Startup Weekend will take place in Detroit, Friday, March 27-29, 2009. Startup Weekend brings together venture capitalists, marketing professionals, IT developers and anyone with a startup idea to launch new businesses in a single weekend.
Previous Startup Weekend events have taken place in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Washington DC, Atlanta and Seattle.
Basically how it works is this … On Friday evening of the weekend, people are invited to pitch ideas for a new startup business. Teams are then formed around the most interesting ideas and they begin to formulate a plan to get things accomplished over the weekend. Teams …read more

I’m in a local networking group to help generate leads for my business. But I found I wasn’t doing as well as I hoped.  Actually, I didn’t get one ounce of business from it.
So when I got my renewal letter, I wondered if it was worth it.
I spoke with friend Bonnie Ausfeld. She’s author of Business Networking Techniques for the Professional, or How Do I Get YOU To Remember Me and What It Is That I Do.
She told me that the reality is networking, like any other marketing tool, needs effort to make it a success.  Then she gave me …read more