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	<title>beckr.org &#124; Christian Becker &#187; Hamburg</title>
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		<title>Launching two startups in two days, with 140 people</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[lockerlernen]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://beckr.org/wp-content/uploads/startup1.jpg' alt='A startup for 1,99â‚¬?' style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;" "/>I&#8217;m really excited to participate in <a href="http://startupweekend.wordpress.com">StartupWeekend</a> in Hamburg tomorrow, where 140 people will come together to build two web startups. The whole progress is crowdsourced &#8211; attendees are invited to pitch ideas, then two ideas are selected and developed over two days in teams that cover business and finance, programming, graphics, marketing and legal aspects.<br />
At the end of the weekend, everybody becomes a shareholder in the companies, and management will be elected, which will receive a little seed funding to hopefully get off the ground. I&#8217;m moderately skeptical if this will work, but can&#8217;t wait to find out! Now on to contemplate about startup ideas&#8230; <img src='http://beckr.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em><strong>Update (05/19):</strong></em> Hey, my idea made it into the top 5! These are the two final projects:</p>
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<li><a href="http://indawo.de">indawo.de</a>, a platform that helps event organizers to find suitable locations &#8211; for both corporate and private events such as weddings.</li>
<li><a href="http://lockerlernen.de">lockerlernen.de</a>, a community for tutorial videos targeted at pupils, where I took care of the video portion.</li>
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<p>In the final meeting, indawo.de was chosen as the project that will be incorporated with a 60:40 vote, and everybody that attended is now a shareholder. lockerlernen.de was not short of praise and the team members are looking to incorporate it as well.<br />
Programmers and graphic designers were incredibly scarce, so the implementations are at a very early demo stage. Most attendees are now back at their day jobs, but each project has a committed core group that will hopefully drive these projects forward in the nexts months.</p>
<p>I learnt a lot about crowdsourcing today. While I often felt that the sheer number people was slowing things down considerably and there were many disagreements, we ended up with two ideas that I can see surviving. Thanks a to the organizers Cem and Jason for pulling this off!</p>
<p>Read more feedback <a href="http://startupweekend.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/feedbacks/">here</a>, and Flickr evidence <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianhbecker/tags/startupweekend/">here</a>!</p>
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