Comments on: Startup Weekend: Web 2.0’s Woodstock?

By: Latest Web 2.0 Stupidity: Building a Killer Web App In 45 Minutes : The Drama 2.0 Show

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:25:12 +0000

[...] Back to reality. This entire exercise is as stupid as the Web 2.0 Woodstock. [...]

By: Jazz, Woodstock, or Barn Raising? « Birmingham Startup BLOG

Jazz, Woodstock, or Barn Raising? « Birmingham Startup BLOG — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:24:20 +0000

[...] Another blogger describes the effort as a “Web 2.0’s Woodstock”… “Instead of getting great musicians together to play some groovy tunes, seventy Web 2.0 kool aid drinkers are holed up in Boulder, Colorado creating a Web 2.0 startup in ‘one jam packed weekend.’ In their defense, many top musicians were too busy at Live Earth to participate in a Web 2.0 concert, so a gnarly Web 2.0 music festival wasn’t possible this weekend. Startup Weekend was the next best option.” [...]

By: BlogSchmog » Weekend Warriors of IT

BlogSchmog » Weekend Warriors of IT — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:35:52 +0000

[...] by Drama 2.0 as “Web 2.0’s Woodstock,” the gathering was the brainchild of a brainy child (at [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:40:14 +0000

Drama and Jay. Wish you folks had the opportunity to participate in StartupWeekend. You would have been blown away by the quality, depth and breadth that filled our sweaty seathing workspace for 55 hours. VoSnap is so much more than an app. I know you guys will be watching and participating, and for that I will say ‘thanks’ now.

By: Jay (living in First Life)

Jay (living in First Life) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:51:03 +0000

Spot on Drama. I honestly get the feeling that too many of today’s Web 2.0 entrepreneurs are not true entrepreneurs. They do it because it’s cool and are in love with what they think it means to be an entrepreneur. Let’s go through a few of those pre-reqs:

1. Host application on Amazon’s EC2 or S3
2. Use Ruby on Rails
3. Drink lots of coffee/organic juice products
4. Dress “alternative” – tacky blazer with jeans and t-shirt that has weird design or says non-sensical things like “Interesting” on it
5. Spend 50% of your time coding, 25% going to networking events/love fests like Startup Weekend, and the remainder of the 25% of your time blogging/lifecasting the whole experience
6. Ensuring that your blog talks about all of your “entrepreneurial experiences” and how you have such “Rockstar engineers”

Chances are that not even 1% of these guys are “rockstar engineers” nor do more than 1% of them know the slightest thing about building a successful company. Some shmuck at Y Combinator gave them a few thousand dollars and by living 10 to a bedroom in shitty apartments and eating Ramen noodles, they think they’ll make a major breakthrough that will change the world…by creating the next social bookmarking web site.

By: Andrew Hyde » Blog Archive » Response to Comments

Andrew Hyde » Blog Archive » Response to Comments — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:12:37 +0000

[...] of my favorites calls us the “Woodstock of Web 2.0.” Awesome, but it sounds like the guy needs a hug. Maybe a little laptop yoga would cheer [...]