In November I wrote about the first 8 Startup Weekends. Now is a good time to recap the last 5 since DC.
Chapel Hill (November 2-4) Attendance: 49
Company Created: WorkPerch http://workperch.com/ What is it? Workperch is a referral service that connects people who need work space with businesses that have space available.
Status: Private Alpha
Atlanta (November 9-11) Attendance: 82
Company Created: Skribit http://skribit.com/ What is it? Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.
Status: Private Beta (see it in action on the right sidebar of this blog)
San Francisco (November 16-18) Attendance: 134
Company Created: HelpHookup http://helphookup.com/ What is it? Show your good side and let the world know you care. Add our badge to your Facebook profile and we’ll let you know when volunteer opportunities are available in your area.
Status: Alpha
London (November 30- Dec 2) Attendance: 43
Company Created: aLittleBitBetter http://www.alittlebitbetter.co.uk/ What is it? A Little Bit Better is a portal featuring ethical reviews of consumer products.
Status: Alpha
Los Angeles (December 14-16) Attendance: 72
Company Created: SocialMixr and Frenemies http://socialmixr.com/ http://www.frenemiesgame.com/ What is it? Frenemies is a Facebook game where you play your friends in your quest to become the most popular. Help your friends today. Stab them in the back tomorrow. SocialMixr is the parent company, looking to build more games for the casual gaming field.
Status: Alpha, scheduled to launch on the 31st
I am really enjoying using Skribit on the sidebar of the blog (built during SW Atlanta). Someone suggested ‘Reasons for Attending’ as a topic for me to write about, and I think this would be a good chance for a nice concise list.
3. Meet brilliant, amazing, motivated people. Find people that you know can work hard, finish projects and work well with an unknown landscape. Find a cofounder.
5. When is the last time you had a challenge such as launching a company in 54 hours with 100 or so strangers? When is the last time you saw your company on the front page?
6. Grow as a person and as a professional, see different parts of a company, feel free to join different groups and learn by doing.
One of the top Skribit suggestions for this humble blog to write about has been “Collaboration” or more specifically how founders work at the end of the weekend.
Simply enough, email and basecamp are the two main tools founders use for planning. Most weekends leave the weekend with a core team managing the project, and these teams usually set up a list to communicate. Some weekends have an ‘everybody pitch in’ ending to the weekend, which results in a much high volume of communication between members of the group. Interestingly enough, one weekend used a Facebook group to communicate.
There are a lot of offline meetings as well as the teams move forward with their companies.
If you have not signed up for Skribit yet, do yourself a favor and sign up today!
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