Hello, Tallahassee! StartupBus Florida has arrived, ready to visit Domi Station, and ready to pitch! #startupbus

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

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

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

I’m flying the CoreX Legal 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!

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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 is about three hours from Austin, and for many of us, we just paid our first visit to a Buc-ee's Beaver. I, for one, welcome our new beef jerky overlords. #StartupBus2022 #ThinkInsideTheBus

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

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

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!

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

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