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StartupBus Florida Wrap Up

by Jessica Barnett on March 23, 2012 in Tampa Bay, Technology with No comments

Originally posted on the StartupBus blog.

Just a couple weeks ago we were a bunch of strangers drinking in a bar in downtown Tampa. It’s incredible how much has happened in such a short time – we traveled across America, created four amazing startups, pitched to tech communities in different cities all over the south and most importantly, found 24 awesome and crazy new friends… all while on a bus.

Our 1,500+ mile trip to SXSW onboard StartupBus Florida was one heck of an adventure. The highlight of which was when BumperCrop won runner up at SXSW! With steep competition from 55 other teams from all over the US and Mexico, having a Florida company take the #2 spot was quite an honor!

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StartupBus Florida Day 1

by Jessica Barnett on March 7, 2012 in Event, Tampa Bay with No comments

Originally posted on the StartupBus blog.

Pregame: Monday, March 5th

Pre-Launch Party

We held a fantastic pre-launch party at Taps in downtown Tampa thanks to @AbsoluteMobile. (We’ll be going back to Taps for our afterparty, too!)The Tampa Bay tech and startup community came out in full force to support for the buspreneurs.

Absolute Mobile Solutions has been helping organizations develop and execute mobile strategies for over twelve years. Their services include Mobile Strategy Consulting, Mobile Design, and Mobile Development.

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Announcing StartupBus Florida!

by Jessica Barnett on January 7, 2012 in Tampa Bay, Technology with No comments

Last year, I was fortunate enough to ride StartupBus Miami to SXSW. The experience was amazing/exhausting/traumatic/exciting and most of all… once in a lifetime! Some of the people I met on the bus became some of my closest friends.

Upon arriving home, we got to talking and realized if we could do this on a bus, we could certainly do it sitting still and with reliable internet… Thus, Startup Weekend Tampa was born. (It’s coming up again soon, you should come!)

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Announcing: Tampa Bay Entrepreneur/Startup Resources

by Jessica Barnett on April 12, 2011 in Tampa Bay, Technology with No comments

CROSSPOST FROM: Announcing: Tampa Bay Entrepreneur/Startup Resources on Startup Weekend Tampa

We’re crowdsourcing a list of resources for entrepreneurs and startups in Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay, and Florida in general, might not have as many resources for building a startup as we’d like, but I think we have more than we realize. I’ve been in several conversations about the need to start centralizing these resources and Startup Weekend Tampa seemed like the perfect opportunity to jump-start that! With that in mind, I created http://tampa.startupweekend.org/resources/ and version 1.0 of the Google Doc embedded there.

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Improving Your Local Startup Ecosystem

by Jessica Barnett on March 28, 2011 in Tampa Bay, Technology with No comments

Seth Elliot, a great guy I’ve had a chance to chat with at SuperConf in Miami and SXSWi in Austin, runs the weekly Miami StartupDigest newsletter. He included this in the latest, and I thought it was worth a share:

Our startup ecosystem continues to grow and evolve. Each and every one of you can help in this process. How? Consider the following:

Attend events – Remember, these are organized for your benefit. Even though it sometime seems like a pain at the end of a long day, do your best to attend some of these startup events.

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Tech & Creativity in Tampa Bay: Problems and Solutions

by Jessica Barnett on January 13, 2011 in Tampa Bay, Technology with 2 Comments

Michael Bishop wrote a great post awhile back called Beyond Barcamp Tampa Bay which inspired me to finally get some of my thoughts down on paper (or page, as the case may be). Since poking my head into Tampa’s tech scene, I’ve talked to a lot of people who share some of my own frustration with the state of community in Tampa. A lot of you have been here for years… I haven’t, but I’ll go ahead and put my thoughts out there…

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Recap: TEDx Tampa Bay

by Jessica Barnett on February 15, 2010 in Event, Recap, Tampa Bay with 2 Comments

My last post was written in anticipation of attending TEDxTampaBay. Not only did I get a chance to go to this amazing event, I actually got to help out the organizers for the day!

Sylvia Landis and I manned the registration table and tweeted about the event while watching the Talks live and via live stream.