Monday, August 4th, 2008
Given that it is Monday, it seemed like a good idea to start the week off with another post from
Mike Gray’s Code and Management blog about being loved at Startup Weekend. His last guest post revolved around some thoughts for developers and this one is tailored more towards the Startup Weekend audience at any event.
10 Ways To Be Loved At Startup Weekend:
- Bring a video projector - want to do pair programming, want to share some thoughts, want to review your slide deck, you need a projector
- Bring a power strip - whenever you are working away from the office or home, you can never find enough power outlets, buy a Monster 4 Outlet Mini Power Strip for all of your travels
- Bring an ethernet hub and ethernet cables - the WiFi in public facilities is bound to fail, be dog slow, or be completely unavailable, but with this you can setup your own network to share files with team members anyway
- Bring a Mac laptop - not to be religious about operating systems, but it just seems to make Internet Connection Sharing dead simple
- Bring a broadband wireless access modem - a Verizon Wireless EV-DO USB modem combined with Mac laptops and ethernet hub allowed our group to keep working while others were stuck without an Internet connection
- Be the person on the team willing to run to Starbucks to keep your team caffeinated
- Know the area, know the closest cafe, know when they close up shop for the night
- Be @TheBeerWench, bring the beer, know your beer, only bring the good stuff
- Rent an RV for the weekend, pull it up outside Startup Weekend location, let your team members use it for meeting space, but more importantly for down time, naps, and any out of towners that need a place to crash
- Have fun, enjoy yourself, be happy - remember this isn’t your day job, you are here to have fun, push yourself, make connections; this weekend will be a lot of work, but it shouldn’t feel like work!
Thanks again to Mike for his thoughts and soon enough we’ll have a great post from our RTP Startup Weekend travel guys about their RTP and Columbus combined travel experience!
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Startup Weekend Columbus (our largest yet) was an excellent weekend with some really exciting developments moving forward post-SW activities. In addition, they were the first weekend in our second year of operation and were nice enough to get us a cake! Check out their projects below and be sure to stay tuned to their local blog as there will be more news and continued buzz and excitement regarding these great projects.
GiggleSeed is a new approach to running a virtual application development business for the Apple iphone and ipod touch. Their first project at Startup Weekend Columbus developed itoot™. With just the touch of your finger, itoot will deliver Multi-fart pack - Short ones, long ones, loud ones and even a few wet ones. All for 99 cents.
CorkShare allows users to create CorkBoards for sharing web media and personal content with friends, group members, or organizations. Users of CorkShare can add objects, called Corks, to their own personal CorkBoard. Both Corks and CorkBoards are conversational, in that other users can comment on postings as well as add postings of their own.
uPropel.com is a new website connecting students in need of tuition assistance with charitable philanthropists in the online community. To use uPropel.com, students pay a small fee to create a profile online and upload a brief video. Videos might tell a story, demonstrate a unique talent, or go on a humorous rant: basically anything that might garner the interest of a donor.
Clearwish is an interactive service that allows a user to create, grow and share their wish lists with family and friends. Users can capture their items from any site or location and add them to their wish list. Users can then share their lists with family and friends.
EventStart is an application that will make event hosting and set up a seamless and relatively simple activity. By combining registrations, wikis, twitter, and a variety of other useful applications, EventStart will simplify event planning and empower its users.
Spotwurk is a new service that connects brands, market researchers and advertisers to consumers by engaging them on a whole new level of ubiquitous computing. They make consumers part of the design process by tapping into the pulse of now. As an added benefit, brands get back on the radar, they engage, research, discover trends and begin to understand their dynamic consumer.
FindShelternow.com is an application focused on the management and distribution of same-day, last-minute hotel rooms. The availability and location of hotels for evacuees is a critical function of the overall evacuation process and this service will enable users to find the nearest hotels and their availabilities for those last minute needs.
Skibble is a creative and powerful white boarding application that allows users to share a Skibble and whiteboard on the web without all the hassle and problems sometimes associated with real time sharing. Users can share a link and save their Skibbles as images at any time.
FreightChatter is a company that will revolutionize the way independent trucking professionals and shippers connect and interact. It is a web-based network where drivers and dispatchers instantly connect to fill empty trucks and reduce deadhead miles.
Cloud 9 is a conversation-based matching service for the single or solo traveler. Similar in functionality and feel to a dating site, Cloud 9 will enhance the overall personal flying experience through targeted introductions of fellow passengers who are either socially or professionally motivated to engage in this service offering. Cloud 9 will facilitate the introduction of people flying on the same plane, so that they may sit next to one another and engage in a mutually interesting topic of conversation.
Litigation Desktop is an application that is currently in development aimed at the huge legal exhibits and documentation market that currently exists. Their application will be a desktop app that enables trial attorneys to better manage their exhibits and huge sources of data in a case.
I also wanted to send out a big thank you to Chris Anderson, Alvin Borromeo and all the other organizers for doing such a great job with this event!
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Just a quick reminder and announcement that Startup Weekend Columbus starts tomorrow. Check out their local blog here and check back here next week for an update on their developments and progress.
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The momentum of the group in Columbus has been in one word amazing.
The group of people working behind the scenes to make a Columbus weekend happen has been a great one. In just a mere matter of days we’ve went from just talking about making the weekend happen to having a location selected, some ideas already coming in, and a large number of people saying they want to attend.
I’m proud to announce today Startup Weekend Columbus will be taking place July 18-20th at the amazing Tech Columbus facility.
The level of enthusiasm in Columbus and the surrounding area has been overwhelming and the bloggers of the area have been talking about the real possibility of Columbus Startup Weekend for the past several weeks. People in the area even coordinated an effort to get votes out for the city and it worked.
I’ve never seen a city rise so fast in a mere matter of hours and the emails begin coming in about what it will take to get the city a Startup Weekend like this before.
The obvious drive and talent of those in the area means that this weekend will most certainly be a successful one.
The fact that the demand for this weekend was so high means that tickets will be selling very fast and that if you want to reserve your spot you’ll need to head over here and register fast. For the low price of $40 you’ll get your fair share of fun, learning, food, free schwag, and networking for an amazing price.
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