I tagged along with my husband on Friday night for the early brainstorming stages of Startup Weekend Houston, an event that brings together like-minded tech entrepreneurs to start a company over one weekend, and I am pretty impressed with the idea we came up with. I say “we” even though I had to flake out and leave town for the remaining sessions, but I feel like this is a testament to the community mentality propagated by “main man” Andrew Hyde (very nice guy).
The project for the weekend is tipdish.com, an online directory of sorts intended to connect bloggers and new media types with cool new info, and vice versa for those wishing to get the word out.
Go check it out. It’s the next big thing.
Published at September 29, 2007
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My view. Not a bad way to work.
Published at September 28, 2007
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Tagging along for the evening
Published at September 22, 2007
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Learning about web accessiblity is fun.
Published at September 20, 2007
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These margaritas are STRONG
Published at September 16, 2007
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This is why I love driving on 290…
These guys were somewhere between Hempstead and Chappel Hill.
Thanks for the show!
Published at September 16, 2007
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This makes me so sad every time I drive by. Apparently “for fun, for life, for you” actually means “we hate Houston, Houstonians, and important architectural history.”
In case you don’t recognize the rubble, it used to be part of the River Oaks Shopping Center.
I’ve met quite a few people recently who are involved in startups in one way or another, and when I happened upon the blog below, I thought the points raised might be relevant not only for open-source businesses (and soccer apparently), but for a much broader segment out there. I would imagine that whether you are building a web 2.0 dream team or a killer waitstaff, seeing past experience thereby avoiding breaking old habits may be worthy of serious thought.
In particular:
In open source, we do, too. To do it well, I think it’s best to mold people to the task, rather than trying to retrofit old, calcified ways of doing business onto a new model. If you’re hiring for an open-source startup, intellectual youth is on your side. This doesn’t translate, necessarily, into physical youth. It just means you have to hire people who don’t have a vested interest in seeing the world through yesterday’s model.
Also interesting is that this guy used linkedin to find employees. Crazy… social networking actually works???
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