We’re proud to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Startup Weekend San Jose.  At Factual, we’re big fans of Startup Weekend and their mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities.  We also love empowering developers to do amazing things with data faster and easier than ever before. To help one lucky team [...]

Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending Princeton Startup Weekend. I went as a representative of Factual, which was one of the weekend’s sponsors, and to act as a resource for teams that wanted advice, feedback, or technical help. If you haven’t heard of Startup Weekend, the gist is that developers, designers, marketers, product [...]

Factual is sponsoring this weekend’s Princeton Startup Weekend. If you’re not familiar with Startup Weekend, learn about it on their site. The details for this weekend’s event: November 11-13, 2011 Friend Center for Engineering Education Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Factual is hosting a contest and awarding $500 to the team that demonstrates the best use [...]

On the heels of our sponsorship of last month’s Startup Weekend LA, Factual will be one of the sponsors of the next two Startup Weekends. Next week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, a Kauffman Foundation-founded initiative that annually introduces millions of young people around the world to entrepreneurship. In over 25 cities around the world – [...]

This weekend, Santa Monica’s Coloft was home to some 80-odd entrepreneurs and developers at LA Startup Weekend. The format went like this: participants showed up Friday night, ideas were pitched, those ideas were voted on, and teams were formed around the top 12 ideas. The remainder of the weekend was dedicated to building those ideas [...]