The Clinton School hosted Little Rock Startup Weekend on Sunday, an entrepreneurial showcase that was won by a team including Clinton School graduate Chad Williamson.
Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers.
Teams of entrepreneurs in the Little Rock area worked on their startup ideas throughout the weekend and presented them on Sunday at the Clinton School. Arkansas Business covered the event:
The winning startup was Simple Service, an app that tracks and validates community service projects. Startup Weekend is a grassroots movement to launch startups that spread from its home base of Seattle to more than 200 cities around the world.
Simple Service team members include Chad Williamson, a Clinton School graduate who pitched the idea; David Allan and Sreesh Reddy, Hendrix College students; developers Travis Bennett and Kelt Dockins; designer Gordan Fisher, and Scott Shellabarger, project manager.
Williamson said the next step for Simple Service is to focus on Arkansas high schools and colleges.
“We believe there is a significant need to track, measure and verify public service hours for both college applications and professional resumes,” he said. “The byproduct becomes students performing public service as an opportunity instead of an obligation. We want students to be conscious of their public service efforts while contributing time to an cause they’re passionate about.”
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