Kyle
Startup Weekend Cincinnati kicked off tonight at the Startup Mall in downtown Cincinnati. Yes they’ve turned a mall into startup space. As traditional retailers exit their hoping to fill the space with startups. The main festivities kicked off in the offices of Black Book HR which looks coincidentally like a Banana Republic because that is who was in the space before them.
Chris Ostorich the founder of Black Book HR is the person who is organizing and pushing startups to move into the mall space. The mall is in one of the oldest buildings in Cincinnati and Ostorich is hoping to spur innovation and low rent to support Cincinnati’s thriving startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
After the pitches were selected for the weekend the startups were able to work on their ideas in the Black Book space along with a vacant Victoria’s Secret and another retail space on the third floor of the mall to build out the startups.
28 total pitches were made on Friday night to a full house of developers, founders, and entrepreneurs. Here are the startups that were picked to build:
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