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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiki Page: How to Organize a Startup Weekend</span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We interviewed Ms.Seline Dogan who did Bachelors in Commerce in Canada.She is currently co-op member team,working for SHELL ltd.,Canada.She always feels to change people into a positive mindset .The entire conversation was very warm and informative.Hence,we infered this from the conversation.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 1: What is a Startup Weekend</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A startup weekend is an event organised by group of volunteers on the weekend days . It generally contains 20 to 100 participants where the participants are divided into small groups.Then the members of the group start pitching their ideas and each group select the best idea out of different ideas pitched.These small groups can select the best idea by either interacting with the rea</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">l customers or they simply can vote in for the best idea in their group</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 2: Goal/Need of a Startup Weekend</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fae-b0ed-2fe5-4a9d40c700fe"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal or the need of the startup weekend is to get the strongest business idea out of number of ideas pitched.The strongest idea is basically the most feasible, practical oriented and which will really impact the society after getting launched.Also this idea can make you earn some profits and can benefit the real world.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Section 3: Structure of the weekend (Activity and Content)</span></span>
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<li><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fa1-d2cb-6fbf-caa4adedf1bd"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The activity is basically a three day programme that starts from Friday and ends on late Sunday.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Day 1 goes with introduction among people and interaction that breaks ice.Day 2 is a busy day.It entirely deals with introduction of ideas,presentations.Day 3 that is Sunday which starts at 10:00 in the morning and ends at somewhere around 4:00.It is this day when everyone come forward with presentations,prototyptes and students try to tell why is their idea on their product is the best and why a person should try investing their time or money for the service.</span></p></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-a46a3707-6fb5-604b-7134-c5e68dd73147"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising or branding or promotion of the event plays an important role as it can decide the number of participation.You can use social networking sites also an advertising source of your event.The more participation you get,the more people you can interact with and ultimately the probability of getting the strongest idea even</span></span>
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