Startup Weekend Wroclaw
http://wroclaw.startupweekend.org
Weekends are, of course, prime going out time*, but I'd never been to a Startup Weekend before so I registered and decided to pitch one of the ideas I shared on http://karol.gajda.com/free-ideas/
Specifically this: http://karol.gajda.com/free-ideas/travel-together/
You get exactly 60 seconds to pitch and then there's 30 minutes of voting. Every attendee has 3 post it notes and they stick the post it notes on a large sheet of paper you write your idea on.
If you remember this Free Idea from gajda.com it's now being built at Startup Weekend Wroclaw. #swwro twitter.com/KarolGajda/sta…
— Karol Gajda (@KarolGajda) May 25, 2012
Everybody who pitched basically walked around with their sheet of paper trying to solicit votes from other attendees.
I got the 5th most votes (including from 2-3 "mentors" aka business people who are there to help). This doesn't actually mean anything other than we're going to attempt to see my idea into fruition by Sunday evening. We being a team of 5 (including me).
Interestingly, the top vote getter was very similar to this: http://karol.gajda.com/free-ideas/live-video-language-learning/ (I voted for it, of course)
This event for me is more about meeting people doing fun things than actually starting a new business that I don't have time for. It's a fun challenge to try to build something in a weekend. And who knows what can grow from a seed.
*I also figured if there were any pretty girls here they might be pretty perfect for me, considering the event. I made a very lame** attempt at hitting on the prettiest girl there because I was busy soliciting votes. There's always tomorrow. And Sunday. ;)
**Lame also because I was distracted by her beauty*** and soliciting votes and it was as she was walking by me in a sea of people. (Though it did get a nice response, I didn't follow up.)
***Usually the prettiest girls are the easiest to talk to. But usually I have a few**** seconds to think first. I was in "sell my idea" mode!
**** Infinite loop*.
