Startup Weekend is Coming to Town!
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Startup Weekend is a great event focused around the core skills of entrepreneurship. From concept through design and presentation, the weekend teaches core skills to help you understand how to launch a business. The bonus of the weekend is that you will actually launch a business!!
Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.
The event is hosted at different cities around the world. Here is an expample of the coming “Global Battle”
First Weekend – November 12-14, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
Boston, MA
Cleveland, IL
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Detroit, MI
Indianapolis, IN
New York, NY
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Sofia, Bulgaria
Tulsa, OK
Second Weekend – November 19-21, 2010
Athens, Greece
Bay Area, CA
Chihuahua, Mexico
Columbus, OH
Iceland
Lexington, KY
Miami, FL – Sponsored by ActiveFilings.com
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tokyo, Japan
Twin Cities, MN
Washington DC
The weekend has been an amazing place for people to create their dreams and find others to support their ventures.
- Software Programmers
- Graphics Designers
- Entrepreneurs
- Marketing Professionals
There have been a series of articles in Forbes magazine outlining these opportunities from the groups TechStars and Y Combinator. Here is one great example of entrepreneurship 101. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-ask-an-expert.html
Join the Global Battle in Miami; For registration to StartupWeekend click here: http://miami.startupweekend.org
Participants to the Glabal Battle in Miami will have full support of ActiveFilings’ staff to help them to incorporate their business.