Andrew Hyde lives in Boulder, Colorado and travels frequently.

Some SW Press + Skribit

Interesting that the Atlanta Startup Weekend, the 10th Startup Weekend, created a blog widget that I really would like to use (and with the rest of you am in the private beta cue).

One of the biggest weaknesses of Skribit is the notion that bloggers should write and readers should read. If you don’t like what a blogger is writing, you are assumed that you need to move on. Why Skribit is cool is when your readership changes, so does what they request you write about. The audience for this blog has changed from a Boulder centric crowd to a crowd of founders and friends of Startup Weekend. In just 4 months I have an entirely new audience to write to, and I will love to try out Skribit to see if there is anything that you, the reader, want to see me write about.

Some Press:

TechCrunch

Some amazing comments in there, thank you to everyone that wrote one!

Trumors

Guy Kawasaki wrote this post, which is one of those ‘I am really a nerd, this is awesome type of things.’ Every time you go from reading about someone to interacting it becomes really interesting.

I met Paul Stamatiou for the first time and was really impressed, watch out for him in the future!

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10 responses to “Some SW Press + Skribit”

  1. Lance Weatherby Avatar
    Lance Weatherby

    “One of the biggest weaknesses of Skribit is the notion that bloggers should write and readers should read.”

    Andrew: if that core notion is the biggest weakness we may get us a few users.

    Thanks for coming to ATL. We could not have done it without you.

  2. cincinnatichili Avatar
    cincinnatichili

    Have you decided to pass on Cincinnati?

  3. Clayton Avatar
    Clayton

    No it's highest listed so just need contact form a local organizer to get things going! If there was previous scheduling it was probably with Ray and I did not get that information.

  4. Courtney Avatar
    Courtney

    Isn't Little Rock in Arkansas? 😉

    I'm also extremely interested in Cincinnati. Can't say I have the ability to be the local organizer right now, but if things go well and I'm laid off this afternoon, I should have some time.

  5. Clayton Avatar
    Clayton

    hah whoops! Good thing I can rely on my "I'm Canadian" defense for moments like these. No idea what I was thinking there.

  6. Clayton Avatar
    Clayton

    Be glad to have you organize if that time does free up. Let me know!

  7. cincinnatichili Avatar
    cincinnatichili

    I thought dates were voted on and a location proposed in Cincinnati already. Shouldn't your group take the lead in following up on that since StartupWeekend solicited information on dates and locales that would work? Resource continuity and transition challenges within Startup Weekend shouldn't be taken out on the city.

    The general assumption around here is that Startup Weekend was pulling out of Cincinnati because of In One Weekend. Any truth to that?

  8. Clayton Avatar
    Clayton

    In the changeover no information was given about what had been done with Cincinnati other than it might be scheduled for Aug. 22-24.

    Mostly I need contact from the lead organizer to figure out what was planned/going on. As far as I know we weren't pulling out because of In One Weekend. They are a separate event with a different format.

  9. Clayton Avatar
    Clayton

    If the lead organizer has read this yet I'd love to get things worked out for your weekend! Send me a note clayton at startupweekend dot com

  10. Ed Burns Sr Avatar
    Ed Burns Sr

    First view of this STARTUP site and trying to figure out the objective. I've just started a new web based company and in the funding stage now & with a demo site.
    I'm looking for 2 small shareholders since is it a corp and don't know if this STARTUP is an association that would benefit and your thoughts would be helpful.

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