Monica Danna, editor of the Houstonist blog stopped by today to do some guest blogging. You can check out her first post here.
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Monica Danna, editor of the Houstonist blog stopped by today to do some guest blogging. You can check out her first post here. 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. [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/clip:324065[/vimeo] StartupWeekendHouston does Yoga to relax from Startup Houston on Vimeo. Want to take some time to [...] So now that we have the first 24 hours of Startup Weekend – Houston under our belt, here are my initial thoughts: Developers, developers, developers; Here is what the team has been able to [...] The top names are: TipDish 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 [...] 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); The project seems to be gaining momentum [...] 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. [...] 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) 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 [...] 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 I had the pleasure of meeting with the two founders of WHAMtextâ„ 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 [...] |
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