General Startup Weekend Myths and Facts

A talk I gave at Lawrence Coders about my experience at Kansas City Startup Weekend 2011. The slides were designed by Joe Barber, @cyborgnation.

Transcript

1. AND STARTUP WEEKEND GENERAL MYTHS FACTS Sunday, December 11, 11
2. 54 hours to start a business 60 seconds to pitch your idea Sunday, December 11, 11
3. what if my idea isn’t picked!? Sunday, December 11, 11
4. I don’t know the environment!? what if Sunday, December 11, 11
5. DOWN CALM Sunday, December 11, 11
6. How you should STRUCTURE your workflow Sunday, December 11, 11
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9. Campfire Sunday, December 11, 11
10. Campfire Sunday, December 11, 11
11. Campfire Sunday, December 11, 11
12. Campfire Sunday, December 11, 11
13. Campfire Sunday, December 11, 11
14. Campfire etc. Sunday, December 11, 11
15. GIVE CLEAR assignments Sunday, December 11, 11
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17. MVP minimumVIABLEproduct Sunday, December 11, 11
18. FORGET best practices Sunday, December 11, 11
19. Structure overview Sunday, December 11, 11
20. Structure overview APPLICATIONS Sunday, December 11, 11
21. Structure overview APPLICATIONS Clear assignments Sunday, December 11, 11
22. Structure overview APPLICATIONS Clear assignments DESIGNERS Sunday, December 11, 11
23. Structure overview APPLICATIONS Clear assignments DESIGNERS MVP Sunday, December 11, 11
24. Structure overview APPLICATIONS Clear assignments DESIGNERS MVP best practices Sunday, December 11, 11
25. Get momentum Sunday, December 11, 11
26. BUY YOUR DOMAIN www.yourstartup.com Sunday, December 11, 11
27. create a @yourstartup Sunday, December 11, 11
28. landing page build a Sunday, December 11, 11
29. landing page build a (basic) Sunday, December 11, 11
30. a logo get and put it on display Sunday, December 11, 11
31. NOTE- Business people suuuck* *MOSTLY Sunday, December 11, 11
32. Not enough work talk Too much Sunday, December 11, 11
33. Separate them “go make some surveys” Sunday, December 11, 11
34. learned mistakes Sunday, December 11, 11
35. why wedidn’t get first (IMHO) Sunday, December 11, 11
36. Make good slides Sunday, December 11, 11
37. presenter the should be practicing practicing practicing g practicing throughout sunday Sunday, December 11, 11
38. why horsebot3k placed first Sunday, December 11, 11
39. why horsebot3k placed first actual product Sunday, December 11, 11
40. why horsebot3k placed first actual product GOT SHIT DONE Sunday, December 11, 11
41. why bold predictions placed Second Sunday, December 11, 11
42. why bold predictions placed Second easily Identifiable Sunday, December 11, 11
43. why bold predictions placed Second easily Identifiable “I boldly predict...” Sunday, December 11, 11
44. IF yousleep friday you’re doing it WRONG Sunday, December 11, 11
45. How can we create the same atmosphere of STartup weekend without all the Bullshit? Sunday, December 11, 11
46. Sunday, December 11, 11
47. The next startup weekend KC is april 2012? See you there Sunday, December 11, 11