Startup Weekend Houston

Group shot of Founders of TipDish. Created during the last weekend of September in Houston, Texas.
Quick update:
Some code is being re-written, we’re have a registration form, about page and explanation of the company up at tipdish and you can sign up for updates for our full launch, anticipated during October. We are [...]

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[Guest post by Chris Doelle of Metroblogging!]
The latest episode of “Riding with the window down…” is up at http://www.ridingwiththewindowdown.com
The weekend totally rocked and not only did I get to meet a boatload of energetic and talented people, but we created a product that fills a big need. Look for big things from tipdish! - [...]

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Things are heating up in the Dev loft. Someone just called gradients “bullshit.” I think most designers would keel over if they knew what developers thought about their designs. Somehow, I get a small thrill out of hearing them (Dev team-Rails guys) tell nerdy jokes.
When asked what they’d have for the 5pm [...]

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We’ve been sending out emails to all of our contacts announcing the
launch of tipdish.com. In case you haven’t received one, copy and
paste ours and send it along:
Hello Beloved,
Compliment of the season.
Longest time, I hope all is well together with you and your
family.Well I know you will surprise to hear this news bearing in mind
that the [...]

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Monica Danna, Events Editor of Houstonist just joined us and will be live-blogging from our offices today. We’re thrilled to have her. The more, the merrier! Especially when they’re sweet, sassy girls in awesome boots!!

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It’s a bit after 9am on Sunday morning and people are starting to trickle in.
Did I say trickle?  I meant bound in!  Seriously, people are in good spirits.  The Dev Team has been working hard during the night and we have an index page fully coded!
We’re having a great time.  But don’t take my word [...]

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Days go so quick at Startup Weekends.  It seems like it was 8am only minutes ago, when we were standing outside a locked door waiting to get in an work a ‘manageable’ 14 hour day on a project, on a weekend.  Energy was really high today, which is a testament to the passion of the [...]

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Matthew updates us from our 5pm meeting on Saturday. It’s pre-pizza hour and you can tell…
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5pm Update! Deeper in the dish.
Our Dev team tells us that we’ve got a user profile configuration
enabled and login authentification all set. Sadly we can’t let you see
any of this because our Nameserver is still propagating. Nevertheless,
we’ve been working [...]

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We’ve settled on a name! tipdish!
Tippers & Dishers
Think, the tipping point and “dishing” the news. So, “bloggers, podcasters, newspapers, radio people…anybody who gets information out is a Disher. And the Tipper is anybody who has information they want to get out, like a press release, news item, whatever. They want [...]

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