Get To Business.

Today was the first day of Startup Weekend Israel which a very interesting to attend. For those who are not familiar with the concept, a quick recap: Startup Weekend is a gathering / conference for entrepreneurs from all walks of life (technological, business, marketing, etc..) for 3 days of concentrated brain-dump and hard core development on one chosen startup idea, at the end of which a finished (or at least, working) product emerges. All the participants are then given shares for a company that is formed to drive this product to whatever future it is destined for.

The odds (in my opinion) of something really great coming from this are slim, but the process itself is very interesting and there is much networking to be had. It was very interesting to see the different types of entrepreneurs and attitudes, and plenty of good ideas for a potential startup were shown. Tomorrows is the first day of active development, and its going to be messy (think 60 developers, designers, marketers and even some project managers). But it will be a worthwhile experience I’m sure.

In other news, I am starting my own blog! (You are very shocked, I can tell. You, our only reader.) It will be called TechFounder and there I will focus on the my experiences as a technological entrepreneur and developer in the web world. Posts there will be much more technical, with plenty of PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS goodness.