I am pleased to announce that Startup Weekend is coming to Nashville October 10-12, 2008. Startup Weekend Nashville will be held on the Vanderbilt campus and will be a great event. Check out their local blog here and don’t forget to buy your tickets early here as this event should sell out quickly!
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One question on the minds of many is “What will the future of Startup Weekend look like?”.
The answer is quite simple…. VERY EXCITING.
Startup Weekend is a truly amazing thing. The community it builds can’t be beat, the ideas that come out of it are amazing, and the entire concept is truly revolutionary.
When I found out about coming on board I was ecstatic. Next my mind started filling with a plethora of new ideas and I literally told Andrew I had to stop doing what I was doing and run to my whiteboard and start putting them down.
As I type this I look up at that whiteboard and I see a large mix of ideas and I can feel a sense of enthusiasm that I don’t think I could ever get with another project.
I’ve already plotted out a large list of places that I want to visit, and a large list of people I want to meet. The City Vote section of our website is one of the most powerful aspects and enables you fine people to vote directly on the cities that you’d like to see Startup Weekend at. I’d HIGHLY encourage you to take a look at the amazing selection of cities that are up for voting and if you see one you’d be interested in attending vote for it. If you have a new suggestion that isn’t up for voting please email me directly at ray@startupweekend.com and I’ll get it up for votes.
Speaking of emailing me directly I’d love to hear what you are thinking about Startup Weekend. I will always reply to your messages and am very open to new ideas, concepts, and even just a good chat at any time. Again the email address is ray@startupweekend.com.
I’m going to be streamlining the process of information dissemination coming out of our weekends so that those of you startup enthusiasts and Startup Weekend fans can get a nearly first-person experience online if you can’t make it to a particular Startup Weekend. I’ll be posting more information on the exact details over the upcoming weeks but I promise you that it’ll be rockin’.
Startup Weekend is an amazing event for building community, finding co-founders and finding a challenge for yourself. The new format has proven itself to be a powerful change and I have every intention on continuing the success that we found it had at Boulder this year. The idea of allowing multiple groups, projects, and even companies is a powerful new format. Letting people decide at the event what they are doing, who they are doing it with, and how they will do it truly allows for some amazing new things to come out of the weekend.
To that end a complete overhaul of the Startup Weekend Founders Agreement is underway. No longer are weekends constrained to giving up equity to Startup Weekend nor are they detained on how they will divide equity up on companies and projects to whom they want… the group members will be able to determine the solution that will work best for them.
This is truly a powerful change because it allows the groups to determine how they want to go about forming a company, organization, or group. We are simply enabling them a place to finally work on new ideas, concepts, improve previous ideas, and gain insight on what startup life entails. I’ll explain these changes in the near future on an upcoming post.
Also I am proud to announce we have launched a new web based community for people from previous weekends, current weekends, and future weekends to meet, speak, plan and more. I’m really excited about this because it will finally give like-minded people a place to speak, and it will help make the planning and execution of the weekends easier for those involved. Not to mention how it’ll be a great direct line for me to get in touch with people who have ideas on where Startup Weekend should be going. If you have ideas for categories you’d like to see added please suggest them on the new community.
I’ve got plenty of ideas where we can take Startup Weekend and with the suggestions of the community we hope to build out even more.
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I recently attended Startup Weekend in Bloomington, Indiana and was attending Boulder 2 in spirit because of various meetings that kept me away but it only took one Startup Weekend experience to get me hooked.
So hooked in fact that I’m taking on the position of Startup Weekend CEO.
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.
Founded in 2007 by Andrew Hyde, the weekend is a concept of a conference focusing on learning by creating. It is known for its quick decisions, ‘out of the box’ thinking, unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success in Boulder, Toronto, New York, Hamburg, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston, DC and more.
At the most recent Boulder II Startup Weekend Andrew tried successfully to launch a new format that involves even more launches per weekend, more dedicated teams, recruiting by already established companies, and even no requirement to incorporate a company at the end of the weekend.
The new format has been a stunning success and Andrew has once again proven his forward thinking will keep Startup Weekend ahead of the curve.
I promise that I’ll bring that same forward thinking, drive for success and determination to each and every Startup Weekend that we organize and evolve as the new CEO of Startup Weekend.
The format Startup Weekend is using works… and I’m not going to change that. The low price point works… and I’m not going to change that any time soon.
I’m merely going to build on the MASSIVE level of success that Andrew has had with Startup Weekend and be working WITH Andrew to continue the trend of Startup Weekend success.
Andrew isn’t going anywhere. He is merely rolling back his role as he pursues some new projects and ideas that I’m sure because of his revolutionary nature will be hearing about soon!
Startup Weekend is a unique and ever evolving idea and I hope that you will join me for the ride with even more upcoming weekends scheduled in great cities such as San Antonio, Portland, Memphis, Ann Arbor and more.
I also hope that you’ll join me in celebrating the great job Andrew is doing and offer him a much deserved congratulations on being a revolutionary startup enthusiast who has proved time and time again his ability to create, launch, manage and grow successful new ideas.
Thanks for the kind words via comments, tweets, and emails. I greatly appreciate it.
I will be posting soon about the future of Startup Weekend a plethora of new weekends that I can’t wait to tell you about and much, much more!
Keep Rockin!
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Who wants to steer the direction of Startup Weekend in 2008/2009?
It is time to pass on the torch to someone with a new energy to Startup Weekend. Please see the Startup Weekend CEO .pdf and get in touch.
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15 Weekends have come and gone with basically the exact same format.
It all started in Boulder, and it is only fitting that we try something new for the second weekend to come through this great city.
So now we launch the marketing term Startup Weekend 2.0 for our weekend. Startup Weekend is an amazing event for building community, finding cofounders and finding a challenge for yourself. Looking back over the past weekends there is a huge opportunity to build on our strengths by changing around the format.
The main changes are:
We are going to try this model out this weekend, and really listen to the community to see how it goes, at the Boulder Startup Weekend, taking place this Friday at 6pm in room S125 at the Leeds Business School building at the University of Colorado, Boulder. If you have not registered you can still get a ticket and see who is coming on the registration page.
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Ever since Startup Weekend Houston there has been talks about doing another weekend back in Texas. There is an amazing amount of drive and talent in the region, the perfect mix for a Startup Weekend.
The wait has been too long, but the San Antonio Startup Weekend will take place on May 16-18th. We will be hosted by the great folks at the San Antonio Technology Center.
You can buy your ticket ($40) here. The event schedule is something like this:
Friday at 6pm- 10pm
Saturday 9am-midnight
Sunday 9am-9pm
Hope to see you all there!
Jennifer Navarrete has done a fantastic job of setting up and getting they community together. If you want to help put everything together, drop a comment and we let you know what we need help with.
Thinking of flying in from out of town? Many are, you can leave a comment if you need a host or just want to meet some of the nice folk in Texas.
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About two months ago I was contacted by Harry Brown, requesting that Memphis be added to the list of Startup Weekend location possibilities. Memphis’s community motivated, and launched themselves to the top of the list. Memphis, (a place known for it’s BBQ and tradition, and not necessarily their tech startup talent) has really impressed me in how their community got together.We talked about location, and Harry introduced me to Eric Mathews of Mercury Labs. I have heard great things about what Eric, and others are doing to accelerate the tech development in the area.
The Memphis Startup Weekend will be May 30- June 1 2008.
So, you can buy your ticket for the Memphis Startup Weekend here, and visit the event blog here.
Any questions? Leave them in the comments.
BBQ lovers, this is going to be a good one to fly into.
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Connect with other foudners:
The Startup Weekend LinkedIn Group (Brand New)
The Startup Weekend Facebook Group
This has not been a focus in the past, so the groups are still building.
Next week will be a big week for announcements for Startup Weekend.
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The original Boulder Startup Weekend started this whole project. It was in Boulder, late one night, that the idea was coined. Later, the idea was nudged into reality. And now 7 months later, after 15 Startup Weekend events around the world, it is time to come home.
The Boulder Startup Weekend II will take place March 21st-23rd at the CU . Tickets are on sale here for $40 and will be used to provide food, shirts, posters, music, streamers, pop rocks and soda.
This is from the first post of the Startup Weekend project:
“Create a startup in a weekend.
Simple eh? Let’s go.
Oh, you want more details?
In the Boulder/Denver mini Valley there is a sizable chunk of humble talent. Let’s get together, pick and idea and launch a startup around the idea in a weekend.”
So with that, I want to open the registration for the Boulder Startup Weekend II, which will be the first ’sequel’ of a city. Fitting for the city that inspired it all to be the first to repeat. Expectations are high, space is limited, sign up today.
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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:
Make sure to get tickets early, it will sell out.
Leave your questions in the comments!
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Folks that have gone above and beyond helping out with Startup Weekend.
