Digital Marketing and Web Strategy by Bob Hazlett | One Half Amazing!

For the 3rd year in a row, I’ll be taking part in 48Hour Launch or what was formerly known as Startup Weekend Memphis. This year, the event begins on the evening of Friday, March 5 and ends with show and tell on the afternoon of Sunday, March 7th.  The entire weekend is a set of orchestrated madness where participants pitch their latest and greatest ideas, folks vote and form teams and then get to work on getting the business off the ground in the short span of 48 hours.

48Hour Launch is one of the most unique entrepreneurship programs in the country.  People of all skill levels and areas including marketing, development and design are encouraged to attend.  Last year, we had some amazing projects come out of the weekend including Mark’s Menus, The Roll Play and Cheezy Weezy. I’ve personally had the chance to meet and work with so many people who I normally wouldn’t.  Its great exploring new ideas with people who are passionate making Memphis the best.

I hope you’ll join us for 48Hour Launch over the first weekend in March at Emerge Memphis Launchpad.  Get your tickets today!

Startup Weekend returns to Memphis May 29th – 31st.  In case you’re new to the scene, Startup Weekend is a community building event that brings together the best local developers, marketers, designers and enthusiasts to do what they do best – start projects and start companies.  Your brain synapses will literally be firing on all cylinders for 54 hours straight.

The weekend starts Friday at 6pm and wraps up the evening of Sunday, May 31st.  The founders have put together a Facebook group to bounce around initial ideas, but project votes won’t be made until Friday evening.  This year the plan is to have multiple projects simultaneously move forward at the same time.

To give you an idea of the type of projects that get launched in a weekend, take a look at San Francisco, Phoenix, New York and Lexington.

Startup Weekend is limited to the first 100 people that sign up, so be sure to grab a ticket now.  Help support and grow the entrepreneurial spirit of Memphis.