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Three Teams, Three Startups, One Weekend

Just how easy is it to launch a company? How about three? This weekend teams from StartupCamp Sydney have put together three real-life business ventures created in just 48 hours.

Photos, video pitches and more info on the teams and StartupCamp are available from the Startup Australia Wiki

With zero budget and no preparation, twenty like-minded strangers have set themselves the challenge of going from conception to production in a single weekend. From veteran entrepreneurs to cubicle-dwellers, coders to marketers, this new breed of Australian innovators are showing the world that starting a company is easier now than ever before.

Three brand new businesses LinkViz, TrafficHawk and uTag have launched:

• uTag rewards people for the value they pass to their online social networks. Instead of being punished for pointing readers at interesting external sites, uTaggers can now share in the rewards. Check it out at http://ut.ag

• What’s got Twitter’s attention right now? Which sites are your friends talking about? LinkViz.com.

• TrafficHawk.com.au is a free website delivering up to the minute RTA traffic alerts for NSW drivers. Receive warnings about your commute before you leave home and see what's happening on the roads right now.

"It's really cool to see the energy and resourcefulness of all the teams. This is a great example of what's possible when you take a bunch of talented people and give them a real challenge" said StartupCamp Chief Instigator Bart Jellema.