Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend is like speed dating for businesses. Participants are entrepreneurs and like-minded creative types who are given the opportunity to pitch their ideas, put together teams of computer programmers, designers, marketing mavens and aspiring students, and bring those ideas to fruition over a single weekend. In the case of the Lehigh Valley event, entrepreneurs from as far away as Baltimore and New York gathered to “learn through the act of creating,” to “interact with thought leaders” and to network.

There are 55 hours on the clock as the participants form into small work groups.
Those precious minutes may net one group in the room a new business when the dust settles. Soon, notebooks filled with ideas and sketches will be scattered about. Empty coffee cups will litter the workstations. There will be nary a wink of rest for the weary, including the 10 NCC students and professor who are participating.