Startup Weekend

Local Seattle startup Gist announced today that they are acquiring the Startup Weekend app “Learn That Name.” The idea was pitched last August in Redmond by Eric Koester a local lawyer firm Cooley Godward Kronish.
See the article in TechCrunch.
There will be a live demo of the new feature within Gist at Seattle Startup Weekend this weekend by [...]

This is an update on Submate from Startup Weekend Paris by Laurent Kretz
The semi-marathon of Paris happened yesterday – congrats to all finalists, especially for running by 0 degrees!!
This post is not about this run, but the SubMate semi-marathon instead. It’s Monday March 8, and we’re finally catching sight of the finish line. A semi-marathon, [...]

Startup Weekend OKC is right around the corner.  We have an amazing group of Mentors to help our teams take their ideas to the next level.  We also have a great group of Sponsors that are so excited to see what comes out of OKC in the first weekend of March.
For a rundown of what [...]

Startup Weekend is excited to announce we are going to put the Startup Weekend model into application in a totally new way in Haiti in an effort to help inspire and support entrepreneurial efforts as a solution to the devastating aftermath of the earthquake.
The idea began in a conversation about what people like us could do to help in [...]

The Startup Weekend Atlanta team Michael Ivey and Don Brown launched TwitPay back in 2007, and today it just sold for $100k to an investor who will be putting at least $1 million more into product development. The service seems to be turning towards helping non-profits do their fundraising… Maybe we should be using them!
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I want to touch on the future direction of Startup Weekend but first here is a little background on it’s evolution.  Andrew Hyde launched Startup Weekend in June of 2007 and held the first event in Boulder, CO.  At that point in time Startup Weekend was structured as a Colorado LLC where attendees would gather [...]

We like to get involved in various startup activities from time to time, and we like to invite the Startup Weekend community to take advantage of them too.
Marc and Clint from Startup Weekend will be flying out the end of Jan. for the Azure BizSpark Camp in NYC at the MS office in Manhattan. This [...]

It’s our mission to keep improving… obviously the best way to do that is to respond to what the community wants to see.
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Come join us on January 25th at Cyclops beginning at 6pm for to talk about the upcoming Seattle Startup Weekend event.  We have our sights set on March 19-21 Seattle Startup Weekend 4.  We want to get everyone involved that is interested in being part of the event and want your feedback to keep making [...]

Want to see some of the most successful past companies that started at Startup Weekend events? Check out http://startupweekend.org/past-companies/