The Harrisonburg Startup Weekend is scheduled to open this Friday evening at Showker Hall on the JMU campus. This event is being organized by a coalition of local organizations interested in fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in the Harrisonburg region. The event runs from Friday evening to Sunday evening when a panel of judges will select one team as the winner for their idea, presentation and feasibility.
Startup Weekend, funded worldwide by the Kaufman Foundation, has been held in Northern Virginia, Richmond, Charlottesville and Norfolk, but not yet in the western part of the Commonwealth. Anyone with an idea or specific area of business, technical or design expertise is welcome. All ideas are posted and then the top selections are turned into business plans, presentations and possibly funding requests by teams over 36 hours.
Frank Tamberrino, president of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, said Startup Weekend “has been described as controlled chaos with a purpose of helping ideas become businesses”. Registration is open until the event begins.
For more information, contact any of the sponsoring organizations or go to: http://harrisonburg.startupweekend.org/
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