Damian Palmer, creator of Pressed, an app that serves users as an “intelligent personal assistant,” won the Pitch Pit competition May 8 ending the Spin 66 business conference held at the Robert W. Plaster Center for Free Enterprise & Business Development.
Palmer won $9,000 in cash and prizes, besting competing presenters:
- the Daily Scholar, a Web-based citizen-journalism website and forum for debates;
- Photo Share Club, a mail-order venue promoting local artists and photographers;
- the Sunday Morning Drive, a two-hour per week church-music radio program that reaches 135 radio stations; and
- Distillery 66, a startup microdistillery that produces whiskey, rum and absinthe.
Selected by a panel of four judges, Pressed was awarded $3,000 from the Missouri State University College of Business, $2,000 in legal services from law firm Polsinelli PC, $2,000 in accounting and tax services from Abacus CPAs LLC and $2,000 in project-management services from RefineM LLC.
“You can manage all of your calendars and to-do lists in one place,” Palmer said during his pitch in front of around 100 attendees. “We want to take all of the time out of time management.
“At the end of the day, time is the one resource that we can never get back.”
Pressed software includes habit-tracking, so users can get personalized reminders about needing to work out, for example. Palmer compared the one-stop, time-management system to the iPhone.
“When the iPhone first came out, it had all of these different features, but it combined them in a way that people never thought of, and in a way they never realized they needed. I feel that’s what Pressed is,” he said.
The business, currently in beta testing, would draw revenue from its affiliate marketing program, he said, and the company has an email list of more than 250 people interested in the product.[[In-content Ad]]
