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The Columbus Dispatch - Weekend Aims to Nurture Big Ideas
TechColumbus, a tech- business incubator, will host an event called Startup Weekend July 18-20. Although the weekend focuses on a product or company, organizers say it’s the networking, not necessarily the outcome, that is paramount.
CNBC Coverage of RTP Startup Weekend
LocalTechWire - RTP Startup Weekend Produces Not One But Four New Venture
RTP Startup Weekend began Friday evening with the goal of creating a company in just one weekend. By Sunday night when an exhausted but exuberant group left for home, four companies had been created with web sites and promo videos online.
LocalTechWire - RTP Startup Weekend Promises ‘Pure Entrepreneurial Adrenaline’
Over a 54-hour time frame, organizers and participants will argue, debate, think outside of any box they already work in, and invest a lot of sweat equity in creating a new venture.
The News & Observer - RTP Startups Get Their 15 Seconds
NBC is scheduled to air stories about Startup Weekend cross its portfolio of channels, beginning this morning. NBC sent a crew to Raleigh last weekend to follow RTP Start-up Weekend, a program that helps entrepreneurs conceive and birth businesses in 54 hours.
TechJournal South - Scavenja Keeps Online Games Going After Weekend Startup Event
Scavenja, a photo-based scavenger hunt with prizes, for instance, has already started a new game online and will be looking for funding.
TechJournal South - RTP Startup Weekend Launches Four Web Businesses
About 50 regional entrepreneurs banged around ideas and code for 54 hours under the watchful eyes of NBC/CNBC cameras at Startup Weekend in Raleigh from Friday through Sunday, and launched four new Web-based companies.
DynamIt - DynamIt Sponsors Startup Weekend Columbus
What is most important about these weekends is not the product, but the benefits that such a program can contribute to the community. Startup Weekend is, and always will be, a community-driven experiment that expands and enhances connections.
The Raleigh Connoisseur - RTP Startup Weekend In Downtown Raleigh
Edge Office in Glenwood South will play host to the event that takes place July 11-13th. The goal of the weekend is to create a company or two (or three) in this short range of time by throwing together people with different talents.
Connect Ann Arbor - Startup Weekend Ann Arbor, June 20-22
There is something big coming to Ann Arbor on June 20. Startup Weekend is an event where you form a company in one weekend. You come up with the idea, you name it, your file paperwork, and you get crackin on creating something wonderful.
The Ann Arbor News - Startup Weekend to bring entrepreneurs together in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Startup Weekend begins June 20th. So far, 32 people have signed up and have backgrounds in Web development, business management, financial planning and marketing.
The Daily News - Startup Weekend To Reconvene in Aug.
About 100 Memphis professionals from a variety of fields met this past weekend for the Startup Weekend Memphis event to develop a company and Spynnr was the result. The group plans to meet again Aug. 7.
Great Lakes IT Report - Ann Arbor Startup Weekend To Launch 10-12 New Firms
The Ann Arbor Startup Weekend will gather 100 bright, talented people from the region to develop and launch 10-12 companies in a single marathon weekend. Organizers say the event is as much about building a startup-friendly community as it is about building companies.
Silicon Florist - Portland Startup Weekend: Five startup projects launched in 54 hours
The group that gathered for Portland Startup Weekend managed to launch five startup projects: Get Gathered, Life Grant, Mugasha, Startup River, and TreasuRecycle. What did you do this past weekend?
Memphis Business Journal - Memphis Startup Weekend a go for May 30
100 technology entrepreneurs will meet in Memphis May 30-June 1 for the city’s first Startup Weekend. By the end of the weekend, a viable business will be built, a management team will be appointed and each participant will own a piece of the company.
Commercial Appeal - LaunchMemphis Events Will Build Up Ties Among Entrepreneurs
The highlight of the LaunchMemphis series is Startup Weekend, where dozens of people are scheduled to gather at the FedEx Institute of Technology to create a real company in 54 hours.
Download Squad - Can you create a successful internet startup in 3 days?
Some internet startups take months or years of planning. Others can be put together in just a matter of days with a good idea and a little pluck. In July a group of 70 people got together in Boulder, Colorado to vote on ideas that had been proposed.
Inside INdiana Business - Bloomington Home to Startup Weekend
For three days in early February, people will gather at City Hall at Showers in downtown Bloomington to create a new startup business from scratch. The founders will share in the ownership of the company, earning those shares by contributing to the conception, development and launch of a new product or service.
dBusinessNews - Bloomington Entrepreneurs Plan to Create New Company in 54 Hours!
The Bloomington Startup Weekend taking place early this February will mark the fifteenth Startup Weekend event since its creation in July 2007. A projected 70 people will gather at City Hall in downtown Bloomington to create a new startup business from scratch.
Silicon Alley Insider - NYC Startup Weekend Starts Tonight
At least 120 people are already signed up for the event that takes place this weekend at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. Can a group of New York techies build a startup in three days?
Tech Crunch - Startup Weekend’s Most Recent Startup: Skribit
Andrew Hyde’s Startup Weekend… has been busy. The company goes from city to city, organizes developers to spend a long weekend deciding on a new business idea and then building it. Everyone who shows up is a founder, and everyone has equal equity in the new thing, whatever it ends up being.
Washington Post - Building a Community, Byte by Byte
Part social experiment, part Internet venture, Startup Weekend DC is the eighth event of its kind to be hosted across the country, as well as in parts of Europe. Web consultant Andrew Hyde of Boulder, Colo., dreamed up the idea in July when he decided to bring his friends together for a spontaneous project. Word spread through blogs, bringing in dozens of participants beyond his circle of friends. Since then, techies around the world have asked Hyde to stage the weekend event in their cities.
The Boston Globe - 3 days to reality
Some people spend their free time doing yard work or running marathons. Hard-core technology entrepreneurs are a whole different breed of weekend warrior.
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