{"id":585,"date":"2013-09-25T01:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackspherelabs.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2013-09-25T01:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T06:23:28","slug":"hi-startup-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/hi-startup-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"HI Startup Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite interesting event. \u00a0In the\u00a0beginning it was about the people that run the local startup helpers. \u00a0Blue Startup, Startup Hawaii, Startup Digest. \u00a0The startup Energy\u00a0Accelerator had a video to bring. \u00a0It contained information about where the money and motivation comes from (navy, government, etc). \u00a0They state that HI is a startup &#8220;paradise&#8221; and have a focus on innovation in electric and energy production and control. \u00a0Applications for them close on 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Guy came up and talked about what he does that is more on the software side. \u00a0Alot about how his business was started. \u00a0It took him a long time to get funding. \u00a015 to 20 presentations. \u00a0Friends did not help, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the secret information on how to get to the point that one will be accepted as a startup in a competition. \u00a0I suppose a start would be in startup contest rules.<\/p>\n<p>Startup America renamed to Up Global.<\/p>\n<p>Startup Weekend! \u00a0Experiences shared about startup weekend. \u00a0One about trying to sell tea online. \u00a0It is made for anyone. \u00a0She (the speaker) never seen anything like it before. \u00a0Startup weekend builds a bond amongst the group that your are in to help with\u00a0future\u00a0ideas<\/p>\n<p>No matter what anyone says it seems to take time. \u00a0Though business takes time in general it also takes time to enter and qualify for the competition. \u00a0That is, someone will present about their startup org and then state that the deadline is in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite interesting event. \u00a0In the\u00a0beginning it was about the people that run the local startup helpers. \u00a0Blue Startup, Startup Hawaii, Startup Digest. \u00a0The startup Energy\u00a0Accelerator had a video to bring. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}