The Columbia TechBreakfast did something a little different Tuesday, choosing to hold its monthly meetup of startups and tech-lovers at the BWI Airport Marriott just prior to the start of the second annual Entrepreneur Expo.
Missing from the breakfast were two startups, Zoomph and Wireless Innovation, but here are the four companies that did present.
- Crowdstitch, described by founder Mark Howells as a “Twitter hashtag on steroids,” is an iOS and Android app that creates pop-up social networks at events, allowing attendees, event organizers and even advertisers to interact with one another free of the other clutter that shows up in a traditional Twitter news feed.
- Mechation Studio, which had presented at the October Baltimore TechBreakfast moved to Nov. 1 courtesy of Hurricane Sandy, made an appearance, as founder Sam Eshleman walked people through his online, animation-based instruction manual that could make IKEA furniture no longer maddeningly difficult to piece together.
- Authntk‘s Len Ostroff showed off Walkaround Videos, his solution for car dealerships eager to make more sales by providing video walking tours of cars online shoppers are interested in viewing a little more closely. Granted, there’s YouTube, but Ostroff says Walkaround Videos differs in key ways: for instance, the customized, dealer-branded landing pages that are e-mailed to prospective car buyers.
- SocialToaster, the social media tool that’s creating armies of [Insert Your Business’ Name Here]-lovers just waiting to share pre-written content and win prizes for doing so.
