Seattle Startup Weekend 2

In the hope that people are still reading this blog, I want to thank our sponsors one more time. It is often lost on many participants at events such as Startup Weekend just how much these sponsors matter!

Thank you Google, for hosting the event!

Thank you Perkins Coie, for dinner Friday night!

Thank you nPost, for breakfast on Saturday!

Thank you Microsoft, for lunch on Saturday!

Thank you Blue Box, for dinner on Saturday!

Thank you Type As, Inc., for breakfast on Sunday!

Thank you Peet’s Coffee (Chelsee and Nik), for providing coffee all weekend long!

Thank you Big Al’s for the cheap beer!

Thanks to all the coffee shops around Fremont for letting our entrepreneurs do all they could to shut your WiFi down as well!!!!! What a plague of locusts we all were!!!

We are looking for your thoughts on the weekend.  What did you like, what didn’t you like?  What would you like changed?  Why?  What was the most amazing thing to happy to you during the weekend?

Specifically, we are looking for constructive feedback.  We simply want to make this the best event possible, so please help us!

And once again: I would like to thank all of the volunteers for Startup Weekend for their patience, time, hard work, and their many contributions. You all made it happen. In no special order they are again:

Nathan Kaiser, (nPost)

Rob Eickmann, (Six Hour Startup)

Marina Martin, (Type As, Incorporated)

Kimm Viebrock, (Soaring Mountain)

Ilene Little, (Traveling for Health)

I’d welcome the chance to work with any / all of you again. Thank you!!!

Without wishing to make too much out of it, I still feel I owe my most able collaborator / volunteer, Kimm Viebrock, of Soaring Mountain an apology for neglecting to mention her pivotal role and her contributions to making our Startup Weekend event such a huge success. THANK YOU KIMM! You did a first class job in organizing / managing our weekend and I know I speak for all involved that we really appreciated your time and effort!!!

1,000 apologies to our master of ceremonies, George Junginger, for my forgetting to credit him and his VIP role in Startup Weekend during my closing remarks; especially since he did so much of the heavy lifting! There is no way we could have pulled it off without George, and I am really grateful (and relieved) that he was able to take time out from his routine family commitments and fly out here from Raleigh, NC to help out in such a meaningful way: from keeping our event on track and ensuring that everything ran so smoothly right down to helping me do coffee / food runs, to helping clean up. THANK YOU GEORGE!!!!! I would really like the chance to collaborate with you again in the near future!

Congratulations to the Obey The Decider team!!

• Tom Music
• Himanshu Vasishth
• Andrew Clapp
• Zach Hale
• Chad Kirby
• Neeraj Murarka
• Sofi Takei
• Joshua Maher
• and our consultants Diego Barca & Russ McIntosh

The site is up!!

Check it out at Http://www.obeythedecider.com

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