Lose Weight, Make Money
TechCrunch50 was held on September 14 and 15, 2009 at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse on Eighth Street in San Francisco.
TechCrunch50 celebrates entrepreneurship, and invites as many start-up companies as possible. This year, fifty companies participated.
HealthyWage, one of the startups that debuted onstage at the TechCrunch50 conference, is a startup that incentivizes users to stay fit by paying them a reward. Great idea!
The idea goes like this. At the beginning of the year, a person can submit their health basics, weight being the most obvious, and set a target at the end of the year. If they meet the goal, HealthyWage either pays them a reward, or matches and raises the user’s bet that they’ll meet their target.
With the nutrition data users enter, HealthyWage can track the protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium a person consumes. It also has a social networking function so people can get together in groups to meet a goal.
Their web site announces launch this Saturday. I sure plan to check it out.
