Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.
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Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.
The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.
All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.
Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups.
After the glitch that led to a last minute venue change, we were so excited to bring Startup Weekend to the amazing, creative and collaborative space that is the HUB Cape Town, located in one of Cape Town’s historic buildings (@ the Old Castle Brewery). From the moment HUB Cape Town opened their doors to [...]
We are so excited to have such amazing space at theHUBCapeTown for the weekend. A few important things to note… Pitching 1. For those pitching on Friday, you will have 60 seconds to do a verbal elevator pitch of your idea. There is no need for power point presentations or other aids. 2. You can [...]
Please take note that due to technical difficulties we have relocated the event to a new venue: The Hub, Cape Town. http://capetown.the-hub.net/public/index.html http://capetown.the-hub.net/public/contact.html The venue is specifically designed for collaborative work and is a much better fit for this event. Please let either Julian or Tarisai know if you have any issues. Apologies for [...]
We are pleased to announce that each participating team will receive sponsored resources to help get their Startup Weekend business from concept to reality during Startup Weekend. Many thanks to our Global Startup Weekend sponsors, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft BizSparks, Twilio, Elance, Vertical Response, VernCorpse, and many more!!!
2 week count down to the first Startup Weekend event in Africa. What better place to launch than in the Mother City itself? Then on to Jo’Burg on July 29th. We are super, super psyched to hear the diversity of start up ideas that will be pitched, the companies that will actually be created over the [...]
Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers, entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch a startup! PITCH IT. WORK IT. LAUNCH IT! Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, [...]
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