One hundred people with diverse backgrounds gathered together at the University of Cincinnati with one common goal in mind–to create a new Internet start-up company in one weekend.
The participants ranged from students and corporate employees who wanted to learn the skills involved in creating a start-up to entrepreneurial veterans who wanted to get back in the game.
It included men and women from all over the region, and integrated programmers, designers, marketing executives, financial planners and management personnel.
“The weekend is about experiencing the start-up life without having to quit your day job,” said Stephen Boord of Neyer Holdings, a sponsor of InOneWeekend.
Jeff Stamp, a consultant who has successfully launched six start-ups and products including Baked! Lays(R) Potato Crisps (chips), facilitated Friday’s creative session.
During that session, participants developed more than 50 ideas for a company. The proposals were narrowed down and one idea was selected. After little more than 36 hours, the final creation was named LifeSpoke(TM).
LifeSpoke is a new online personal media archive targeting the “memory holders” within every family. The website employs an innovative, patent-pending personal timeline that allows easy searching of specific media.
An interactive “memory wheel” allows users to build and manipulate highly customizable clusters of content, including photos, video, audio, and narratives, which can then be shared with friends and family around the world.
Photo by inoneweekend.org.
We Created An Internet Startup
August 27, 2008 by Rich | 7 Comments
In Internet, Networking, Startup
Angela on August 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Wow! I couldn’t imagine doing something of that sort that fast but they have definitely proved to everyone it is possible!
jaeda on August 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
yeah, that so true!
thanks to their thought.
colin on August 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Incredible!!! I am very interested in getting a group together to do something like that. I used to really be into art in high school. I remember some of us guys would have late night art parties, trying to get our work done for the exam. Just the creative energy and power you get working with one another pushes you to create the greatest things. I often look back at all those times and wish it could be manifested again in a new way. Reading the article just gave me the inspiration to try this around here. I would be interested in talking to the orchestrator, because it is just brilliant!!! Incredible work guys!!!
cassy on August 28th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
T heres really a big credit if lots of people working on it. The impossible can be possible!
Great Job!
Matt Helphrey on August 28th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
That is really cool.
I try to get my friends together to create something great, but the only time I can get them together is for a party. The only product that comes from it is a hangover…lame.
Matt
cassy on August 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Thats not good Matt, true friends can have your time even if its not party time!
Jaclyn on November 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This is a fantastic story! I agree with angela, i cant imagine starting something up that quickly and actually being able to make a go of it and have the outcome actually be what you are looking for! that is just truly amazing and i wish them all the best in the future.