Friday night Facilitator Deck for Startup Weekend: Access focused on giving the entrepreneurial experience to people with disabilities, particularly the blind and deaf. Tested for high contrast, color blindness, and more. Transcription available separately.
6. Hi, I’m Shashi
Innovations
Manager - UP
Global
• Founder,
MatterCompilers
• Portland 3D
Printing Lab
• TiE Program
Director
• Startup Weekend
OrganizerLife Begins Where your Comfort Zone Ends. -
NEALE DONALD WALSCHTRY NOT. DO OR DO NOT. THERE IS NO
13. Remarks
Mark Adreon
• Washington State
Department of
Services for the Blind
• Startup Weekend
Alum
“The doors to opportunity need to be wide
14. Icebreaker
Cooperative
Counting
1. Find a partner
2. Count to 3,
alternating
numbers
3. Repeat three
times
4. Stop. We’ll tell
Hints
• Set a
reasonable
pace
• Find a cue that
works for your
partner
24. • Business Model
– How will you make money?
– How will you sell to customers?
– Differentiation? Competition?
• Execution
– Did you build something?
– Was it well designed?
• Customer Validation
– Did you talk to real customers?
– Did you Incorporate their feedback?
Judging Criteria
26. FAQ
• Can I pitch ideas I’ve already been working on?
– No, but well-Researched and Vetted Ideas are welcome!
• Can I pitch more than one Idea?
– No, Pick your Favorite
• What if my idea isn’t selected?
– No worries- Join another team! Remember, it’s not about
the idea!
• Can I work on my idea if it’s not selected?
– Yes, but you have to get at least one other person to work
with you
• Can I use slides when I pitch?
– No, but you can use props. Remember, 60 seconds goes
quick!
27. How to PItchCover these five
things
• Who are you?
• What problem are
you solving?
• How will you solve
it?
• Who do you need?
• What is your
28. The way you pitch reflects
=
Who you are & who you attract
Important!!!
30. Voting
• Pitchers have a vote
bucket
• Everyone has three
Poker Chips
• One Chip, one vote
• 10 minutes for voting
• Organizers tally votes
and announce teams
• Escorts for Physically
and Visually Impaired
31. Ground Rules
Information
• Shashi
503.985.6536
• Call or Text if you need
something
Rules/Recommendations
• Respect abilities
• Welcome and include
• Be the solution
• Ask for help
• It’s OK to say NO
• Respect service animals
32. What’s Next
• RePitch – Remind us who you are
and what you need
• Divide Into Teams
• Get your Headquarters + Supplies
• Get to Work
• Out by 10pm
34. Vocabulary
Customer
Validation
Interviewing people to discover a pressing problem they
may want solved (headache vs. migraine)
Execution
The stuff you build this weekend, including prototypes,
code, design work
Business Model
A simple understanding of how customers buy your
product/service, how much they will pay, how much it
costs
Product-Market Fit
The process of finding a product that fulfills a clearly-
defined customer problem
Lean Startup
A methodology using iterative development and test with
customers to develop products and services (Sci Method]
Minimum viable
Product
Enough product to test your assumptions about what the
customer needs
Pitch
A short business presentation that clearly outlines the
problem, solution and needs
Editor's Notes
Startup Camp is a 2.5 day exercise in which students from Catlin Gabel, Oregon Episcopal School and Lincoln High work together to build companies based on their ideas.
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Get schedule info, contact info, and resources on our web sites!
We are using celly to keep people posted on things like meals, emergencies, etc
Call out the organizers and student leaders. Introduce Meredith Goddard as lead organizer.
I am your facilitator. That means I help set the pace of Startup Camp. If you have any questions about how this works or would like to share your experience, come to me.
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I just flew in today from another startup weekend event at a corporation in Kansas City. I’m to share with you what I shared with them.
It’s easy to get used to something and getting really good at it and stop doing new things. I want to congratulate you all for just being here and trying something new. But showing up is not enough.
I have one ask of each of you. Push yourselves out of that comfort zone; push yourselves harder than you ever have before and when you experience something new DO it with all you got. I promise you that what you build together will be wonderful.
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So what is Startup Weekend all about? Startup Weekend is one of the leading catalysts for startup creation and entrepreneurial education around the world. Our mission is to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and give them the motivation and networking opportunities they need to take the next step in creating a successful startup company. Founded in 2007, we’ve since become a registered non-profit and focused on expanding our model to become a global, hyper-local grassroots movement. Some quick facts:- Startup Weekend has helped educate & inspire almost 100,000 entrepreneurs- They have done over 1000 events in over 107 countries to date and are on track to do over 1000 alone in 2013- Over 2000 organizers and volunteers that are the driving force in Startup Weekend’s success- Over 1000 ventures have been launched at Startup Weekend’s around the globe.
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Congratulations for now being a part of this massive and awesome network.
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Copy/Paste GPS marker to place on each city for Hashtag Battle – fun for connecting with other cities, and group competition brings the energy up - http://hashtagbattle.com/ - To Encourage reaching out and meeting people from other events through social streams
Reach out to your Regional Contact at SW HQ for a complete list of events during the weekend!
How many of you have parents who are entrepreneurs?
How many of you have been shown the path towards entrepreneurship in school?
Some of you? We’re here to show you how.
How many of you have parents who are entrepreneurs?
How many of you have been shown the path towards entrepreneurship in school?
Some of you? We’re here to show you how.
American Express OPEN is the leading payment card issuer for small businesses and startups in the US and supports business owners with products and services that help them run and grow their business.
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Post-It brand is supplying all US events with post it supplies to help attendees build and create their company.
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talk through each service and their offering or support.
People might think it’s going to be boring... reming 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:
Google is teaming up with Startup Weekend to help developers and entrepreneurs launch new startups. Google is excited to announce that they will have a brand new offer available to the community in February. Sign up here cloud.google.com/starterpack to request the new offer details by completing a short form. You will also receive an email with the offer details once the new offer is live.
.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
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.
AWS Activate is a program designed to provide startups with the resources needed to get started on AWS. Join some of the fastest-growing startups in the world and build your business using AWS. Learn more by visiting http://aws.amazon.com/activate/
Coca Cola
Besides being one of the most iconic brands in the world, The Coca-Cola Company is dedicated to spurring innovation, inspiring entrepreneurs, and supporting the world’s greatest innovators. Want a Coca Cola representative at your event? Let us know: http://register.startupweekend.org/coca-cola/
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SW is for new, fresh ideas…not formed teams or ideas that have significant work completed on them
Only 1 pitch per person
Remember, most ideas will not get selected. Be prepared to get on another team
This is an open IP environment
Blind people get a vibrating timer
Deaf people get 1 minute, but their interpreter can finish interpreting past 1 minute
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