Startup Weekend Houston

The elevator pitch sounds like this so far:  The only place where marketers and influencers connect for brand placement in social media.
Top 3 business name possibilities–
tipdish.com
mediaconnectr.com
mediamatchup.com

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Things are progressing at a swift pace here at Startup Weekend Houston - UX is finalizing the wireframes and Creative has picked a color scheme (Blues, Greens, Grays - Fresh & Clean). On the PR end - we’re still working on getting UStream up and running with the big cam - but you can [...]

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User Ex leads the way by walking through the idea.
Giving Media/PR chance to blast bloggers with a press release.  That’s the idea we’re working on this weekend.
Media side:
-Register/Purchase membership
-Filter out bloggers by certain criteria (location, number of site visitors), gives you a live number of people you’re about to target
-PR companies can see at a [...]

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Some members (Marco, Markus, Matt & Remesh) of the Creative Design Team stayed up until 5:30 this morning working on wireframes.  Then they showed up at 8 on the dot this morning!  Whoever said creatives are undependable was wrong.
This morning’s goals include: getting everyone gathered, working out the power strip situation, getting coffee served up, [...]

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At Ustream Except for when we’re sleeping…

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Here are the top ideas so far:
Startup tracker, cell-phone greeter, social media directory, Startup Weekend band (?), comment auctions, music licensing, wedding registry, real estate startup office space.
Comments?  Questions?  Opinions?

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Chris: A reminder system to enter your bill pay info and way to cancel subscription. The service would send reminder email. Making money by monthly subscription.
(Geri) Gary: Mobile Desktop. All of your stuff in one place (photos, resume, etc). Being able to access your stuff from anywhere, anytime. [...]

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But it’s about community!  Startup weekend is a great way to meet people, learn how people work and find new people to work with.  The break down is 7 shares for people.  2 for tonight, 2 for Saturday and a total of 7 for weekend.
The tips:  Community first, be here (we might get Techrunched, whatever), [...]

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A good crowd is gathering at Stag’s Head in Houston. If you’re in the area, please come by and have some Fat Tire or Smithwicks. We have a glass ready for you!

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We are all gathering at the Stags Head, expect many, many updates from the crew.

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