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= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 20pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br/> =

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[Techstars]] </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[Techstars]] Startup Weekend is a weekend event where entrepreneurs with various skill sets--whether its technical, business, or creative--come together to share ideas, form teams, and launch their startups. The 54-hour event is design </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to help participants starting out with their startup ideas. For many participants, Techstars Startup Weekend is where their lives as entrepreneurs begin.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); backgroundsans-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapserif;">Since 2009, there has been over 4,100 Techstars Startup Weekend events in over 150 countries. Techstars Startup Weekend community consists of over 234,000 participants from all over the globe. Over 23,000 teams has been created. 80 percents of these teams actually continued to pursue their startups after the events were over.</span>Purpose</span>=

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b242afbcd-e769e80b-2db95c91-cf00b7b2-c0dc3b4a65604186c35be925"><span style="font-size: 20pt11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PurposeTechstars Startup Weekend sets a stage for the great talents in a local community to connect and innovate. These new connections may be the new co-founders, mentors, friends, or even investors. The event provides the participants with the resources they can use to explore what’s possible, where they will discover their passion for entrepreneurship. This is also a great opportunity for the participants to learn the art of bringing a company to life. A hands-on experience, trials, and errors is something no textbooks can ever teach.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b242afbcd-e769e80b-2db95c91-cf00b7b2-c0dc3b4a65604186c35be925"><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 sets has a stage goal for the great talents in local community participants to connect start their businesses and innovatecontinue working on their startups event after the event is over, or at the very least, become much more prepared for the chaotic world of startup. These new connections may be During the event, participants are surrounded by many amazing people, whether they are their fellow participants with the new co-founderssame passion, mentors, friends/coaches who are there to guide them, or even investorsthe judges who are there to give the participants the honest feedback. The event provides participants also have the participants with access to some of the best tools and resources they can use to explore what’s possible, where they will discover at their passion for entrepreneurshipdisposal. This is also a great an opportunity for the participants them to learn the art of bringing take a company big leap in learning to lifedevelop the best businesses possible. A hands-on experience, trials and errorsOverall, Techstars Startup Weekend is something no textbooks can ever teachan amazing event that will put the participants on the path of success.</span></span><div><br/></div>= Event Schedule =

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><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 start their businesses and continue working on their startups event after the event is over, or at the very least, become much more prepared for the chaotic world The first day of startup. During the 3-day eventstarts with a dinner, participants are surrounded by many amazing people, whether they are their networking opportunity with fellow participants with the same passion, mentors/coaches who are there to guide themand sharing of ideas. After a couple ice-breaker activities, or each attendee will get the judges who are there opportunity to give the participants the honest feedbacks. The participants also have the access pitch their ideas in 60 seconds to some of the best tools and resources at their disposalcrow. This What follows is an opportunity idea voting process where the top ideas will be the bases for them to take a big leap in learning to develop the best businesses possible. Overall, Techstars Startup Weekend is an amazing event teams that will put are competing throughout the participants weekend. Teams are formed based on the path of successindividuals skill sets and interests.</span></span>

<brspan id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the teams are made, they are shown to their workspaces where the environment is ideal for productivity: brainstorming, visualizing ideas and researching.</span></span>

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Arial16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Event ScheduleDay 2: Learn & Work</span></span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><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;">All Techstars Startup Weekend events follow The second day of the event immediately picks up from where the same simplefirst day was left off. Day 2 is all about market validation, but effective modellearn, and pivot. On Friday, all participants The teams are welcomed asked to pitch their startup ideascome up with the best minimum viable product (MVP) by the end of the weekend. Teams organically form around Mentors/coaches are there to give the top ideas, as determined by popular vote; teams advice and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy guide them in the right direction. Participants are strongly encouraged to step outside of their working space and go out to talk to their potential customers to gather as much information as they can about the needs that their products are addressing, so they can be addressed effectively. This is the time for the times to refine their business model creationor pivot, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates on Sunday with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedbackshould changes become necessary.</span></span>

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 13: Meet, Pitch Present & Team-upChoose</span></span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><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;">The first last day is when teams start to finalize their business plan models and begin preparing for their final 5-minute pitches. The beginning of the 3-day event starts with is the time for the team to gather any more information that they need in order to build a dinner, networking opportunity with fellow participants, and sharing of ideasminimum viable product. After a couple ice-breaker activities, each attendee Mentors will get also be there to help them with the opportunity to pitch their ideas in 60 seconds to the crowdecks and presentations. What follows This is a idea voting process where usually the top ideas will be the bases for most stressful day in the 3-day events, as teams that are competing throughout the weekend. Teams are formed based crunched on individuals skill sets and intereststime.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span styleResources ="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;">After the teams are made, they are showed to their work spaces where the environment is ideal for productivity: brainstorming, visualizing ideas, and researching.</span></span>

== <span idstyle="docsbackground-internalcolor: transparent; font-guidsize: 11pt; font-efaf396bfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-e769variant-2db9numeric: normal; font-variant-cf00east-c0dc3b4a6560asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Techstars Startup Weekend has teamed up with different companies to provide the Startup Weekend Attendees the best resources including Google, .CO and Appear.in. In addition, participants will have access to discounts and offers. For more details: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 16pt11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(017, 085, 0204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 2[http: Learn & Work//startupweekend.org/attendees/resources http://startupweekend.org/attendees/resources]</span><div><br/></spandiv> =External links =

[https://startupweekend.org/ <span idfont face="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560Arial"><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: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second day of the event immediately picks up from where the first day was left off. Day 2 is all about market validation, learn, and pivot. The teams are asked to come up with the best minimum viable product (MVP) by the end of the weekend. Mentors/coaches are there to give the teams advice and guide them into the right direction. Participants are strongly encouraged to step outside of their working space and go out to talk to their potential customers to gather as much information as they can about the needs that their products are addressing, so they can be addressed effectively. This is the time for the times to refine their business model, or pivot, should changes become necessary.Techstars Startup Weekend Website</span></spanfont>]

== <span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 3: Present & Choose</span>Student Contributors<br/span> ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b242afbcd-e769e814-2db95112-cf00c17f-c0dc3b4a6560d3d3dce2d986"><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;">The last day is when team start to finalize their business plan model and begin preparing for their final 5 minute pitch. The beginning of the day is the time for the team to gather any more information that they need in order to build a minimum viable product. Mentors will also be there to help them with the pitch decks and presentations. This is usually the most stressful day in the 3-day events, as teams are crunched on time.Written by:</span></span>

  <span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><span style="font-size[[Category: 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;">The 5-minute pitch is presented to the crowd and the panel of judges. These judges are big-profile business professionals, industry experts, investors, etc. For each team, after the 5-minute pitch, the question round follows. The jury panel then picks the winning teams as well as giving critical feedback for the startup teams, so they can improve in the future. Besides the traditional first-second-third award format, some teams may win other awards such as a crowd-favorite award.</span></span>   <span id="docs-internal-guid-efaf396b-e769-2db9-cf00-c0dc3b4a6560"><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;">What comes after the pitching rounds is the celebration. After 54 hours of intensive brainstorming, talking to customers, refining business model, and practice pitching, the participants come together to celebrate all the work that they have done. They will also have an opportunity to network with the judges, mentors, the press, the event organizers, and other participants.</span></span><div><br/></div>Organizations]]