Startup Weekend is back.  Atlanta Startup Weekend 3 is taking place November 13 – 15.  ATDC is once again playing host sponsor. 

In addition to ATDC, A Small Orange and MailChimp have stepped up to sponsor the event.  It’s great to see local tech companies getting involved with such a community building event.  I hope some more jump into the mix.

Atlanta has produced a few of the more successful Startup Weekend companies.  Both Skribit from 2007 and Twitpay from the class of 2008 have secured seed funding and are still operational.  We expect this year to be another good one.  Based on feedback from the community we are keeping the format pretty much the same as 2008. 

I will provide the essentials at the ASW3 blog, but in a nutshell it starts on Friday night when people come in and pitch then vote on startup concepts.  Somewhere between six and eight ideas will be chosen.  People then spend the rest of the weekend creating the concept.  The event concludes on Sunday night at 7 with presentations on what the groups achieved over the weekend.

I can’t promise that you will launch something, that is up to you and your team.  I can promise you will have a most memorable weekend. 

Get registered for this bad boy.