What Is Startup Weekend?

What is Startup Weekend?

Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

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Trondheim, Norway

Have you ever dreamed of creating your own company?

Now you have the chance to create a business during one weekend. StartupWeekend is coming to Trondheim 15-17th June.

You will get the opportunity to try out a business idea, join a team of enthusiastic people, and get connections that can transform your life. And the best part is that you actually get to be part of building stuff for real. It is a fast paced weekend where you will be thrown into tasks you might never have done before — an excellent opportunity to learn new skills. StartupWeekend is coming to Trondheim for the second time.

I bet you wonder how it all works. Participants are a mix of all kinds of professions and students. Anybody with an interest in entrepreneurship are welcome to join. Typical backgrounds are engineers, designers, economists, students, doctors, humanist. The more cross-disciplinary the teams are, the better. We start the weekend with an open microphone session where project ideas are pitched. If your brilliant idea is not ready yet, don’t worry — pitching is optional. The most popular projects are found by voting. You are free to join any team/project you like. Throughout the weekend we have mentors, facilitating the teams, and there will be small workshops about entrepreneurship. StartupWeekend has a focus on lean startup methodology. You will be drilled in market validation, customer development, minimum viable product and pivoting. At the end of the weekend you have the chance to win amazing prices from our sponsors.

Mark of the weekend 15-17th June in your calendar!

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Schedule

Friday

Jun 15
  • Registration Starts
  • Dinner & Networking
  • Welcome & Speakers
  • Pitches Start
  • Attendees vote for the top ideas
  • Teams start forming and discussing ideas
  • Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Jun 16
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Lunch
  • Call for needs & skills
  • Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
  • Dinner
  • Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Jun 17
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Lunch
  • Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
  • Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
  • Dinner
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards
  • Wrapup
  • Go home!

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Coaches

Ramphis Castro

Facilitator from StartupWeekend.org   |  LinkedIn

Serial entrepreneur, working on cool projects in the mobile technology space.

Software Engineer, Software Architect, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in smart client application design integrating Microsoft technologies. Always interested in replicable projects for vertical industries.

I aim to build a software companies that create products that enable small to medium business compete with larger enterprises, while maintaining or lowering their technology costs.

Specialties
software architectures, knowledge transfer, mediation, software contract negotiation, technical human resource recruiting, business solutions

Organizers
Magnus Galåen
Arne Jenssen
Torkil Gustavsen
David Edwin
Paula Vargas
Andreas Ursin Hellebust
Maja H Adriansen
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by maja

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by frode

Everyone with an idea will get 60 seconds to present themselves and their idea. That’s not a lot of time so you should prepare to make the best of your time. Remember that a good pitch will help you secure the talent you need to improve your solution. A common approach to the pitch includes: [...]

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