StartupCampWaterloo: it is about the community
Tonight had to be the most unexpected StartupCampWaterloo yet and it was a load of fun! We had a fairly full room of new faces (60-70) that hadn’t been to a camp event before and really didn’t know what to expect. This left us in a bit of an odd situation as we had no one signed up on the board. So what happened? David Crow made his community pitch to the folks and then everyone introduced themselves as Mic got the names of startups in the room up on the white board.
The number of startups on the white board? 19. There was 19 new startups in the room that were all in fairly early stages. Once all the intros were done and we had a break, a mix of new and some evolved ideas were presented. It was totally not what he had expected for the fourth event but it is exactly what these events should be about. Everything from the project that is being worked on in the basement to a student from Velocity just throwing ideas out there.
The startup community in this town is inspiring.
