Startup Weekend Atlanta

…which is funny, because I’m a lawyer. But this weekend, I’m a blogger. Lance gets everyone to sign in, and urges them to read the relevant info.
There are some really spiffy stock certificates that all Founders will get. Earn. There are binders of documents that a lawyer has carefully [...]

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when is dinner?
what is dinner?
where’s Lance when you need him?

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Groups aren’t always talking to each other. They’re making the same decisions simultaneously, independently, and (gasp!) they’re reaching completely different conclusions. Synchronicity is lacking (and we’re still on Coldplay, so I don’t know if the Police is on the playlist.)  An intervention is called.  Andrew and Lance are summoned.
A product developer type (i.e., [...]

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about watching developers code. They’re just typing away, surrounded by highly-caffeinated beverages. (What, one of them has mere H20? Don’t mess with my stereotype, which as we all know, exist because they usually happen to be true.)
As someone who is looking up most of the HTML code I need to do this [...]

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The music is now going, courtesy of an iPod-friendly speaker thingie. I lost my opportunity to control the playlist because my battery is “dangerously low” or something like that. And the speaker thingie (that’s a technical term, mind you) doesn’t recharge. But the other person’s iPod has Coldplay on it (as does [...]

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At the DC Startup Weekend, I discovered Twitter, thanks to @andrewhyde and @gruen and @e1presidente and @micah and @corbett3000 and @jfcIII and all the other people who can’t shut up, I’ve learned. Okay, it may be a little pretentious and presumptuous (do you really want to know every last detail about my life? [...]

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“There are a lot of people arguing in there.”
Not sure which group he’s talking about, but does it really matter? There are definitely some “strong personalities” that tend to gravitate towards Startup Weekend: in DC, we called them “alpha males,” and not to be sexist, there were “alpha females” too. (In fact, [...]

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