Startup Weekend Boulder

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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6 Responses to “What is Startup Weekend?”

1. Erica Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 2:52 am

   Amen - Well said my friend! Naysayers will come and go - don’t let that stop you. This idea has helped to transform my life and given me confidence that I didn’t even know I had. And that’s a pretty profound success if you ask me.

2. Babu Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 3:50 pm

   Here’s the formula

   Startup Weekend = ((i)People * (i)Passion) * 2 days = (i)Company

3. nick Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

   Thanks for the link. Like I said in my post, I think what you created here is visionary. The first steps to anything new are always the hardest ones to take.

   I look forward to hearing how the other weekends go…

4. Jazz, Woodstock, or Barn Raising? « Birmingham Startup BLOG Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 am

   [...] September 22nd, 2007 Andrew Hyde of the StartupWeekend crew calls his idea “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.” - from What is Startup Weekend? [...]

5. Cem Basman Says:
   October 3rd, 2007 at 3:38 am

   Hi, I’m Cem Basman the initiator of Startupweekend Germany. I wrote a short recap of Startupweekend Hamburg for you all. Pls link and forward it as you like:

   http://startupweekend.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/short-recap-of-startupweekend-in-germany/

   Btw, I love the sentence: “Startup Weekend is Jazz for Entrepreneurs.” !!!

   My best wishes to you all over there!
   Cem

6. Short Recap of StartupWeekend in Germany « StartupWeekend Says:
   October 3rd, 2007 at 3:41 am

   [...] Btw, Btw, What is Startup Weekend? I love the answer from Boulder, Colorado: Startup Weekend is Jazz for Entrepreneurs!! [...]

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