Startup Weekend What Is Startup Weekend?

What is Startup Weekend?

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. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Startup Weekend Manila is back and we’re ready to take in registrations!

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Sunday’s Pitching Guidelines

by Startup Weekend Manila

1. Team pitches will start at 5pm. 2. Each team shall be given maximum of 4 minutes to present their [...]

SWM 2012 – the 3rd edition – teams in the race

by Startup Weekend Manila

Short update, below the list of the teams in the race as of September 29. My PettyForex GWay Daang Matuwid [...]

Surprise! These are the winners and we got some more prizes!

by Startup Weekend Manila

Hi Startup Weekend survivors, we just received an email from the folks over at Amazon and they decided to give [...]

The winners of SWM 2012

by Startup Weekend Manila

The winners of this year’s Startup Weekend Manila event are: Judges choice: First prize: Kiddle Second prize: RideFind Third prize: [...]

Team update – at the eve of day 2

by Startup Weekend Manila

The following teams are still in the race : ManilaHouseHunt GiftHabit No-Child-Left-behind FittingRoom To DO List Kiddle SinugGusto CheckMate MyRemitHub [...]

Live and unplugged, from the first row

by Startup Weekend Manila

Grab a seat in the first row.  Live and unplugged from Startup Weekend Manila. We will be live on-air starting [...]

Startup wisdom

by Startup Weekend Manila

Nice refresher: SWM 2011 advice from Kickstart’s president Minette Navarrete; picture taken by JFDI’s Meng Wong.      

The Judging Criteria – some insights

by Startup Weekend Manila

The universal Startup Weekend judging criteria is broken up into three sections. Teams are judged according to the following 3 [...]

Free for all registered attendees: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development

by Startup Weekend Manila

We got some good stuff for all StartupWeekend attendees! Thanks to Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits, all SW Manila participants will [...]

What will happen from April 27 to 29?

by Startup Weekend Manila

Well, hopefully you will turn this awesome idea of yours into a fantastic protoype. Besides that, these are the other [...]

Judges
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Leigh Reyes

President and Chief Creative Officer of Lowe Philippines   |  Twitter

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.

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Isaac Souweine

Lean Startup Guru   |  Twitter

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.

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Jojo Flores

Co-Founder & V.P. Operations at Plug and Play Tech Center

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.

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Nix Nolledo

CEO @ Xurpas   |  TwitterFacebookLinkedInGoogle+

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

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Paul Rivera

Founder @ Kalibrr   |  Twitter

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.

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Isaac Souweine

Lean Startup Guru   |  Twitter

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.

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Ann Jacobe

Founder @ Shoephoric   |  Twitter

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.

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Michael Ngo Dee

Founder @ Tripid.ph & Ex-Rocket launcher   |  Twitter

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.

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Eric Su

Founder @ Piclyf   |  Twitter

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Andres Torrubia

Founder @ Fixr.com   |  Twitter

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Calen Martin Legaspi

CEO @ Orange & Bronze Software Labs

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Kahlil Corazo

UA&P's Lean Guru   |  Twitter

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.

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Guyi Shen

CEO & Founder @ Save22

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Nam Le

CTO & Co-founder of 70Street

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.

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Jen Yu

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.

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Christian Blanquera

Founder @ Openovate Labs

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.

Schedule

Friday

Sep 28
  • Registration Starts
  • Dinner & Networking
  • Welcome & Speakers
  • Pitches Start
  • Attendees vote for the top ideas
  • Teams start forming and discussing ideas
  • Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Sep 29
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Lunch
  • Call for needs & skills
  • Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
  • Dinner
  • Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Sep 30
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Lunch
  • Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
  • Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
  • Dinner
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards
  • Wrapup
  • After-Party!
Organizers
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Jay Fajardo
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Jonathan Lansangan
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Charo Nuguid
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Christian Besler
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