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Houstonist Joins the Startup Weekend

Monica Danna, editor of the Houstonist blog stopped by today to do some guest blogging. You can check out her first post here.

Decompressing after a long day

So how do the people here at StartupWeekendHouston decompress after a long day or development session. Why Yoga of course! At least a version of it that Gwendolyn Bell shared with us. Here is the video below.

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StartupWeekendHouston does Yoga to relax from Startup Houston on Vimeo.

Want to take some time to [...]

Startup Weekend – First 24 Hour Recap

So now that we have the first 24 hours of Startup Weekend – Houston under our belt, here are my initial thoughts:

Developers, developers, developers;
It is hard to avoid the feature creep;
Everyone is a marketing expert;
Market research is of UTMOST importance;
Pizza can get old quickly; and
Developers, developers, developers.

Here is what the team has been able to [...]

We’re down to 3 possible names for our StartupWeekend project

The top names are:

TipDish
MediaConnectr
MediaMatchup

Right now it looks like the group is leaning towards TipDish. It’s catchy, and it has 8 characters or less in it’s name (which is what Gwendolyn Bell tells us) and we’ve come up with a way to use the name to describe people who use the service (Tippers for the [...]

Startup Weekend – Day Two

Last night was a blast and today looks like it should top it. Here’s what we’ve seen so far:

WiFi without power is a problem (Erica to the rescue);
Coffee and Macs don’t mix (my heart goes out to you Gwen);
People seem to gravitate towards form over function…perhaps it is easier.

The project seems to be gaining momentum [...]

We Have a Winner

Well, as luck would have it, VoSnap couldn’t handle the amount of text we gave it to try and decide who the winning idea would be, so everyone wrote their votes down on used coasters from the bar. So I guess we’re using 0.5 technology to decide what our Web 2.0 app will be. [...]

It’s Decision Time here at StartupWeekend Houston

We are going around the room now and listening to everyone’s top three votes for which ideas they like the best for StartupWeekend Houston. Here are my votes:

Media directory (would provide a directory of all blogs and social media site contacts)
Startup tracker (would track all startups, including those that end up in [...]

Startup Weekend in Houston About to Begin

If you are light on free cool t-shirts, then Startup Weekend is waiting for you. There are still a few seats available for the weekend which kicks off tonight at the Stag’s Head Pub. If you are not there, you will be one of those who said, “I had tickets to Lollapaloooza I but decided [...]

5th Annual Rice Alliance Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum Today

Today is the 5th Annual Rice Alliance Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum held at the Jones School (McNair Hall) , Rice University. Here is an overview of the event:

One of the largest energy venture forums in North America
Emerging energy technology companies will showcase their new ventures in front of an audience of 400-500 investors [...]

WHAMtextâ„  and Mobile Advertising

I had the pleasure of meeting with the two founders of WHAMtext℠ this morning, Jeff Lerner and Matt Whitney. The company offers on demand text message coupons to users of their service. The premise here is that this is demand based so there is no “opt-in” requirements which will you get bombarded by SMS spam.

Here’s [...]