SW Indy
December 4, 2008 || by Clayton Stobbs
Just a quick reminder that Startup Weekend Indianapolis starts tomorrow night. Check out their blog and tickets are still available so if you’re in the area, head on over — it is going to be great!
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| Posted in » The 8 Projects of Athens
November 26, 2008 || by Andrew Hyde
Athens (Greece) Startup Weekend was held at the Microsoft Innovation Center.
Microsoft Greece kicked off the event with the announcement of BizSpark, which gives free software to anyone in startups. This includes window, server licenses and even cloud hosting. Really an impressive package. Lydia and Patrick were amazing organizers, and really do a great job of connecting Microsoft with the local community.
We had 8 projects come out of the weekend:
A fantastic team by @gtzi @kcorax, @dimitristi, @netwire, @ageor and @thimios and turned a rough idea (“friendfeed counter anyone?”) conceived about an hour before the event into a solid service and valuable offering, which you may better visualize as “PeopleRank”.
Online service available to bloggers and readers of blogs that enables readers to remind the blogger to produce content. Incentives include Charitable donations and “Cash In Pocket”
BlogNudge is being built by bloggers for bloggers. On the team is Jim Myhrberg, Nick Georgakis, Patrick Malone, Alexander Pagidas and Stavros Messinis.
MyDoupa by Kasidakis John, Matsa Samantha, Rekalidis Konstantinos is a site that combines social networking services and an exciting way to organize your wardrobe and keep up with the latest fashion trends.
BeeShopper by Steve Varsanis and Stratos Tzanavaris is worldwide virtual mall. Through its innovative and user friendly interface it offers easy access to a huge directory of quality online stores. By entering the BeeShopper community users can rate and comment on their purchases to help make online shopping safer.
MobCommerce is a service that allows ecommerce store owners to easily create a mobile-friendly version of their store for free. It was built by Stefanos Vasdekis, John Nousis and Dimitris Theodorakis, and is one of the slickest Startup Weekend projects I have seen.
uArt by Aziza Al Ghafri, Diamantis Falidas, Nick Kokosis, and Nick Saoulis is a application for sharing digital art through an online community. It is a chance for new artists to show their work with the option to sell.
One day every Cafe will become a BETcafe.com. Great domain name and the first gambling site from a SW project.
PettyCards took home the ‘prize’ of talking with the G.I.V.E. grant. Their team was Anagnostou Nikos, Argiriou Alexandros, Kapetanakis Spriros, Moustakas Dimitris, Papadimitriou Dimitris, and Zamanis Panagiotis. Pettycards is a Internet paying system that includes a card distribution network and a website that allows end customers to use these cards to buy services or goods from cooperative web sites. It is intended for use mainly by young people that do not have access to credit cards or for people that do not feel safe giving their credit cards information for small payments.
All around a great weekend with a community coming together.
Dimitris has a great post as well.
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The Goal Of Startup Weekend
November 24, 2008 || by Andrew HydeThis is said quite a bit, but still is missed sometimes.
The #1 goal of Startup Weekend is to build community.
It always has, and always will be.
It is about connecting founders, testing out ideas, failing fast, learning new things, being part of a fast paced environment, seeing if startups are for you, humanizing the business process and having fun. Sometimes really cool projects come out of the weekend.
CNN just had a great article on Startup Weekend explaining this.
Thank you to the great community that has built around Startup Weekend. Keep checking back, we are about to release our vision for the next year of Startup Weekend, and it goes far beyond the weekend projects. Very exciting times ahead.
Are we coming to your town? Make sure to check out the City Vote project and vote for Startup Weekend to come to your city. Feel free to email me if you have any questions!
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SW Combo
|| by Clayton StobbsAs it turns out, the world did not implode! Startup Weekend Athens and Lexington both went extremely well and I’ll do my best to get some project recaps up shortly. For now however, check out Andrew’s previous post from Athens and video taken by Jeremy Tanner from Lexington.
Startup Weekend Lexington from penguin on Vimeo.
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Startup Weekend Athens
November 23, 2008 || by Andrew HydeAthens has been nothing but amazing. Yes, it is true, somehow we tricked the Greeks into working on the weekend. Or so the joke has been.
I have been wondering how to tell the story of what each Startup Weekend is like. This weekend, I tried doing some audio stories. Here is a 20 minute sample.
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Here are some pictures from the event as well.
We are 15 mintues from the start of the presentations, there is a tangeble excitment in the room.
I will post the company names and pitches soon.
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Startup Weekends Everywhere
November 20, 2008 || by Clayton Stobbs
This weekend is certainly going to be one to remember as we have both Startup Weekend Athens (Greece) and Startup Weekend Lexington occurring at the same time. We’re really hoping the world doesn’t implode, but if so, our apologies!
In any case, this should be very interesting so stay tuned to both blogs [ Athens and Lexington ] for updates throughout the weekend and if you have not yet purchased a ticket for Lexington, do so now — Athens is sold out.
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New Weekends
November 11, 2008 || by Clayton StobbsWe are currently looking for people to lead the charge for organizing another Startup Weekend in the cities listed below. Past Organizers would be great and new ones are equally welcome. Please send me an email if you’d like to know more or start planning!
- New York
- San Francisco
- Boston
- Chicago
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Atlanta 2 Recap
November 10, 2008 || by Clayton StobbsStartup Weekend Atlanta 2 has come to a close and as we expected, it was a lot of fun. A big thanks to George Junginger for facilitating and Lance Weatherby for putting together another great Atlanta event. Here are a few projects that at least on Saturday, had sites up and running. Thank you to Blake for posting these up on the Atlanta 2 blog.
Twitpay.me let’s you send payments via Twitter.
Closebuy.me a location-based inventory search engine. Want a specific camera? CloseBuy.me will tell you who has it in stock and how close they are to you.
GivingTi.me enables entrepreneurs to help each other one hour at a time.
Jumbis.com generates single product sales websites that turns buyers into evangelists. Automatically.
Seed Stage Records invests in young musicians and helps them secure deals with bigger record labels.
Reepli.com is a targeted social marketing effort focused on twitter and blog integration to allow companies to engage conversations.
Also, the Skribit team from last year’s Atlanta event managed to work on their project and added some new features!
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Atlanta 2 Coming Up!
November 5, 2008 || by Clayton Stobbs
Let it be known that Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 has sold out and starts this Friday! For those of you who bought tickets early (as suggested) it is going to be a great weekend and if you can’t make it this time, I’m sure we’ll be back.
Watch the local blog for details about what is going on and I look forward to seeing some very cool projects (something with holograms anyone?).
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