54hours 49 pitches 14 teams and a snowstorm that couldn't stop them
Have you ever thought of someone and wanted to surprise them, or have you ever been surprised? Then you know the emotions of joy, happiness, delight and connection that can bring. It's a basic human...
Our team was "Datenighters", a concept for group blind dating targeting single women in the 30-45 year old demographic. Our team was Jeremiah Habets, Ezekiel Smithburg and Tim Sadler, with an assist...
We believe in using mobile technology to break barriers between people. We're passionate about building communities. Most importantly, we're determined to giving a hand when needed. Our mission is to...
Music is a fun, social experience that permeates most of our lives… so where are the viral social music games? The Angry Birds of metal? The FarmVille of country? The WoW of jazz? ….or something? That’s...
Team Description: We build lifestyle robots. We are: ( Justin + Guru): Microsoft Engineers, (Eric) Business & Marketing guru, (Elijah) Designer Extraordinaire. What we built: We built a robot that can be controlled remotely and you can telepresence into using skype. Demo here: Other information: Links to Slide: Video of Final Presentation: Award: Best Presentation
One of the challenges faced by Startup Weekend teams is quickly building buzz around their product. Luckily, with "word of click" marketing tools like Facebook and Twitter, building a customer list and validating a market in a weekend is actually feasible. Adam Loving has been developing a social media marketing tool called Linksy. He brought it to Startup Weekend to recruit collaborators, get user experience feedback, and promote the other teams. Linksy is a tool for co-ordinating people to share a link at the same...
We're Team WhichBus and we're here to bring you a simple, beautiful way to navigate public transit. Don't you hate it when you're trying to go somewhere but you don't know which bus to take? Sure, Google Maps will tell you how to get there and OneBusAway will tell you exactly when the bus will pull up, but it takes like twelve steps to put that information together. There must be a better way! Enter WhichBus. Tell it where you are and where you're going and it will tell you which bus to take right now to get you...
