StartupWeekend
July 8th, 2007 | Published in Uncategorized | 6 Comments
Yesterday I attended my first day at StartupWeekend - What a BLAST! This morning I’m exhausted and dragging a bit - so I might not make it up to Boulder until 11 - but I’ll definitely be there.
Here’s a quick recap of events:
- Friday Night - 68 People gathered in Boulder, CO to pitch ideas and vote on exactly what our newly formed company would do. Folks were broken into teams depending on skill and preference. The teams include: creative, development, promotions, Business/SEO, Legal, UI, & User Experience.
- Saturday - work starts on VoSnap. Legal drafts operating agreements, the company is incorporated (as an LLC/C-Corp). Logos are designed, development charges full speed ahead, and promotions starts the buzz (there’s even been mention that VoSnap is in negotiations with an undisclosed investor - and the number 40million keeps popping up. Could VoSnap be hiring soon?)
- We have streaming video on UStream - but rather sketchy internet in the offices - with connections going up and down - but we make the very best of it.
- We make TechCrunch!
- We get really close to a working alpha prototype (we could already be there - I left around 11 PM).
- I got to meet some of the most talented and amazing folks on the planet - I’m coming up with a list to share
All and all, I can’t wait to get back to StartupWeekend. A special thank you to Andrew Hyde for inviting me - and for telling me I helped to inspire this amazing endeavor!
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Erica O'Grady is a New Media and Loyalty Marketing Specialist based in Houston Texas. Her turn ons are: Community Building, Design, BarCamp, and Twitter. Her turn offs are: Trolls, Spammers, and Folks who "Just Don't Get It". 
July 8th, 2007 at 11:36 am (#)
Erica, it’s no surprise to me that you would’ve helped inspire something like this. You ROCK! Keep up all of the incredible work that you do.
July 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm (#)
Hey Erica, awesome job there
I can’t believe the TechCrunch community, instead of encouraging you guys they are giving reasons why this won’t work or why it’s not siginificant, looks like its digg 2.0
July 8th, 2007 at 7:05 pm (#)
hey erica, that sounds awesome! I love ideas like this. can’t wait to see the final product
July 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am (#)
Hi Erica
What a great idea! I had such fun watching the development over the weekend but was sad the product didn’t launch in time. I would love to see something like this develop in Houston.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:37 am (#)
[...] It was also with great interest that I followed one of the latest projects that she has been involved in, called StartupWeekend, which was the reason why I decided to write this post in the first place. StartupWeekend was an effort by approx. 70 people passionate about technology, including developers and veterans from other startups in the Denver area to completely create a Web 2.0 company in one weekend from scratch, including everything from working product, to legal, marketing, and everything else. According to her blog site, Erica helped to inspire the concept and you can see her listed as one of the founders on the StartupWeekend web site. The final outcome of the exercise was that the group came really close to realizing their goal and I think that anyone who is considering a startup would do well to checkout their blog and comments and understand more about all of the lessons learned. In the meantime, we are anxiously awaiting the launch of their product VoSnap.com and what future adventures Erica will lead us on in the world of Web 2.0. [...]
September 30th, 2007 at 12:33 pm (#)
[...] According to her blog site, Erica helped to inspire the concept and you can see her listed as one of the founders on the StartupWeekend web site. The final outcome of the exercise was that the group came really close to realizing their goal and I think that anyone who is considering a startup would do well to checkout their blog and comments and understand more about all of the lessons learned. In the meantime, we are anxiously awaiting the launch of their product VoSnap.com and what future adventures Erica will lead us on in the world of Web 2.0. [...]