If you find the idea of SxSW’s recent Startup
Bus intriguing, here’s a similar version closer to home (without
the bus).
Startup Camp (Melbourne) 2010, coordinated by Student Entrepreneurs | Agents of Change, invited 30 university students to spend a weekend this month, locked in a room, with home privileges only for sleep. The goal was to create six new web-based businesses in 48 hours. Participants included a mixture of coders, business “geeks” and graphic designers from the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash University and Swinburn University.
As one of the organisers of the event, I had the opportunity to observe the 30 participants as they raced against the clock to complete their online entrepreneurial ventures. The event began with participants brainstorming ideas on Friday evening, coding non-stop overnight (to have a beta version of the various websites launched to the public by Saturday noon) and completing the camp on Sunday with a pitching presentation to a panel of successful entrepreneurs and IT experts.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Students locked up (again) until they build 6 web startups from scratch | Anthill Magazine
Author: Tian Yang
