Re: Dunedin Start Up Weekend March 22
Worik Stanton <[email protected]>
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On 02/02/13 03:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 12:20:41AM +1300, Carl Crawford wrote: >> Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that > >> Student Tickets: $49 with code "EARLYSTUDENT" . We will be checking >> ID at the door. >> Early Bird Ticket $75 Ends February 20th >> After February 20th $99 > > If it is non profit, why so expensive? > From the website, it may be a non-profit but it looks like the sort of organisation that exists to pay salaries and send people around the world. Does anyone have information that these people are actually doing anything useful? On the face of it (old, grey and cynical over here) they are basically a con. Raising people's expectations, taking their money and doing nothing we could not (and do not) do ourselves. Anyone? ====== http://dunedin.startupweekend.org/ Quote starts ======= Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback. ====== http://dunedin.startupweekend.org/ Quote stops ======= W -- Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/