While most people think about starting a business, this weekend 120 people gathered at ATDC in Atlanta to actually do just that. http://atlanta.startupweekend.org/ After more than 60 pitches, 14 businesses were voted to move forward and 8 formed teams to launch new business. One of those businesses, pitched by David Cohen, is ours: Moody Tweets. And while many may think this is great, they are right. But it’s also a lot of work. A team of 8 individuals brought together to achieve one goal. Some of us knew each other before this, but never worked together. It’s amazing what happens. No office politics. Just brainstorming and collaborating.
Each group claimed real estate throughout the ATDC complex to quickly work together as a team to launch their business. As the day went on, some ventured into other team’s territories to ask for help with specific tasks. We are all expected to launch our businesses Sunday night. And many of us are still at work on Saturday night at 11:00 pm. Strategizing and putting expectations on paper so that we can hit the ground running on Sunday morning to achieve our goals by the end of the day.
I expect that tonight Atlanta will be proud, and so will Startup Weekend, to have been host to these businesses. After working with my group, I have a better understanding of the work that goes into creating a startup of this magnitude. I can only hope that we are one of the companies that moves forward with our business and continues to build on the application we will launch.
