Critical OPS, one of the companies formed during the first Anchorage Startup Weekend, is featured in this week’s Startup Weekend newsletter.

‎1st Place: Team Blooper 2nd Place: Team Critical Ops 3rd Place: Team Baby Face Congratulations to all the teams and all the participants and thank you to the sponsors, organizers, speakers, mentors and volunteers!

Come one and come all to listen to the team presentations. We have 6 teams with amazing business ideas! These participants started with business ideas Friday night and have turned them into viable business models with customers and revenue streams. … Continue reading →

Anchorage Startup Weekend winners get a chance to pitch directly to an actual seed investment venture company. Draper Associates, located in Menlo Park, CA, specializes in seed investing – the first round investment in a startup. Draper partner, Joel Yarmon, … Continue reading →

Prize 1: 25,000 air miles on Alaska Air for the members of the winning team (maximum of 5 awards). Donated by GCI. Valued over $3000 Prize 2: One free Incubator Cubicle at AMEP for 6 months (includes: phone, internet connectivity, … Continue reading →

Startup Weekends begin with “pitches.” Attendees who have a business idea stand in front of the room and pitch their business idea to the crowd. If the crowd likes their idea, it will be selected as the business model that … Continue reading →

Book Title: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Check out the interview with the author, Eric Ries, on the podcast This Week in Venture Capital.

Startup Weekend attendees’ backgrounds are roughly 50% technical (developers, coders, designers) and 50% business (marketing, finance, law). What unites all attendees is a common interest in entrepreneurship: whether a serial entrepreneur or new to the startup scene, every attendee is … Continue reading →

Follow the journey of two participants at Startup Weekend in Toronto — Ronan Levy of Delirious App and Eugene Woo of Vizualize.me — and explore what it means to live the life of a Startup Weekend entrepreneur.

Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups! Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out … Continue reading →