Prairie Moves: Startup Weekend introduces “next” step after Sunday
Lead Read: "Introducing NEXT" - Startup Weekend is rolling out a four-week pre-accelerator course to help teams from its events move forward on their idea after the Sunday night pitch session. | Quotable: "This is about DIY cities, it's taking an entrepreneurial, hacker approach to civic thing." - Neighbor.ly founder Jase Wilson told VentureBeat in
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Lead Read
“Introducing NEXT” – Startup Weekend is rolling out a four-week pre-accelerator course to help teams from its events move forward on their idea after the Sunday night pitch session.
Quotable
“This is about DIY cities, it’s taking an entrepreneurial, hacker approach to civic thing.” – Neighbor.ly founder Jase Wilson told VentureBeat in a recent story about the Kansas City startup. – VentureBeat
Career Moves
- Brad Carson, formerly with Yellow Book, joined Syncbak as an IT engineer – The Iowa City Gazette
- Ralph Doehrmann, formerly with Broadcast Interactive Media, joined Syncbak as a senior software engineer – The Iowa City Gazette
Mentions
- Book’d – Book’d Launching Scheduling Platform to Fill Tungle Void for Service Providers – BetaKit
- Neighbor.ly – Startup Spotlight: How to fund civic projects without the government – VentureBeat
Blogged
- Hudl and Hurricane Sandy – Hudl
- The “Entrepreneur Subculture” – Growthology
- How Atebits’ Letterpress Could Really Shine (and Make a Lot of Money) – Jerod Santo
- Charmed by Angels – Jack Perry
Credits: Screenshot from startupweekend.org.
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