Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

The teams have created goals to have achieved and share at the 3pm meeting. Here they are!
Dev: dev setup done/spec’d out features
User Experience: detailed flows to dev team by 2:30 (that’s 1 hour from now)
Creative: logo options (3 solid ones)/put to vote at 3pm, layout concepts, 2 concepts to show at [...]

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One of the first things we needed to do after deciding what the software/business idea was going to be was find a name. Several people sat down Friday night and threw out name ideas. Gwen wrote them all down on several big sheets of paper.
The concept involves offices, space, and desks. So lots of ideas [...]

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Last night we saw a group of about 40 people get together at the Blogads offices. We met some milestones within our first five hours together as a group including:
- Narrowing more than 20 ideas down to five, then three, then one (code name: Kwopr)
- Fleshing out the concept so that everyone could [...]

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The final idea left standing on Friday night was Kwopr. The concept, as I understand it now, is to create a maps mashup to help people find a temporary office or meeting space. Businesses, property managers, building owners, and others who have a bit of furnished space (I use that term lightly) can make $ [...]

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Photo via mtyndal
We’re here at the first evening of Startup Weekend Chapel Hill. So far there are a ton of ideas flying around. Here are the ones that this group of 30+ people narrowed down.

GreenAds
Kwopr, Find co-op,co-working space near you
Open response
Food Dish Matchup
Move my dirt

One of the most significant things uttered tonight is that [...]

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While taking care of some last minute sustenance preparations for our weekend, I couldn’t help but realize all the waste that we’ll be producing and figured I might as well give a shout out to all you checking this blog to please bring your own travel mug and water bottle for beverages.
In my experience, there [...]

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And counting!  Get on that gravy train & ride, ride, ride.
Startup Weekend in West Lafeyette (home of Purdue U) is rocking out this weekend.  They created ScrollTalk, which is some sort of contextual, taggable chat resource (I bet Andrew can explain that a bit more succinctly).  Follow along to get an idea of how SW [...]

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