Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours - Hardcover

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MARC NAGER, CLINT NELSEN, and FRANCK NOUYRIGAT are the Co-Directors of Startup Weekend, a nonprofit with the mission to educate entrepreneurs, strengthen communities, and launch startups. Startup Weekend holds weekend events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups in 54 hours. Startup Weekend began in June 2007, and the core team has grown to nine full-time and three part-time employees, along with a network of more than 120 Startup Weekend volunteer facilitators and organizers who plan and lead Startup Weekend events around the world. For more information, please visit www.startupweekend.org.

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"Startup Weekend is a global phenomenon that has attracted and encouraged a new generation of entrepreneurs. Startup Weekend has changed the world, and this book will change the way you think about startups."?David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars

"Startup Weekend is the most current account of how the modern tech entrepreneur will operate and succeed. Sure, the person, the hustle, the persistence, and the environment all account toward success?but to hit your key fundamentals, this book will be the best."?Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kiip

"There are lots of people who want to be entrepreneurs but they don't know how to get started. How do you move from passion and an idea to a team, a product, and a launch? Startup Weekend has empowered thousands of entrepreneurs around the world to kick-start their startup dreams. If you want to start a business, stop dreaming about it and just do it?this book can teach you how!"?Neil Patel, founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics

"Startup Weekend is the modern-day equivalent of Woodstock for current and aspiring entrepreneurs.?It's 54 hours of no-holds-barred company building that leaves pretty much everyone who participates saying 'I can't believe what we just built over a weekend!' ?This book captures many of the insights and wisdom from those weekends and gives you a window into what is the mostintense entrepreneurial experience out there today." ?Greg Gottesman, Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group

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What can you accomplish in one weekend?

Maybe you could clean out your garage or paint a room in your house. Or how about launch a business? Startup Weekend?the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups?has spawned a global initiative in entrepreneurship. In one weekend, participants get total immersion in entrepreneurial culture and in some cases, come away witha successful venture.

Through an emphasis on action-based networking, participants in Startup Weekend events get to see people's skills in actionand experience a low-risk way to buildbusiness relationships. They receive anexperiential education with the benefit of context, deadlines, and instant feedback. Startup Weekend, the book, contains best practices, lessons learned, and empowering examples derived from these events for individuals and small organizations to follow as they launch businesses. Get crucial, step-by-step advice for getting past the idea to implementation, such as:Learn to pitch for talent?in 60 seconds, what is your vision and who do you need to fulfill it?Get a primer on flexible organizational structuresLearn to produce a minimal viableproduct that moves your business tomarket fasterUnderstand the consequences for startup development as entrepreneurs and founders begin doing much more, even faster Adopt the Startup business model:Listen, adapt, and stay lean

Each of the key beliefs outlined has been tested by Startup Weekend and has yielded powerful results. With a firm understanding of the art of the startup, you can use these insights to launch your own startup revolution.