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Memphis Preparing For Startup Weekend

Memphis is hosting their first official Startup Weekend in four years this Friday through Sunday at Lab Four in Memphis. Over the three day weekend we will see some great ideas turned into startups and hopefully some emerge as actual companies, after all that’s the point behind Startup Weekend events.

The 54 hour event kicks off with preliminary idea pitches on Friday evening. Saturday is a day of working with mentors, teams and developing ideas and Sunday the finalist teams will pitch in front of the judges.

“We promise that this will be a fantastic, fun weekend, whether you want to come and work on your own idea for a company or hang out and help other people with theirs,” Co-event organizer James Ruffer told James Dowd’s Commercial Appeal. “The program has matured a lot in the past four years, and that’s why we wanted to bring it back. Not only will this energize the Memphis entrepreneurial community, but it’ll show other cities around the world that Memphis is serious about entrepreneurship.”

The early bird registration was extended through the 16th, but it’s not too late to register so if you’re in or around Memphis you should sign up here.

If you’re traveling from out of town there are two hotels participating in the fun. We’re sure we are going to see folks from Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville in Memphis for the big event. Memphis has a thriving startup scene.

What happens after Startup Weekend? Well if you’re serious about building your business in Memphis there are resources like the LaunchPad, LaunchMemphis and SeedHatchery all based at Emerge Memphis downtown. The LaunchPad features free drop in co-working space and office hours with the staff there to help cultivate your idea and develop your business.

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Startup Weekend Hits Houston Next Weekend July 27th

If you read nibletz.com or any other startup focused website for that matter than you’re familiar with Startup Weekend. The official Startup Weekend events are held in conjunction with Startup Weekend an organization in Seattle backed by the Kauffman Foundation. Over 200 Startup Weekend organizers can be found around the country and the world.

There are two startup weekends next weekend, Houston and Cincinnati. The Houston event is being held at Start Houston, 1121 Delano Street, Houston TX 77003. The event starts at 6pm on Friday and ends on Sunday at 9:00pm after the final pitches.

If you’re not familiar with an officially sanctioned Startup Weekend event, they kick off on Friday with pitches from anyone registered. You don’t have to have a team or be from a company. After all the initial presentations finish everyone votes on the ideas that will be built over the 54 hour weekend. Teams will be organically picked and everyone is encouraged to join a team even if their idea isn’t picked. Some startups, like Zaarly for instance, have come out of Startup Weekend. Zaarly is now a funded startup and their investors include Ashton Kutcher.

There’s no guarantee where the startup will go after Startup Weekend, but people who pitch and leave after their idea doesn’t get picked, could be leaving an opportunity of a lifetime.

Saturday the teams develop their idea, work on a proof of concept, code code code, and work with the mentors for Startup Weekend. In Houston the mentors are: Bryan Guido Hassin, CEO of Smart Office Energy Solutions; Jeff Reichman, Principal at January Advisors; Nathan Eror, Founder at Free Time Studios, and Mark Stretch a Startup Advisor.

On Saturday, and part of Sunday team swill pick the coach’s brains and the coach’s will pick apart their ideas, all in preparation of Sunday pitches.

Sunday the teams will pitch their final ideas to a group of judges who will provide vital feedback on the ideas, and sustainability and ask great questions that the startup teams will need to focus on to get to the next level. The coaches, minus Mark Stretch will all be judging the pitches on Sunday.

Startup Weekend events are fully catered and plenty of caffeine will be on hand.

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Chicago Techweek: Cars.com Major Sponsor & Panelist For Hometown Event

With all the talk about Chicago’s thriving startup and tech scene over the last few years, and all the attention that Groupon’s been getting, sometimes we forget that automotive super site cars.com is also based in the windy city.

Cars.com is a major part of the second annual TechWeek that start today at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart and runs through Tuesday.

Cars.com has a booth in the exhibition area of the event which will showcase the latest iteration of cars.com. In addition, key personnel will be on hand at the booth to talk with those interested in cars.com and also aspiring entrepreneurs and founders of new startups.

In addition to their booth cars.com is hosting a panel on Sunday at 4pm that will highlight their transformations and achievements since their 1998 launch. They will also talk about lessons they’ve learned, developing and sticking to road maps and other topics that will pertain to aspiring entrepreneurs across all disciplines.

The panelists will include:

Brian Neale, Vice President of Product & User Experience
Jonathan Yenkin, Product Manager
Len Lagestee, Manager of Project Management and Methodology
Michael Michalak, Lead Application Developer
Michael Morgan, Senior Visual Designer
Nick Nikitas, Enterprise Architect
Will Hacker, Interaction Designer

The panel will take place at the Merchandise Mart on Sunday at 4pm their booth is located in the exhibit area of TechWeek Chicago.

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Startup Event: Dallas Prepares For Startup Weekend

Entrepreneurs, startup founders, and members of the Dallas tech community are preparing for Startup Weekend next weekend. The official startup weekend organization advises those participating to not let their ideas, and plans get sidetracked this week with father’s day. Next weekend means business.

In anticipation of the event the Startup Weekend committee for Dallas has announced some of their mentors that will be helping the teams build their startups over the 54 hours next weekend.

Startup Weekend Dallas will have two lawyer mentors in Danica Mathes and Craig Cox of Bell Nunnally LLP. They will be able to tackle some of the tough legal questions as teams vet out their startup plan.

They’ve got BioTech and NanoTech specialist Phong Le of Marketing in the Life Sciences Group at HPC.

Paul Griffith, Senior Director of Business Development at AOL Inc will be on hand as well Brad Kendall of Great White North.

Rounding out their list of great mentors is Amrit Kirpalani who is the founder of predictive social commerce company called Nectar Online Media.

The mentors won’t be there throughout the entire event, however Startup Weekend Dallas plans to post the hours of their ability at the event so you’ll know exactly when you can get the kind of help you need.

Startup Weekend Dallas starts Friday, here’s the link to register.

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Startup America Partners With Startup RockOn For DNC RNC Events

Startup America and Startup RockOn have announced that they are partnering for some very exciting events this year.

Startup RockOn is a collaborative effort of fast growing Startups, Event Farm, HyperVocal, and Fighter Interactive. Together they are putting together mini festival style events at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on September 3, 2012 in Charlotte North Carolina and the Republican National Convention (RNC) August 27th in Tampa Bay.

The events will highlight America’s thriving startup culture, have interactive displays and sessions and feature musical performances, including the group The Roots who have agreed to headline the events.

Startup America CEO, Scott Case, stated, “As the RNC and DNC capture the attention of the country, it’s imperative to highlight the importance of startups to our national economy, and we’re incredibly excited to partner with EventFarm, HyperVocal and FIGHTER Interactive — three hard-working startups themselves — to do just that.”

The StartUp RockOn leadership team stated, “From a garage band to culture-shifting software, from next-generation media companies to 21st century energy solutions, the greatest American success stories start (and will start) through ingenuity, creativity, hard work and perseverance. StartUp RockOn honors the entrepreneurs of America’s bright future.”

Startup America is now 23 regional partnerships strong and has already hosted or partnered for a bunch of great events including a Startup America event at the Hilton in Austin during South by Southwest Interactive.

This new partnership will spur even more interest in Startups, entrepreneurism and technology in the United States, regardless of political affiliation.

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Dallas Startups: Prepare For LaunchDFW Kegs & Code Rooftop Party

Beer, coding and a roof, that’s what you’ll get if you’re in the Dallas startup community Friday night. LaunchDFW is hosting Kegs & Code 2012.

The party kicks off at 6:00pm this Friday night (June 15th) at 3200 Main Street #5.2 in Dallas. At 7:00pm their having a “Hack Attack” and at 8pm they’re giving away a $500 prize.

The evening ends with dancing until sunrise. It looks to be a great time sponsored by LaunchDFW and Senico Labs.

Seattle: TechCocktail Is Coming To You May 23rd

Next Wednesday as a lot of eyes are on Pier 94 in New York City for TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, the west coast attention will turn to Seattle. Seattle’s startup scene will come alive at the Pink Ultra Lounge.

TechCocktail mixers are known for their excellent networking, casual startup pitches and libations. I mean how could you have a media conglomerate known as TechCocktail without libations.

TechCocktail hasn’t posted the startups yet but we’ll be watching out for that, and you can too just visit this page at TechCocktail.

There’s about two days left in the general ticket sales for $15.00 but then they only go up $5.00. Tech Cocktail is also having an event in Washington DC the next day, so if you’re on the east coast you can head over here for more info on the DC event which will feature Startup America CEO Scott Case and startup evangelist, Georgetown Professor and author, Rohit Bhargava.

TechCocktails recent Baltimore event was a huge success they had 13 startups competing in their startup throw down.

If you’re ready to strut your stuff at TechCocktails Seattle mixer head over here and get registered. If you’re in the other Washington (DC that is) head over here.

Birmingham Alabama Hosting A Startup Day On April 24th

They don’t have a Startup America affiliation yet and they haven’t had a formal 3 day 54 hour startup weekend, however Birmingham Alabama has a growing startup scene. Birmingham has an active startup Twitter account called StartupBirmingham and they have a startup day coming on April 24th.

The all day event will be held at Birmingham’s WorkPlay theater and the organizers are calling the event the Startup Summit. The organizers are Jonathan Sides the CFO of Daxlo and Tony Summerville the founder of his own startup called Rarestep which makes Fleetio a web based solution for fleet management.

As with all great startup events Sides and Summerville have enlisted the help of some of the top entrepreneurs in Birmingham’s startup ecosystem as well as community business leaders. More than 100 startup founders and entrepreneurs will attend the event. Sides and Summerville promise in addition to the content, lectures and panels there will be several networking coffee breaks, a networking lunch and an after event party where startup founders can network with each other. As we know that’s an integral part to any startup event.

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