoming Investor Day in this podcast.

Rocket Hatch Community Values

The RocketHatch statement of values are a perfect reflection of what every true 21st century enterprise should cherish. Here’s an example:

  • Collaboration over competition
  • Trust over agendas
  • Encouragement over criticism

Those values reflect what I’m trying to offer through this podcast and my larger Shinecast mission. This podcast features conversations with entrepreneurs and innovators without no agenda other than sparking innovation and entrepreneurship in Alabama–in whatever form or shape it emerges–and perhaps helping me to grow my own entrepreneurial ventures.

Most people know Huntsville for its role in the NASA space program and for the many companies, large and small, that play a role in the national defense of our great country.

But Huntsville is also an arts community and it’s much more than a city for defense department contractors. 

Before meeting with Antonio last week when he was in Birmingham for the Alabama Launchpad Innovation awards event, I spent some time reviewing the first annual report of the RocketHatch and I found it so refreshing.

I’ll just let the conversation with Antonio unfold and tell you the rest of the story.

I look forward to visiting with lots of Rocket Hatch community members on September 10, 2015 at the Investor Day event at the Space and Rocket Center.

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Antonio Montoya of the Rocket Hatch in Huntsville is the guest on episode 14 of Ignite Alabama podcast, a Shinecast® show by Sheree Martin.

Thank you so much for listening to the Ignite Alabama podcast.

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