UT Students Create Web Company Next Weekend
The entrepreneurial spirit is in full force at the University of Texas at Austin, where a few dozen aspiring and serial entrepreneurs will design and launch a web startup company in just two and a half days as a part of the first-ever Venture Weekend. Leaders will emerge, ideas will be executed, and a business or two will launch by the end of the weekend.
“How crazy would it be to gather UT’s best and brightest innovators with one goal: to start a web-technology company in a weekend?” asks Alex Schliker, an second-year student and serial entrepreneur. “We started Venture Weekend to provide entrepreneurs with an exciting outlet for creativity. Venture weekend challenges the status quo of other entrepreneurial organizations that just talk-the-talk. If you want to execute a marketable innovation with an amazing team, Venture Weekend is for you.”
Currently sponsored by Hewlett Packard (HP), DFJ Mercury, NetQoS, and hosted by the Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunity (CEO), interest in Venture Weekend is growing dramatically with over 100 applicants and a few over 40 selected to partake in the weekend. Venture Weekend has attracted both graduate (PhD/Master’s candidates) and undergraduate students of majors in computer science, law, business, engineering, and others. Everyone will spend Friday evening through Sunday evening developing an innovative product, constructing a framework for an entity, and launching by Sunday at midnight.
The weekend is set for April 4th (evening), 5th, and 6th and students will probably remain at the event location, where an array of amenities will be provided. Participants could feasibly sleep at the location, as tons of pillows and blankets will be available.
Venture Weekend began when a handful of university students decided they wanted to take what they learned in the classroom and execute. While the event is the first of its kind at the university, members don’t think it will be the last.
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