The Future of Startup Weekend
Saturday, April 19th, 2008One 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.
Popularity: 31% [?]
Tags: community, founders agreement, future, Startup Weekend
