Lance Weatherby is bringing Startup Weekend to Atlanta on November 9th, 2007.

In Lance’s own words:

Essentially the idea is to get a bunch of smart people in a room over a weekend and build some type of Internet app. I think there are enough people here in Atlanta to make this a success. My goal in putting this together is to improve the Atlanta startup community. I hope that you will seriously consider joining in. I think it will be an enriching and immersive experience where you will learn by doing and meet a lot of interesting people with common interests and skills.

Startup Weekend was created by Andrew Hyde and they’ve had a past event in Boulder, Colorado and have a number of upcoming events in Toronto, NYC, Hamburg, Germany, Houston, Boston and D.C. (and now, Atlanta). The basic premise is to bring people together and attempt to incubate a concept to a company - all in 3 days. This is the ultimate expression of “let’s do this”. While it takes more than 3 days to get a company off the ground, no doubt, with the right combination of experience and passion - you can get a long way in the process when you concentrate effort.

I like it. I’m going to attend. Are you?

Quick update on Barcamp Atlanta. It’s been almost 7 days since I first launched the official sign-up page and we have only 10 slots remaining. If you would like to attend or know someone who is planning on attending and have not signed up, please do so now. It looks like we’ll be closing registration in the next few days. I’m impressed how fast we spread the word and got the group set. We’re going to have a lot of fun, learn a lot from each other and forge new relationships. I love forward to meeting you and spending time with you.

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