We’d thought you maybe interested in the ‘Audience Vote’ Survey Monkey stats produced from last weeks Nott Tuesday Nottingham’s Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 competition with EasyPreOrders winning you over:
Nott Tuesday Award Survey Monkey stats (organised by Julian Higman)
You voting (picture supplied by Nick Walker, of Walker Systems)
Thank you again for participating.
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Easypreorders scoops the judging panel and audience vote to win Nottingham’s Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 and £7,000 worth of prizes including £850 cash!!
Mark Roberts, Managing Director of Easypreorders making it look easy! Mark receiving a £500 cheque from judge and sponsor Adam Bird
“The best startup competition yet” was a comment repeatedly made at the event. Antenna was packed with almost 100 people enjoying the awards.
The Audience Voted for EasyPreOrders to Win
Easypreorder is an online pre-ordering service for organisers, restaurants and the hospitality industry. In 2nd place was GuestSort with their venue guest list platform app and in 3rd place was NeeHoy with their Sociable Recycling app.
The judges were really impressed by Easypreorders and the other finalists. Adam Bird, spokes person for the judges said:
“The awards have really up stepped a level this year especially in terms of the quality of the startups and teams entering. The top 3 were targeting very different sectors but shared common ingredients: passionate teams, solving real problems that people are prepared to pay for. I look forward to seeing these young businesses develop and rise to the inevitable challenges over the coming years.”
Mark Roberts, Managing Director of Easypreorders , said after winning the award:
“Winning Notts Tuesday is an absolute honour. To say “I’m dead chuffed” would be an understatement! The prizes are fantastic, and geared up to a tech company like ours. Thank You, this really will make a difference our business and ultimately our future.”
Honourable mentions also go to the HiveDrop PhD crew with their spheres of information and PayDot’s tracking, payments and financial reporting service.
Our sincere gratitude go to the long list of 11 sponsors for this year’s event:
EasyPreOrders took the lions share of the prizes, with GuestSort receiving two prizes (Legal consultancy and security service) and NeeHoy with Tedx ticket. Interestingly the Audience Vote mirrored the judging with EasyPreOrders (1st) – who received the £350 cash prize, GuestSort (2nd) and NeeHoy (3rd). Without the support of the sponsors the event wouldn’t have attracted so many startups and make the event hotly competitive.
Our thanks also got to the judges: Adam Bird, Jason Watkins,Rob Cawdron, Ian Fletcher and Aisling Duffy, who did an excellent job at questioning the startups and selecting the winners.
Nott Tuesday Startup Awards 2012 judges
And last but no means least our to thanks go to: Nick Walker from Walker Systems for once again providing the great photography (All the photo’s on Google+); Antenna for hosting and helping to organise the event; Marie Peach and her The Saboteurs band for entertaining us so well with live music, and CJ for live voice streaming the (hear it again here!) and helping the organisation on the night.
Each year the event gets bigger and better with more startup entries, more sponsors with better prizes. And now with the £56m Creative Quarter Nottingham really is a great place to be with your startup!!
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Here’s what Mark Roberts, Managing Director of EasyPreOrders, had to say after winning The Nottingham Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 competition on Tuesday night:
“Working on a new start has been very difficult in the last year or so and we have suffered many of the trials and tribulations all start-ups go through; lack of resources, delays and unfulfilled promises just naming a few! EasyPreOrders has been a labour of love and sometimes it is difficult to take a step back and appreciate how far you have gone. Entering the Notts Tuesdays event was one of those moments, where we stepped back and thought ‘we should go for this and see what happens’
Hearing back from Nick that we were shortlisted was a pat on the back enough and instilled confidence that other people appreciated months of hard work. To be eventual winners of Notts Tuesday really is an absolute honour, and I must apologise for the big grin I had across my face as soon as it was announced. To say “I’m dead chuffed” would be an understatement! I felt like the judges and audience were tuned into technology and well qualified to ask probing questions and understand, with guidance, about our business and how we will succeed. The prizes are fantastic, are really are geared up to a tech company like ours and without doubt will become a a huge asset to our business.
To all new Tech companies our there thinking, “shall I enter, or just keep my head down and plough on?”, the answer has to be a resounding yes!! To all of the generous sponsors of this event, Thank You, this really will make a difference our business and ultimately our future.”
A further event follow-up post will be published shortly. To find out more about EasyPreOrders watch this video:
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Pivoting - we’ve seen it more than once here at Nott Tuesday. Last year’s Nott Tuesday Startup of the Year winner Planitt has pivoted to a new product. Guest speaker Joel Gascoigne pivoted to BufferApp.
Todays startups pitching at our Nott Tuesday Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 Awards need to remember that this is a journey and “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill
As Peter Drucker, the well know management consultant, educator, and author, said in 1985,
“A new venture does not succeed, more often than not it is in a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out, bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.”
We wish all the startups that did not make it through to the final 5 the best for the future and Good Luck to the startup pitching at todays event!!
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Tomorrow is the big Nott Tuesday night with our Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 awards!!
Just like your favourite game show you can now vote for your favourite startup at the Nott Tuesday awards and award them a massive £350 prize!! Very generously sponsored by Nottingham City Council.
Once you’ve watched the pitches and heard the Q&A, you can cast your vote on a SurveyMonkey page kindly set-up by Julian Higman. We’ll give you the URL on the night.
At the end of the evening the highest-ranked startup will be awarded the Audience Prize. Thanks Julian for suggesting the ‘The Audience Vote’! Great idea!!
See you all tomorrow for a excellent evening of merriment!!
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Marvellous news – we now have two new sponsors for our Nottingham’s Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 awards!!
Global information services giant and Nottingham based company Experian plc are now supporting Nottingham tech community and sponsoring our awards with food.
TEDx, “ideas worth spreading,” is coming to Nottingham. TEDx Lacemarket is about Families. Nott Tuesday regular and TEDx organisaer has kindly sponsored a prize of VIP ticket worth £250 to the TEDxLaceMarket Partners and Speakers Reception on 23rd November.
This really is a record year for Nott Tuesday with more sponsors than ever!!
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We’ve had an overwhelming response from startups this year and its a shame we could not let them all through to the final. The judges had a hard time of selecting the final Magnificent 5 to pitch on November 13th.
All the pitching startups form our 2011 awards competition
We can now announce the short-listed five startups for this year’s Nottingham’s Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 (in no particular order). This years short-listed startups are an diverse mix of apps from sales payment reporting to resturant food ordering:
Only one week to go until the awards evening. This special Nott Tuesday event will be held at Antenna as normal. As this event will be longer than usual, we’ll be kicking of at 6:30pm sharp. We’ve also extended the Antenna bar until 11:00pm to celebrate!
The format for the evening will be (times may vary):
6:30 (sharp start) Introductions
6:40 – 7:40 Pitches
7:45 – 8:30 Judges deliberate
7:45 Food is served
8:30 Winners announced
9:00 Band plays
11:00 Antenna closes
Make sure the 13th November is in your diary! This is the big night to celebrate Nottingham’s technology startups and community!!
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A Nott Tuesday first – We have a live band booked to follow-on after the Startup competition on the 13th of November!!!
The Saboteurs will be playing for us on the night. Marie Peach, the leader singer and girlfriend to regular Nott Tuesday’er Tom Geraghty, has kindly agreed to play for us.
It will be an awesome night to remember!!!
The startup entries are still flying in. REMEMBER: STARTUPS, you have just 2 days until the 31st of October to get your competition entry in. See our announcement post for entry details.
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This call goes out to all Nottingham based (and close by) startups. The entries for the Nott Tuesday Tech Start-up of the Year competition closes in one weeks time on the 31st of October.
2011 1st place winner Zahid Mitha co-founder of Planitt
Please get your entry in to avoid disappointment and the chance to win a share of £10,000 with of prizes!! The first three winners will be receiving prizes, so you have a good chance.
Entry instructions are in our announcement post here: http://notttuesday.com/2012/10/05/nottinghams-tech-start-up-of-the-year-2012/
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Yes, that’s right we now have over £1o,000 worth of prizes and food sponsorship for the Nottingham’s Tech Start-up of the Year 2012 competition! This is double last years sponsorship!! We’ll be sharing the prizes between the first three winners.
We’ve been inundated with very generous prizes and food for the awards. All this generosity shows the belief in our Nottingham tech talent and willingness to help grow our tech community.
This year we have banded the awards sponsors into gold, silver and bronze categories:
Nottingham City Council are getting more involved with our tech community and are putting up a £350 cash prize for the overall audience winner!
For this year Adam Bird, founder & CTO of Esendex, will be generously sponsoring the food a £500 cash prize for the winner.
A new sponsor for this year Security Aware is giving the winners a huge &2,700 subscription of their security website/application security scanning between 1st (6months) and 2nd place (3 months) winners .
Technology startup experts Anterian will be giving the winners £2,000 worth of business technology, finance and operations consultancy to help them on their way.
Our good friends at Skeleton Productions, Nottingham and London Video production Agency, are again sponsoring Nott Tuesday awards with a professional video for the winner worth £1700.
No only are Esendex sponsoring the food a cash prize, they are giving the winner a massive £1,000 of text messages/virtual mobile numbers.
Web design Training specialists are giving the winners a very useful course worth upto £1,000 £500 and paying towards the food.
Long time supporter of Nott Tuesday and tech legal experts, Shoosmiths Solicitors, will be giving the award winner £690 of legal advice.
This year Bildurn Property development is sponsoring 1st drinks together with Quantum Event.
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Marketing experts Quantum Event have joined sponsorship with Bildurn to sponsor your 1st drink.
We already have several startup entries for the competition – If you want to enter your startup please email nick.barker@awaremonitoring.com as per the awards announcement post.
The closing date for entries is the 31th of October. We’ll be announcing the final short list the week before the awards night.
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