Have you heard about Wallstick?

What do your walls say about You? Philanthropist and entrepreneur, Meredith Holthaus, thinks they could say so much more. Wallstick, a large format true-color adhesive print, allows you to take personal and meaningful moments and easily display them on your wall. To take the idea to the next level, Meredith leveraged relationships created during InOneWeekend to generate a plan.

With the kickoff of InOneAfternoon, a number of entrepreneurs came together for two hours of brainstorming and planning. The outcome produced a number of Wallstick ideas to support Holthaus' efforts and the structure for a format that allows entrepreneurs to regularly support each others' efforts. InOneWeekend showed us that a group of 100 can quite deeply and thoroughly vet an idea and create a business plan in one weekend in a way that a solitary business owner might not be able to do in 3 or 4 years. Does the same hold true for smaller or more focused efforts? I think so. Meredith walked away with a number of new ideas.

What I think this means for the Cincinnati entrepreneur community is that our efforts will become more and more visible to each other and the larger community. The top down efforts like Cincinnati's Agenda 360 to unite and direct regional growth efforts are necessary. Approaching regional growth from the bottom up with efforts like InOneWeekend and InOneAfternoon round out a full set of offerings that will inject some vibrant energy into the local community and regional economy. The region has a lot of great people looking to make a difference, and efforts like InOneWeekend and InOneAfternoon provide a forum to bring many of these people together.

- Andy