I went down to Raleigh, North Carolina Friday afternoon not entirely sure of what to expect. I returned home late Sunday night on a high. Why?

I came to RTP Startup Weekend with the simple goal of meeting interesting people with similar interests in life and business, more interested in the process of the weekend than any results. I have gotten far more out of the weekend; I am amazed at how a dedicated, high-quality team can take an idea to a working, implemented business in just two days. I’ll leave the weekend with a lot of lessons and some great new friends.

What happened in between?

• RTP Startup Weekend announces four new companies
• News and Observer: Almost-instant business: Just add sweat
• What I helped launch*: Bars For Us, a company that “Takes the guesswork out of finding Raleigh’s best bars”
• What Bars For Us does: the video elevator pitch
• Bars For Us on Crunchbase
• Other companies launched: MyFriesSuck, Dealcastr and Scavenja
• Pictures of RTP Startup Weekend by me, and by everyone

How can you follow what is happening with Bars For Us?

• Use Bars For Us, learn more about the service and the company, and give feedback
• As a bar owner, learn how you can submit your bar for listing and learn about future enhancements to allow you to highlight your listing
• Follow the Bars For Us blog, the barsforus twitter, and the Bars For Us Facebook page
• Interested in learning more, PR and media requests, interested in expanding Bars For Us to your city? Email or call +1 415.287.7610

More about Startup Weekend…

• What is a Startup Weekend?
• More about RTP Startup Weekend on the blog and on Twitter

Big thanks to organizers Jason DiMambro, Jess Martin and Wayne Sutton and all the sponsors of the weekend.

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* By “helping launch”, I mean watching everyone create something from scratch, from an idea to a strategy and an implemented, powerful, easy to use and real application in an incredibly short time.