The entire town
is ours.
One camp in the Catskills, New York, taken over entirely for 14 days. Far enough from the city that nobody nips back for a meeting. Close enough that investors will drive up for the last day.
The location is doing more work than it looks like it is.
Every accelerator that runs in a city loses to the city. People go home, take the meeting, keep the contract, sleep in their own bed and arrive with half a head. The programme becomes a calendar invite.
Put thirty teams somewhere with one road in and the arithmetic changes. The only people to talk to at eleven at night are the other twenty-nine teams, and every one of them is two days ahead of you on something and two days behind on something else.
That is what the Catskills are for. Not the view, though the view helps at 6am on the morning the deploy finally goes green.
- Getting there
- Two and a half hours north of Manhattan. Coaches run from the city on check-in morning, and back again at the end.
- Sleeping and eating
- Cabins on site, shared by team, and three meals a day in one hall. Nobody books a hotel and nobody eats at a desk alone.
- Working
- One large build hall, a scatter of smaller rooms for calls, and proper fibre at every desk. A camp in setting only.
- Phones
- In the box on arrival. You get yours back for calls with customers, and for nothing else.
Friday, October 2 to Saturday, October 17.
Coaches leave Manhattan on the morning of check-in. Bring a laptop, two weeks of clothes, and whatever you were already going to build.
