atxSW #3 was a fantastic event, hosted at HubAustin Coworking in south Austin!

Check out these event recaps.

Also, a huge shout-out of thanks to our wonderful sponsors!

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atxSW3 Recaps

Several great recap articles covered our event. Here they are:

HubAustin Hosting Recap
Lisa Wells’ Recap (one of the judges!)
Joey Aquino’s Thoughts (our global facilitator extraordinaire!)
Erik Trautman’s Perspective
Melanie Weinberger’s Story of how her team TrainerLink won first place!

Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments!

ATX Startup Weekend Sponsors

The third Austin Startup Weekend is under way, and we wanted to take a moment to thank our awesome sponsors for this event. We truly couldn’t do this without them!

Heroku
Heroku
http://heroku.com
Gold Sponsor

Twilio
Twilio
http://twilio.com
Silver Sponsor

Hulsey IP
http://hulseyiplaw.com
Prize Sponsor

Loog Guitars
http://loogguitars.com
Prize Sponsor

Tech Ranch Austin
http://techranchaustin.com
Prize Sponsor

HubAustin Coworking
http://hubaustin.com
Prize/Facility Sponsor

The Teams!

Qwik Coach: Turning Schmoes into Pros

The marketplace for people looking to learn a sport

http://joypoppin.com

http://twitter.com/joypoppin

An entertainment site dedicated to “one off” funny ideas. Currently featuring a URL lenthener to contend with all the URL shorteners like bit.ly & tiny url.

DateRoulette

the video is here: http://screenr.com/cS6

the github repo is here: https://github.com/mcotton/dateroulette

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!