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Austin Startup: Cyfeon To Kick Off Disrupt NY Battlefield

The first company presenting in today’s TechCrunch Disrupt startup Battlefield is an Austin based startup called Cyfeon.

Cyfeon has only been beta testing for two months. They are a very early stage, non-funded startup. They’ve created a tool called “Answer Factory” that lets any business pull data from anywhere, anytime in any format to get better answers to queries. Answer Factory is the answer for the headaches that can come from big data.

“Businesses are being overwhelmed with the amount of data they have to rely on to make decisions,” Cyfeon CEO Brandon Smith said. “And they are missing important information that might help drive better financial or operational performance. We’re convinced there is a market for technology that makes use of all available data to improve answer quality.”

The Answer Factory dashboard allows businesses to pull data from any source at any time. The data being pulled can be structured or unstructured and then unified using the Answer Factory platform. Businesses without huge IT departments can benefit from Cyfeon’s drag and drop solution.

“Data isn’t worth anything if it cannot be effectively used,” said Cyfeon CTO Chance Coble. “When we started developing Answer Factory, we knew there were tools out there to provide answers to database queries. But we didn’t see any product that effectively brings all that information together to deliver the best possible answer. We wanted to make big data a big benefit to businesses.”

Although Austin has a thriving tech scene and TechCrunch has held events at South By Southwest, Cyfeon is the first Austin startup in TechCrunch Disrupt’s five year history to be invited to participate in the highly coveted startup Battlefield.

Thirty startups will launch during the Battlefield competition but only one will go home with the $50,000 grand prize and the Disrupt Cup. The Disrupt Cup isn’t just about the money, previous winners of Disrupt Cup have secured millions in funding after winning the prize.

Judging this years Disrupt NYC Battlefield are: Michael Arrington (founder TechCrunch/Crunchfund), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Chi-Hua Chien (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers), Chris Dixon (co-founder Hunch), Marissa Mayer (VP Google), Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures).

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NY Startup: Bar & Club Stats Presenting At TechCrunch Disrupt This Week

If you go to bars and clubs in the New York area and in the near future and have your license scanned by someone with an iPhone or iPod scanner, chances are they are using technology from New York Startup; Bar & Club stats.

The innovative new startup provides a two fold service to bar and club owners in their iPhone/iPod scanning app. The app allows bouncers and doormen to effectively check licenses and IDs. On the backend the app is providing anonymized demographic information that is analyzed and given back to the establishment in easy to understand data.

For example, a bar owner may find that Tuesday nights from 8pm-1am are great nights for women between the ages of 30 and 45, with that data they can offer better drink specials and promotions to attract more of that crowd. A club may also find out that on Thursday night, college night, they actually have a bunch of patrons who are in their late 20’s. Maybe changing college night to another night would work better for them.

This is just one of the many exciting startups presenting in either “Startup Alley” or the Disrupt Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC this week.

TechCrunch Disrupt NYC: Get Me Listed To Launch New Platform

We are reporting tonight from a Times Square hotel that actually has good wifi, something very hard to find in New York. We are here for TechCrunch Disrupt. This will be our third year bringing coverage from TechCrunch’s signature event in New York City. The previous two years we covered for our former site thedroidguy.com

In case you didn’t know, nibletz.com unofficially launched at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year. We still owned and ran thedroidguy.com at the time and we were looking for a place to put content from startups that really appealed to both Cameron and I, but didn’t really fit in the Android space. The fact that we were launching the site out of disrupt is exactly why our SM tagline was “small crunchy bytes from the tech and startup scene”. Most know that we’ve now pivoted to “the voice of startups everywhere else”. That’s exactly what we will find here, startups from Silicon Valley, New York and everywhere else.

One of those startups that will be in startup alley is are the folks from “Get Me Listed”. The New York based startup specializes in local marketing solutions. Get Me Listed’s technology allows marketing professionals to manage hyper local marketing campaigns from a simple easy to use dashboard.

At Disrupt this week (starting Monday morning), Get Me Listed CEO and Co-Founder Michael Mire and Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder Ravdeep Sawhney will be showing off their brand new Get Me Listed platform.

“We are excited to showcase our new platform to the public for the first time. We worked closely with our clients to develop a system that is even more versatile and offers an all-in-one solution for location-based marketing,” said Ravdeep Sawhney.

We will post more including an interview and video later on this week from Disrupt NYC.

Preparing For TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2012

The Nibletz Team is ready to bring you round the clock coverage of what is sure to be the bet Techcrunch disrupt event to date.

First off, you may remember that last year was when Michael Arrington the founder of Techcrunch got into a very public dispute with both AOL and their queen of the Blogsphere (at the time) Arianna Huffington. That dispute of course was what fueled Arrington to wear an “Unpaid Blogger” T-shirt as the emcee of last years event.

After missing a few TechCrunch events, including the most recent Crunchies in San Francisco, Arrington was invited back by the current TechChrunch regime for virtually the same duties as previous Disrupt events. We are curious to see what Arrington wears tomorrow morning when the official event kicks off. The hackathon started two days ago and is the lead in to the event.

We are also looking forward to some of the usual suspects like SV Angels, Ron Conway who is a Battlefield judge this year, as well as MC Hammer.

We are also looking forward to an interview with Hollywood Producer and founder of the LA based startup, Lovvit, Max Gottlieb. We are also hoping to sync up with our friend, rapper and tech investor Chamillionaire during this weeks festivities.

TechCrunch Disrupt NYC will be a great showcase of startups from everywhere including the Valley, NYC and “everywhere else”. If your startup is either pitching in the Battlefield, exhibiting in Startup Alley or just attending the event make sure to drop us a line at disrupt@nibletz.com

Have A Startup Idea For The President, Or The Government? Better Get To Disrupt

If you have a startup idea for the President of the United States or the United States government you want to make sure you’re at TechCrunch Disrupt starting on Monday at Pier 94 in New York City. The nibletz team will be on hand to see a great panel featuring the President’s technology “gurus” US CTO Todd Park and US CIO Steven VanRoekel.

According to TechCrunch’s Gregory Ferenstein, Park and Van Roekel will not only be introducing attendees to new technological government initiatives but they’ll be looking for startups to partner with the White House as well as individuals who may want to take their tech career straight up the flag pole.

We can expect the nation’s top two technology leaders to talk about the government’s blue button initiative for universal access to health records, and it’s green button initiative centered around energy.

If you don’t have a Disrupt ticket yet, you can get one here. And of course if you’re a startup from “everywhere else” presenting, exhibiting or attending Disrupt NYC then make sure you’re on our schedule too by emailing disrupt@nibletz.com.

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TechCrunch Disrupt NYC To Offer Design Office Hours On Stage

Next week we’ll be in New York covering the three day startup, entrepreneur and tech conference, TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. Just like last year we’ll be talking to all the great startups that present onstage for Battlefield and the ones in Startup Alley.

Although he was absent from the Crunchies amidst the TechCrunch/AOL drama, Mike Arrington will be back on stage hosting interviews and asking the tough questions to startups competing in the Battlefield.

Last fall Arrington left TechCrunch, the site he had founded, ultimately over concerns that AOL’s investment in Crunchfund, Arrington’s VC fund, sparked ethical questions and a conflict of interest (in some eyes). After the dust settled at TechCrunch earlier this year, Arrington welcomed the opportunity to come back and host this years Disrupt event.

Another highlight of this years Disrupt NYC is the new design office hours. Last year, Paul Graham, co-founder of Y-Combinator hosted office hours at Disrupt NYC. This year TechCrunch’s Kim-Mai Cutler reports that Graham will be at home in the valley playing daddy to his new baby.

This year’s office hours is focused on Design and includes Leland Rechis, (Director of mobile product at Etsy), Jamie Devine (head of user experience at AVOS), Jason Marrow (lead product designer at Betaworks), and Mimi Chum (design director at General Assembly).

If you’re interested in picking the brands of this design arsenal you can head over to TechCrunch Disrupt NYC website and complete this form. Those selected to participate will be announced at 11:55am sharp and must have a laptop, iPad, or phone to show the design.

We will have round the clock coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt on TDGN on Slacker & AOL radio as well as a ton of coverage here at nibletz.com of course focusing on startups from “everywhere else”.

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Are you a startup from everywhere else that’s either presenting or attending email us here at disrupt@nibletz.com to get on our interview schedule.

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