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InOneWeekend In The Context Of Elizabeth Edwards

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Elizabeth Ann Edwards is one of the most in-touch people I’ve ever met.  And having blazed her way through a Michigan undergrad in three years, and a UC MBA in one, she’s also one of the smartest.

lifespoke Launch Today

Friday, July 18th, 2008

InOneWeekend’s first company, lifespoke, launched today!  To be part of this process is to turn everything you know about starting a company on its head.  This group of 100 driven and focused individuals put in $400,000 of sweat equity in the course of a weekend to produce a concept that makes documenting and sharing your [...]

ShareThis SVP of Product Strategy – JB Kropp

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

JB Kropp, ShareThis SVP of Product Strategy and a consummate entrepreneur and dotcom start-up glutton lets the InOneWeekend gluttons-for-punishment in on a day in the life of a start-up executive. What I learned most from JB is just do it. Not that he came out and said that, but with something like six [...]

Google’s Roy Gilbert Addresses InOneWeekend

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Those who attended Roy Gilbert’s talk Friday afternoon at UC’s Tangeman University Center were treated to a visionary talk to kick off InOneWeekend.  100 People involved with InOneWeekend and then about another 100 of the general public had a rare opportunity to interact one-on-one with an executive of one of the world’s most innovative companies.

My Perspective on InOneWeekend 2008

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Wow.  100 people.  Jeff Stamp, the inventor of Baked Lays, and creative facilitator extraordinaire, freed our minds Friday night.  $408,000 in sweat equity over 3 days.  Sitting in with the finance team watching them vet a million scenarios.  Working on the business team to dive deep into competitive analysis and gather real-world statistics that ground [...]

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