Startup Weekend is back! We'll be descending upon Houston Technology Center April 26-April 28, creating companies over the course of a weekend. From Startup Weekend: All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour fre ...

The Global Startup Battle, a competition among all the Startup Weekend events that were held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, launched today. PermitMe, Houston's November 2012 Startup Weekend 1st place winner, is going against over 100 teams from around the world for prizes including a trip to Brazil, a trip to San Francisco, and a visit to the Googleplex. The Global Startup Battle puts teams against ea ...

Startup Weekend brings together entrepreneurs to work in teams, pitch ideas and then build a business model, product and market-test for the top ideas - all in one weekend. Their work then goes to a panel of judges. The next Houston event will be Friday through Sunday. The winning team will compete in Global Startup Battle with other winners. This year's organizer, Javid Jamae, spoke recently with Purva Pat ...

Startup Weekend is back in town on Friday at the Houston Technology Center. The winning team will go on to represent Houston in the 2nd annual Global Startup Battle during Global Entrepreneurship Week. With all the recent attention startups have been getting, it's an exciting time to participate in Startup Weekend and work on creating something new. I've participated twice at Startup Weekend, and now help o ...

Startup Weekend is fantasy camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. It's a fast-paced environment where people from different backgrounds, with different skill sets, collaborate on a business idea over the course of a weekend. Failure is expected, and pivots are essential. Much like a hackathon produces functional applications, Startup Weekend produces businesses. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of being a m ...

  Tomorrow is the start of the latest Startup Weekend at START. As of last night, there were 55 registered designers, developers and startup enthusiasts and still room for more. Startup Weekend is a great place to meet other startup people and hopefully get something going like SquareFoot that just discussed their Startup Weekend experience with CultureMap. Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/even ...

U of H 3DStartup participant, Chromemote - a Google Chrome browser extension that connects and controls your Google TV got a very good review in the popular Lifehacker blog. Chromemote's founder Robert Dale Smith writes in the posts comments to continue to develop the project and promises the addition of customized buttons and shortcuts. ...

Houston Startup Weekend was last weekend and of the 12 teams that pitched, the winning teams were: #1 Tapja An interactive childrens E-book for iPad #2 MyFlashSpy A flash sale aggregator. All flash sale sites in one place. Spy on your favorite brands, spy on over 85+ flash sale sites. All customized to you. #3 TalkTheatre TalkTheatre is a service that allows independent filmmakers to obtain detailed, granul ...

This weekend's Startup Weekend has been an incredibly exciting event. As I write this, teams are frantically preparing their presentations for their pitches this evening. Video of the presentations will be made available after the event, but until then here is some information on the startups that are participating. Jobbawalkie Hype local job searching using Google / Bing maps Web: http://jobbawalkie.com Tw ...

Three great posts about the Startup Weekend experience: Javid Jamae: http://javidjamae.com/2011/11/05/startup-weekend-a-schedule-and-plan-of-action/ Austin Fatheree: http://www.rivvir.com/startup_weekend_toolbox/ The Squarefoot: http://www.thesquarefoot.com/houston/startup-weekend-houston-entrepreneurs-kauffman-foundation After reading these, how could you not want to participate? ...