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StartupCampWaterloo

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on August 12, 2007 at 2:05:32 pm
 

StartupCampWaterloo discussion and planning notes from meeting Friday August 3d.

 

Attendees

  • Ali Asaria
  • Mic Berman
  • Michael Nielsen
  • Rick Niesiobedzki
  • Jesse Rodgers
  • Kevin Thomason (aiderss.com)
  • Ilya Grigorik (aiderss.com)
  • Simon Clark
  • Jeff Fedor & Robert Barlow-Busch

 

Why shouldn't we do it?

- is there enough local start ups to warrant a camp. if 9 people representing 5 start-ups show up for a planning meeting that should be indicator of interest

- BarCamps already provide some information, but missing many business topics relevant to start-ups

 

Differences for Startup Camp vs BarCamp

- this would bring seasoned people e.g., Albert Lai

- programmed

- bootcamp like - regular forum, talk through business issues

- Social part is same

 

Purpose

- Forum of peers

- Sense of community

- Connection to people with different competencies

- Applied aspects e.g., marketing, finance, etc.

 

Who we are targeting

- Existing start ups

- Students any/all methods to market to them: WOM, in print, Comp Sci Club, engineering club, MBET, Math, Accelerator Ctr, Laurier Biz, Media Arts & Design, Systems Design

- Faculty

 

Proposed Structure

- 3 to 5 hour block of time

- host 1 session, have food break, then do another 2 sessions and break

- free food is important if not critical

- want at least 3 good draws

- invite people to speak

- no tracks i.e., one session going at one time plus social breaks (for un conference spaces)

- no sponsorship except for Food

- Q&A sessions

- Host every quarter in between Guelph and Waterloo BarCamps

- Looking at either October 23 (Tuesday) or 27th (Saturday)

 

Topics we could cover

- Why not to do a start up

- Financing, VC good, bad and ugly, government sources like IRAP, SRED

- Launching (AidRSS could do this one)

- how to market, Moore's crossing the chasm

- legal like how do you pick a law firm, what do you do with them

- PR - how do you find a good firm, US vs Canada, other, where do you find them

- how to hire/manage, co-op students

- resources availalbe (what's a waste of time, open source)

- UI/UE - broader view of user centred development

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