Starting a Company in 2.5 Days
February 8, 2008 by Nick
Filed under Business, Making Money, Motivation
I’ve been feeling more and more entrepreneurial lately, and with that feeling of excitement and exploration normally comes some sort of opportunity. Reading the local newspaper last week my wife saw that our city was holding a “startup weekend” and encouraged me to join. So, without skipping a beat I ran upstairs and signed up for the Startup event.
“What is Startup Weekend you ask? Startup Weekend is a intense 54 hour event bringing together brilliant tech minds (developers, designers, marketers, ect.) together to create a company from concept to launch!”
So, this weekend will be VERY exciting and very busy. There’s an online community that is abuzz with ideas and chatter about what we will be founding and building this weekend. Anything is possible; there will be 99 others with me with skill sets ranging from programmers to legal aid, cooks to user experience, we will all be working hard to create a stellar idea and launch it by Sunday night.
I’m in one of the bigger groups, the user experience group. Together with about 20 others, we will come up with a solid design concept, user interaction components, usability innovations and anything else that we can imagine to make our idea pop.
Past Startup Weekends have started the following companies:
- Skribit: “Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.”
- VoSnap.com: “It’s group voting…in a snap! Ask questions and get answers fast using text messages and emails. With vosnap, it’s decided.”
- Favoreats.com: “Favoreats is a great way to share local food recommendations with your friends. Simply put, it helps you find the best dish in town.”
- TipDish.com: “TipDish is a social media directory and wire service that is designed to connect influencers. With this service, leaders in social media including bloggers, podcasters and videocasters (Dishers) receive the latest news, information, products and info from companies, organizations, PR and Marketing Professionals (Tippers).”
- ScrollTalk: “Scrolltalk is a new take on chat. We like to think of it as Interest Messaging. It cuts through the noise of regular chat rooms and allows you to engage in relevant conversations. Your conversations are ever evolving, and move in a direction that suits you.”
And more! I’m excited to be part of this event and am looking forward to starting something up from scratch. I hope that the 99 others will be at their most creative this weekend! I’ll tell you all more about it…on Monday! 
Have a great weekend, I know I will!