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Each day of the event has a different focus<span id="docs-internal-guid-9d6b1575-e7f5-f611-d920-cb374363aca3">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Techstars <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Techstars</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; Friday ">Startup Weekend is for pitching a weekend event where entrepreneurs with various skill sets--whether its technical, business, or creative--come together to share ideas and gathering a team, Saturday form teams, and part of Sunday launch their startups. The 54-hour event is for building a viable productdesigned to help participants starting out with their startup ideas. For many participants, and Sunday night Techstars Startup Weekend is prototype demonstration and judging of ideaswhere their lives as entrepreneurs begin.</span></span>

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It appears that most startup weekend events are focused primarily on launching web<span id="docs-internal-guid-242afbcd-e7f7-3483-aaa7-16c31f68199a"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, mobile0, or service products0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Techstars Startup Weekend sets a stage for the great talents in local community to connect and innovate. These new connections may be the new co- they do not focus on engineered founders, mentors, friends, or material productseven investors. UnderstandableThe event provides the participants with the resources they can use to explore what’s possible, as most products that require design research and physical prototyping are simply unfeasable where they will discover their passion for entrepreneurship. This is also a great opportunity for the participants to launch within such learn the art of bringing a short timeframecompany to life. A Fellow may be wise to take this into account when decidding if this resource hands-on experience, trials and errors, is best for their purposessomething no textbooks can ever teach.</span></span>

A notable exception <span id="docs-internal-guid-242afbcd-e7f7-3483-aaa7-16c31f68199a"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Techstars Startup Weekend has a goal for the participants to this include start their businesses and continue working on their startups event after the event is over, or at the Toronto very least, become much more prepared for the chaotic world of startup weekend. During the event, participants are surrounded by many amazing people, whether they are their fellow participants with the same passion, which hosts a 'maker editionmentors/coaches who are there to guide them,' giving attendees or the judges who are there to give the participants the honest feedbacks. The participants also have the access to some of the full suite of best tools and resources one would typically encounter at their disposal. This is an opportunity for them to take a hackerworksbig leap in learning to develop the best businesses possible. Overall, Techstars Startup Weekend is an amazing event that will put the participants on the path of success.</makerworks.span></span><div><br/></div>

Startup Weekend provides a quick-and-dirty, hands on learning experience that is hard to replicate. Since attendees are focused solely on their products and ideas for the entire weekend, with access to resources the entire way, Startup Start-up Weekend can enable entrenrenuers entreprenuers to conceive and launch an idea in under three days. Hilightable differences include: -Faster paced than other resources -Focus primarily on mobile/web/it/service products- products that can be built and launched in a relatively short timeframe, without safety, design, or material concerns -Focus primarily on early business lessons; what is required to start and run business at first -Provides 'coaches,'&nbsp; experienced business leaders to assist and advise the startup process

Startup weekend is focused *Faster pace than other resources*Focus primarily on fast pacedmobile/web/IT/service products; products that can be built and launched in a relatively short timeframe, without safety, design, hands or material concerns*Focus primarily on learning with little time for theory or lecture.early business lessons; what is required to start and run business in the earliest stage*Provides coaches: experienced business leaders to assist and advise the startup process*Competition style event; not purely a seminar, offers judging by an organizer selected panel

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus<br/> =Startup Weekend is focused on fast paced, hands on learning with little time for theory or lecture.

Startup Weekend's website cites that over 1= Impact Achieved for Students and Campus<br/3 of startups founded at their events are still running smooth after three months of business, and that ~80% of participants are still working with those companies- perhaps an impressive feat considering their attendance record of over 45,000 alumni.> =

Startup weekend teaches attendees how to rapidly develop and mature an ideaWeekend's [http://startupweekend.org/about/ website]&nbsp;states that more than 23K teams have been formed, over one- it appears to focus more on the initial startup third of the business than the longstart-term ups founded at their events are still running. While valuable networking opportunities are sure to present themselvessmoothly after three months of business, this may not be the event for the seasoned entreprenuer looking for fine tweaks and coachingroughly 80% of participants are still working with those companies. This is an impressive feat considering their attendance record of over 193K alumni from 150 countries.

''Additional update pending interview with John Schneider, founder of Fargo MELD Startup Weekend teaches attendees how to rapidly develop and Startup mature an idea. The Weekend alumfocuses on the initial start-up of the business more than the long-term running. Atempting While valuable networking opportunities are sure to find additional 'hackerspace' style startup weekends as wellpresent themselves, this may not be the event for the seasoned entrepreneur looking for fine tweaks and coaching.''

The Startup Weekend homepage provides a handy [http://startupweekend.org/organizer/ step-by-step guide ] to bringing their bring the event to your city! Attendance at a previous startup weekend Startup Weekend is a requirement for any prospective '[http://startupweekend.org/organizer/ Organizers,' as Startup Weekend calls them]. An Organizer is responsible for organizing nearly the entire event from the ground up, from venue and food logistics to securing judges and coaches.   The largest barrier that must be overcome in order to bring Startup Weekend to your campus or city is the requirement for an Organizer to be a Startup Weekend alumni- that is, they must have previously attended a startup weekend. Access to such an event depends on the proximity of your campus to startup events and your willingness to make the journey to attend one - or to convince an alumni to come to you! 

Startup weekend Weekend presents itself as a simple, easy to deploy system- they host ; there is a variety of documentation on their webpage to assist in getting one set up.

-*Leadership and team building advice -*Target audience & potential areas to look for budding entreprenuers -*Financial information (planning, acquiring sponsors, etc..) -*Day by day guides to suggested event planning

For general information regarding Startup Weekend, see the homepage webpage at [http://startupweekend.org/ http://startupweekend.org/].

<br/>For direct contact information, there is a form on the webpage at [http://startupweekend.org/contact/ http://startupweekend.org/contact/].

Mailing Address:<br/>1700 7th Ave, Suite 116 #147<br/>Seattle, WA 98101

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