StartupBus Florida

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[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

Here’s a first: every team on @StartupBusFL qualified for the finals! My heartiest congratulations to Stayges (@getstayges) and Next Responder (@respondsmarter) for this achievement.

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

It’s the final day of #StartupBus2022! This is when the semifinals and finals take place, and both teams on @StartupBusFL made the cut for the semifinals. Congrats to both @getstayges and @respondsmarter!

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

Being a #StartupBus2022 conductor means taking care of the buspreneurs— the hackathon participants. I shopped for breakfast “fixins” and cooked a baker’s dozen hearty breakfasts to get them ready for their first pitch this afternoon!

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

@STRReform We’re under the impression that they’re operating on the up-and-up.
We plan to sleep, write code and make promo videos for our projects, and plan to save anything celebratory for downtown.

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

Dropped the buspreneurs off at our AirBnB (see pics) in Austin — now running downtown for a #StartupBus2022 organizer meeting.
#NoDullMoments

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

We’re in the home stretch! Thirty minutes to Austin!!!

[stayges @getstayges]

Creativity requires space; space is a luxury. Our team of creatives - a dancer, a musician, and a chef – is here to bridge the gap. Stayges fulfills the need for private, affordable creative space. In the bigger picture, this creates community.

[NextResponderApp @RespondSmarter]

We’re part of #StartupBus2022 in Austin TX this weekend, where we’ll demonstrate our better approach to SOPs for first responders. Seconds can save someone you love, and we’re here to give rescuers that much-needed time!

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

StartupBus Florida is about three hours from Austin, and for many of us, we just paid our first visit to a @bucees.

I, for one, welcome our new beef jerky overlords.

#StartupBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

Our next startup presentation: Next Responder, a tech-based replacement for the medical manual firefighters have on the truck. It’s easier than consulting a 400-page 3-ring binder in the middle of an emergency.
#StartupBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

Our first team to present: Stayges, which can be described as “AirBnB for creative spaces.” Need a space to record your TikToks, blogs, or podcasts, practice dance, rehearse your band or play? You need this! #StartupBus #ThinkInsideTheBus

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

Nous sommes arrivés à Nouvelle-Orléans! And we’re in Idea Village’s lively space, where our teams will present their startups to local entrepreneurs for practice judging. #StartupBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

We’re closing in on this afternoon’s pitch venue! #StartupBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

Does my hack work? DAMN RIGHT IT WORKS!!!

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

Our bus’ wiper arm - not the blade, but the *arm* - broke! Even worse: I t’s raining hard. But I have decades of field hackery, as well as some electrical tape and a couple of sacrificial pens… (1/2)

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

What a technologically interesting time we live in! In a span of hours, Domi Station 3-D printed #StartupBus pogs and socks with one of our startup’s logos! #StartUpBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

I’m flying the @CorexLegal flag (actually, wearing their t-shirt) as they’re the national sponsor of #StartupBus2022, and *the* legal firm for startups. They’re making this trip possible!

[StartupBus Florida @StartupBusFL]

Day 2 of #StartupBus is well under way, as our driver Tom takes the Florida Bus eastward towards our final destination: Austin!

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

Current situation: a little beer break from mentoring the buspreneurs of StartupBus Florida on the comfy couch at Domi Station, Tallahassee’s incubator/coworking space. #StartupBus

[Joey de Villa (@[email protected]) @AccordionGuy]

StartupBus Florida (@StartupBusFL) is at Tallahassee-based coworking space and incubator @DomiStationTLH (a lovely space, by the way) where the team is doing their pitch.