Startup Weekend

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Time to get back together and see what everyone has been up to! This is a great excuse to come out for a drink and network with everyone you met at the last Startup Weekend in Boston.

This event NOT limited to only past attendees, anyone that might be interested in learning more about Startup Weekend for next time is welcome.

Where: Cooley’s office @ 500 Boylston St.
When: Tuesday, Feb. 16th 6pm-8pm

PLEASE RSVP

Agenda:
6pm: arrive, networking and drinks
6:30-7:15: Teams will give an update on progress, and outline any outstanding resources needed. Those that wish, can give a presentation/demo.
7:15-8:00: Questions for Cooley lawyers & more networking!

Please RSVP. Your name needs to be on the list to get in the building. Please check in with guest services in the main lobby.

Revive the hash tag: #swboston

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Doodlebugging

iZaazu

MyMotini

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We’ll let the pros tell it best! See the great coverage from Scott Kirsner in today’s Entrepreneurship section in the Boston Globe!

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After a long weekend of coding, stress and some snow we had 9 different teams that ended up presenting on Sunday. Congratulations to Doodlebugging for winning the 1st prize of the weekend. We had a tie for second which was broken by a second round of voting where ReleaseQ took second place and iZaazu took 3rd.

Thank you to our sponsors who helped make this event actually happen – Microsoft N.E.R.D Center was absolutely amazing, Sun Startup Essentials, Blog Catalog, BostInnovation, Flowtown, Greenhorn Connect, Techstars, VentureFizz, wowrack, Massachusetts Its all here, and Twilio.

Companies:

Description: A scheduling and information aggregation site for open office hours. A cool idea to help people meet face to face.

Go to the website: Meetlie.com

Follow them on Twitter: @mtlie

Bio Contracts:

Description: Create an efficient, centralized online marketplace connecting pharma and bioteh companies with specialized service providers, and supporting the management of these projects. A place where you post projects and competitively bid, with rating system.

Description: Motini makes it easy to create mobile versions of your favorite websites. Using a point-n-click interface you can repurpose content for optimal viewing on mobile devices such as iPhones, Blackberries, Android and other phones. Grab what you want, and put it into motini, and on your phone it displays only the requested information. Modeled after mixing a drink!

Go to the Website: Motini

Follow them on Twitter: @mymotini

Description: Mission is to make the world’s most efficient marketplace from the world’s largest conversation. The easiest way to buy and sell anything on twitter! @doodlebugging

Go to the website: Doodlebugging

Follow them on Twitter: @doodlebugging

Description: A mobile app that lets you customize your morning. Looking for a way to organize a hectic life and wake up on the informative side of the bed? iZazzu will help you!

Go to the website: iZaazu

Follow them on Twitter: @izaazu

Description: Track your favorite upcoming releases: movies, books, music, and video games. Gives you a way to organize the overwhelming amount of information that is out there in a way that is relevant to you.

Go to the website: releaseQ

Follow them on Twitter: @releaseq

OwlCounsel

Description: Provides a marketplace to find and provide industry knowledge and functional expertise via video.

Go to Website: OwlCounsel

Follow them on Twitter: @owlcounsel

Description: Simple web interface for logging chores on the web. Allows you to show those who haven’t witnessed your effots that you in fact did do your “chores”.

Go to the website: Chorelog

Follow them on Twitter: @chorelog

Hey, I got you these – @heyigotuthese – www.higut.com
A website to help improve your web comic experience. A place where authors and viewers come together to help fuel and sustain the comic industry.

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We have 3 great offers to the top teams from startup weekend tonight:

1. Shawn Broderick from TechStars will be offering coaching time for two of the top teams as well as priority consideration for TechStars Boston 2010.

2. Al Browne from Cooley will be presenting two $2,000 gifts in free legals services that can be used after the weekend.

3. The special announcement of follow on support of $250 a month for the top team from Tony Berkman with blocatalog.com and blogersunite.com .

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A huge thank you to Tony Berkman with blocatalog.com and blogersunite.com who just send this special note about his continued support for a team from Boston Startup Weekend. Tony not only sponsored drinks on Friday night, but he is going to be offering $250 per month for a year to one top team from the weekend to continue their efforts!

Read Tony’s message for all of the background:

“Dear Startup Weekend,

I have experienced to 2 StartUpWeekends,  one in San Antonio and most recently StartUpWeekend NewYork ‘09 where I met and was inspired by so many outstanding, innovative people who get things done,  and get the massive opportunities that we have today.  Words can’t fully express how  much I appreciate the value of a  StartUpWeekend experience and the meaning and value that you deliver.

A favorite quote of mine is,  “Your significance will remain forever obscure to you,  but you may assume you are fulfilling your life’s purpose if you apply yourself to converting all your experiences to the highest advantage of others.” – Buckminster Fuller

StartUpWeek .org, and the people who are part of it, do this.   So while there is no way to understand the extent of the positive impact that StartUpWeekends have on attendees, and therefore the country and the world -   you can rest assured that you are fulfilling your life’s purpose.

Out of my gratitude for your organization’s contributions to connecting entrepreneurs, sparking new ideas, in an amazing experiential environment,   I would like to make a monthly gift of $250, for one year,  to team at  StartUpWeekend Boston.

The gift will go to the team that has the best idea and execution capability,  as chosen by the panel. The money is  to be used in the launch of the business.    The only condition of the gift is that it be used for purposes of getting the business launched.     The winning team will need to deliver to  StartUpWeekend.org a monthly report showing that they are committed to the business and continuing to execute on their roadmap.    Each month, once  I receive the nod that the team is team is doing this,  I will send the money.

Once launched,  an additional gift  will be given,  as a congratulations and an additional spark to get the business exposure.  The gift is  million ad impressions (300 x 250s)  on one of my sites  and provide the team with the opportunity to be a sponsor of BloggersUnite.org,   a non profit, social cause platform that is changing the world through blogging and social media.

Cheers,

Tony Berkman

p.s.  When in business and in life,  “don’t let perfect get in the way of possible.” -  Keith Cunningham possibly the best business professors on the planet”

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Here is a quick rundown of Friday – We had 31 ideas pitched and did a vote to narrow it down to 13 ideas and there are a few extra in the works. Here is what teams were discussing: (Number Currently, Name,  tagline, #in order of presented)

1. Hey I got ya these .com – Centralized Web Comics – The 3 “S”s – #5

2. Office Hours craze – organize all open office hours – #27

3. Favorite media release aggregator – #6

4. Providers and Buyers of Clinical software – #8

5. Chorelog.com – simple self report – #13

6. Save-it card – innovative coin/atm machine – #16

7. All info about colleges that are not on college websites – #29

8. Aristotle.com – platform for personal advice – #26

9. Scrape Twitter to make a Craig’s list that doesn’t suck – #14

10. GrantCloud.com – crowd sourcing for grants, funding, and fueling innovation – #19

11. Theatre crowdsource publishing – #12.

12. Opensourcesmods.com – middleman between companies and consumers – #31

13. Jarvis Wake up service – #32

14. cell phone music thing- #7

15. Happy.St = Consumers + Corporate Social Responsibility – #10

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Hey Everyone!

Time is drawing near and this event is looking amazing! A few quick resources if you haven’t already seen them:

1. Friday night pitch format is 90 seconds – start with the problem, identify your solution, express the needs you see to accomplish the solution. There is no projector for this, only a mic and 90 seconds! Good outline and info here for First Timers.

(remember, you do not have to pitch an idea, generally only 25% of people in every event do!

2. Free legal docs and questions that most startups encounter are answered here.

3. A rough schedule is on the site as a drop down!

4. Call or e-mail me with any questions.

Special Offers to check out for attendees:

1. TechStars will be offering a “fast track” to the top teams for TS Boston summer 2010 applications which end March 21st.

2. 3 months Free hosting will be provided by Wowrack. Redeemable at the event.

3. Two (2) $2,000 prizes will be given away by Cooley for FREE legal services to two top teams on Sunday.

4. Get info and sign up for Sun Startup Essentials.

5. Get info and request a code for Microsoft BizSpark from Startup Weekend.

6. Flowtown, a great new CRM is offering 500 free imports ($22.50 value) for any signups/upgrades using code “SWBOS” Follow this link.

7. Check out the Twilio challenge

If you are interested in sponsoring via cash, a meal, or drinks, we could still use a bit more help to cover all the costs. Contact me or more info here.

Thanks to the companies and people that have helped make this happen! Microsoft,TechStars, Cooley, Sun Microsystems, Blogcatalog, GreenhornConnect, VenutreFizz, BostInnovation, MOBD, BlankLabel, Adam Marchick, Miguel Danielson, Keith Cline, Jeffry Vocell, and Jason Evanish!

See you all Friday!

Marc Nager

@marcnager & @startupweekend

206.661.0419

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What happened? Some amazing things happened! We had 10 events in two countries as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, and EVERY single event was a huge success! We were one of 11 “Featured Events” out of the over 25,000 events last week! There were over 650 Entrepreneurs, 70+ startup projects born, and tons of media created!

Just some quick ones:

Thousands of impressions Twitter

TechCrunch Europe summary of the London event

News Coverage in Boise, Idaho & NPR

News Coverage in Cleveland

News Coverage in Dallas

Press Coverage in Tulsa

Press Coverage in Lexington

There is more coming… We just need a little more time to get everything together!

Find all the city pages here:

November 13-15:
· Atlanta · Boise · Tulsa
November 20-22:
· Bay Area · Dallas · Cleveland · Lexington · London · NYC · LA