Startup Weekend

  • Biography app Tellmystory takes top prize at Startup Weekend Iowa City

    Tellmystory walked away as the winner of Startup Weekend Iowa City on Sunday night. The team’s app, which is designed to preserve memories through text, audio and video, resonated with judges and audience members alike. Three teams participated in Sunday night’s final pitch session at the John Pappajohn Business Building on the campus of the…

  • Meet the teams of Startup Weekend Iowa City

    The second Startup Weekend Iowa City is nearing the conclusion of its second day, and three teams are plugging away inside the University of Iowa’s Pappajohn Business Building in preparation for a Sunday night finale. About 15 of the event’s 25 participants gave one-minute pitches during Friday night’s opening pitch session, event co-organizer Shannon Younger…

  • Watch the eight pitches of Startup Weekend Omaha (Video)

    After the winner of the fourth Startup Weekend Omaha was named Sunday, event judge Mark Crawford, CEO of Invest Nebraska, called the eigtht ideas pitched “extremely diverse.” “It wasn’t all software,” event judge Bart Dillashaw, an attorney and the president of the Nebraska Angels, said. “You had some hardware and stuff that was like games.”…

  • Wi-Fi product promising simplicity wins Startup Weekend Omaha

    SimplyFi, a concept for a Wi-Fi router and extender, won the fourth Startup Weekend Omaha on Sunday, beating out seven other teams. Let’s Brew, an online resource and store for home brewers, and Small Potatoes Co., a marketplace for home gardeners and locavores, placed second and third, respectively. “We thought SimplyFi was a cut above…

  • Startup Weekend Omaha pitches begin at 6 p.m. at The Mastercraft

    The nearly 48-hour window that teams have to finish their Startup Weekend Omaha projects comes to an end at 6 p.m. today when each presents their ideas in a five-minute pitch. This free and open to the public event takes place in room 214 of The Mastercraft building (1111 N. 13th St.). If you’re attending,…

  • The eight teams of Startup Weekend Omaha (Photos)

    Startup Weekend Omaha is nearly 30 hours in. Its 60-some competitors have formed eight teams and spread themselves throughout The Mastercraft, occupying four offices in the North Downtown building to see their ideas through. Before those ideas were pitched Friday, Omaha co-organizer and former Startup Weekend COO Shane Reiser kicked off the event with an…

  • Iowa City to host second Startup Weekend Oct. 5-7

    Startup Weekend Iowa City is back for a second go-around Oct. 5-7, and tickets are still available for developers, designers and businesspeople. The weekend-long event, which is designed to help participants learn the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures, will take place inside the John Pappajohn Business Building (21 East Market St.) on…

  • StirList wins first Startup Weekend Lincoln, eyes Lincoln Startup Week

    As a kickoff to Lincoln’s first Startup Week, Lincoln’s first Startup Weekend was, by all accounts, a big success. “For the first event ever, it far exceeded my expectations,” said lead coordinator Amanda Thonen. The community support that rallied around the event was “atypical,” she said, perhaps because the 54-hour marathon was just the start…

  • Watch the Startup Wekened Lincoln finale live at 6 p.m. (Updated)

    The 10 teams of the inaugural Startup Weekend Lincoln are in the homestretch. All that stands between those teams and the finish line of a whirlwind weekend is tonight’s closing pitch session, which we will broadcast …

  • A look at the teams and Day 2 photos from Startup Weekend Lincoln

    The hometown Husker football team was on the road today, but that didn’t mean the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus was devoid of teams competing. Startup Weekend Lincoln helped ensure that. The event’s marathon middle day, which is now nearing its conclusion, saw 10 teams inside UNL’s Avery Hall busily building on business ideas. Sixty-eight participants…