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Front Wall of Caroline Collective Matt, Ned, Tara, & Alex say Thanks Security touring the back parking lot Houston OpenCoffee Club November Meetup
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StartupHouston Recommends These Books for Startups

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Help Tapja win the Global Startup Battle

Houston Startup Weekend was last weekend and of the 12 teams that pitched, the winning teams were:

#1 Tapja
An interactive childrens E-book for iPad

#2 MyFlashSpy
A flash sale aggregator. All flash sale sites in one place. Spy on your favorite brands, spy on over 85+ flash sale sites. All customized to you.

#3 TalkTheatre
TalkTheatre is a service that [...]

Meet the Houston Startup Weekend teams

This weekend’s Startup Weekend has been an incredibly exciting event. As I write this, teams are frantically preparing their presentations for their pitches this evening. Video of the presentations will be made available after the event, but until then here is some information on the startups that are participating.

Jobbawalkie
Hype local job searching using Google / [...]

Prepping for StartupWeekend

Three great posts about the Startup Weekend experience:

Javid Jamae: http://javidjamae.com/2011/11/05/startup-weekend-a-schedule-and-plan-of-action/

Austin Fatheree: http://www.rivvir.com/startup_weekend_toolbox/

The Squarefoot: http://www.thesquarefoot.com/houston/startup-weekend-houston-entrepreneurs-kauffman-foundation

After reading these, how could you not want to participate?

Houston Business Journal shows StartupHouston too much love

 

We were very excited to learn that StartupHouston was featured in an article about StartupWeekend Houston in last Friday’s Houston Business Journal, however it appears that they gave us too much credit.

While it is true that StartupHouston helped to promote the event, participated in the event, and helped to even find sponsors for the event, the main credit [...]

StartupHouston interviews Erica O’Grady at StartupWeekend

Well, it took longer than I wanted to get this together, but after wrestling with Ulead’s Video Studio 11+ for over a week, I have finally put together a template that makes it easy to output and upload videos.  So here we go, the first of a few more videos that we have from the [...]

Startup Weekend – An End or A Beginning?

It was clear to me before heading into this weekend that launching a company over the course of 48 hours was stuff of fantasy. Now that the weekend is behind me and I had a chance to catch up on some well needed sleep, I have a different perspective.

TipDish is a social media directory and [...]

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.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/clip:324065[/vimeo]

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 [...]