startup dj

A couple of months ago, Dimitri Gunn told me about an event blooming around the globe called Lunch Beat, a daytime version of a nighttime club experience.  Dmitri wanted to start the trend in Boston. So he got some help from Hubspot's Rebecca Corliss, snagged the social space at Hack+Reduce, some sponsorship from some vendors, Hubspot, and Atlas Ventures, and held a party today.

Lunch Beat has a few of rules in its Manifesto. Among them:

1. If it's your first lunch at Lunch Beat, you have to dance.
2. If it's your second, third, or fourth time at Lunch Beat, you have to dance.
3. Everybody at Lunch

On February 17, 2013, Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe wrote an article Exploring the Age Divide in Boston Start-Ups. It infuritated me for two reasons: 1) It's probably true, but 2) for different reasons than Scott asserted.

Scott's premise is that start-ups are only the domain of young, 20-somethings. He concludes "older people" (over 30?) don't do startups because they:

1. Moved to - and so work - in the 'burbs;
2. Won't put in the hours required by a startup;
3. Have atrophying skills (e.g. Java vs. RoR);
4. Are less malleable and trainable;
5. Have higher salary expectations than startups can supply;

Every founder wants their company to be a success. In my book, founding CEOs carry an extra bit of mental or emotional burden for the success, since the buck stops there.

If you're lucky, you'll get to see it happen. But - then what? I experienced that this week.