Monday evening I was made aware of a particularly interesting promotion that will be taking place over the course of two days before South by Southwest (SXSW). The event, or tour, is called The Startup Bus, and will challenge 12 participants to create as many tech startups as possible during a 48 hour bus ride from San Francisco to SXSW in Austin. The question this event raises in my head is whether these "beat-the-clock" entrepreneurship experiments are actually healthy for the broader startup culture.
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This event isn't the first of its kind; in fact, it closely resembles the Startup Weekend event series, just on wheels and with fewer people. Full story...
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There’s a lot of money in poor people.
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PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel
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