#3daystartup

[atticusverses]

I was traveling through from Yellow Stone to NYC and landed in Rapid City. My original plan was to check out MT Rushmore and then check out @badlandsnps drive through Chicago etc. However, I saw an event for the three day startup weekend @startupweekend here. I have participated, pitched, built an MVP, and won the 2nd place a few years ago back in Wilmington. My company was called Bee Safe Dating. We are here to make dating better and end the download delete and redownload of Tinder by making Dating safer. The app was designed to have 3rd party verified background checks on users plus the added feature of STD checks and eventually credit card score etc. Target market is for post-college graduates and professionals that want something more serious while skipping the awkward phase and later finding out their dream guy or girl has a criminal background. . This weekend, I joined a team where we will be creating a keyless Car Entrance system based on local stored finger or handprint technology. I have already met some of the most beautiful people in the start-up world, and I know in my core, I am a rogue economist, entrepreneur, and educator. . Remember. If you are in your 20s, its not even the first quarter. If you are in your 40s, it's not even half time. Let's get this gluten-free bread. #startupweekend #startup #3daystartup #developers #webdesigners #marketing #business #entrepreneurs #swbh19 #startuplab #siliconvalley #techstartup #pitch (at Evergreen Media) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ZOIyHFh3T/?igshid=1p66lsg687d2n

[codercaitlin]

This weekend I had the amazing opportunity to develop my entrepreneurial skills at @3daystartup. My team and I were able to not only learn key business concepts like customer discovery and rapid prototyping, but also work in an environment completed dominated by a drive to be involved in startup culture 💡✨🔧 Check out more about my experience at tinyurl.com/3dscornell and hey, maybe you’ll see these faces on the back of phone cases sold near you 💸 #3daystartup #learnbydoing (at Cornell University) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqI2iO4Bilt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qhtglma8is6s

[robertdalesmith]

3 Day Startup Houston 2012

   During the Spring of 2012, I was one of forty students that was selected to participate in the first ever 3 Day Startup event to be hosted at the University of Houston. 3 Day Startup gathers the forty most entrepreneurial minded students on-campus together to start tech companies over the course of three days. I had to apply for the program and go through an interview process. I was able to pitch my idea for Chromemote that I had been working on for several months prior to the event, and the interviewers really liked my idea. 

It wasn't long before I was accepted to participate. Almost everybody coming into the event had their own ideas to pitch, but we broke into teams and narrowed it down to just over ten ideas by the evening where we voted for the top five. I pitched my idea to everybody and after the vote count came out Chromemote made the top five. So then I was able to gather a team of developers and business minded people together to spend the rest of the weekend working on my idea. After telling everybody what I needed help with I had four people join my team.

   The Chromemote team, which was later renamed Mote consisted of developers Ankit Anchila, Eduardo Gerardo Mendizabal, business gurus Rad Elhage, Norris Kwan, and myself the wild-card. Over the weekend my idea grew into a much larger and broader idea. Initially I was interested in building a highly customizable web-based Google TV remote application. After brainstorming the larger idea of Mote emerged, which is a startup dedicated to creating a universal smart tv remote control web-app. Despite many technical difficulties our team was able to put together a presentable prototype by the final presentation. 

Our team also got out of the building to focus on market validation. We talked to dozens of potential clients and used all the feedback to further our startup idea. On the final day we presented our project to a panel of top-notch entrepreneurs and investors. The feedback and advice we received was priceless. In the end our team was awarded a gold-plated Redbull Award for never giving up and staying up until 6AM in order to put together a proof of concept prototype for the final presentation.

[reyndert]

Romania - The Next Startup Hub?

I recently travelled to Cluj-Napoca in the heart of Transylvania (Romania) to facilitate 3DayStartup – Cluj (3DS Cluj). 3DS Cluj is an exhilarating weekend in which university students work on developing their startup ideas. Goal of the weekend is to kickstart the idea and prototype development, discover co-founders, get advice from mentors and fail fast.…

Romania – The Next Startup Hub? was originally published on The Upstart

[chromemote-blog]

U of H 3DStartup participant, Chromemote – a Google Chrome browser extension that connects and controls your Google TV got a very good review in the popular Lifehacker blog.

Chromemote’s founder Robert Dale Smith writes in the posts comments to continue to develop the project and promises the addition of customized buttons and shortcuts.

[chromemote-blog]

Chromemote (Mote) 3DayStartup Final Presentation at the University of Houston

[chromemote-blog]

This spring, Bauer hosted 3 Day Startup, an entrepreneurship education program designed for university students with an emphasis on learning by doing. The idea is simple: start tech companies over the course of three days.

40 UH students from all educational disciplines were recruited to form teams taking their ideas to the next level in a presentation to angel investors and venture capitalists.

[chromemote-blog]

University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business student Robert Dale Smith thinks remote controls are out of control. He has an idea for a technology start-up that would tie all of a consumer’s digital devices into a single, Web-based remote.

That made the computer science and entrepreneurship student a perfect candidate for 3 Day Startup (3DS). Smith was one of 40 students who participated in the first 3DS hosted by the college’s Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship and staged on campus over the April 20-22 weekend.