Portland Startup Weekend
Posted by Andrew Hyde
You ready?
Startup Weekend is proud to announce that the Portland Startup Weekend will be held May 23-25 2008. This is Memorial day weekend, so plan accordingly. Surprisingly, this date worked the best when a sample from the cityvote project was polled. It will be great to have a nice northwestern spring day on Monday to enjoy as a holiday (which is a huge plus). This will be the 17th Startup Weekend to take place across the globe.
Please blog, twitter, IM and tell your friends about the weekend (and feel free to use this logo and link to this post). Oregon is my home state and I can’t wait to get back.
A nice intimate set will be provided by the great folks at SMtvMusic.com. We already have quite a few surprises planned for the first Startup Weekend in Oregon.
So, you want to get involved? Contact cities@startupweekend.com if you would like to help plan the event.
So what can you do?
Tickets for Startup Weekend Portland will be sold here for $40. This is really a RSVP cost, and you will receive your fair share of food, swag and memories. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring a meal, shirts or massive amounts of caffeine, email sponsor@startupweekend.com.
There are 8 main areas of expertise that you can sign up for:
- Design
- Developer
- PR/ Marketing
- Business Development
- User Experience
- Legal
- Project/ Product Management
- Cook (your skillset isn’t represented here or you would like to help with the food for the weekend)
Make sure to get tickets early, it will sell out.
Leave your questions in the comments!
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Startup Weekend Portland Announced « The Pursuit of a Life said:
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January 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Kit Seeborg said:
We’re all so stoked that Startup Weekend is coming to Portland as a back to back event with WebVisions!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Portland Startup Weekend « The Pursuit of a Life said:
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February 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Northwest Startup Events « The Pursuit of a Life said:
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February 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Startup Weekend » Blog Archive » Web Visions 2008 said:
[...] year Web Visions will be May 22-23 (notice, that is right before the Portland Startup Weekend). A few people are already flying for the Startup Weekend (and many more are coming into town for [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
scottberkun.com » Speaking at Webvisions, Portland, May 22-23 said:
[...] to see you there. If you’re thinking of going, also check out Portland’s Start-up Weekend. Odds are good I’ll be there [...]
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Carri Bugbee said:
Is the type of company to be built decided in advance or is it decided by the participants once the event gets underway?
March 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
HM said:
When will more information about Portland be available? Perhaps a forum, etc?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Akshay Dodeja » Blog Archive » Portland Startup Weekend said:
[...] to take part in one of these events such as Bar Camp or Startup Weekend for quite some time now. Portland Startup Weekend will be a great opportunity for this. If you are interested in taking part as developer, designer, [...]
April 4th, 2008 at 1:59 am
» Portland Lunch 2.0: Five reasons to attend - Silicon Florist said:
[...] can’t make the evening and weekend activities like Barcamp, Startup Weekend and Startupalooza, but you really want to do 1. and [...]
April 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Startup Weekend: Medicine Tent For Web 3.0 | College Mogul said:
[...] for the Weekend to roll through your town. Startup Weekend will be rolling through San Antonio, TX, Portland, OR, Memphis, TN and Ann Arbor, MI in May and June. If you’re serious about your business, you might [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
» Now on tap: Portland Startup Drinks - Silicon Florist said:
[...] Well, it’s another startup idea from the same folks who brought us—or more accurately will be bringing us—Startup Weekend. A simple concept: startup culture in cities around the world gathers around [...]
April 18th, 2008 at 12:03 am
A & J meet Portland » Startup Weekend said:
[...] Startup Weekend is an event where a bunch of entrepreneurial folks get together to plan, develop, and launch a tech company (or website, or webservice) in a weekend. The event brings together folks in the following areas: [...]
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Micah Elliott said:
I’m not sure where to ask these general questions about Startup Weekend. Since I’m signed up for Portland, and I haven’t found answers elsewhere, I’ll ask here:
* How are teams determined? If we are attending with a buddy, can we be sure to work together? How many members per team?
* Are we pair-programming, or large-group, or all individually merging into a shared repository?
* Do we get matched up with members of similar backgrounds or taste in tools (e.g., vim, mercurial, ubuntu, python, django)? Will wearing my vim-reference shirt put me in the right place?
* Where do project ideas come from? Can we submit some (or choose) ahead of time?
* What technologies will we be using? Free to choose on group-by-group basis?
* What is the hosting plan? Should we have a host ready to go before we get started? What about domain name? Should we plan to spend another $50 on these?
* Any prep can/should do?
* What should we bring? A pillow, laptop, books, etc?
* Are we working 54 hrs straight through, or do we go home to sleep?
May 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Andrew Hyde said:
@Micah hope these answer your questions:
* How are teams determined? If we are attending with a buddy, can we be sure to work together? How many members per team?
Pitch your idea, and see if others want to join you or you want to join others
* Do we get matched up with members of similar backgrounds or taste in tools (e.g., vim, mercurial, ubuntu, python, django)? Will wearing my vim-reference shirt put me in the right place?
You can choose to be in any group.
* Are we pair-programming, or large-group, or all individually merging into a shared repository?
Up to you.
* Where do project ideas come from? Can we submit some (or choose) ahead of time?
Every time a weekend has had a strong ‘pick the idea before the weekend’ something the day of always trumps it. A mystery to me, but we stopped doing it. Come with some ideas, pitch them, let them evolve.
* What technologies will we be using? Free to choose on group-by-group basis?
Free to choose (see a trend in my answers here?)
* What is the hosting plan? Should we have a host ready to go before we get started? What about domain name? Should we plan to spend another $50 on these?
Generally your group fee covers costs like this among other things (if there is 50 project, maybe not, but in general it is covered)
* Any prep can/should do?
Make sure your friends who need to be there are there.
* What should we bring? A pillow, laptop, books, etc?
Laptop.
* Are we working 54 hrs straight through, or do we go home to sleep?
Go home and sleep.
More FAQ’s are here: http://startupweekend.com/faq/
May 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
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May 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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May 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
gochi said:
Startup Weekend i think it was great i came to know very late.
Thanks
January 27th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Bethany K Ford said:
nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Resource Management Software said:
Will they be holding another event in 2009? I missed the project management portion.
March 8th, 2009 at 10:52 pm