Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th

Re:Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th by TristanKromer on Monday April 11, 2011 @02:45PM (#2433763)

I've been to two and it was a positive enough experience for me to not only endorse it, but I'm helping to organize it. It's a great way to meet potential co-founders, kick the tires on an idea, and get the general feeling for whether or not startup life is for you.

To be fair, I will say that my first team imploded, fragmented, and I wound up dropping out from disappointment. But that in and of itself was a true to life startup experience that I learned a lot from in terms of people skills and well worth the ticket price.

That said...you can use TRIKRO as a discount code for 25% off.

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Re:Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th by timrosenblatt on Monday April 11, 2011 @03:00PM (#2433848)

I realize in my previous reply, I had a typo: "making hard decisions with the a team".

I meant to type "making hard decisions with the A-Team", because Startup Weekend is so awesome, even Bosco is going to want to invest.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re:Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th by TristanKromer on Monday April 11, 2011 @03:14PM (#2433918)

I pity the fool.

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Re:Startup Weekend in San Jose April 15th by timrosenblatt on Monday April 11, 2011 @02:57PM (#2433832)

Totally agreed. A failed startup is definitely worth the time spent. You get to learn about the industry you're attacking, you get to learn about making hard decisions with the a team (and how to pick future partners, which is highly underrated), and you get to learn about all the extra things that it takes to launch a company beyond "come up with idea for thing; make thing". Plus, it's surprising how often things created during the first version of a startup can be reused in a next version.

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