John McGovern · Start-up Weekend in Cleveland?

December 3rd, 2008

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, start-up enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.

Founded in 2007 by Andrew Hyde, the weekend is a concept of a conference focusing on learning by creating. It is known for its quick decisions, ‘out of the box’ thinking, unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success in Boulder, Toronto, New York, Hamburg, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston, DC and more.

Hellooooo…………Cleveland!

a mere 31 votes will put us in the top 5
doubling our current votes will put us ahead of Zincinnatti

Cast your vote for the CLV!!

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11 Responses to “Start-up Weekend in Cleveland?”

  1. Ed Morrison Says:
    December 4th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    John:

    This is how the R&R Hall idea started in Cleveland…an open poll (which Cleveland won after my brother and others organized an effort to promote voting in CLE).

    A little effort, and a new horizon could come into view. Thanks.

  2. john mcgovernq Says:
    December 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    since posting this 24 hours ago, the CLV has vaulted into the top 5!

    do your part, have some fun, forward the link to a friend and tell ‘em to vote for the CLV! (100 more votes gets us into the top 3)

  3. Joel Libava Says:
    December 4th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    This would be a great thing!
    Joel Libava

  4. Heidi Cool Says:
    December 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Just a few hundred to go to catch up with Austin!

  5. Carla Rautenberg Says:
    December 5th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    Wow. At last glance, Cleveland had 485 votes in the Start Up Weekend tally, up more by more than 200 just today, and second only to Austin. I sent an email about it to my friends and family and several have responded that they “voted.” Keep it up. Pass it on! This is great.

  6. john mcgovern Says:
    December 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Thanks to all the good folks on BFD, Facebook, and elsewhere, the CLV is now in the #2 spot, only a hundred votes from #1, Austin.

    In three days, we’ve tripled our vote numbers. What can we do in the next three days?!?

  7. Carla Rautenberg Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Cleveland needs just 62 votes to be #1 in the lineup for a StartUp Weekend right here on the North Coast. Do you have any friends or relatives who haven’t heard about this yet? How about enlightening them? (And they don’t have to be local. We got some votes from former Clevelanders now living in Costa Rica).

  8. brad Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Just sent this out to the NEOSA group on LinkedIn, hopefully a few will vote for Cleveland.

  9. brad Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    we just passed austin!

  10. Rick Pollack Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    FYI – Founder’s Cafe meets tomorrow (12/9) evening at 6:00 PM. http://www.founderscafe.net/

    Also, if there is this much interest, then I don’t know why it requires waiting on the official Startup Weekend event to happen. It just takes someone to organize one…

    (Don’t get me wrong…I voted for it…)

  11. Ed Morrison Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    Rick:

    The density of ties matters. We need more and more networked events to strengthen these networks. And I agree with you. There’s no reason to wait for anything.