Just over 48 hours ago 72 people came together in Boulder Colorado to see if they could come up with a business idea and launch by midnight Sunday. We started Friday night with a handful of ideas . . . winnowed the list down to the top 3 favorites . . . and picked one to run with. Here’s the result:
The process of working on a business with 70 people in such a short period of time was amazing. I’ll put up some of the notes I took throughout the weekend in a post tomorrow but you can see a running tally of the experience at www.startupweekend.com . This was entrepreneurship on steroids and was as much about the social experiment of starting a business as it was about the idea itself (something lost on many of the comment authors on our TechCrunch posting , but not lost on anyone who actually participated).
Check out what we accomplished, but know that this is just the tip of the iceberg…