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Why Startup Weekend is more fun than BarCamp

Posted on Jul 08, 2007 @ 08:56 am in weekend

BarCamp is great. I’ve been to 3 or 4 now, in different cities. It self organizes into 3-5 concurrent “sessions” where topics are discussed with like-minded geeks. You get stretched a little technically, and you learn. And of course you network. All good.

But it doesn’t go deep.

There’s nothing to bring people together like working on a project with clear goals. I’ve actually worked with 40 or so new people in two days. I’ve experienced how they think. And not just about the technology. I’ve worked with user experience folks, and learned a ton about how that stuff gets done. I’ve worked with legal to document a company structure in a day, working through the complex issues of having so many founders. I’ve learned a ton about configuration management (the sysadmin sits across the table from me). The same is true of about 5 other topics.

I’m going deep. And I’m doing it in parallel on multiple fronts. I just can’t get that at BarCamp.

Sure, it’s tiring. We’re all working more or less non-stop for 52 hours together. But I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Posted by david

One Response to “Why Startup Weekend is more fun than BarCamp”

1. robert Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 10:24 am

   so dave i guess this isnt a good time to pitch you my new vertical????????
   do i get founders stock for participating thru the blog.. ill assign it to the campaign…
   we need an alpha beta gamma sigma to log into by private email.. log in from outsiders perspective… to help debug… those of us who slept a cool 7 hrs might get a fresh look !!!
   11 hrs 38 minutes and we should vosnap the ceo’s hair cut and color as the inaguaral event .. all in the name of fun.. id like to be the first vosnap VICTIM,,, we need some visual of the beta please… or we will go back to looking for our new sticky note messages from our 234 closest friends

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