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- on Dec, 8 2009
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Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend Startup Weekend Boston at the Microsoft NERD building in Cambridge. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the idea of a Startup Weekend, it’s pretty well described on the official site. Essentially, the idea of the weekend is to network, pitch ideas, establish teams, and build a company in 54 hours. On paper, it seems like a daunting concept, but everyone at the event was ready to rise to the challenge and hit the ground running. This is by no means a complete account of the event’s proceedings, for further reading I’d highly recommend taking a look at Scott Kirsner’s post on Boston.com
Friday
The event began with a few hours of networking greased by copious amounts of alcohol (which I did not partake in) and pizza (which I also did not partake in, as I knew I’d be eating horribly for the rest of the weekend anyway). I got to meet a lot of cool people, and from a personal perspective it really felt like I had a really easy time talking to everyone at the event. One of the networking issues that I still have to work on is being able to “work the room” better without rudely disengaging from conversations (to anyone I talked to, don’t take this as an insult, I just wanted to get to know as many people as possible. I had one horrible wrinkle though – I didn’t get my business cards to come in on time before the event, so I was left with nothing when people offered to trade cards with me (can we just get to the government implanted identify chips so I can just scan people I meet with my keychain?) Oh, and before I go any further, let me just say that every time I see the Microsoft NERD facility I am more and more impressed, that is an awesome event venue and I hope that more people choose to use that venue for any tech events here in Boston.
