Have you ever wondered what a group of highly talented and motivated people could accomplish in a weekend? Could they start a company from concept to completion?
Startup Weekend answers that question and more. A unique three-day experience, Startup Weekend brings the best and brightest people together in a local office space to select the concept, break into teams, and develop the product, marketing and revenue model.
Bloomington Startup Weekend is coming February 8th - 10th!
…and I’ve got a golden ticket! Well, it isn’t golden, but it feels golden! I am incredibly psyched up about this unique experience. Probably because I only found out about it a few days ago and signed-up almost immediately, and realize that the last thing I can afford to give up is an entire weekend of not working my side business. But, for some reason, this is making me just crave the experience more.
In all honesty, some of the execution that has come out of past Startup Weekends have left me a bit underwhelmed. I’m sure I’ll change my tune a bit after having gone through the experience. I just had hoped to look back at previous events and seen bigger, more financially viable ideas. I understand it is only a weekend, but if 75+ great minds can develop an amazingly great idea, and crank out a rough, working prototype in 3 days, and emerge with a core group of determined individuals to push the company forward over the next 6 months, I think it has great promise. Alternatively, trying to crank out a finished, polished product in 3 days kinda forces you to set your sights a bit lower. So, I hope at the Bloomington event we can aim high and leave with (at least) half a product instead of a half-assed product.
If you are in driving distance and are so inclined, I highly recommend joining me in a couple weeks at what should be a very memorable event. Look for live updates and likely some streaming video on this blog during the marathon weekend.
I’m very pleased to say that Smaller Indiana is one of the local sponsors of the event!
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- November 26th
- 12:07 pm @bnpositive Ha, yes, a compliment. I'm at the day job working on an actual fun project for a sales convention (read: pictures of beaches) (via Twitter)
- 11:57 am @bnpositive I think it's mostly due to your very accurate twitter avatar. It just makes you want to click "follow." (via Twitter)
- November 25th
- 10:26 pm @Phaedrus Wouldn't dream of it. I'm gonna miss this show, always makes me tense watching it. (via Twitter)
- 10:01 pm I can't even spell SHIELD I'm so excited! (via Twitter)
- 10:00 pm Freakin' THE SHEILD FINALE is on!!! Pause life! Pause life! (via Twitter)
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- November 24th
- 10:35 pm
- 6:24 pm #magpie Corduroy is a super web-based billing system - http://corduroysite.com (via Twitter)
- 1:48 pm
- 10:18 am @indystartup Submit & vote on pre-weekend ideas for the upcoming Indianapolis Startup Weekend: http://is.gd/8Npj (via Twitter)
- November 23rd
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- November 21st
- 4:43 pm @douglaskarr what tweet-to-ad ration did you set for yourself? (via Twitter)
- 4:32 pm @bnpositive Yeah, but Google Apps is one of the few Google products with an upgrade path that leads to a pay-for service. (via Twitter)
- 2:07 pm Live TweetFeed of Hubspot webinar about Facebook #hubspot http://snurl.com/6907l (via Twitter)
- 2:03 pm Thank you, Twitter, for telling me about a webinar today that is relevant to my interests :D (via Twitter)
- November 19th
- 9:18 am I love it when one of the many IT dept. 'teams' tells me something isn't their job, that it's another team's. Are we living in caves? (via Twitter)
- November 17th
- 1:38 pm Am I the only one that sees the conflict with distributing 100,000 printed copies of a "green businesses" phonebook? http://snurl.com/5pyeg (via Twitter)
- November 12th
- 9:31 am Has anyone used or heard good/bad things about WorkEtc.com? (via Twitter)
- November 11th
- 4:00 pm After yesterday's 24 hr downtime of one of my employer's websites, I've now prominently displayed the Fail Whale in my cube in quiet protest (via Twitter)
- November 8th
- 4:41 pm
- 12:29 am watching the best movie ever with @hoosierplew: Army of Darkness (via Twitter)
- November 7th
- 6:07 pm
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- 4:56 pm @bnpositive That is utterly stupid. Right, not everybody celebrates Christmas... but YOU do (it's HIS card!) (via Twitter)
- November 5th
- 1:58 pm I continue to be famous ;) Pics I uploaded to CNN from Tue got me mentioned towards the bottom of this CNN article: http://snurl.com/55b20 (via Twitter)
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- 11:03 pm @Hockeyskates as long as I can pick. Last thing I want is to be flipping channels and suddenly Wolf Blitzer is standing in my living room. (via Twitter)
- 11:00 pm CNN projects Obama wins (via Twitter)
- 10:02 pm Wolf Blitzer just told us that the red states are for McCain and the blue states are for Obama... (via Twitter)
- 9:44 pm CNN just said they can't see how McCain will win, but please keep voting. Does the news learn nothing? (via Twitter)
- 6:26 pm CNN bustin out the futuristic 3D graphics (via Twitter)
- 5:12 pm Polls close in 49 minutes! Start drinkin' everybody!! (via Twitter)
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- 8:00 am How do I always manage to screw up links... here it is: http://snurl.com/52ru5 (via Twitter)
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- 7:49 am
- 7:05 am track hoosierplew (via Twitter)
- 6:37 am Just voted! Only waited in line for 45 minutes (10 was before poll opened) (via Twitter)
- 6:06 am waiting in line to vote... (via Twitter)
- November 3rd
- 3:10 pm Trent Reznor just urged me to vote. (via Twitter)
- 2:13 pm @mrnoobie Free star-shaped donut from Krispy Kreme for voting, as well. God Bless America ;) (via Twitter)
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