Recapping Startup Weekend Boulder 2
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008I usually need a day to recover from a Startup Weekend. I feel like I need a week to recover from this one.
And that is a good sign.
iPhone app that does a location based updates for you to find friends or events. Uses the Google Maps feature as well as its own. Think of dodgeball, twitter, a GPS and an iPhone in a blender… will it blend?
Manufacturing companies need to catch up and use a web tracking system for their Molds. Originally pitched as the ‘most unsexy idea ever.’
Originally pitched as a joke, Web2Splash creates a splash page and email collection for new startups needing a quick online presence. The two founders are looking to create a customizable backend so you can upload your logo, pick your layout and collect email addresses of people who are interested in what you are up to.
EcoBox
High level concept for a EcoBox, a containerized emergency generator.
IMDB for Podcasting
A simple, targeted idea, create a way for personalities to list which podcasts they have been on, and who the crew was as well. Look for it to expand to social media as well. Guy Kawasaki said this one has legs, we will see where the one person founder Andy Stanberry does with it.
Think of it as insurance for your website, HItsurance is there when your website goes down due to high traffic. It replaces your site with an email form and an explanation that the site is down due to high traffic, and hitsurance can email you when the site goes back up. They produced some great blog posts as well.
Take Startup Weekend, take out the creating a company part, and make the event two hours long, add a dash of your favorite libation and you have Startup Drinks. A drinking club with a startup problem, Startup Drinks aims to get extremely busy startup folks together to have a pint and talk about what they have done, what they need help with and what they help each other out with.
Not really a company here, but a really cool project. It was a brilliant experiment, using all forms of social media to report on an event. Laura (@pistachio) asked some friends to video conference in to talk to the other companies created during the weekend about their products. Guests included Loic Le Meur, Guy Kawasaki, Eric Litman, Jeff Pulver, and Stowe Boyd. Check out their website to see all the amazing content they produced.
All in all the new concept is here to stay. I was able to run some personal projects by some brilliant minds, gather some important feedback and most importantly, come away inspired and excited about life in the tech field.
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Tags: eric litman, guy kawasaki, handshak.es, hitsurance, jeff pulver, loic le meur, mediacasters, moldrush, startup drinks, Startup Weekend, stowe boyd, web2splash
