Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours (25 page)

Northwest Entrepreneur Network

Northwestern University

Nouyrigat, Franck

Nuvention

O'Donnell, Charlie

123DressMe

Online advertising

Orowitsch, Stefano

Partners.
See also
Cofounders

cynicism about
need for

Passion

Pasulka, Sasha

Persistence

Pitching ideas

sixty second pitch.
See
Sixty second pitch
Sunday presentations.
See
Sunday presentations
for talent versus funding.
See
Team building

Pivoting

Plane.ly

Product/service differentiation

Project management

agile development
lean methods
scrum board
traditional method
waterfall method

Proof of concept.
See
Minimum viable product (proof of concept)

Protobakes

Prototypes.
See
Minimum viable product (proof of concept)

Quotify

Reiser, Shane

Relationship building

Release early, release often concept

Research on entrepreneurship

Rethink Water

Ries, Eric

Ringwald, Alexis

Risk

and entrepreneurship
low-risk setting of Startup Weekend
and minimum viable product concept

Risk capital

Risk mitigation

Rockwell, Dan

Roman vote (thumbs-up/thumbs-down)

Roqbot

Rossi, Jon

Scaling leap

Schramm, Carl

Scrum

Scrum boards.
See also
Brainstorming

Seguin, Nick

Shurstedt, Jerry

Siauw, Danielle

Silicon Valley

Sixty second pitch

elements of
example
pain-point
problem description
rationale for
solution summary
team building

Smallbone, David

Social media

Social networking

South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival

Sparkrelief

Sprints

Stamos, John

Stanford University

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Startup America

Startup Cofounders

Startup Drinks

Startup Foundation

Startup Labs

Startup leap

Startup process

cofounder leap
entrepreneurship leap
external growth leap
funded leap
scaling leap
speed of
startup leap

Startup revolution

Startup Weekend

action-based networking
attendees
backgrounds of attendees
benefits of
and community
continuation of work after
Core Team
empowerment
experiential education.
See
Experiential education
facilitators
formal presentations
Friday pitches.
See
Sixty second pitch
functions of
future of
global impact
goals of
history of
idea versus minimum viable product as weekend goal
job descriptions
low-risk setting
as means of testing relationships
networking.
See also
Networking
proof of concept requirement.
See also
Minimum viable product (proof of concept)
registration
relationship building
60 second pitch.
See
Sixty second pitch
Sunday presentations
team creation
team leaders
team requirement

Startup Weekend Atlanta

Startup Weekend Baton Rouge

Startup Weekend Boulder

Startup Weekend Cambridge, England

Startup Weekend Columbus, Ohio

Startup Weekend Copenhagen

Startup Weekend Costa Rica

Startup Weekend Denver

Startup Weekend Grand Rapids

Startup Weekend Lansing, Michigan

Startup Weekend New York City

Startup Weekend Paris, France

Startup Weekend Seattle

Startup Weekend Singapore

Startup Weekend Toulouse, France

Startup Weekend Vancouver, British Columbia

Startups

bubble
failure rate
versus large companies
process.
See
Startup process
reluctance to share ideas
startup leap
startup revolution
success factors

Success patterns

Sundance Festival

Sunday presentations

contents of
and growth projections
judging criteria
presenters
questions, answering
and team leader role

SuperMarmite

Surveys

Tag lines

Tamagotchis

Task allocation

Task Ave.

Team building

business model considerations
chemistry
communication
competition, effect of
core team
importance of team
individual pitches
needs assessment
passion and energy.
See
Passion
and project management
skills assessment
and staying motivation
team dynamics
transparency
trust.
See also
Trust

Team work

continued work after Startup Weekend
disagreements
and emotional equilibrium
importance of
Roman vote (thumbs-up/thumbs-down)
scrum boards, use of
task allocation
team leaders
urgent and important matrix

Tech Stars

Technology

and democratization of entrepreneurship
tools, availability of

TechStars program (Seattle)

TED

Thoughtback.com

To-do list

Toyota

Transparency

Triplingo

Trust

Urgent and important matrix

Vandenbos, Mike

Venture capital

Vision

and business model
communicating
and customer needs

Waterfall method

Welter, Friederike

Women 2.0

Y-Combinator

Zaarly

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword: Carl Schramm and Steve Blank

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Starting Up Is All about Trust and Empowerment

Marc Nager and Clint Nelsen
How Trust Led Us to the Greatest Adventure of Our Lives
Franck Nouyrigat
How We Empower People to Get the Most Out of Startup Weekend
Why You Have to Have Trust to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

Chapter 1: No Talk, All Action: Action-Based Networking

You
Breaking Down Barriers
Taking Advantage of High-Energy, Low-Risk Settings
Get Out of Your Bubble
If Not an Actual Startup, at Least Always Build Relationships
Diversity of Backgrounds Is Key
How Do You Keep the Momentum Going?

Chapter 2: Good Ideas Need Great Teams: Pitch for Talent Not for Funding

The Magic of 60 Seconds
Deliver a Solution with One Sentence
Build a Team
What You Need—Talent and Energy

Chapter 3: Experiential Education: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone While Working Together as a Team

The Importance of Context, Deadlines, and Instant Feedback
Braindump
So You Have a Viable Idea—Now What?
Learning by Doing
Risk Mitigation
Allocating Tasks
Recognizing Failure
The Three Main Criteria

Chapter 4: The Startup Business Model: Adapt, Stay Lean, and Reiterate

The Customer Development Revolution
Getting Lean, Staying Agile, Preparing to Pivot
Communication Is Key
Stick with the Basics
The Missing Pieces of the Entrepreneur's Curriculum

Chapter 5: Mapping the Startup Ecosystem and Subversive Reconstruction

The Entrepreneurship Leap
The Cofounder Leap
The Startup Leap
The Funded Leap
The Scaling Leap
External Growth Leap
Leaping More Often
The Future of Startup Weekend
The Startup Foundation

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