5. David Clearwater
• Facilitator, organiser and participant at 5 Startup Weekends
• Venture Director at Akina Foundation
• Digital // Social Enterprise // Marketing
• Connect to me on LinkedIn
David Clearwater
@espressoftw
david.clearwater@akina.org.nz
9. • Sarah Day – Inland Revenue
• Danielle Wills – Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
• Tom Harding – Mish Guru
• Lucy Luo – Simmonds Stewart
• Sean Coley - Kiwibank
• Katherine Field – BizDojo
• Nick Churchouse – CreativeHQ
• Laura Reitel – CreativeHQ
• Jill McCarthy – *experience
• Paul Spence – iWantMyName
• Dave Moskovitz – WebFund, Startup New Zealand, InternetNZ
10. Mentors
• Michael Dowse
• Andrew Preston
• Ed Strafford
• Martina Battisti
• Peter Dixon
• Anna Brown
• Geoff Nixon
• Geoff Nixon
• Chris Clay
• Rowan Yeoman
• Alan Froggatt
• Sam Dixon
• Mahsa Marks
• Silvia Zuur
11. Judges
• Steve Maharey – Massey University
• Terry Shubkin – Young Enterprise Trust
• Dr Vicki Compton – tech education
researcher and author
• Michael Elwood-Smith – Startup expert
12. To be updated with EDU criteria
including EDUCATION IMPACT
15. Prizes
• Winner
• $10,000 free advertising from TradeMe
• First module of The Startup Hatchery at The ICEHOUSE
• Accounting Forecast from Crowe Horwath
• 3 months at Inc & Co / The Chookhouse
• 5 days in the next 12 months at each of eCentre (Albany),
Basestation (Tauranga), The Bio Commerce Centre (Palmerston
North), BizDojo (Auckland or Wellington) and CreativeHQ
(Wellington), AwesomeHQ (Christchurch)
16. Prizes
• ALL TEAMS ARE WINNERS!
• Microsoft BizSpark - $10K software and services
• Amazon Web Services - $100 voucher
• Hook up with local developers, designers, mentors and
investors
• A shedload of other stuff, like freebies and big discounts on
really useful stuff like O'Reilly books, SendGrid, UserVoice,
KISSMetrics, MongoHQ, Crazy Egg, Optimizely,
GoToMeeting - see https://startupweekend.rewardli.com/
18. The Half Baked Game
• Form teams – by the first letter of your
surname
• Each team chooses five random words
from the hat
• You have 10 minutes to make a one-
minute pitch for a business idea using
three of those words
• Ready – Set – Go!
19. F.A.Q.
Q: Can I pitch something I’ve already been working on?
A: No, however well researched and vetted ideas are welcome
Q: What if my idea isn’t selected?
A: Join another team. It’s not really about the idea.
Q: Can I work on my idea even if it’s not selected?
A: Only if you can get another two people on your team
Q: Can I use any props or PowerPoint when I’m pitching?
A: Props are OK, slides are not. You only have one minute!
Q: What happens after Startup Weekend?
A: That’s entirely up to you! We’ll have a reunion though.
20. F.A.Q.
Q: What about my intellectual property?
A: It’s probably better out than in.
Q: Do I have to share equity with my teammates?
A: The “Golden Rule” should apply, but it’s up to you.
Reach quick verbal agreement up front, and don’t team
up with assholes.
Q: Can we use resources outside the room?
A: Yes, we encourage you to pull out all stops.
21. Startup Weekend Launchpad
• Pre-event drinks on the Friday at The Cross
• Meet other participants and mentors
• Test your idea in a supportive environment
• Practice pitching (and pitch coaching!)
• 4.00-5.30pm Fri 29 Feb at Southern Cross
23. Saturday
• Doors open 8am
• Morning
• Refine your MVP and Elevator Pitch
• Define customer/market validation questions
• Some team members “get out of the building”
• Others start building the product and/or
acquiring external resources
• Fill in Startup Weekend Survey / Census
• Lunch: Midday
• Teams give 1-minute pitch, call for help
24. Saturday (continued)
• Afternoon
• Incorporate learnings from validation
• Pivot?
• Build furiously
• Sign up first customers
• Dinner: 6pm, another round of 1-minute pitches
• Evening
• Go-to-market plan
• Front end / back end integration started
• Final presentation structured
• Doors close 1am
25. Sunday
• Doors open 8am
• Morning
• 1 minute pitches
• Build comes together; testing
• Final presentation being fleshed out
• Plan out the future post-Startup Weekend
• Lunch: midday
• Afternoon
• Finalise presentation; dry run; tech check
• 5-8pm – Final Presentations
27. Social Interwebs
• Startup Weekend NZ Group on Facebook
• Closed group – request membership!
• @SWWLG
• #SWEDUNZ
• wellington.startupweekend.org
28. So
• See you at the pre-match Launchpad
• Sign up your friends
• Get thee onto our Facebook Group
• Think big
• Meet people
http://wellington.startupweekend.org
Give a brief overview as to why you’re the person standing in front of them, either startup experience or Startup Weekend experience
Facilitator
talk through each service and their offering or support.
People might think it’s going to be boring... remind them 2 things
a. They are here to create successful startups, these sponsors once were startups, we hope you’ll all do as good as them :)
b. These are people SW works really close with, if you use there platform they might become your first partner / investor / you might get acquired ... or we hope acquire them one day : )
Aside from local sponsors, as a non profit Startup Weekend relies on global sponsorships and grants to be sustainable and expand globally. A lot of these global sponsors offer resources to each of the attendees with products and service they will find valuable over the next 54 hours. If you have not already, please pick up a Global Sponsor one pager that list out all of these resources you can use over the weekend:
.CO is proud to support Startup Weekend by providing all participants with the opportunity for a free 12-month registration. Don%27t settle for a lame name with dashes or missing vowels -- get a short, memorable, seo-friendly domain name to launch your startup this weekend! Use the promo code provided by your organizer to to get your .CO at www.go.costartupweekend
Microsoft BizSpark: Is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups, providing Software, Support and Visibility. Request your enrollment code at http://startupweekend.org/bizspark.
Kauffman Foundation: is the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship. In September 2010 Startup Weekend received a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which empowers us to continue to scale globally and to study the unpredictable science of successful entrepreneurship. To learn more about the Kauffman Foundation, check them out at Kauffman.org. Momentum: A mentorship driven startup accelerator and a great next step to consider after Startup Weekend. I encourage you all to learn more about them and other startup accelerators because they are the perfect next step to startup success after this weekend.
CloudMine provides a better backend for your mobile apps. Spend time building your app, not building the server-side platform required to run it. See your event Facilitator to obtain your $50 promotion code (that’s 100,000 API calls) to be used during signup or on your billing page at cloudmine.me.
Need help? Reach out to us at support@cloudmine.me.
Google is teaming up with Startup Weekend to help developers and entrepreneurs launch new startups by working with Startup Weekend to launch a series of pre-event Bootcamps! For more info and to find a bootcamp near you visit http:// startupweekend.org/google
AWS - Built upon the same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides start-ups and businesses with a secure, reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build applications, store data, manage business processes, and more. Amazon Web Services is issuing all Startup Weekend participants an AWS credit voucher valued at $100 which can be applied to an existing account and is good until 12 months from issue. Please follow the instructions on startupweekend.org/aws to sign up for Amazon Web Services and redeem the promotional code provided by your Startup Weekend Organizer.
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Customer Validation
Get out of the building, talk to real people, listen for quality feedback, learn from it and have it affect what you’re building.
Business Model
Have you identified any competition?
What makes you different?
How do you plan to get it in front of people?
How will this build a business?
Execution – the weekend is about experience and education. Learning and growing.
How much did you challenge yourself?
What did you learn?
How solid was the demo/prototype, technologically, simple user experience, polished interface, brand thought through?
And Beyond
Is the team made up of people that are fit to continue forward?
**Did this team come together this weekend and start from scratch?? Previous products/businesses/teams are welcome to build, but not eligible for winning**
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