Startup Weekend NYC

The event will be held at Polytechnic University, 5 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn, NY 11201.  Starts tonight at 6pm.

The deadline for ideas to be submitted to the forum is 10am Friday morning.

If you don’t get your idea in by 10am, there will be a time of the night for 30 second pitches, but the chances of getting picked are much smaller.

After 10am the ideas will be voted on (you will be emailed if you are a founder).  The top 10 will be compiled, and certain founders will be asked to provide some reasearch on the idea (competition, feasibility, ect.).

Tshirts will be on sale Friday night, American Apparel 72 in stock. Design by Ricky Ferrer (NYC Founder).

If you are attending the weekend, make sure your name is in the “Have Tickets” on the right hand side.  If you are not there, or would like to be linked to another site, email blogroll@startupweekend.com.

We have over 15 great business ideas in the Founder only forum, but if anyone not attending the weekend wants to see an idea thrown into the ring for the weekend, leave it as a comment on this post!

A poster was sent to me from Boulder Startup Weekend Founder Anthony Dimitre

(I love the community and passion Startup Weekend instills in the participants).

Just a few days away from the event!

Make sure you have signed up for a ticket for the weekend. We are nearing capacity.

We had a great time in Toronto, and can’t wait for our weekend in the big city.

The opprotunity to sponsor a meal at the weekend is a huge opprotunity, please email me at andrew@startupweekend.com if you or your company would like to sponsor a meal.

This is the first big test of the Startup Weekend model, and I can’t think of a better city to knock the concept out of the park.

The ideas forum is live, in a password protected area at http://nyc.startupweekend.com/idea-forum/. If you signed up for a ticket, a password was emailed to you on Sunday. If not, drop me a line at andrew@startupweekend.com and I will make sure you are set up.

The next few days will see a flurry of activity on the blog, make sure to check back!

As Startup Weekend Toronto heats up, we are almost sold out!  If you are interested in coming to the weekend, please sign up for a ticket now.

If you have signed up for a ticket, look for an invitation to the idea forum in the next day.

We have had 8 registrations for the weekend in an hour period tonight. NYC Startup Weekend is shaping up to be one of the best ones of the ‘fall season.’

We still have spots open, so please tell your friends and business contacts.

Also, if you are looking to fly in, email us at info@startupweekend.com and we will set you up with a few others flying in (4 so far).

We’re still settling on a final location. Meanwhile, tickets are going and going fast. Word gets out quickly. We’re looking forward to a real exciting weekend.

Finally, if you or anyone you know is interested in sponsoring part or all of something during the weekend, drop us a line.

That was pretty much everyone’s reaction when I sent them this site, told them I had signed up for Startup Weekend NYC and agreed to be a blogger. You would think that they might check out the Startup Weekend Home site, but even that doesn’t make it crystal clear, and some people (like my parents and even some of the co-workers) need crystal clarity. So I started sending people to Penelope Trunk’s blog posting about it.

She explains that the first Startup Weekend “began on a Friday, when 70 people showed up above a bike shop in Boulder, CO to vote on their favorite previously submitted business ideas. They decided to create a business that allowed people to take quick polls of their friends’ opinions.” They continued to work throughout the weekend to build their fantastic company - Vosnap - “a social quick voting tool that reduces group think and time wasted on decision-making by giving you the ability to receive a quick vote from a group of friends on any decision.”

Vosnap hasn’t officially launched yet, but the buzz was so great that people all over the world have started planning Startup Weekend’s (Toronto, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston, DC, Hamburg Germany and New York) so that they can spend the weekend building something great. I wasn’t in Boulder, and this will be my first Startup Weekend, so this blog will be the dirty details on how it comes together and what happens during this action packed weekend in the Big Apple.

- Karen