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 personal history with your closest friends and family as easy as a few mouse clicks.  Okay, the tech team is getting there

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I’ve been muddling through all my thoughts about entrepreneurship and wrote some of them down on the other blog that I write for.  Here’s a link in case anyone is following the InOneWeekend thread from this blog.

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If you were part of InOneWeekend 2008 please join the LinkedIn InOneWeekend 2008 group so that we can all stay in touch. If you’re not part of LinkedIn you probably owe it to yourself to be. The tool allows you to organize your networking relationships very effectively. Creating a profile is pretty simple. [...]

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 start-ups under his belt his behavior modeled the likelihood of success. A stressful life? Yes. But seemingly well worth it. [...]

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. [...]

I write for two blogs. This one, andyerickson.org is my personal blog where I highlight my work in the Cincinnati IT community as well as some fitness and family subjects.  I also write for thefuturevalueofbusiness.com blog, the company blog for LUCRUM, the IT consultancy where I work.  I just posted InOneWeekend thoughts on the LUCRUM blog about how we raised up a clear and obvious leader in 24 hours. [...]

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 our business plan in reality. The unveiling of the creative work in branding and design that continued to motivate us as we watched our idea come to life.  Feeling for the tech team as they scrambled to find a place to work after our building locked up at midnight.  [...]