Atlanta Startup Weekend 3 Scored!

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Atlanta Startup Weekend 3 was held at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) in Atlanta, GA on November 13-15, 2009. Facilitated by ATDC Venture Catalyst and Atlanta favorite, Lance Weatherby, the 52-hour event was the most successful yet with 8 companies going live and as many as 13 in the works over the weekend.

The investment community did not seem to take an interest as Atlanta Business Chronicle technology journalist Urvaksh Karkaria pointed out, but angel investors understand how startups evolve. These startups will likely go through a few early iterations, and some may be put to rest entirely. Still, it would have been good for the startup community if investors had dropped in over the weekend and nosed around. Personally, I find it incredibly inspiring to see what teams can build in a mere weekend.

One member of the legal community took an interest. Technology attorney Alex Woollcott of Thompson Hine LLC (who recently hosted a cocktail party at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens for leaders in the entrepreneur community) offered 7 hours of legal services free to startups that launched Sunday night on a first come first served basis.

Compared to last year’s Startup Weekend 2, this year’s participants represented more diversity of gender, race, and age, it seemed to me. That’s what I like about Atlanta. We are a melting pot.

And, we like football.

Here is my list of startups. If I left you out or you aren’t in the video, I did not know where to find you.

Here is a visualization of Atlanta Startup Weekend participants based on Twitter asw3 hashtag. Credits to Russell Jurney based on Drew Conway’s work and a graphic bump from Blake Perdue.

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lance

That's what ATDC is here to do. Already have meetings booked with two of the team leaders.

Mike Schinkel

Hey Celia, nice article and video. Suggestion: How about hyperlinking the websites for each of the companies?

celiadyer

Thanks, Mike. Am adding right now. Ran out of time yesterday when I posted because of StartupChicks pitch event. I'd love to interview you about EventTank. And, I have your Drupal book. Are you near TechSquare today or tomorrow by any chance?

ericwinter

Great video, thanks for putting it together. I think most of us came to ASW3 to work with people we knew (and some we didn't), have some fun, maybe create something useful. I was really amazed at how much great work was done. It's tremendous to see a pitch on Friday of a napkin-based idea turn into something real by Sunday.

mike eckert

this is a wonderful facet of the atlanta start up community. kudos to lance for taking the time and for providing the leadership, as the layers in the early stage investment strata stack up, businesses at this early stage are pre-angel. they are at the bootstrapping and friends and family money layer. as these ideas begin to take shape and begin to evolve toward becoming real businesses, e.g as they understand their target market/market segment, unfold real early version product development, can identify competitive market advantage/barriers.etc, have a dedicated start up team on board, ideally have seasoned advisors, and begin to understand how they can generate revenue (pricing/volume/etc) they should begin to approach the angel layer. i assume atdc's role is to help these entities evolve toward this

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