I was supposed to be home visiting my parents. Instead I ended up spending the Sunday of my trip seated at a table among four teams of entrepreneurs in downtown Tulsa.

This event called "Startup Weekend," is hosted all over the world and funded in part by the Kauffman Foundation. By the end the third day, the four teams here will have taken what was once an idea into a full product launch, doing so in just one weekend. 

How did I get here?  As with almost everything I do these days, there's a little luck and a lot of acting on impulse. A couple of days before getting on the Oklahoma-bound flight, I got a random e-mail from a guy in Tulsa about something related to entrepreneurship and the Kauffman Foundation. He happened to live in the town I was flying into, so I mentioned I was going to be visiting my family and could stop by on my way to see them.  I did, but first squeezed in some research on Startup Weekend. By the time my flight landed I was looking  for a reason to sit in a room of serial entrepreneurs in "flyover country."  I'm writing this entry from that room right now.