And the winner is…
Congratulations to all the participants for an awesome Startup Weekend! We hope you learned a lot and made valuable connections for the future. So without further ado here are the winners along with their prize packages:
1st Place: SubBids.com
- Incorporation Package from Brown Rudnick LLP
- Xbox 360 & Xbox Kinect
- Amazon Web Services Code for $200
- 2 copies of Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- 1 year of services from awe.sm
2nd Place: BeOnTi.me
- 2 copies of Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- 1 year of services from awe.sm
3rd Place: Ottr
- 1 copy of Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- 1 year of services from awe.sm
Audience Choice: Whoizit
- 1 copy of Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Top Twilio Startup: Spea.cc
- Twilio Credits
Top cloudmine Startup: BeOnTi.me
- $55 cloudmine Credits
Honorable Mentions
- Best Design: ActivePepper
- Most Technical Achievement: BeOnTi.me
- Most Fun: Ottr
Presentation Lineup
- CrossCampus
- BeOnTi.me
- MyGeode
- ActivePepper
- VipKings
- MapTunes
- Senseii
- IncognitoCare
- Parq.it
- Ottr
- EmpowerID
- Catodo
- Whoizit
- Spea.cc
- League of Actions
- ClipboardCloud
- Subbids.com
Note: Practice pitches will be available at the green room from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm on a first-come, first-served basis.
This Weekend’s Ventures!
- IncognitoCare: Anonymous psychiatric care.
- CrossCampus: Enhance 911 for campus security
- BeOnTi.me: Make it there and always be on time
- ClipboardCloud: The clipboard of the future in the cloud
- Ottr: Easy way to make plans with friends
- EmpowerID: Empowering international development practitioners to build on each others’ experiences
- Senseii: Globalize your education
- Subbids.com: Easy bid trackins for subcontractors
- MapTunes: Putting music on the map
- Parq.it: Easiest way to find and pay for parking
- Catodo: Task based allowance
- Speacc: Adding emotion to social media
- Whoizit: Guess Who for facebook friends
- ActivePepper: Faciltates finding sports partners
- VipKings: Premium nightclub bookkeeping service
- MyGeode: Location based task management
- League of Actions: Microvolunteering gamified
Judging Criteria
The universal Startup Weekend judging criteria are broken up into three sections. Teams are judged according to the following 3 criteria (weighed equally):
Business Model - The heart of it all. If you haven’t got answers to these questions, you’ve spent too much time on frills & features and need to get back to the basics:
- Who is your customer?
- What is your core value proposition?
- What are your key activities?
- What are your revenue streams?
- What is your cost structure?
- Who/what are your key partners/resources?
- What are your distribution channels?
- What is your roll-out strategy?
Customer Validation – Have you taken the proper steps to ensure that the people who matter (your future customers) support and reinforce your assumptions? Think of Customer Validation as ‘evidence’ to back up the core structure of your ‘theory’ (your Business Model). The more feedback you gather (quantity), the more this feedback comes from your specific target market (quality), and the more you’re able to actually integrate this feedback into the Business Model and product development (execution), the better.
Execution – The nitty gritty: what has your team been able to actually build over the weekend? Even the strongest of Business Plans are useless in the hands of those who can’t properly execute on them. Getting as far as possible in the development of your product/prototype not only helps give Judges a tangible vision of what the final product could be, but proves your strength and skills as a team. This is what truly matters: investors don’t invest as in ideas so much as teams.
If you have any questions, please email me at joshbob@startupweekend.org.
Thanks again, and I’ll look forward to seeing your pitches on Sunday!
