Sarah Tavel was a judge at the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in November 2011.
It also provided us with an excellent platform for events like Startup Weekend, technology education initiatives and more.
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Things like Startup Weekend Edu provide the catalyst they need to walk into those classrooms and take control back.
Startup Weekend does not operate with the direct goal of reforming politics, but its influence on local governments has become apparent.
Google Developers Group, innovation-based programs at An-Najah University, and Startup Weekend events.
The partners for such a vision are already out there Maker Faire, TechShop, the D-Lab, Fab Lab, Lemelson-MITInvenTeams, FIRST robotics, Startup Weekend and more.
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In Beirut, a series of Startup Weekend events inspired a focus group between entrepreneurs and the Ministry of Telecommunications to discuss their startup ecosystem.
Akram Dweikat, a Startup Weekend Organizer from Nablus on the West Bank, recently met with President Obama in Palestine to discuss education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Startup Weekend is a global non-profit that provides action-based entrepreneurial education primarily through 54-hour immersive events where participants pitch ideas, form teams, and launch companies.
To figure out the best model, he organized a startup weekend, but instead of the usual tech focus, it was all about creating social enterprises.
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Pfizer, collaborate with entrepreneurial organizations like General Assembly and NY Angels, and create partnerships like our new corporate training venture with Startup Weekend.
This is precisely what Startup Weekend and other organizations and programs have set out to do, and these entrepreneurial communities hold the key to future prosperity.
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This illustrates the two-way effect of organizations like Startup Weekend.
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He moved to NYC and spent the year developing relationships in the startup community by attending meetups, blogging, volunteering at conferences, and organizing Startup Weekend and the Enterprise Tech Meetup.
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Claire Topalian is the Communications manager at Startup Weekend.
Our organization, Startup Weekend, is one such program.
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Ask anyone who has attended a recent Startup Weekend, or looked over the graduates of any number of accelerators, and you will hear awe-inspiring visions about the American economic future.
While most outside commentary about Startup Weekend focuses on the ideas and companies that emerge, in our experience the most enduring effect of Startup Weekend is its impact on the local and regional communities.
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Startup Weekend is one such support infrastructure.
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Startup America, he says, was "on the same track" as Startup Weekend, which was launched four years ago and has since organized thousands of 54-hour networking events, where software developers, engineers, product managers and others share ideas for new ventures.
The San Francisco startup is also launching Friday and Saturday service this weekend in three new cities: Philadelphia, Austin and Los Angeles.
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