Sunday’s Pitching Guidelines
1. Team pitches will start at 5pm. 2. Each team shall be given maximum of 4 minutes to present their [...]
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Startup Weekend Global Site1. Team pitches will start at 5pm. 2. Each team shall be given maximum of 4 minutes to present their [...]
Short update, below the list of the teams in the race as of September 29. My PettyForex GWay Daang Matuwid [...]
Hi Startup Weekend survivors, we just received an email from the folks over at Amazon and they decided to give [...]
The winners of this year’s Startup Weekend Manila event are: Judges choice: First prize: Kiddle Second prize: RideFind Third prize: [...]
The following teams are still in the race : ManilaHouseHunt GiftHabit No-Child-Left-behind FittingRoom To DO List Kiddle SinugGusto CheckMate MyRemitHub [...]
Grab a seat in the first row. Live and unplugged from Startup Weekend Manila. We will be live on-air starting [...]
Nice refresher: SWM 2011 advice from Kickstart’s president Minette Navarrete; picture taken by JFDI’s Meng Wong.
The universal Startup Weekend judging criteria is broken up into three sections. Teams are judged according to the following 3 [...]
We got some good stuff for all StartupWeekend attendees! Thanks to Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits, all SW Manila participants will [...]
Well, hopefully you will turn this awesome idea of yours into a fantastic protoype. Besides that, these are the other [...]
Leigh's work has been recognized at both creative and effectiveness shows such as Cannes Lions, Clio, D&AD, Asia-Pacific Adfest, Spikes, and the Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards. She has served on the juries of Cannes Lions, London International Advertising Awards, Adfest, and Spikes.
She champions digital integration across agency processes and skillsets. For the past two years, she has been a member of the organizing committee of MobileMonday Manila, an open forum for mobile visionaries, professionals and enthusiasts.
Leigh's interests include vintage and Japanese fountain pens, calligraphy and anything geeky. She is @leighpod on Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
General Manager, Southeast Asia for Pollenizer, an Australia-based company that co-founds early stage internet companies. Isaac caught the startup bug at age 20, taking leave from university to join the dot-com boom. An experienced product manager and corporate intrapreneur, his most recent role was as head of product marketing for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. Isaac has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from Columbia University. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children.
Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley based tech startup accelerator, which he started in January 2006, and built a community of 600+ tech startups, 200+ angel investors, 200+ VC investors, 100+ large tech corporations and service partners, 50+ domestic and international universities, and numerous experts in various technology fields. Since inception, Plug and Play startups have been able to raise in excess of $1 billion.
Jojo currently serves as a Board Member and V.P. for International Operations at American Liquid Packaging Systems (ALPS), where he successfully started and co-founded 12 bottled water companies in over 30 cities in Europe and Asia. ALPS is also one of the leading distributors of plastic resin in the world with offices in Central America, Europe, and Asia.
Additionally, Jojo serves as a Board Member in the Science and Technology Advisory Council to the Philippine government and leading universities, helping them bridge technology entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley.
Jojo completed his BS Administration studies in 1989 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
A digital entrepreneur who is presently CEO of Xurpas, one of the largest mobile value added service providers in the Philippines. He is also on the board of Hatchd Digital, a startup studio that creates, scales and invests in digital businesses
2x entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of Kalibrr. Co-founded major Philippines BPO serving top Valley startups in 2007. Experience with Google & Mercantila in San Francisco prior to moving to Manila. Studied at University of California, Berkeley. Loves bacon.
General Manager, Southeast Asia for Pollenizer, an Australia-based company that co-founds early stage internet companies. Isaac caught the startup bug at age 20, taking leave from university to join the dot-com boom. An experienced product manager and corporate intrapreneur, his most recent role was as head of product marketing for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. Isaac has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from Columbia University. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children.
A successful technopreneur for 10 years. Founder of Shoephoric, an online community of shoe lovers and Youphoric Labs, the platform for anything that makes you euphoric. Hailed as September’s Mega Woman by Mega Magazine and one of Preview Magazine’s Best Dressed. The IT Boss in Killer Heels.
Prefers action over talk. He started out his career in the industry of mobility seeking to empower sari-sari stores with the use of their mobile phones.
After half-a-decade of empowering mobile users, he wants to move his innovations from the bottom of the pyramid, to further empower those who are closer to the middle.
Experienced with startups from Ateneo, the Telcos, Rocket and own pocket. He is currently the Founder of Tripid.ph. Tripid is a peer-to-peer route sharing platform that enables real-time carpooling.
Mike believes in building better products, creative commons, the concept of choice, economic liberalism and capitalism.
After an exciting corporate stint, Kahlil made the leap to entrepreneurship. And landed pretty bad. This experience taught him Customer Development the painful way. Now in his second attempt, his customers are voting for the direction of his startup each step—by handing him their money. He was so happy with CustDev that he became “the first man outside the Americas to bootleg Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad.
With over 15 years in e-commerce, enterprise, and UX development for startups, Nam is a driving force in agile development. He has worked as a Senior Developer for Sapient, Washington Mutual, and has worked as Director of UX and Widget Development for Rearden Commerce.
He was also the first and only developer of Shoedazzle.com pre-capital, and has worked with a number of startups in early stages ever since. His various experiences in startup to enterprise technology stacks gives him a unique understanding of both architecture and the user experience.
Multi-disciplinary creative technologist with a decade in the trenches of every possible media classification. Jen is an award-winning animator and interactive designer with a decade of industry experience. Coming from Manila, Vancouver, Cannes, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, she has worked on interactive projects with Disney, NBCUniversal, YouTube, Adobe, Canada’s National Historic Sites, and independent operations like Slide (Acquired by Google), Loot Drop, LOLApps, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and more. She has been featured at PBS, CBC, ReelWest Toronto, TEDActive, and more for interactive and animation work.
From San Francisco. Developed in projects for Fortune 500s including, Ebay, Autodesk, Stanford U, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Adobe, Nokia and recently with YouTube and Delivering Happiness, Zappos. Founded Openovate Labs last year to better support these projects as well as develop products internally. Bootstrapped and self funded, he is siging his first investment deal the day before this Startup Weekend.