Startup Weekend is a worldwide phenomenon, a 54-hour event to help entrepreneurs, new and experienced, put their ideas into action. 15,000 entrepreneurs in 100 cities and counting - now coming to (southern) New England! A ragtag but committed crew led by Cary Collins from Bryant, supported by the team from StartupWeekend.org, is glad to announce...

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54-hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is an amazing opportunity to connect with other passionate and skilled individuals, and perhaps even find a co-founder or two to transform your idea into reality.

See below for a message from Cary: 

Thanks to my Global Entrepreneurship Program leaders, Michelle DeSalvo and Laura Kopek, as well as the leadership of Bryant University's Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, we'll flesh things out rather quickly but we need your help talking it up and sharing it with the right souls.

We have six (6) universities/colleges in The Rhode Island Entrepreneurship Faculty group and we have the expertise and links made possible by a great many ventures and individuals who care about growing entrepreneurship here in New England.  With the concerted wisdom of that group, we're hoping for a blend of students from all campuses, as well as a 50:50 mixture with the professional/tech communities.

We'll solicit student participation from every one of the six campuses and we'll run "The Start-up Bus" (motorcoach) among the campuses to pick up and drop off students who'll join us for the weekend.  We'll also request low -- read phonetically "LO" and interpreted as "minimal"  -- contributions from groups ranging from corporate and professional types to organizations with a great many minds to throw at an event like this one.

For students from other campuses, we'll chauffeur'em, feed'em, water'em, WiFI'em, and house'em.  No worries.  We'll make them feel at home and we're hopeful this interaction across the state becomes a semi-annual event that finds its way to every campus we have.

MY REQUEST OF YOU:  Share this widely and offer helpful thoughts on speakers, topics, and the ever-necessary low-dollar asks!  

Once we have a reasonably complete agenda -- read "this week's end", we'll link to Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites for followers/following with a new update.  For the brave souls who've read to this point, I'm letting you know I'll be camped outside The Malcolm Chace Athletic Center on the green for the duration of this thing... feel free to join me... with your OWN tent. :)

Watch the event build, participate in the event we hold, and let's see where it leads us next!