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 Food Innovation: Startup Weekend proudly presents its first-ever pilot event focused on fostering innovation & entrepreneurship in the food industry. In partnership with Mondelez International, we invite you to join us on June 7-9, 2013, at Club Offices great business center to solve real-life problems faced by the food industry, consumers, chefs or to breathe a new life into existing outdated solutions.

Program

Friday

Jun 7
  • 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

Jun 8
  • 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

Jun 9
  • 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
  • Go home!
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Judges

Jürgen Leiße

President Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mondelez International

Mondelēz International is one of the world’s largest snacks companies. Launched in October 2012, following the spin-off of our North American grocery operations to shareholders, Mondelēz International is a new company in name and strategy. Yet we carry forward the values of our legacy organization and the rich heritage of our iconic brands. Jürgen joined our Lörrach plant in 1987, with various appointments in e.g. product change management, purchasing, logistics, marketing and sales. From 2005, he spent five years in Singapore as the Vice President Sales & Logistics Kraft Foods Asia Pacific before returning to Germany in 2009. Jürgen values entrepreneurial spirit and has a passion for food innovations.

Benjamin Thym

Managing Director at Checkitmobile GmbH/Barcoo

Following the completion of his studies in Business Informatics in Karlsruhe, during which he also spent a term in South Africa, Benjamin Thym worked at the Boston Consulting Group as an IT consultant. When he and his fellow co-founders came up with the concept for barcoo, he moved to Berlin to develop barcoo's mobile shopping and information service. Since then, he is responsible for Communications and Sales. The number of the app's end-users has already reached 10 million and Apple just declared barcoo as Top10 of one of the most downloaded apps of all times in Germany.

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Coaches

Simon Ball

Key Account Manager eCommerce, Mondelēz International

Simon has been in the food business with Mondelēz International for 15 years, not quite a lifetime!!
He has experience in Trade & Shopper Marketing, Category Management & Key Account. Currently be manages all online customers in the German market, helping to grow a very young channel in its infancy. His favourite products are Oreo cookies and Dairy Milk Chocolate. Yummy.

Fried Große-Dunker

Co-Founder and Innovation Consultant   |  LinkedIn

Dark Horse is an innovation consultancy based in Berlin, which is specialized in the creation of user centered innovation and innovation culture. We support small business as well as large corporations to establish an innovation-friendly infrastructure to spur new ideas and innovations. We heavily build on teamwork, design thinking and transdisciplinary environments. Hence, we founded Dark Horse with 30 people and 25 different disciplines.
Fried. is one of the co-founders of Dark Horse and supported several innovation projects, among some with a focus on the food shopping experience. Besides Dark Horse, Fried. is engaged in a academic research project on sustainability-oriented innovations and, above all, a passionate hobby chef.

Mia Konew

Co-Founder and Innovation Consultant   |  LinkedIn

Mia is one of the 30 friends from 25 different disciplines, who founded Dark Horse, an innovation consulting company. According to conventional wisdom they should not exist: They decide sociocraticly, encourge to fail and are not allowed to work more than three days a week for Dark Horse. All founders spend half of their time in their own field of expertise, as for Mia it is knowledge/process management and young urban family management. The work-work balance enables her to stay up-to-date in many disciplines and to continuously look at every challenge with fresh perspective. Her experience from academic research, business plan competitions and projects (SAP, Mars, Deka Bank...) will be at your service.

Monica Zaldivar

Community Manager   |  LinkedIn

Since 2009 Monica Zaldivar is busy building communities and connecting people in Berlin, both with her smile and smartphone. Working at the moment at Zoobe.com, she is eager to help, collaborate, test and give feedback about all services she comes across with. Also, she is fascinated with social media & mobile apps.

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Marcia Schranner
Eric Lindig
Markus Schranner
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Jun 7-Jun 9 2013
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May 4-6 2012