It’s a weekend that can make most others seem pathetically unproductive. Toronto Startup Weekend, that three-day business incubator, returns to the Burroughes Building on November 18-20, sponsored by the Toronto Standard. The plan, as before: thrown together with a team of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs, you’re given only 54 hours to launch a start-up enterprise, that’s from product development and prototypes to business plan.
The first prize winner of the last Startup Weekend, Visualize.me, was a web-based app that aims to reinvent the boring, text-heavy CVs of yore. Replacing dry strands of TimesRoman (or worse, Comic Sans), Visualize.me turns your resum into an orgy of infographics by visualizing your LinkedIn data (see Ashton Kutcher’s sample resume). When it launched its beta-edition they received over 12,000 signups in less than five days; the app has also been featured in Fast Company and Forbes.
For a taste of what the weekend looks like, here’s their trailer.