Startup Weekend Jackson Attracts Entrepreneurs to MC School of Law

Entrepreneurs, engineers, marketing people, graphic artists and others are expected to attend a weekend of training to help create companies.

Leaders of Ridgeland-based Innovate Mississippi organized the Startup Weekend Jackson. It’s a 54-hour blitz of meetings at the Mississippi College School of Law from March 27-29.

Throughout the year, Innovate Mississippi and partner organizations offer networking events across the Magnolia State.

The Startup Weekend sessions at the MC School of Law at 151 East Griffith Street will follow this basic model: anyone is welcome to suggest their startup ideas and receive feedback from their peers.

For dozens of people, it promises to be three days of business model creation for visitors pooling their skills. They hope to take an idea on a Friday night and convert it to a business on Sunday. Typically, about 50 to 60 people have signed up for similar programs around the state the past three years.

“It’s the collaboration of right-brained and left-brained folks that yields explosive business ideas that are packaged and ready to launch over the course of a weekend,” says Tasha R. Bibb, entrepreneurial development manager with Innovate Mississippi.

The non-profit company seeks to drive innovative and technology-based economic development for Mississippi.

Cost for the conference is $50.

For more information, contact Tasha R. Bibb at 601-960-3624 or go to www.innovate.ms