These are the slides for my talk at the kick-off of Startup Weekend EDU in Boston. Startup Weekend has become a major force for fostering entrepreneurship all around the world. If you are into startups or wondering what it's like to be in one, look for an event near you. Together with a small team you will create a startup in 54 hours. Nothing quite like it.

1. Three Tips
for Winning
Startup Weekend
Sim Simeonov / @simeons

2. Founding. Funding.
Growing. Startups.

4. No. 1
Do not be cool

5. This guy is not cool

6. emotion  action
Entrepreneurship hates complacency

7. No. 2
Practice Educated Ignorance

8. The market: too noisy

9. Walled gardens: too quiet

10. distance == perspective

11. No. 3
Bring a gun to the knife fight

12. good ideas
great technologies
starting companies
What’s Startup Weekend about?

13. Startup weekend is about
selling youself & your idea

14. Bonus: No. 4
Beware the Kool-Aid

15. My ex-Navy Seal scuba instructor
threw my sports drink overboard

16. Most athletes drink lots of water
and small amounts of other drinks

17. Startup Weekend is an
Athletic Event
Hack your body to perform better.
Eat well & stay hydrated.