I've been a little slow in getting this out on the blog because (a) I was so exhausted after the event that I spent Monday on the couch with my sick Guy watching a Wire: Season One marathon (b) I've been so busy promoting CityAnchor that I haven't had the chance to write about it on my own damned blog and (c) I will be covering IdeaFestival for WFPL this week, and I need to bang out a bunch of work before I can go and be smart for a couple of days.
The news in a nutshell: I was on the winning team for Startup Weekend.
I was the only woman at the 40+ person event.
Our team was the smallest team.
We were the only team to launch with a live product: a local arts, culture, and food blog aggregator.
We were the only team to launch having earned revenue.
The team: Dave Durand, the designer, is the CEO of Forest Giant. Shane Logsdon is a back end web developer with Blackstone Media and a freelancer. Ukiah Smith is a front end web developer for Power Creative and owner of Faction42, a company that creates websites. And me, of course... doing project management and networking.
But rather than reinvent the wheel, I direct you to the three articles I wrote for Insider Louisville:
Day One: The Woman-Problem
Day Two: Dream Team
Day Three: My wild weekend
Our story also got picked up by Business First, our local business newspaper. Here's an example of why I adore my team so much... This story references Dave as being the "team leader" and doesn't mention the rest of us at all. At Startupapalooza, where CityAnchor managed to field a booth even though we'd only existed as a company for a couple of days, Dave brought up the article and said, "I am not the leader, and I hate that he did that. I'm sorry guys."
We're going full speed ahead with the venture. I'll keep you posted!
In the meantime, follow us on Twitter (@CityAnchor), like us on facebook, and visit the beta website at cityanchor.co.
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