The StartupBus: The hackers, the hustlers and the hipsters

The StartupBus left Tampa Bay on Sunday, March 3 full of Florida-based buspreneurs (see what they did there? Bus + entrepreneurs = buspreneurs.)

Created by Elias Bizannes, the StartupBus is a community invested in startups. The group is best known for an annual competition that shuttles ambitious hackers (computer coders), hustlers (marketers) and hipsters (designers) to the SxSW technology conference via bus.

This year, buses departed from Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico City and Tampa. Two buses came out of New York, one full of competitors and the other alumni.