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Apr 12 2013 Event Ended

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!

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Schedule

Friday

Apr 12

6:30pm Registration Starts
7:00pm Dinner & Networking
7:20pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm 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

Apr 13

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Apr 14

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

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Judges

David Carlick

Vanture Partner, Rho Ventures | LinkedIn

Specialties:High tech marketing and advertising, morphed into online marketing and advertising, with the requisite direct marketing, positioning, and strategy skills and experience, morphed into a venture capitalist who invests in those areas and helps manage or provide oversight to those companies. Now a Venture Partner with Rho Capital and Independent Director working with a variety of companies in the online media and marketing space.

Laura McKenzie

Investment Manager, Starfish Ventures | LinkedIn

Laura McKenzie joined Starfish Ventures in February 2010 after 10 years of finance and investment experience. Her role includes due diligence for new investee companies, and follow on investments or exits of current investee companies, together with ongoing monitoring of the portfolio. Laura has recently acted as CFO for Myriax and is an Observer on the BugHerd, DesignCrowd, Myriax and StyleTread Boards.

Stuart Richardson

Managing Partner, Adventure Capital | LinkedIn

Founder of Australia's early-stage technology venture capital investment firm, Adventure Capital. Co-founder of Aurelius Digital, York Butter Factory and Equiem. Founding investor of breakout technology businesses Axiflux and 121cast.
Advisor, Board Member and Mentor to numerous entrepreneurs and their early-stage technology businesses.

Joseph Ziegler

Startup Business Development Asia Pacific, AWS | Twitter LinkedIn

Joe is originally from Texas, but began his career in Silicon Valley. In 1995, he worked on some of the first e-commerce applications at Netscape, and worked at NetGravity during the time of its IPO. After that, Joe built several startups from the ground up. As a technical executive, he was responsible for the company IP, and for managing engineering groups. His recent venture, Iris Data Services, was listed as one of the “Forbes 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the US”.

In 2006, Joe used cloud services and virtualisation for his startup, Iris Data Services, as the Director of Technical Services. Later, he worked with several enterprises that developed on Amazon Web Services, including his own company, IndexMedia. Today, he works across Asia Pacific as the AWS Startup Business Development Manager, enabling the ecosystem and working with amazing startup companies.

Nic Hodges

Head of Innovation & Technology, Mediacom | LinkedIn

I'm Head of Innovation & Technology at MediaCom Australia. When I'm there, and when I'm not there, I try to make rad stuff with technology.

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Darcy Naunton

General Partner, Adventure Capital | Twitter LinkedIn

Darcy is a Partner at Adventure Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding and guiding Australian seed to Series A tech startups. Adventure Capital is intently focused on advancing the local startup ecosystem, seizing the opportunity in Australia’s undercapitalised private markets and supporting innovative and driven entrepreneurs to make a global impact.

Alexandra Kinloch

CEO & Co-founder, Capture.Us | LinkedIn

Alexandra is the Co-founder of Capture.Us . Previously she has had years of experience as a marketing consultant specialising in startups and small businesses.

Simon Holland

Director, Papercloud | LinkedIn

I love to bring new technology to problems people may not yet truly realise they have.

Areas of Expertise:
- Digital Product Strategy
- Tech Business Development
- Digital Product Ideation
- UX Design
- UI Art Direction

Tomas Spacek

Technical Director, Papercloud | LinkedIn

Tomas is the Technical Director at Papercloud. Previously he was the Engineering Lead on BAPPZ.

Luke Guliani

Director, Squareweave | LinkedIn

I'm passionate about using technology to make the world a better place, in particular working with social enterprises and startups. My background is predominantly in web technologies but I've also worked in process, mechanical and electrical engineering.

I've worked all around the world providing strategic, process and web consultancy for organisations like RMIT, Victorian State Government, City of Melbourne, Dulux and ZLB (CSL Bioplasma), as well as startups and community organisations including OurSay, Copper, Future Spark and Right Now. My involvement in projects is about making complicated matters simple and finding easier ways for people to accomplish what they want to achieve.

Chris Nolet

CTO, Kickfolio | LinkedIn

Chris is co-founder of Kickfolio, a 500 Startups Batch #5 company. Chris began programming at age 8, in BASIC and C. In 2008, he graduated with First Class Honors in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in product design and designing for human factors. Chris has since developed Facebook, iOS and web apps for numerous leading brands and media agencies. Aside from his technical skills, Chris has a focus on team building, goal setting and company culture and has spent the last three years developing complementary skills in these areas.

Diesel Laws

Designer & Co-founder, Kickfolio | Twitter

Diesel is Co-founder & Designer of Kickfolio, a 500 Startups (Batch #5) startup. He has been designing for over 8 years, at first creating music covers and artwork, then expanding into street fashion. Since pursuing design as a profession, he has created dozens of logos, visual brand identities and websites for brands worldwide. In 2012, Diesel mentored at the TechStars-affiliated incubator AngelCube in Australia, where he presented sessions on design and worked 1-on-1 with new startups. He has leveraged his design, UX and entrepreneurial abilities to help many startups, developing an efficient and flexible design process along the way.

Ned Dwyer

Founder, Tweaky | LinkedIn

Entrepreneur with an interest in product development, marketplace economics and social.

Specialties:Digital strategy and product development.

Marc Harrison

Business advisor, manager & investor | LinkedIn

For the last few years, since leaving corporate life, I have been acting as an independent business adviser working with a number of web startups and non-web based small businesses. I help them across all areas of their business, including strategy, business planning, finance, and marketing.

Nicola Gracie

Co-founder, FitIntegrate | LinkedIn

Nicola is the co-founder of FitIntegrate. She has a firm grasp of the fitness industry and holds a Masters in Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Scott Julian

Founder & President, Effective Measure | LinkedIn

Scott Julian is a seasoned Internet industry professional with years of board level business experience.

Scott's current project is the launch and management of the venture backed, global audience measurement company Effective Measure, servicing a client base of multinational brands, advertising agencies and online publishers.

Leni Mayo

Director, SitePoint | Twitter LinkedIn

Web developer, founding investor @ 99designs, flippa, Learnable, SitePoint, tweaky.

Edward Hooper

Co-founder, 121 Cast | LinkedIn

I'm a business-minded technology enthusiast who has spent the past five years working in start-ups (rome2rio, SOAK) and for large enterprise (Groupon, ANZ Bank, Microsoft) in both Australia and Silicon Valley.

Recently I co-founded 121cast to reinvent radio by creating an online platform that delivers personalised audio for consumption on the go.

Daniel Hand

Principal Consultant, Amazon Web Services | LinkedIn

Daniel Hand is a Principal Consultant with Amazon Web Services (AWS). He
works closely with AWS customers and partners, providing a variety of
consulting services including the delivery of workshops, development or
review of AWS architectures and recommendations for efficient operation
and management of AWS resources.

Daniel has over fourteen years experience providing application and
infrastructure architectural advice and professional services to
start-ups, commercial, Enterprise and public sector customers across
Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, Daniel held the
role of APAC consulting practice lead within Red Hat.

Peter ‘Dr Pete’ Stanski

Principal Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services | LinkedIn

Worked for international, large, medium and small sized organisations. Functioned as an IT and business strategy consultant for over 20 years. Held CEO, CIO and CTO positions in start-ups, mentored numerous organisations with technology adoptions, and developed numerous business applications for telecom, finance, education, research, trade, embedded, gaming, e-learning, scientific, bio-technology and IT purposes.

Architected and reviewed several large scale systems for ISPs, telecom operators and established data centres. Involved in very large enterprise scale infrastructure programs, designs, solution developments, deployments and large platform migration projects.

Leon Gouletsas

Community Manager, Google Developer Group | LinkedIn

As community manager for the Google Developer Group, Leon helps developers learn more about Google's rich set of APIs and platforms through engaging talks, worldwide hackathons and social events.

With a diverse background in marketing and business development he also assists entrepreneurs in understanding business fundamentals and building online presence.

Phil Bosua

CEO, LIFX Labs Inc | LinkedIn

Phil is a serial inventor, entrepreneur and technologist who splits his time between Melbourne and San Francisco. He is one recognised as one of the world's leading crowd-funders with over $1.5m raised in 2012 across two successful projects, ScanBox and recent blockbuster LIFX. Prior to technology Phil's career spanned many creative realms and disciplines after initially commencing his career as an apprentice electrician, before 7 years as a professionally touring musician. In addition Phil has produced over 400 iOS apps including Grey's Anatomy, Polaroid and The Beatrix Potter iOS series. When Phil's not creating ideas he's spending time with his wife and two children in Melbourne,and is a proud owner of the first living room in the world to contain LIFX smart bulbs.

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