San Antonio Startup Weekend

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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If you stop by ForceXchange.com, you’ll see that Johnathan Ianotti and Jonathan Kelly have been pounding out the code today. They had to make up a lot of ground after some setbacks with off-the-shelf products; but they’ve done a great job of making up ground. We have put together a lot of the business process. […]

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We had supper a while ago, which consisted of Rudy’s Bar-B-Q. Good stuff. Then it was back to work at our respective businesses. I am with the ForceXchange team still working on the financials. We have divided up the business planning responsibilities and have been at it for a few hours. The developers are sequestered […]

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Live Video streamed by Ustream
We are being entertained by the talents of Matt Barker while we wait for dinner to arrive. You should be able to catch the archive on Ustream. One of our developers decided to join in with percussion on a couple of waste bins.
By now, the projects are maturing. We are starting to […]

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Things are at a little bit of a lull right now, so I stealing away to write this blog post before diving into another task. As you have read, there are three projects going right now. There is a plenty of jumping around between projects amongst some of the team members, especially our only graphics […]

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At 6pm tonight the first ever Startup Weekend San Antonio will kick off.
It’s not too late to register and be part of the fun!
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