By Stephanie Liu, Developer Relations, Startup and Community
Outreach
We announced a partnership
with Startup Weekend today that will support budding entrepreneurs all over the world.
If you’ve never experienced a Startup Weekend before, it’s an intense 54 hour
event where excited entrepreneurs (developers, designers, product and business folks) get
together on a Friday afternoon, pitch ideas, form into teams, then feverishly hack on a
prototype application to demo on Sunday night. It’s an energizing event, where strangers
become teammates overnight, and the focus is on doing instead of
talking.
We love the spirit of these weekends – it’s the spirit of
entrepreneurship and creation, and at the heart of it all are developers. That’s why we’re
working with our local developer communities (Google
Technology User Groups) and Startup Weekend to host pre-Startup Weekend bootcamps on
relevant Google tech (like App
Engine, Android, and
Chrome/HTML5, with more to come).
Stephanie Liu joined
Google in 2005, and has worked with a variety of products, including AdWords, Google Video,
and YouTube. She's currently focused on outreach programs to early stage tech startups, as well as growing and
supporting Google's developer community (gtugs.org),
