Startup Weekend San Francisco

The video team is pushing to release a promo by 11:15.
Creative has a base template for the actual site.
Dev continues to work through Facebook bugs.

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10:15 here, or mid August in our Startup in a Year experiment.
Every weekend is different, with regional and personal influences to the final product. I arrived at the amazing office space (thanks again to Microsoft!) with 20 people waiting in the lobby at 9am, ready to work on the project. Lots of energy [...]

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This is Sean, he surfs couches.
Inside Startup Weekend: Sean from penguin on Vimeo.

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Edgy, relaxed, but also runs the risk of being mistaken for sexual undercurrent. That’s our name.

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It’s an important decision, what do we call ourselves? The creative team has spent the first 4 hours really working hard on this and they come up with some great options. Plenty of X’d names (CommunitySignal, Yo! Help, NowHelp, Volunpeer, CareCorps, and many others).
I had the pleasure of working with the creative group and trying [...]

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