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myTreat Contest: TreatUp and Win Cold Hard Amazon Gift Cards

In celebration of the launch of the new TreatUp feature in myTreat we are giving away several Amazon gift cards to a few good myTreaters. Read on to find out how you can claim yours.

What's a TreatUp?

TreatUps are photo proof that you met with someone in person. It's a photo with you and the other person you met (example below). TreatUps also help you keep track of all the people you meet.

What are the Prizes / How do I win?

To win you just need to post new TreatUps. This means if you've already submitted TreatUps you need to do new ones. Here's what you can win:

$5 Amazon gift cards (quantity: 4): be one of 4 people to post 2 new TreatUps

$10 Amazon gift cards (quantity: 2): - be one of 2 people to post 4 new TreatUps

How do I a TreatUp?

Through the myTreat app you select the post tab at then choose "Post a TreatUp"

Take a new photo with you and the other person or submit an existing photo of you and the other person

Choose the myTreat username of the other person so they can approve it (note the other person will need to have installed the myTreat app)

Once the other person approves you both get 1 TreatUp

Who can I do a TreatUp with?

Friends, co-workers, people you meet on the street, etc... Just make sure the other person has the myTreat app and is a user in the United States.

How to claim a prize?

After you get the required number of TreatUps for the gift card you want email us at [email protected]. Prizes are awarded to the first people to email us (pending verification of their TreatUps). 

Rules / Restrictions

Contest only open to users located in the United States

In order for TreatUp to count other user must be a myTreat user

TreatUps must be new TreatUps (existing ones don't count)

Contest ends when all gift cards have been claimed or by 11:59PM PST, May 3, 2013

Summary

Giving out amazon gift cards

To win, post new TreatUps - photos with you and another person

The other person you take a photo with needs to approve the photo (this means they need the app)

Email us at [email protected] to claim your prize

Contest ends May 3, 2013 or when we run out of prizes

Don't have the app? Get myTreat!

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myTreat Fun at Tech Cocktail LA Showcase

A few days ago we mentioned how we were selected by Tech Cocktail to be one of the chosen startups to be be featured at their Los Angeles Showcase Mixer. There were a ton of great startups and great people who showed up to check out our "wares." Below is our photo journal of the event. Many thanks again to Tech Cocktail for giving us the opportunity.

When we heard we were chosen we had less than a week to figure out what we were going to exhibit. In the email they told us we would have 4 feet of table space to setup whatever we liked. Since we've never setup a table space before for myTreat we didn't have any signs or marketing schwag.

They say necessity is the mother of invention. I thought back to the last time I exhibited anything and the only thing I could remember was an eighth grade science fair project in which I won honorable mention (my mom did most of the work...thanks mom!). With that inspiration I sketched out this super professional diagram.

I won't bore you with the details of measuring, cutting, glue-sticking, etc... but I will say it did bring me back to my middle school years. In the end from that super professional diagram we ended up this this:

If you can't tell, the middle part is actually a cut out we made so we could place an LCD monitor there that would show photos of people we took while at the event. The frame around it is an iPhone... you know, because we're an iPhone app (genius, right?).

With the myTreat marketing materials finished it was off to the Tech Cocktail Science Fair. We got there early to setup.

Behind the board you'll notice the craziness going on behind the scenes.  We have a paper cutter, photo printer, and my computer. What we decided to do was to take photos of people meeting new people at the event, print them out, and give them to each of the people in the photos. The end product looked something like this:

We hole punched the photo and put it on a key ring (along side one of our business cards). We also labeled it with the people's name so people could remember who they met there (and thus cherish the memories forever).

Above in the photo is Frank Gruber, founder of Tech Cocktail and Michelle Magoffin, founder of Sprawl 3. After receiving her myTreat schwag Michelle tweeted out:

Totally random swag from @mytreat at #techcocktailLA. Now I have a pic of me and Frank, CEO of @techcocktail. twitter.com/PeevedMichelle…

— Michelle Magoffin (@PeevedMichelle) March 28, 2013

Random indeed, but hopefully memorable :)

Anyway... back to the story. Once our "booth" was all setup it was time for the obligatory team photo.

And like all good startups we do have our own sassy and savvy interns, Shawnee and Ariane (big thanks for them for helping out!).

We got to the event early and like all events in the beginning it's not that crowded.

Here Eric is pitching myTreat to Dennis.

Since we are all about meeting new people and documenting it (ie the TreatUp... new feature coming soon!) Ariane snapped a photo of them.

In addition to meeting other entrepreneurs at the event we also got to meet quite a few USC students who were there as part of their entrepreneurship class. Here I had the pleasure of meeting Brenda and Juho (who is an exchange student all the way from Finland).

They also took a TreatUp photo:

Later on in the evening all of the showcasing companies had a minute to pitch their products on stage. And then the audience had a chance to vote for their favorites.

Me pitching from the front:

Me pitching from the back:

People in awe of the myTreat pitch:

... maybe not everyone was impressed:

Even though we didn't win audience favorite we still managed to pull through a respectable 3rd or 4th place (out of twelve) finish (I don't remember the exact result). In either case I do remember the winner. Congrats to the Atlas team for winning!

As the night went on we met a ton of great (and fun) people and had a ton of TreatUps that took place.

Thanks again to Tech Cocktail for choosing us and Cross Campus for hosting us!

- Ben