Startup School NY 2014: Innovations in Job Salaries, Food Waste, and Viral Distribution Strategies

Timestamped Summary

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  00:00

  Salary Fairy helps users determine their value in the job market through crowd-sourced salary predictions, with a goal of creating an efficient market for job salaries.
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  05:17

  Salary Fairy allows users to check in their results or make predictions for accurate salary predictions, but validation can only be done by finding a job at that price point.
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  08:52

  Pare Up is building a marketplace for businesses to donate excess food inventory and for users to buy discounted excess inventory, with plans to launch a mobile app in the near future.
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  14:25

  The food waste reduction app offers low-cost, high-quality food with an average discount rate of 50% and aims to provide feedback to vendors and users on how much they have saved and made through their platform.
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  17:27

  An app is being developed to simplify expense splitting for couples by syncing with card transactions and avoiding mental tabs and spreadsheets.
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  20:58

  Discipline and focus are key to creating a successful product, like simplifying bill splitting by pulling transaction streams.
• 📈
  23:40

  Acquiring users for a new product is difficult, but a viral distribution strategy or invite flow can help gain traction.
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  26:10

  Biden signs executive orders to address climate change, including rejoining the Paris Agreement and halting the Keystone XL pipeline.