Startup Weekend deux

NP.com reports on the looming Nashville Startup Weekend II, at the Owen GSM. Last year's successful event is noted here, and one iPhone venture that got its start there is chronicled here.

NEWSBITS, Sept. 28, 2009

A strategic hire at Healthways, an update on TNInvestcos, a deadline at the local Entrepreneurs Organization chapter, new board members at Tenn. Biotechnology Association, major local tech-venture events, and Bill Frist's next step as part of an alliance to dramatically reshape Tennessee education. Here's the roundup.

Underway: Startup Weekend Nashville

Nashville Startup Weekend 1.0 is well underway within the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management HQ (at left), and this morning the group narrowed-down its interests to seven finalist concepts out of a field of more than 30 ideas, according to entrepreneur, software guru and blogger Jackson Miller (who also demo'd his wares in last month's TechCrunch DemoPit). Jackson captured much of the action thus far in this post. The focus has been whittled to seven ideas for further development and presentation by Sunday evening. Co-organizer Jason Moore said this morning there's not a lot of blogging on the NSW page, partly because so many attendees are twittering. Hmmm.

Wizards Wanted: Startup Weekend Nashville Oct. 10-12

Nashville's Startup Weekend, in which techies band together for 54 hours to produce new products, new businesses and-or new ideas, is solid for Oct. 10-12, on the Vanderbilt campus. Co-Leads Nicholas Holland and Jason Moore stress that software and web developers, database demons, designers, marketers, lawyers, promoters and others with the tech chops to help one or more teams are wanted NOW. Pro's have begun joining the Startup Weekend Nashville community at the site here. If you don't find what you're looking for, register and post your queries. Startup Weekend, so successful in other cities, should be an anchorpoint, along with Barcamp Nashville and other events this fall, for Nashville's next surge in technology community-building.