Eighth Weekend: Washington, DC
Dates: 10.26.2007 – 10.28.2007
Product: HolaNeighbor
Attendance: 74
Status: Third weekend to go live; alpha/beta
Description: You define your own community and HolaNeighbor will set up the online community. Find and meet those that live around you.…
Category Archives: startup weekend – dc
8th Weekend Official Recap
DC SW – part 1 of x
Well, it’s come and gone in a rather quick fashion. I have plenty of thoughts to share for the upcoming days, but today I’m going to start with an overview of the weekend.
This weekend about 60+ people in DC meet up for DC Startup Weekend. Friday night we decided to launch a social network for communities about what’s going on in their neighborhood, HolaNeighbor. Friday night left many in the group frustrated over a lack of direction towards where HolaNeighbor could go. I was really nervous we’d have about 10 people on Saturday morning cranking out an unflushed vision.
Saturday morning came with a new excitement as development (myself included) start cranking out some basics of the site. About an hour in, …
DC Startup Weekend in < 3 hours!
Less than 3 hours til’ DC Startup Weekend. Stay tuned on that blog as I’m sure I’ll be blogging throughout the weekend about the development!
Top 3 Ideas being considered (and proposed by):
- Restaurant-Customer Matchup System: Victoria Pickering
- Job Posting Site: Will Kern
- Condo buildings social network, Jonathon Lunardi
We’ll see what happens in a few hours when we narrow down to the official 1st annual DC SW!…
Startup Weekend Woos in Toronto
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!…
Startup Weekend – DC Style
Startup Weekend is officially rolling in DC. Will, Brian and Andy, Andrew, and I have begun planning for the October 26-28 weekend event.
You can follow the progress of the planning on the official site and also on my blog. The big decision that has been made is we’ll be doing all development in Ruby on Rails (of course CSS and a few other things will be thrown in).
As of this post, we already officially have 27 people registered! Space will be limited (based ons venue size) and you can register now. Programmers are greatly needed, but we’re also looking for PR, marketing, legal, cooks, designers, user experience pros, and much more. Did I mention it’s free?!?
We hope you’ll join …
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