Two big announcements came yesterday out of Startup Weekend:
- Andrew Hyde (founder) has announced that Startup Weekend is hiring a CEO. This is the first organization based around creating products in a short span of time (54 hours for SW attendees) to hire a CEO.
- Startup Weekend 2.0 begins this weekend in Boulder for their second SW. Big changes include the following:
- Multiple Projects
- As a group we are no longer working on just one company. If a group of seven, one or 45 for that matter wants to tackle a project or start a company, fantastic. The community will take charge here, but nothing will be decided until Friday night. All equity decisions will be made at the event.
- Build on a Project
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Blitzweekend is well underway up in Montreal. News has been a little slow coming out of the weekend as far as progress, but Mehdi (from Blitzweekend) has filled me in that they have about 50 people attending with 12-13 teams competing to be the best app of the weekend.
I’m looking forward to hearing what apps come out of the weekend and which earns the prize of being dubbed top app.
You can follow their progress at Montreal Tech Watch.…
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Seems like the there was a bit of a delay over at Weekend Apps with the final announcement. The latest information coming out is saying that 11 apps (as opposed to the first reported 6) were launched this past weekend.
Here’s the new run-down of the 11 apps:
- Matchtastic
Dating and rating to find friends and meet new people
- ASPECTS
ASPECTS shows the world the different aspects of your life, your skills and your interests. Flaunt it now!
- PikiPages
Create your own free form page. Drag and drop your pictures, mp3, videos, etc. Share your pages with your friends or the entire world, event outside facebook.
- Send me an artist
Send an artist to your friends and let him draw you a picture in 4
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Blitzweekend, one of the latest weekend startup events, is kicking off Saturday morning in Montreal. The group has assembled quite the team of experts and panel members to inform, assist, and advise throughout the 2 day affair. As of right now, they have almost 60 people registered with about 25 proposed projects.
The weekend aims to get people together in groups no greater than 8 large and build several apps in less than 48 hours. At Blitzweekend, some teams are pre-organized while others will organize on the spot.
The small team approach is similar to what we saw last weekend with Weekend Apps, but this will be on a much grander of scale.
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In what was the first Facebook App development weekend, Weekend Apps hosted a handful of developers (final count unknown) and successfully launched 6 apps by the end of weekend. A quick rundown of what came to be the first of potentially more to come Weekend Apps…well, weekends.
- Deface A Baby – Draw on baby photos and share them.
- Pikipages - “drag and drop” photos, videos, text, html code into a canvas that you can share.
- Blogs I Read – Share the blogs you read, rank them, and post comments on it.
- Ad Exchange – Advertising exchange to cross promote your application with others in the same group.
- Matchtastic – “find your perfect match”
- Spring Break – Take your friends on a virtual spring break
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Weekend Apps is off to create 20 Facebook apps this weekend. Another weekend startup event, last night started their big adventure. After a long night, a list of potential apps has been constructed and is now underway right now:
- Hitchhiker – your friends help you get from one city to another virtually.
- Dark and Stormy Night – group collaboration on writing a story, you add a part to a story, then pass it along
- Speed dating – chat over IM to meet potential dates
- Implicit dating – select people you want to date from photos
- Give friends to friends
- Social Match – you are matched based on common interests
- Web 3.0 page editor – a canvas page where you can drag and drop content
- App
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Many new weekends have been announced in SW land over the past week. Here’s an update on where the planning stands:
Things will be interesting in March as Boulder (the founding city) hosts their second weekend. With about 15 weekends having occurred since the first innaugural Startup Weekend, it’ll be interesting to see what lessons that have learned are applied and how all of those lessons will turn into the potential launch of a second Boulder product.
Boulder’s first launch, Vosnap, was an online voting system that integrated SMS as an option for voting and receiving results. Things have been quiet since late September on …
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Weekend Apps has thrown their web hat into the ring of weekend organizations hosting code-a-thons. How does this one differ? Well, Weekend Apps is aiming to focus on solely Facebook apps. They will be bringing in Dave Morin, the Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, as well as having several individuals who’ve built successful apps come and help mentor the young developers. To top it all off — lawyers will be on hand to help with the legal side of business development and partnering with businesses (don’t need another Scrabulous situation).
The event hopes to launch 20 apps this weekend in Santa Clara.
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Josh Catone had a post over at Read Write Web the other day about people who inevitably make the news for pulling in advertising dollars to cash out in a big way (most classic example being the Million Dollar Homepage). For those unaware, the premise of the idea is people will be a set of pixels for a price, say a 10×10 square for $100, and they get to put up a logo or picture. A million x million pixels later, the host has tons of cash.
I’m happy to say this idea is finally being put to some social use. Connecting Moms is sponsoring the first Virtual Million Mom March. The goal of the site is to bring moms (or people sponsoring …
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Blitzweekend has just announced they’ll be having their first weekend code fest in Montreal. Blitzweekend is following in the lines of what Startup Weekend has been doing with hosting a ~48 hour coding marathon with the hopes of creating a product from conception to launch. What’s the difference in the Blitzweekend approach? Simple, instead of 45+ people working on one project (SW style), BW will have sub-groups of people working on many projects (teams of about 8).
This may solve one of the major criticisms that SW has with participants and nah-sayers that there are too many people working on a project to have it be successful. While this is still debated till this day, we’ve seen successful projects come out of SW.
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Two big announcements came yesterday out of Startup Weekend:
