Startup Stories: HatchedIt, livecube, and Bizyhood

Hear great startup stories from HatchedIt founders Kirsten Bischoff and Megan Brown, livecube co-founder Aaron Price, and Bizyhood founder Scott Barnett.

Founded by two moms who once worked in Wall Street finance, HatchedIt (http://www.hatchedit.com/) is a free micro social network for managing calendars, to do lists and more. The social network is designed to let you focus on sharing important things with just the few people who are really close to you.

The app, livecube (http://www.livecubeapp.com/about#sr=g&m=o&cp=or&ct=-tmc&st=(opu%20qspwjefe)&ts=1386607276), filters out the distractions and helps audiences focus on what really matters. The app uses the latest engagement technology to motivate audiences with points, badges and real-world rewards. Livecube is designed for all types of events, including corporate meetings, trade shows, conferences, and online events.

Bizyhood (https://www.bizyhood.com/) was created for local businesses and for the people that frequent them. Bizyhood aims to become the local town “hub” on the Internet, and allow users to feel like a local no matter where they are searching for products, services or general information. The site provides easy to use tools for businesses to communicate and manage the relationship with current and future customers.

Agenda:

6:00-6:45 Networking with light refreshments

6:45-6:50 Intro by Dennis Bone

6:50-7:00 Audience pitches (1 minute each person).

7:00-8:15 Presentations by HatchedIt, Bizyhood and third company TBD. Includes Q&A from audience.

8:15-8:30 Closing remarks by Dennis Bone

About the speakers:

Kirsten Bischoff (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenbischoff) is founding partner of HATCHEDit.com. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has spent most of her career in the world of finance. Kirsten gained operational experience running internal operations at a hedge fund startup that grew to $1 billion in assets, and then spent 3 years as an executive assistant at BlackRock. She most recently worked as senior editor for an online financial news publication, and is currently a contributor for Forbes.com. She lives in Springfield, N.J. with her twelve-year-old daughter Sophie.

Megan Brown (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/megan-brown/44/2b9/72) is founding partner of HATCHEDit.com. She has over a decade’s worth of Wall Street Experience spanning both Sales Trading and Asset Management Sales & Marketing. A Bear Stearns alum, Megan worked for eight years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before transitioning into an Institutional Equity Sales Trading Role. In 2005 Megan moved to Bear Stearns Asset Management where she became Managing Director, Head of Global Platform Sales & Wholesale Distribution, responsible for overseeing nearly $7 billion in assets. She was also selected as one of 31 women to be profiled by Bear Stearns during 2008’s Women in History Month. In January of 2009 Megan successfully transitioned to JP Morgan as Director of National Accounts for the Institutional Advisory Business within JP Morgan Asset Management. In this role Megan oversaw the relationship with four large financial institutions, accounting for approx. $18 billion in assets under management, spanning both equities and fixed income products. She holds a BBA from The University of Cincinnati along with her Series 7 & Series 63 licenses. Megan is now happily an entrepreneur and lives in Westfield, NJ with her husband Josh and their daughter Madeleine.

Aaron Price (http://www.linkedin.com/in/arprice) is the co-founder of livecube. He is also the founder of NJ Tech Meetup, the largest tech-oriented Meetup in the Garden State. Aaron is also entrepreneur at large at DFJ Gotham Ventures.

Scott Barnett (http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbarnettnj) is a serial entrepreneur who has contributed to the growth and expansion of startup and established companies by leveraging leadership skills, technical expertise, teamwork and passion. Scott started his career at AT&T Bell Labs as a software engineer before making the switch to the business side and startups in the mid-90's. Scott started and boot-strapped Bluenog Corp. and was CEO of Evident Software before starting Bizyhood. He is also a global sales leader at GE.