Recapping Startup Weekend Boulder 2
March 25, 2008 | by Andrew HydeI 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
10 Responses to “Recapping Startup Weekend Boulder 2”
By joshua on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Looks like you had some gems, and some great guests. I think Phoenix may be ready for a StartupWeekend. Maybe in the Fall (Oct,Nov) when it cools down again.
By Brett Borders on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Startup Weekend was awesome - several times better than I expected. I got a tremendous buzz from it, and it was totally inspiring to see how well our team (hitsurance) worked together!
By Jess Martin on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
I really like the new structure of startup weekend. Personally, the reason I backed out of StartupWeekend Houston was because I had my own startup ideas that I wanted to work on with others- I didn’t want to be constrained to a single idea. Besides, 60 people is way too many to work on a single idea!
Looks like I’ll try to hit up StartupWeekend San Antonio.
Jess
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By Anthony Stevens on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Neat idea to have multiple concepts going simultaneously.
Did having so many different tracks dilute the amount of stuff actually accomplished? I.e. did each startup lanch with less because of fewer resources to actually do work?
By Brett Borders on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Anthony,
I can’t speak for other groups, but our 6-person team was the perfect size. Every once and a while someone would wander in to see if they could help and the answer was a resounding “No!” - we didn’t mean to be callous, but we found the size to be just exactly perfect.
By gerhard on Mar 31, 2008 | Reply
The new format worked. I like how we were given the opportunity to check out all the teams and pick the one that best fit. Also, the free t-shirts and startup drinks rocked!