Thanks to Kansas City Small Business Magazine for the awesome write up post-event!

Startup Weekend Write Up in the KC Small Business Magazine

After a weekend of brainstorming, designing and building, Startup Weekend participates enjoyed a fantastic dinner while they watch each others presentations.

Many thanks to Zack Cobb of Westside Studios for taking the event photos.

http://westsidestudiokc.com/

High Res Photos are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/whereisciao/tags/kcsw/

Startup Weekend 2 Kansas City Sunday Night Slideshow from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Thank you to everyone for an amazing weekend!  Special thanks to our hosts,Patty and Charles, your house was amazing!

Thank you to our judges, Kathy Walker, Herb Sih and James Clarke as well.

The overall prize went to Herd Map (http://www.herdmap.com) for building a Google Map hot spot of cool places to go based upon checkins/posts from GoWalla, Bright Kite, Twitter and FourSquare.  They’ll receive $500, five tickets to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Innovation Luncheon, and two passes for a seminar of their choice at the Enterprise Center of Johnson County.

The runner up prize went to One More Point for building an open source game engine on top of the Android stack (http://www.onemorepoint.com/).  They’ll also receive $500, five tickets to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Innovation Luncheon, and two passes for a seminar of their choice at the Enterprise Center of Johnson County.

SpeakBack Now won the $5000 raffle for Briarcliff Reality space.

Grats to TechGuyTom for winning the Twitter contest and to Aaron for winning a pass to an ECJC seminar.

Thank you to all of our sponsors who made the weekend possible, including Kauffman, Infegy, Chatreach, Chivra, KC SourceLink, Kansas City CHamber of Commerce, Think Bigger Business Media, Pipeline, TradeBot, Enterprise Center of Johnson County, and BriarCliff Reality.

Wondering how the voting will happen tonight? There will be one overall winner and 5 other categories that will be voted on. Here’s the skinny:

The Overall & Community Winner will consist of 3 parts:
- 40% Team votes. Each SW team will have TWO (2) votes to cast. They can NOT vote for their own team.
- 30% Open community vote. The vote on Polldaddy that is open to anyone. http://kansascity.startupweekend.com/?p=503
- 30% Judges. Each Judge will consider 5 categories: Viability, team dynamic, innovation, and breakthrough potential.

The other 5 Categories will be determined by the judges. They include:
- Most Unique
- Most Disruptive
- Why Didn’t I Think of That?!
- The Million Dollar Idea
- Bringing Back Old School

Two more hours! Teams are frantic at work getting their last minute demos up and running:

Speakback Now Sunday Afternoon CheckIn from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Herd Map Sunday Afternoon Team Check In from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Java Join Sunday Afternoon from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Grubbin.it Sunday Afternoon Checkin from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Galileo Sunday Checkin from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Like A Top Team Sunday Check In from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Medical Upload Sunday Checkin from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

One More Point from Dan Melton on Vimeo.

Last year, we posted the budget. In the interest of transparency, here is the 2010 cost/revenue:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tRWhemNcoKfjGCWO8SXNi8Q&output=html

Like a Top Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Galileo Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

The Student Stop Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Grubbin It Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Speak Back Now Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Medical Uploader Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Herdmap Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

One More Point Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Java Joint Sunday Checkin from Steven Chau on Vimeo.

Hey this is the community portion of the judging. Please vote for your favorite project. Results will be used to determine prize winners.

Wondering how the voting will happen tonight?
There will be one overall winner and 5 other categories that will be voted on. Here’s the skinny:

The Overall & Community Winner will consist of 3 parts:
- 40% Team votes. Each SW team will have TWO (2) votes to cast. They can NOT vote for their own team.
- 30% Open community vote. The vote on Polldaddy that is open to anyone. (Poll Below)
- 30% Judges. Each Judge will consider 5 categories: Viability, team dynamic, innovation, and breakthrough potential.

The other 5 Categories will be determined by the judges. They include:
- Most Unique
- Most Disruptive
- Why Didn’t I Think of That?!
- The Million Dollar Idea
- Bringing Back Old School

Please join us and the Startup Weekend teams as we recap the weekend and the projects. All teams will be wrapping up at Infegy at 5:00. We will be heading to Charles Garner Mansion by 6:00. Demos and Presentations will start shortly after.

Friends and family are most certainly welcome to attend the event. Demo & Presentation Tickets RSVP at http://kcstartupweekend2.eventbrite.com/

Food and beverages will be served.

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Sunday Demo and Presentation Venue
Charlie Garner Mansion
4200 N Hickory Ln,
Kansas City, MO 64116

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