Andy Stanberry is creating a company solo. His concept is to build an IMDB for podcasting. It will be a directory based on people versus content.
Group 8 - Another TBA
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · stanberry
Group 7 - YouCanAlwaysLeave.com
March 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · youcanalwaysleave
5 people in the group
According Pete Laurina, the group’s spokesman, they are working on a event planning and meetup application. The twist is the it will be last minute activities and the activity itself would be relatively vague to the participants. This will allow people to try things that they might not have ever thought [...]
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Group 6 - handshak.es
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · handshakes
They have 10 in their group, with all aspects of a business represented.
Chris Browne, acting as their spokesperson, articulated their plan to build a mobile application “to bring social networking back into the real world, by enabling face to face connections based on proximity and time around common interests.”
Starting with a web application, the idea [...]
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Group 5 - Web2Splash
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · web2spalsh
Two man team, a developer/design and a one “retrd” named Joe.
Check out their pre-splash splash page at http://www.web2splash.com.
Creating an easy way for web startups and common folk (web 2.0 common folk only, please) to create their initial BOOM! online. The application will also capture any balls, eye or otherwise, the stumble on their poorly written [...]
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Group 4 - No Name Yet
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · groups
5 people in the group
A consultancy that works with muncipalities to become self sufficiant in generating electricity to reduce their dependence on public utlitites. This will happen by using under-utilized space, such as roofs of warehouses, parking lots, etc.
The hope is to generate enough surplus electricity to help power residental areas as well.
Currently they trying [...]
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Group 3 - Hitsurance
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · groups, hitsurance
There are 6 people in this group, and they do have a splash page up at http://www.hitsurance.com.
According to Elijah Chancey, the group’s spokesperson, they are “developing a service that allows a webmaster to withstand a surge of traffic that will normally bring down their website. We have developed propriatary monitoring service that detects a surge [...]
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Group 2 - MoldRush
March 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · groups, moldrush
There are about 7 people in this group, with all the components of the business represented.
The problem they are trying to solve is to improve the tracking of molds used in manufacturing. They will solve this problem by creating a web application to be used by a network of companies in the management of their [...]
Group 1 - BigBaobab
March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · bigbaobab, groups
10 in the group - 3 developers, 1 biz dev, a couple creative, and marketing/pr
It will be a green facebook application focused on knowledge building. They are deeply in steath mode, I hope after some beer I can find out exactly what it is that they are doing.
How Is This StartupWeekend Different Than Any Other?
March 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments · startupweekend
Based on 15 weekends of experience and feedback, coupled with learning around the legal and technical ways companies are formed, it became clear that a shift in how the weekend functioned was in store.
The first big change is that we are not working on one idea we are working on many. Currently there are 5-7 [...]




