
Bloomington Startup Weekend
By Noah (news, technology)
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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LifeStream
- September 2nd
- 9:00 pm How I automatically email my family photos every day - http://bit.ly/b6rlp4
- 6:25 pm RT @WestCoastTacos: So today at #IUPUI, the Hot Dog Lady called the Health Department on us.Good thing we follow all rules.We passed the surprise inspection!
- 6:14 pm Devs VS Marketing! RT @chris_c_lucas: Ping Pong Table @Formstack office is not even 5 minutes old and #Trashtalk has already started. Nice!
- 2:19 pm Hook in to the power of FlowTown with @Formstack WebHooks http://bit.ly/9175we
- 1:01 pm Email your family flickr photos automatically - http://noahcoffey.com/L4
- 1:01 pm Email your family flickr photos automatically
- 1:43 am RT @taptivate: We still have four more iPhone 4's to give away! Be sure to enter and tell all of your friends: http://bit.ly/bP6A7X
- September 1st
- 10:26 pm

- 7:53 pm RT @gopsig: Startup looking for funding or co-founder? Programmer/designer looking to join a startup? Come pitch at @thecombineorg http://ow.ly/2y7OG
- 6:44 pm HugeTweets.com, I release you back to the wild. Godspeed.
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