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Bootstrapper Resources
by Shawn Hessinger on October 11, 2007

travis Northcutt at flatworldblog and also a contributor on PostRanger.com's Globilization stream, writes this great post about Startup Weekend, a global craze that sticks entrepreneurial types together in a room for a couple of days to see what they come up with.
Weekends have already occurred in: Boulder, CO; New York City; Hamburg, Germany; Toronto, Canada; Houston, TX.
Products emerging from these events so far include: VoSnap, Favoreats, LobbyThem and TipDish.
The process calls to mind the 48 hour film festival where teams get together to create an independent film in a weekend.
Admittedly there's nothing about a startup weekend that makes it by definition a bootstrapping effort.
In the case of the Hamburg, Germany weekend, just 250 Euros ended up funding the project so there's no need to necessarily bring your favorite angel or VC along.
However, the ability to launch a venture immediately without the months or even years of preparation associated with traditional startup and certainly without benefit of a detailed business plan, is at the heart of the bootstrapping process.
Perhaps a bootstrap weekend is in order. Want to sponsor one? Let me know.
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Response from:
Travis
(10/11/07 3:04pm)
Shawn, thanks for the mention! There's a weekend planned for Austin, TX which is close to me, so I'm going to be looking into that. I'll keep you updated if I get involved in some manner.
Response from:
Gwen Bell
(10/17/07 12:46pm)
Great review of Startup Weekend! We're definitely bootstrapping. Sponsors have been generous for many of the weekends and that has allowed us to cover food and basic things for participants.
Cost to participants? $0. But what you get out of it is really about what you bring to the table. Boston is this weekend and it's going to be huge!
Cost to participants? $0. But what you get out of it is really about what you bring to the table. Boston is this weekend and it's going to be huge!
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