New Model a Hit
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
We are now over halfway through Startup Weekend Boulder 2 (live blog is here) and here are my thoughts:
- The new format is a hit. The same passionate and in depth conversations are happening. Everyone is developing a new startup concept (with the goal of having the idea, model and prototype by the end of the weekend), or are walking around and tasting what a bunch of different startups are like.
- Because of this, progress is being made on current startups as well as creating new startups.
- Cofounders are meeting. The community is getting stronger. This is the main goal of the weekend, glad to see it working so well.
- We have quite a few students tagging along with startup veterans (I wish I could have done this while I was in school!).
- Reed Foehl came and played a 3 song acoustic set, and was a huge hit. This is one of the amazing musicians that SMTVmusic.com has provided to the weekend.
Laura and Tara are doing an amazing job with MediaCasters.tv, doing a very interesting experiment of using utterz, ustream, seesmic, blogtv, and twitter to give up to the minute updates and live video coverage of the event. I think they are doing an amazing job, you? Thank you to pulver.tv for sponsoring this aspect of the weekend!- Amazing guests including Jeff Pulver, Loic Le Meur, Guy Kawasaki to name a few video conference in (via the great BlogTV).
- Even the business guys are having a good time.
- Six people have flown or driven quite a distance to be here (one driving from Indiana)
- We were front page news for the two local daily papers. Fun to see a social media geek get something on an old media front page.
- The Weekend’s first lifecaster came in and started up some amazing conversation, which built up because there was interaction happening at home (contradicting my dislike of live video). It was very cool seeing the interaction of the at home community.
- The Startup Weekend sponsors, including Sun Microsystems, Lijit, AngelSoft, the Leeds School for Business, Citron Workspaces, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and Glaceau, have helped out in a really amazing way. Thank you sponsors!
Startup Weekend - Boulder 2 - Day 1 from Danny Holland on Vimeo.
It looks like there will be 8 substantial projects coming out of the weekend. I will write up a few of them tomorrow, when they launch (oh, no, did I just jinx it?).
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