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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 [...]

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 [...]