The scene inside the Walters Art Museum during this summer’s Art Bytes hackathon Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend Education. Groundwork. Art Bytes. Four major hackathons took place in Baltimore in 2012. But convincing developers to show up at local hackathons has been something of a challenge this year, as JavaScript and Ruby on Rails developer Jonathan Julian [...]

Five questions with Deb Tillett [Baltimore Sun]: “I saw in the job at ETC everything I like about startups and the entrepreneurial process. The rush of going from zero to that first $50,000 or $1 million in revenue — it’s a gateway drug! You really need to keep doing it.”

While 15 companies emerged from the rubble of Red Bull cans during Baltimore’s recent Startup Weekend, the Seattle-based nonprofit Startup Weekend has its sights set higher. Startup Weekend NEXT, announced yesterday, is “the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched,” says Steve Blank, who teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and is [...]

Ground broken on 44-acre BWI Technology Park II [Baltimore Business Journal]: “BWI Technology Park II is slated to include 270,000 square feet of office, flex and retail space that could accommodate 1,500 workers.”

This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. Startup Grind returns for its second installment on Oct. 30 at Loyola University Maryland. Tickets are on sale now. October’s interviewee is Vince Talbert, the co-founder of BillMeLater, which was acquired by eBay in 2008. Talbert now works [...]