Experienced start-up weekenders: did you actually start a company afterwards?
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I have participated in 3 startup weekends. I never started a company with the projects that I worked on, but I never intended to start a company from a startup weekend project. The reason I go to startup weekends are to have fun and network with other like-minded individuals. The people that I met at the events have helped my business. I have seen some neat companies start from startup weekend like Zapier (called snapier at startup weekend), MedSocket, and Nudge.
Zapier co-founder here, we started it during the weekend and just kept it alive! ;-)
It is helpful to work with people you know and are comfortable with (because if you do keep it alive, you'll basically be married to them). Plus, it helps to have a real business under the hood (not that weekend hacks are bad, but they usually die almost immediately).
It is helpful to work with people you know and are comfortable with (because if you do keep it alive, you'll basically be married to them). Plus, it helps to have a real business under the hood (not that weekend hacks are bad, but they usually die almost immediately).
I was at a startup weekend that had 'hipmunk' and it seems to be doing well right now...:) wish I'd jumped on their group rather than the one I was on.
What/Where is start-up weekend? It sounds like something I'm interested in!!