The first week of Startup Weekend's Global Startup Battle kicked off yesterday with 13 events in 4 countries. 156 new startup teams will be working for the rest of the weekend, to create the first Global Startup Battle winner!

• Startup Weekend Indianapolis is off to a running start... for a little city, they have 8 teams. Their oldest participant will be 69 on Thanksgiving day, and their youngest team leader is 9 years old. #swindy
• Lisbon Startup Weekend (Portugal): more than 60 pitches (craziness!!) and 24 teams were formed #swLX
• Boston Startup Weekend: about 40 pitches, with roughly 10 teams formed. This event is the first Startup Weekend MOBILE event, and we’re all very excited to see what startups will come out of it. #swboston
• Portland Startup Weekend: 22 pitches and 7 teams have formed. Off to the races they go! #pdxsw
• Detroit Startup Weekend had 29 pitches and formed 10 teams. Had people travel to the event from two different states and Canada! #swdetroit
• Beirut Startup Weekend had about 63 pitches, 32 of which were selected. More than 300 participants turned this into the biggest Startup Weekend event so far! Congratulations to the YallaStartup Weekend team! #yswlb
• Seattle Startup Weekend rocked 35 ideas with 16 teams formed. We have dev teams begging for marketing guys for once too which is a nice problem. #swsea
• Sofia Startup Weekend (Bulgaria): 13 pitches, 5 teams formed, 90% developers, people from 4 countries basically ‘geeking’ it out .NET style#swsofia
• New York City Arts Tech Startup Weekend: a lot of fun ideas, 15 projects made the official cut. #swnyc
• Chicago Startup Weekend: about 10 teams have formed from the 80 attendees from across the US #swchi
• Cleveland Startup Weekend: they had set a goal of 5 teams, which came out of 10 pitches #swcle
• Tulsa Startup Weekend: 15 pitches and formed 4 awesome teams! #swtulsa
• Dallas Startup Weekend: 30 Pitches in Dallas with 10 teams #swdallas

Let the battle begin!

To all those teams: keep rocking the second Global Startup Battle day, and have an amazing time working in teams and building your dreams. But do not forget to FIGHT! The Twitter Startup Battle hashtag is #StartupBattle. Use it to fight with other teams and promote your team and event!

[Flickr photo courtesy Elizabeth Fuller]

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