USF St. Pete Team Advances On StartupBus

MyNewman, the "anti-social network" brainchild of Team Miami in the 2011 StartupBus Competition at SXSW, was named a top four finalist.

Sean Lux, a University of South Florida St. Petersburg business professor, and Nathan Schwagler, a USF St. Pete Creative-In-Residence, are members of Team Miami and helped craft the business pitch for MyNewman with Greg Ross-Munro on the trip from Miami to Austin.

StartupBus began in March 2010 as a unique challenge to start a prototype web service while en route from San Francisco to Austin. This year the trek also included teams from Chicago, Cleveland, Silicon Valley and New York City.

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