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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Past event…

Sep 21 2012 Event Ended

Alaska Pacific University

Anchorage, Alaska - September 21-23, 2012 Location: Alaska Pacific University Campus, Atwood Hall

Final Pitches tonight (Sunday, Sept 23) at 5:00 pm.

The location is Alaska Pacific University
Atwood Center 2nd Floor
4455 University Drive

Prizes for Winning Teams:

GCI Donates 100,000 Alaska Airline Miles for winning team
Alaska Small Business Development Center donates: 6 Tickets to the Social Media Marketing- Facebook course
Draper Associates (Venture Capital Firm) agrees to hear winning team pitches

Blog

Sep 30 2012

Startup Weekend Anchorage, September 21 – A big success!

by swanchorage

Thanks to everyone who made this event a success! Here is a list of the winning teams and their prizes: [...]

Sep 23 2012

Blown Away by the Final Pitches!! by Participant Lynne Koral

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I was absolutely blown away by the final pitches, and knew Cheers would win with their multimedia. I felt our [...]

Sep 23 2012

Sunday Pitching Order!

by swanchorage

It has been an awesome weekend so far. Teams have been hard at work since Friday night building their ideas [...]

Sep 23 2012

Pitching Do’s & Dont’s

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Sep 22 2012

Sunday’s Judging Criteria

by swanchorage

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

Sep 14 2012

Venture Capital Company to Hear Winning Pitches

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Anchorage Startup Weekend winners get a chance to pitch directly to an actual seed investment venture company. Draper Associates, located [...]

Sep 6 2012

GCI Contest – Free Event Registrations for a Tweet!

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Do you have a business idea and want to be heard? Sign up for Anchorage Startup Weekend. GCI has a [...]

Sep 6 2012

Video Journey of Startup Weekend Experience

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Follow the journey of two participants at Startup Weekend in Toronto — Ronan Levy of Delirious App and Eugene Woo [...]

Sep 5 2012

Pitches: What makes a good pitch?

by swanchorage

Startup Weekends begin with “pitches.” Attendees who have a business idea stand in front of the room and pitch their [...]

Sep 5 2012

Is this event for me?

by swanchorage

Startup Weekend attendees’ backgrounds are roughly 50% technical (developers, coders, designers) and 50% business (marketing, finance, law). What unites all [...]

Schedule

Friday

Sep 21

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

Saturday

Sep 22

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams identify needs
10:00am Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Coaching sessions wind down
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

Sep 23

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
6:00pm Judging & awards
6:30pm Wrapup
7:00pm Go home!

Speakers

Tony Wright

Designtrepreneur | LinkedIn

Tony Wright, from Anchorage, participated in YCombinator in the class of 2008 for RescueTime.com. After YCominator, Tony raised a Series A round and built the company to profitability (with 2 great co-founders-- one of which was also from Anchorage, Brian Fioca). Tony’s list of accomplishments include the following:
• Speaker at Mozcon 2011
• Speaker at StartupDay 2010
• Founder at Tomo, Inc
• Founder at Cubeduel
• Founder & CEO at RescueTime
• Freelance Web Product Geek (strategy, ui, SEO, etc) at Tony Wright, Inc
• Director of Product Development at Jobster
• Founder at Jobby, LLC
• CEO at PangoMedia, Inc.
• Web Consultant at Tony Wright, Inc

Platinum Sponsors

Judges

Lowell Humphrey

Business Consultant, Questar

Lowell has started 4 companies. He started one of the first IT Staffing and Consulting firms in Anchorage in the early 80s His most recent venture was Qivliq -a Telecom and IT services company supporting federal government contracting. Lowell has over 36 active years in the business community.

Silver Sponsors

Coaches

Dr. Scott Fredrickson

Professor of Entrepreneurship, APU | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Dr. Scott Fredrickson has more than 35 years experience in higher education, the music industry, and as an entrepreneur. He holds degrees in music education from Cal-State University Fullerton

Al Herman

Assistant Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Al Hermann is an Assistant Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alaska Anchorage and is also a consultant for the Center for Economic Development at the University of Alaska. He is the founder and Managing Member of the Alaska Angel Investors, LLC.
He has over 35 years of financial and operations experience. His extensive experience encompasses working at the senior management level with Fortune 500 companies and small privately help entities. While he was the Vice President of Finance for U.S. Operations at Lanier Worldwide he was responsible for closing twenty-six acquisitions and two divestitures over an eight year period. As the CFO of four start-up ventures, spanning several industries, he helped raise capital, both equity and debt and built the financial and operations infrastructures. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for American Office Products and Global Tech Financial. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Temple University and a MBA in finance from Drexel University.

Organizers

Sioux-z Humphrey Marshall

Kevin Traver

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