Come for the Ride…

Startup Weekend is now taking votes on which cities they should help build entrepreneurial communities for in 2008. The reason I’m saying that is because they did one heck of a job for Atlanta.

Before Startup Weekend, I had a hard time finding like-minded people around here. Even though we were probably all reading the same RSS feeds, keeping up with the same news and doing the same routine, there really weren’t any events that brought us together. (It was pretty lonely being a entrepreneur in Atlanta.) Let’s face it… entrepreneurs work till our last package of Ramen runs out and even then we’d choose working over self nourishment. Yeah… it’s pretty hard to get us off the computers unless there’s a great reason.

Luckily, Startup Weekend is that reason.

You know what they say: girls build their bond by sharing stories and guys build their bond by battling (working) together. With 60+ people and only 3 days, I didn’t personally get to meet everyone and learned what they do. However, by seeing where various people excelled and who stuck through the 3 day ordeal, the event has helped me establish a local network of peers that I can trust and go to for advice.

So if you missed out last year cause the event wasn’t near you, go vote for your city this year. Who knows, you may just meet your startup’s next co-founder there.

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