Startup Weekend has gone SW crazy announcing a ton more weekends in the TBA stage of planning. First off, good luck to West Lafayette who kicks off #6 this weekend.
The new players:
- Los Angeles (TBA)
- Orlando (TBA)
- San Diego (TBA)
- Phoenix (TBA)
- Nashville (TBA)
- Chicago (TBA)
- New Orleans (TBA)
As always, I’ll keep you posted with the progress.
Anyone from:
I’m trying to track down attendance numbers — so please either drop me a line at: matthewvb [at] gmail (dot) com or just leave a comment. Would also love to hear progress on getting a launch out there too! Guest posters always welcome!
Updated: 10.10 @4:13pm: Added New Orleans and Chicago…
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Startup Weekend has now hosted 5 weekends of product launches. Here’s the skinny on where we stand on everything now:
First Weekend: Boulder, CO
Dates: 7.6.2007 – 7.8.2007
Product: Vosnap
Attendance: 68
Status: live
Description: Vosnap is an online polling system that uses both email, web interface, and sms texting to vote and send results.
Second Weekend: Toronto, Canada
Dates: 9.14.07 – 9.16.07
Product: LobbyThem
Attendance: ?
Status: private-beta
Description: LobbyThem is an online petition system that encourages users to start issues, gain support, then at a pre-set support level, the information will be send to the respectable person/agency saying that X number of people support the cause. A facebook app is also said to …
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Welcome new Startup Weekend plans for:
- Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (TBA)
More info and links to come when available.…
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tipdish is the official title of Houston’s product. Development seems to be moving along well.
Here’s some more info about what it’s all about:
Tippers & Dishers
Think, the tipping point and “dishing” the news. So, “bloggers, podcasters, newspapers, radio people…anybody who gets information out is a Disher. And the Tipper is anybody who has information they want to get out, like a press release, news item, whatever. They want to get information to the public in a crazy way,” says Chris Dolle, Floater (mid-management).
[via]…
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Laura Mays suggested a Social Media Directory for Bloggers and it was chosen. What is it? Well, I’m not sure…but I’m sure we’ll have more info tomorrow morning.
Update (9.29 @ 10:38a) [via]
Giving Media/PR chance to blast bloggers with a press release. That’s the idea we’re working on this weekend.
Media side:
-Register/Purchase membership
-Filter out bloggers by certain criteria (location, number of site visitors), gives you a live number of people you’re about to target
-PR companies can see at a glance how they did (500 people got it, 50 people blogged about it–we can figure out how by number of tags, keywords, etc)
Admin Services
-Monitor for spam
-Promote bloggers to different levels
Pay per or subscription? Both.
You do
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Good luck to Houston this weekend as they are the fifth international startup weekend to take on the challenge.
We’ve come close with an almost beta launch; let’s see if Houston can get us to the end!…
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Well, as you know my German is not where it could be, but Hamburg has a product in the works from last weekend. I’m not sure on the current status, but it’s an online picture editing system from what I’m gathering. “Simply more beautiful pictures,” called Edelbild.…
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Favoreats has the goal of finding the best of a sort of food in a given area. Looking for the best burger in NYC — then they’ve got the answer for you.
More to come when the launch is official — but NYC is looking very promising!…
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Read all about it!
New York and Hamburg are this weekend. Viel Glück Deutschland and Good Luck NYC!…
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This post says it best: Founder Fight.
In efforts for this not to be the case in DC — review the new Startup Weekend Bill of Rights that I argue we should all adopt.
37 days til DC!…
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