Startup Weekend Houston

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), Execute (If you’re a sniper on something, do that)

Four exits:

1) That was fun!  We had fun, met a lot of people, learned a lot.  It’s over.

2)  Nights & weekends startup (tune it up before launch-Vosnap did that)

3)  Core Team

4)  Hire a CEO

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!

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

Rumor has it there are other things happening this weekend (like, I don’t know, art openings or something).  It may be like when you were a kid and two of your friends were having birthday parties.  You had to choose.  This weekend is kind of the same, except that this birthday party has a pool (green screen), grab bags (swanky t-shirts) and clown shows (Andrew Hyde).  We won’t twist your arm.  Unless you’re a programmer.  Then, we might twist it just a bit.  Gently.

The weekend is graciously hosted by The Method Agency and promises to be entertaining, friendly and intense.  They have a coffee pot, so bring your mugs!  Let’s get wired!   Like these dudes from SW NYC:

Modeled by the debonair Andrew Hyde, darling Erica O’Grady & daring Gwen Bell. Shirt design cred: Andrew Hyde

Join us this weekend! It’s not too late to sign up and the location rocks. The people are pretty cool, too. Or so I hear…

Hey Folks,

The event details for this coming weekend have now been posted on the site.  Please visit the Event Details Page for more info.

I’m also happy to announce that Andrew Hyde, StartupWeekend founder designed and printed up some T-Shirts for StartupWeekend Houston.  They are super cool - view the design here: 

Check the blogroll and send an email to blogroll@startupweekend.com if you would like to change the site your name is linked to.

Sitting here next to the one and only Andrew Hyde - you might know him as the budding entrepreneur with the sexy surfer boy looks who founded StartupWeekend. StartupWeekend Toronto is a whole new animal - definitely much more structured than the inaugural event.

I wanted to share with you guys some of the ideas that are being presented here.

Stupid Bets - by Matthew Rice

Facebook Dating - by Rohit Gupta

Lobby Them - By Allen M

Review & Rant - By Brill P

Drunken Stories - By Steve Poland

Lunch/Bar Special - By Steve Poland

Mobile Social Networking - By Dan S.

Digg for Facebook - By Steve Poland

I’ll flesh these ideas out more later - and I’ll let you know what we vote on!

We can’t stress this enough–if you want to sign up for Startup Weekend Houston, you want to get your tickets now. Attendance will be limited and at a premium, so you want to make sure that you get your tickets now.

Also, if you have any leads on folks who’d be interested in sponsoring all or part of the weekend–or if you’re interested in sponsoring the weekend yourself–drop us a line!

We’ll be limiting Startup Weekend Houston to 60 participants - so if you are interested in being a part of the fun - be sure and sign up soon!  Kurt Stoll who is co-organizing StartupWeekendHouston will be blogging here shortly after BarCampHouston - so stay tuned for more info