3. Weāre in Birmingham, the city that exists because of entrepreneurs who saw the 3 ingredients in the ground to create an entire industry and a brand new city. Now, over 100 years later we want to spark new batch of new companies here in Birminghamā¦ ones that make use of the latest technologies and the entrepreneurs that make Birmingham a TOP THREE mid-sized city for entrepreneurism according to Entrepreneur magazine (2 years running).
4. New companies will be created to join other successful tech companies in Birminghamā¦ this is a VERY small sampling of the 500+ tech companies in the region SUNGARD EXP
5. The tech community is more than ācompaniesā, itās people. TechBirminghamās TechMixers bring out 600+ users each event.
6. Some of these people got together and organized our first BarCamp a full year ahead of Atlantaāsā¦ in fact, 2 guys drove over from Atlanta to participate!
7. And now, this same vibrant technology community is coming together and applying the concept of ābarn raisingā to starting up a web-based internet company
8. Weāll do the heavy lifting as a communityā¦ and turn the company over to the Founders on Monday morning.
9. The āBirmingham Modelā of the StartupWeekend concept, started in Boulder Colorado this past June. In the Birmingham model, three teams are selected to present on Sunday evening of the āBusiness Devā weekend. All developers watch a webcast of the presentations and then vote on which project to implement the following weekend... majority wins. The winning business team uses the week to further tweak their product spec in time for the Implementation Weekend.
27. Firstā¦ get yourself to www.BirminghamStartup.com ā after looking around, click on the āJoin This Wikiā button and become a registered user.
29. Visit the Event Planning Roles and Startup Roles pages and add your name in the category in which you are most interested
30. Then, contribute by adding your commentsā¦ for example, this page is a discussion about what the LOGO of the project will be.
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Editor's Notes
Birmingham Startupās purpose is a good old fashioned barn raisingā¦ weāre asking the tech community not to come together on some farm, but rather at theā¦ [next slide]