San Antonio Startup Weekend 2

On Saturday we spent the day fleshing out 2 of the final 3 ideas that made the cut from Friday night’s idea pitch session. The secrets idea was named SaintsandSinnerz and the natural progression alarm idea was called WakeAbout.
We continued live streaming the happenings of the day. For the most part viewers could find [...]

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Everyone likes swag. Startup Weekenders are no different. Luckily we can deliver. Folks will leave sporting this cool tee. You can wear this with pride knowing that you created a company in 54 hours.
We call that Startup on Steriods!

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A lot of times when talk to folks about the Startup Weekend concept we get a whole lot of questions. Here is a general overview of what happens during the 54 hour marathon experience that is a Startup Weekend. Taken from the official Startup Weekend site and modified based on experiences from the first Startup [...]

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We’re on the fast track to making our second Startup Weekend another success. Registration tickets are moving fast and sponsors are signing on to be part of the startup frenzy. Feel free to share this button with your tech and business savvy friends and co-workers.

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Last year’s inaugural Startup Weekend was such an amazing experience we knew we wanted to do it again next year. Well, guess what? It’s next year!
That’s right, on the weekend of May 29th-31st get ready for another around the clock startup event in the Alamo City.
We’re in the preliminary stages of planning but we already [...]

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WOW!
That one word could sum up the whole Startup Weekend experience, but it would leave out all the fun and amazing details that happened. As you can see from all the posts that Celeste Diaz Ferraro and Shaine Mata wrote, there was a lot going on over the weekend. Although the blog was quiet yesterday [...]

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We finished our sandwich lunch and had a round of Microsoft prizes. We pulled names out of a box to choose winners. There were some winners of Halo 3 and other assorted prizes.
We finally got around to having a meeting as a whole to update each other on the progress of our projects. It appears [...]

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We had a mixup with our lunch vendor regarding our legitimacy. After all, who orders for 25 people on a Sunday, right? So, after a couple phone calls, we had that straightened out and even scored some cookies for our troubles.
Philip Wheat, from Microsoft, is on site with some tech demos. I was just checking out [...]

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We are having meetings to start off the day. If you were watching on Ustream, you probably caught the ForceXchange meeting. The meeting is over, so we’ll be working on getting our deliverables hammered out by the end of the day.
I hear the RentEscapes team having their meeting in the hallway. I don’t have details [...]

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We are clearing the fog from our brains with a bit of coffee from a global coffee chain this morning. Breakfast tacos just came in. One thing we learned is that we need to run to the breakfast quickly before the food runs out. Once the food and coffee kick in, we’ll be ready to [...]

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