What is this?

Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance to get together and create something beautiful over one jam packed weekend. This will take place July 6-8th, 2007 in Boulder. Please grab the RSS feed, and follow along.

What is Startup Weekend?

Posted on Aug 07, 2007 @ 12:45 am in weekend

That is the most common question mailed to me by organizers. How do I explain it to others? Do you have a onesheet?

It is a simple concept with thousands of complexities. Here is what I tell people:

Startup Weekend is Jazz for Entrepreneurs.

It is what happens when you get brilliant people together, using their skills to build a company they want to work on. It is a crazy idea, that countless people can point out countless holes in (and countless people just don’t get), but for some reason, it just works.
I tried to get a friend of mine to move to Boulder, and it took this crazy idea to get him to come out. Jeff has some beautiful things to say about the weekend. He now has a new job, a new career and a great outlook on life.

The concept was born out of the great, and incredibly friendly and giving Boulder Tech community, which made me ask myself, “Can you dream?”

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