Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours (25 page)
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Authors: Marc Nager,Clint Nelsen,Franck Nouyrigat
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
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
Foreword: Carl Schramm and Steve Blank
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
