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Startup Weekend Austin #2 is almost here!
The second Startup Weekend Austin is just around the corner! We have lots of great speakers, mentors and an excellent panel of judges for Sunday night lined up!
Who’s speaking?
Jonathan Sharp – AppendTO
Bob Metcalfe – UT Austin
Jason Cohen – WPengine
Mentors and Judges:
Thanks to great people behind Capital Factory and Tech Ranch Austin for taking time out of their busy weekend to participate as mentors and judges for the weekend! You guys rock!
YAY! Prizes
We have some great prizes & resources lined up for each attendees and winning teams too
The winning team will get a seat in Tech Ranch Austin’s next Venture Forth Class. That is a $750 value!
Free Co-Working day passes to CoSpace to the winning team!
3 Months free service to Grasshopper to the winning team!
2 Free Seats to the Austin Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society dinner to the winning team!
6 Months free service to WPengine to all attendees!
$100 credit to oDesk to all attendees!
Free Twilio Credits to all attendees
And more to come!
Startup Weekend Austin Wrap Up
This last weekend we hosted the very first Austin Startup Weekend and had about 55 attendees show up from all over the country (Boston, DC, Houston, San Antonio) and even Monterrey Mexico!
A big thanks goes out to Capital Factory for putting together a great panel of judges for the Sunday Night Pitches.
The top three teams from the weekend were:
Instavents.com: One Event At a time (think Stumbleupon + Pandora for events in your area)
ProdWar.com: ProdWar is the fun way to get product advice from your friends when you’re trying to make purchases. We’ll help you find the products you’re interested in via Amazon.com and easily set up your ProdWar. We’ll integrate with your Facebook stream so that any comments your friends leave about the products you’re interested in are all aggregated in one place.
CrowdCrop.com: Crowd Crop turns customers into capital. Launch your technology startup idea with funding and validation from actual pre-paying customers, while retaining 100% equity control. Customers vote with their dollars to foster the startup ideas they love, crave, or need.
Instavents.com was the big winner taking home the grand prize of a full incorporation package, including filing fees from StartupLawyer.com and a Venture Forth Program from TechRanchAustin.com, along with lots of other great prizes!
Thanks to Josh Sheehan from Twilio for video interviewing most of the teams: Check them out!
http://twilio.blip.tv/posts?view=archive
Thanks to Joshua Baer for recording the Sunday night presentations.
Some picture from the weekend:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twilio/sets/72157624809865983/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6624655&id=754291476
Can’t wait to be back in Austin next year!
Prizes, YAY!
We have got some cool prizes for the winning teams this weekend. Check them out!
Incorporation Package: Ryan Roberts is going to hook the winning team up with an incorporation package worth about $2,000. Remember; incorporate a business not a hobby.
Grasshopper Service: The top three teams are going to get 3 free months worth of service from Grasshopper.com valued at $100. (500 minutes a month)
CoSpace Day Passes: Kirtus is going to give the top three winning teams some free day passes so you have a place to work on your startup after the event, along with all the resources that come with CoSpace!
ODesk: All attendees will get a $100 credit to use at oDesk.
And possibly more to come!
