Bloomington Startup Weekend

I recruited Jason de Runa, one of the future founders at BSW, to be the Hospitality Director for our event. Jason is going to make contact with local hotels to see if we can get some sponsorship to help house participants coming in from out of town. We will try to get this information to […]

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Of all of the past Startup Weekend events, the most compelling to follow was the one in Atlanta last November. First, they had Paul Stamatiou on board. Paul is a productive blogger and computational media student at Georgia Tech. Second, Atlanta was happening just after Paul Graham posted an essay on why startups should move […]

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Bloomington Startup is actively recruiting sponsorship to pay for a few sitters to watch kids in a room at City Hall. If you are interested in attending but have hesitated because of this important obstacle, please comment here or email Kevin Makice (kevin -at- makice -dot- net).

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Nothing official yet (read: no checks in hand), but it looks like we have four of our target six sponsors identified after a little local media blitz in the last two days. Smaller Indiana, a Ning group aimed at strengthening connections between Indiana professionals, started collecting donations via paypal last week. The City of Bloomington, […]

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Before we spend 54 hours together in February, finish off this month with some conversation and future company brainstorming with the local Geeks. Thanks to local technologist Ben Fulton, we are having another Geek Dinner on January 30 beginning at 6p.

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With the addition of the little link in the sidebar of the main site, Bloomington Startup Weekend is official. Our three days of intense work to build a brand new startup company is less than a month away (Feb. 8-10), with registration beginning this week. We’ll announce details about that Wednesday, but in the meantime […]

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