Blitzweekend is well underway up in Montreal. News has been a little slow coming out of the weekend as far as progress, but Mehdi (from Blitzweekend) has filled me in that they have about 50 people attending with 12-13 teams competing to be the best app of the weekend.
I’m looking forward to hearing what apps come out of the weekend and which earns the prize of being dubbed top app.
You can follow their progress at Montreal Tech Watch.…
Blitzweekend, one of the latest weekend startup events, is kicking off Saturday morning in Montreal. The group has assembled quite the team of experts and panel members to inform, assist, and advise throughout the 2 day affair. As of right now, they have almost 60 people registered with about 25 proposed projects.
The weekend aims to get people together in groups no greater than 8 large and build several apps in less than 48 hours. At Blitzweekend, some teams are pre-organized while others will organize on the spot.
The small team approach is similar to what we saw last weekend with Weekend Apps, but this will be on a much grander of scale.
We’ll see what comes out of Blitzweekend (both …
Blitzweekend has just announced they’ll be having their first weekend code fest in Montreal. Blitzweekend is following in the lines of what Startup Weekend has been doing with hosting a ~48 hour coding marathon with the hopes of creating a product from conception to launch. What’s the difference in the Blitzweekend approach? Simple, instead of 45+ people working on one project (SW style), BW will have sub-groups of people working on many projects (teams of about 8).
This may solve one of the major criticisms that SW has with participants and nah-sayers that there are too many people working on a project to have it be successful. While this is still debated till this day, we’ve seen successful projects come out of SW.
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