GeekWire Radio: Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager spreads the startup gospel

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This week on the GeekWire radio show we speak to Startup Weekend CEO Marc Nager who is building a global empire of 54-hour entrepreneurial bootcamps. The Seattle non-profit organization, backed by the Kauffman Foundation and others, has hosted Startup Weekends in 113 countries and 325 cities. It plans to hold more than 800 events this… Read More…

Watch Marc Nager and The Startup Weekend crew ring the opening bell on the NYSE

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This is an honor that usually falls to the CEOs of fast-growing publicly-traded companies. But not this morning. Marc Nager and other team members from Startup Weekend, the Seattle non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurial education throughout the world, took center stage Friday morning at the New York Stock Exchange by ringing the opening bell. Why… Read More…

Startup Weekend pulls plug on Startup Foundation pilot

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Startup Weekend has decided to pull the plug on its Startup Foundation initiative, an ambitious eight-city experiment which launched with the goal of “creating jobs and entrepreneurs across the world.” Xconomy’s Curt Woodward reported the news today, with Startup Weekend director Marc Nager telling the news site that many of the concepts envisioned at Startup Foundation will… Read More…

Startup Weekend kicks off SW Next: A multi-day bootcamp for entrepreneurs

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Startup Weekend has already given thousands of developers, geeks and other tech professionals a taste of what it’s like to start a company. But, sometimes, you just can’t cram everything into a 54-hour coding marathon. In order to address those needs, the Kauffman Foundation-backed non-profit is experimenting with a new program in Seattle called SW Next…. Read More…

Greg Gottesman, Brad Feld and others join board of Startup Weekend

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Startup Weekend, the Seattle-based non profit which coordinates 54-hour startup marathons at locations across the globe, has formed a new board with leading venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and execs from the Kauffman Foundation. New members include Carl Schramm, CEO of The Kauffman Foundation;  Steve Blank, an entrepreneur and professor at Stanford and Berkeley;  Greg Gottesman, managing director… Read More…