Want to start a business, have a free weekend and 150 bucks?
Then Cincinnati’s
InOneWeekend at the University of Cincinnati is where you want to be in August.
This summer marks the second annual, fast-paced business startup event. InOneWeekend will assemble 100 people for three days, Friday Aug. 28-Sunday Aug. 30 at UC’s Tangemen University Center.
The event will be kicked off Friday by Pixar CFO Ali Rowghani (last year it was Google’s Roy Gilbert, head of global consumer operations.) The group then will brainstorm business ideas with Jeff Stamp, Chair of Entreprenuership at the University of North Dakota, and former CEO and founder of BoldThinking Creartive,” The group will vote on a concept that night.
Saturday is set aside for developing a product and business plan, and Sunday is product launch.
The event is geared toward those in the marketing, design, technology, legal, and business arenas. Early bird Registration is open for the August session. Go
HERE to get your name on the waiting and to get more information. Students can register for $50.
Last year the entrepreneurial-minded group created Lifespoke, an online platform akin to a virtual scrapbook where users can store print, online, digital and other personal media in one spot. Lifespoke also let users tag, search and display the media. Lifespoke currently doesn’t exist as a company, but a patent has been filed on its core technology: UCTTS “user created tagged timeline search,” said Elizabeth Edwards of Neyer Holdings, a lead event sponsor.
“We already have people on the wait list and we’ve created bigger pool of dream team participants from the design, tech and business world. There are startup CEOS, vice presidents, students from DAAP, and developers from companies like Bridge and Share This. We’re really going to have an amazing set of really top talent,” said Edwards, one of the event’s main organizers.
Like last year, participants will have a year of free office space, accounting, server space, and legal help to get the startup off the ground.
“That’s growing this year with more in-kind service contributions. They’ll have every single resource to start a company,” Edwards said.
Other Sponsors include
Neyer Holdings,
HCBC,
CincyTech, and the University of Cincinnati.
Writer: Feoshia Henderson
Source: Elizabeth Edwards, Neyer Holdings
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