Detroit Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend organization founder, Andrew Hyde gives some great examples of the kind of boost to businesses participation in Startup Weekend can provide.

This was originally posted on the Startup Weekend organization blog on January 19 by Andrew Hyde.

Today I was reading about two projects that have gone far beyond the weekend.

Paul Stamatiou, a blogger and recent college grad (congrats again!) has been posting quite a bit about moving fulltime on Skribit. He raised money in the surprisingly fantastic startup town of Atlanta.

Week 2 has (still) been a lot of playing catch-up and learning. While I have been involved with Ruby on Rails for the last year, I spent most of my time in the front-end/view playground. Now that I’m taking a more active development role, I have been spending equal amounts of time in the M, V and C of MVC. Most of my time is not spent thinking about the logic behind how some piece of code will work, but rather finding out the particulars of the syntax. It’s a lot of Googling and API reading (RoR API.com is great). I expect this will be much less of a time sink within a month.

Early on in the Startup Weekend project Paul wrote a piece that sent a great amount of traffic, and passionate supporters, to Startup Weekend.  We are forever thankful, and can’t wait to see where Skribit goes.

The second project that has recently received funding is Joe Metric, from the Columbus Startup Weekend.  They raise the capital from TechColumbus.