Amazing success story: Ming.ly from Startup Weekend LA in November, 2009 launching at Twiistup. Congratulations!

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Our panel included: Francisco Dao, Serena Ehrlich, John Dilts, Stan Tomsic, Sean Percival, and Mark Politi. They had some great answers to questions about legal structures and timlines for startups, patterns in major barriers that they are seeing with startups currently, focus for revenue streams and PR for startups. Thank you so much to the panelists – who then turned into judges and stayed to listen to the demos and helped us pick a winner at the end of the night.

We saw 6 functioning applications Sunday night!

The judges unanimously chose ming.ly as the winner. ming.ly is a social CRM predicated on tasks. Congrats guys!

Thanks again to all of our sponsors, to Amanda Abelove for locally organizing and to BlankSpaces for the space!

Interested in helping ot organize the next Startup Weekend LA? Start the conversation in the comments below.

The schedule for tonight looks like this (and note – we’re going to go with the flow, so don’t hold us to it).

*We’re going to be STREAMING LIVE. Big thanks to Jaymes Hines of Hines Media Group for making this happen for us.

6pm - Food and drinks. Mingle. Get everyone together. We’ll have some lighter food (we had a late lunch) and bring in some beer as well.

6:30pm - We’ll talk a bit about the awesome volunteers and sponsors who made this event happen.

6:40pm – Panel Discussion. We’re very lucky to have some great panelists joining us this evening. We’ll take some time and pick their brains about a few things. On the panel: Francisco Dao, Serena Ehrlich, John Dilts, Stan Tomsic, Sean Percival, and Mark Politi.

7:15pm – Presentations will begin. Each group (here’s the list) will have ~15 minutes to present. Our panelists will help us judge and we’ll pick a top idea. Remember, it’s all good fun!

Notes:

- We might have a few other people swing by. If we do, we’ll tweet and blog about it. Follow #lasw and also tune into the LIVE STREAM (URL to come).

- We have at least 2 groups working with the Twilio API. We’re pumped that they entered the competition this weekend. One of them should DEFINITELY win the prize (cough cough).

- Francisco Dao is with Twiistup. The winner tonight will be able to apply to the Twiistup Showoff for free! (normally $75)

- We had Wil Schroter speak to the group yesterday at lunch. What was meant to be a quick 15 minute talk turned into nearly an hour as the group asked tons of questions and a great conversation developed. Thanks to Wil for his insight, time, and willingness to be a resource.

- Jun Laoyza swung by yesterday and did some interviews. He’ll have that up on his site soon. Thanks Jun. Great to see you.

[we're probably forgetting things, but will update as needed]

We’ll hold you to ~15 minutes, so make sure to be succinct and cover what you need to cover. Be clear so the judges and audience can all understand.

Rough outline:

1. Define the opportunity (the problem that exists).

2. Proposed Solution – aka enter: your company

3. Demo and/or explain. We’d love to see some demos. If you’re not that far, give us the overview of what it is and how it will work.

*4. Pitch-ish – Market, addressable market, rev model, competition, etc. This one is starred because it’s not essential. You’ve been building all weekend and this part may not have been addressed yet. If you have it, great. If not, no worries. Revenue models are always good though

5. Learnings from the weekend – what did your group learn? How did the weekend go? What were some things you had to overcome?

6. Next Steps – was this a weekend event and a mental exercise? (totally cool) or are you planning on working together on this or other projects after the weekend ends?

1. Social CRM – If you’re familiar with the idea of social CRM – this isn’t radically different. We need logic in our social graph and contacts and we also need associated tasks and prioritization.

2. Round Up – Application to round up at POS and in digital transaction situations to donate to causes and charities.

3. Keyword-based push notifications for time-sensitive web deals.

4. Location-aware geo-hashing + Twitter services (the rogue project).

5. Global Progress Specialists – Emerging Market mentoring content and distribution

6. On My Way – Geographic + Chronological application built on top of foursquare API to inform people and networks of progess to location.

7 . Centralized FTC endorsement disclosure database and service.

The event is taking place at Blank Spaces – a coworking and office space in Mid-Wilshire. We had about 45 people attendd pitches Friday night and attendees are weighing heavily toward developers (good! we can build things!).

Stan Tomsic led things off sharing information about the Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County. This group offers space, mentorship, resources and networks to capital.

Jaymes Hines of Hines Media Group helped capture content. We’re editing some video and will have that up soon.

We had 45 pitches. ideas ranged from quick apps built on top of popular APIs to physical products and professional services. Voting narrowed things down to 6 ideas that groups are currently working on… and there are a few rogue projects in the works as well.

Great things going today. Teams are hard at work and we’re looking to Wil Schroter talking to the group at lunch.

More information on running projects as well as pictures soon!

We’re pleased to announce that Jaymes Hines will be joining us at Startup Weekend LA. He will help capture content from the event as well as lend his experience and perspective to teams as they work toward demos on Sunday evening.

Hines Media Group (“HMG”) was established by author, newmedia producer and Internet entrepreneur, Jaymes Hines to create aspirational, empowering and innovative cultural broadband video content and apps for commercial web and mobile audiences worldwide.  The company is based in Los Angeles, CA and New Jersey.

Producer, consultant, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment, original online video programing and signature live streaming events, Jaymes represent a diverse portfolio of the very best Internet television formats, events rights and finished programs including entertainment, e-learning, music and cultural media for direct sales, promotions, merchandising, syndication and distribution via DVD, itunes and online for kids, families and educators everywhere.

URL: www.hinesmediagroup.com

Tickets are now on sale and for the next 5 days (until Fri), we are offering a special Super Early Bird Full Event pass for only $197. Save money by registering early today.

Twiistup 007 Includes:

8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast Mixer
12:30-1:30pm Lunch included at the event
8:30-9:30pm Open Tapas/Hors D’oeuvres bar (No-host drinks)

See you January 28th!
Francisco