Posted March 18, 200817 yr Both Cincy and Cbus are high on the list right now for a Startup Weekend. Go and vote for your Ohio representatives! http://startupweekend.com/cityvote/ About Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of small business entrepreneurs to build a community and company in a weekend. The founders decide what to make as a team, and earn an equal share of stock in the developed business. Attendees are responsible for bringing the desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with a brand new business, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is. Founded in 2007 by Andrew Hyde, the weekend is a concept of a conference focusing on learning by creating. It is known for its quick decisions, ‘out of the box’ thinking, unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success in Boulder, Toronto, New York, Hamburg, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston and DC and is expanding to 10 other cities. These cities include San Francisco, Boston, DC, Atlanta, London, Dublin, West Lafayette, Chapel Hill, Austin, Portland, and Seattle with more cities signing up weekly. The Boulder Startup Weekend Blog and Boston Startup Weekend Blog are great resource to see what a weekend looks like in action.
March 18, 200817 yr FAQ What is Startup Weekend? Startup Weekend is a intense event bringing together brilliant tech minds together to create a company from concept to launch over a weekend! What is the weekend like? The weekend is fun, and intense! It starts Friday at 6pm and finishes up Sunday at midnight, the hours in between are up to the community. When are you coming to {mycity}? As will almost everything with Startup Weekend is decided by the community. Cities are added to the schedule with the City Vote Project. If your city is not there email info {at} startupweekend.com and we will do our best to add it. Who is the CEO of the weekend? No CEO, or really any other titles are present at Startup Weekend events. It is a short timeframe, way to short too be worried about standing or management. There is a facilitator, and natural leaders emerge. How did it Start? One night at dinner, two entrepreneur friends Danny Newman and Stan James discussed how they missed collaborating on projects with others now they were working on bigger projects, later David Cohen and Joe Scharf pushed founder Andrew Hyde to take the concept into reality. Who Runs Startup Weekend? Startup Weekend LLC is run by Andrew Hyde, an entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado. Every weekend has a facilitator that is approved by Startup Weekend, LLC. Is Startup Weekend a Company? Yes, Startup Weekend is a startup in its own. The company and Trademark are used to make sure the quality of each Startup Weekend. Can I sponsor the Weekend? Yes you can, in two ways. You can be a local sponsor for one weekend or a national sponsor for all the weekends. Email andrew {at} startupweekend.com to discuss. What type of Company is Created? Each weekend has it’s own legal team who will look for the best way to incorporate the company. The most common structure looks like this: The founders from the weekend own 100% of an LLC that owns 50% of a S-Corp. There are one or three managers of the LLC and S-Corp. http://startupweekend.com/faq/
December 8, 200816 yr Cleveland is slightly ahead of Austin for first place right now. http://startupweekend.com/cityvote/
December 9, 200816 yr I didn't realize there was another one of these already. It's good to see two Ohio cities at the top of the list again. As of right now Cleveland is #1 and Cincinnati is #4.
January 1, 200916 yr Cleveland won the city vote: http://techczar.blog.com/4441449/ :clap: :clap: :clap:
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