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By: Short Recap of StartupWeekend in Germany « StartupWeekend

Short Recap of StartupWeekend in Germany « StartupWeekend — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:41:03 +0000

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

By: Cem Basman

Cem Basman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:38:28 +0000

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

By: Jazz, Woodstock, or Barn Raising? « Birmingham Startup BLOG

Jazz, Woodstock, or Barn Raising? « Birmingham Startup BLOG — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:29:05 +0000

[...] 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? [...]

By: nick

nick — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:41:26 +0000

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…

By: Babu

Babu — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:50:07 +0000

Here’s the formula

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

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:52:53 +0000

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.