Ottawa Web Weekend, May 9th and 10th

By Heri May 1st 2008 in Business, entrepreneurship

ottawa For those who came to Blitzweekend (view reports about the event), you might be interested in the Ottawa Web Weekend event, which is due in 10 days. The goal is to gather a group of entrepreneurs and developers to create a startup in one weekend, much alike the original startupweekend format.

Unfortunately, we hadn’t anyone from Ottawa coming to Blitzweekend, but I was in touch with Marc-André Plouffe for a while to get them to send a team to Blitzweekend. He’s been helpful in spreading the word there, and so I want now to publicize this.

So get there for one weekend if you want to know what’s a startup like, and have the thrill of creating a product in just 2-3 days. Who knows, maybe that’s what you were born for; and it might just be the starting point for bigger plans.

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Comments

Jean-Francois Arseneault May 01, 2008

That’s too bad, I’ll be in Ottawa *this* week-end… then again, I don’t think my family would approve of me wandering with a laptop, when I’m supposed to look in awe at the millions of tulips (ok, I hear it *is* nice to look at).

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