Startup weekend

What is it?

Our philosophy... We educate, inspire, connect and accelerate entrepreneurs in local communities around the world Startup Weekend is a grass root non proﬁt organization, our credo :”No Talk All Action” our goal is to Make Entrepreneurship cool again, bringing great people together sharing Ideas and working hard in just one WeekEnd!

Who is attending? -Entrepreneurs -Innovators -Lawyers About 50% are -Students technical people and -Developers 50% are non- -Marketing pros technical -Biz Dev -VC's -Investors

What do attendees get? - Unbelievable Networking - Hands on Learning - Startup Advice & Resources - Co-Founder dating - Business Partners - New Ideas - Awesome PR (Techcrunch, CNN..) - An incredibly fun & memorable weekend! We educate Entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend vets are more experienced, prepared, and likely to start a successful startup venture

The Core Team Eric Koester Lawyer Dan Martell Business Angel Board of Ayush Agarwal VC Advisers John Seachrest Economic Dev. Danielle Morrill Marketing Directors

No Talk, All Facts! ★ Representation in 100 cities and 23 countries ★ 16,000+ past attendees in just 3 years ★ 410+ New Ventures ★ 36% Still active ★ 10% funded or generating revenues ★ 85% still keep in touch with someone they met at the event ★ Primary demographic age 25 - 35 ★ 66% Full-time employed, 25% unemployed ★ 20% Have attended more than 1 StartupWeekend ★ 95% would attend again

Startup Evolution IPOs VCs Incubators - TechStars - Y-Combinator Money & NedSpace Mentoring VentureHacks BigKittyLabs Sproutbox Star tup Weekend Mentoring Startup Weekend Labs (Future) ﬁlls a major void as well as integrates, Application - Technical Accelerators fosters and facilitates Experience Bootcamps Startup Jobs several other steps Startup Weekend Bootcamps Corporate Workshops Startup Advice Skill building Startup Drinks Lunch/Coffee 2.0 Networking Founder Dating Startup Digest - Events BarCamps Ignite Education Biz Plan Competitions Entrepreneurship Programs Passion - Ideas

The Early Stage Landscape The Ecosystem map TechStars Venture Hacks Value to Startup Ecosystem StartupLessonsLearned Startup Digest SproutBox Founder Institute BarCamps Founder Dating Business Plan Competitions Corporate Hackathons Lunch/Coffee 2.0 S.C.O.R.E Current Volume of Engaged

Direction Education - pre-weekend workshops - content & research New Initiatives - University - Women - Developing Nations - Themes (Mobile, Food, Clean Tech, Journalism) Expansion - G.E.W. - 100+ Events - Post-event support

How Can You Help? • Visibility through the Educate to Innovate program • Spotlight or mention from the WhiteHouse similar to National Lab Day • White house representative at any Startup Weekend • Introductions to other organizations working on a national level to promote entrepreneurship and startup ventures

Contact Let us know if you have any questions or ideas! marc@startupweekend.org 206.661.0419

Startup weekend

by marcnager on Apr 27, 2010

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