Contact: Lorin Toepper
(608) 333-2929 (mobile)
LToepper@madisoncollege.edu
Goal is to form new startup companies
(MADISON, Wis.) April 2, 2013—If you’ve ever dreamed of starting your own company, then Madison College is the place to be this weekend.
Startup Weekend Madison, a 54-hour workshop that brings together entrepreneurial minds from southern Wisconsin to encourage collaboration on innovative projects and form new startup companies, runs April 5-7 at the college’s West campus (302 S. Gammon Rd.) The event is a joint effort of Madison College, UW-Madison, Edgewood College, Capital Entrepreneurs and Sector67.
“This is an intensive, fun and high-energy opportunity to create something new with a team of innovative thinkers,” says Lorin Toepper, executive director of economic and workforce development-southwest region at Madison College and chair of the Startup Weekend Madison committee. “Startup Weekends are risk-free environments where everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves and dive into the exhilarating world of startups.”
Developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts will be gathering to share ideas, form teams, build products, launch startups and compete for prizes. At last year’s inaugural event, more than 100 attendees pitched 60 new startup ideas. So far, nearly 500 Startup Weekends have taken place around the world and 200 more are being planned.
It’s not too late to register for this weekend’s Startup Weekend Madison. Just go to http://madison.startupweekend.org. If you have questions or need more information, call Lorin Toepper at (608) 333-2929.
Startup Weekend Madison is sponsored by Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, Google, American Family Insurance, Neider and Boucher, and Gener8tor.
Madison College serves more than 40,000 students throughout a 12-county district in south central Wisconsin, offering 144 diverse career programs and certificates in cutting-edge areas such as biotechnology, digital forensics, mobile application development and advanced manufacturing. The second-largest institution in the Wisconsin Technical College System, the College has 134 program-to-program, flexible credit agreements with 30 four-year universities that grant students full credit toward a bachelor’s degree. More students transfer from Madison College to the University of Wisconsin-Madison than from any other institution in the state. For more information, visit http://www.madisoncollege.edu
