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.

Startup Weekend Global Site

Prizes

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Attending a Startup Weekend is a prize in itself. But still, we do have some material prizes to sweeten the deal. The idea was to get a good mix of prizes which would help the winning teams go forward and build on their startup even after the weekend. This requires a support structure and we have got you covered there. We have taken care of your hosting requirements, communication requirements, mentoring requirements and space requirements. Well, come to think of it, all you need is an idea, a team and passion.

Prizes:

1. Incubation support for promising ideas by the Wadhwani Center at ISB. The team from ISB will select the ideas of their choice at the event.
2. CIE@IIIT-H will offer selected ideas an invitation for further discussion to decide on how best they fit into the program. In these conversations, CIE@IIIT-H would like to ensure that they gel together as a team, they are doing this full-time, and the idea is something they can add value to.

3. Hosting from BigRock

(1)    Winners – BigRock goodie bag which will include BigRock merchandise + Free .ORG domain and web hosting package.

(2)    Participants – BigRock merchandise + coupons which give 10% off on domain names and 30% off on our hosting plans.

4. Gist from RIM is sponsoring 2 tickets and has shared some startup material at http://blog.gist.com/startup-weekend/
5. T-Shirts. All participants get T-Shirts, thanks to Knowlarity.
6. As usual, you will get cloud telephony services from Ozonetel services and this time we get services also from Knowlarity. The following cloud telephony prizes have been confirmed for the winners:
Knowlarity
1st Prize
12 months Super Receptionist
2nd Prize
6 months Super Receptionist
3rd Prize
3 month Super Receptionist
Additionally, Knowlarity would be providing 15 conference numbers for audio conferencing during the event for teams to communicate with their team members.
Ozonetel
KooKoo is the simplest and easiest way to build telecom applications, IVRs, office PBX and outbound campaigns.You name it.You build it. KooKoo.in is generously offering KooKoo Goldenports(5) for 6 months to the 1st prize winning team, a 60,000 value to the winners. We will also be able to offer all teams a KooKoo Silver Egg account, free for 3 months (worth Rs. 7,500)

Added to this we get a whole host of prizes from global sponsors like hosting with Amazon AWS, email credits etc which will be explained at the event.

7. Mobile App prototyping from Fluid UI:

FluidUI is a mobile app prototyping tool which enables users to quickly design an app and communicate their mobile designs easily.
What they are offering is:
- A special account for each participant which allows them to create a single project with unlimited pages
- One lifetime free account (valued at over 1K per year) to be given away as a prize as you see fit
For more information on our software please visit www.fluidui.com If you would like to try the product please visit www.fluidui.com/editor
Added to these we have awesome prizes from Zendesk, Sendgrid, Amazon, Chargify, Uservoice……… Pretty much everything you want for a Startup.