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Surprise! These are the winners and we got some more prizes!

Hi Startup Weekend survivors, we just received an email from the folks over at Amazon and they decided to give all the winners another surprise prize. Ready for it? All the finalists get some additional AWS credits! Yes, that’s love! … Continue reading

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The winners of SWM 2012

The winners of this year’s Startup Weekend Manila event are: Judges choice: First prize: Kiddle Second prize: RideFind Third prize: TraqMe Fourth prize: Sphere Build-a-better-world prize: 1Share1Life Best E-Commerce prize: SpinMeBuddy Best Windows phone application: TraqMe People’s Choice: MentorsDojo Congratulations … Continue reading

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Team update – at the eve of day 2

The following teams are still in the race : ManilaHouseHunt GiftHabit No-Child-Left-behind FittingRoom To DO List Kiddle SinugGusto CheckMate MyRemitHub PunchItIn AppNimbus QoSMe Gov.io  ShootMe  SpinMeBuddy  Insta-Interest 1share1life MentorsDojo Tourists.ph Pay8Bilis Cosmic iWebLocate Sphere GoRated (formerly) MrtTrackr PlanetOfThePips Work Brew … Continue reading

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Live and unplugged, from the first row

Grab a seat in the first row.  Live and unplugged from Startup Weekend Manila. We will be live on-air starting by 7PM. Check out http://bit.ly/swmanila2012 @startupmanila #swmanila @StartupWeekend

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Startup wisdom

Nice refresher: SWM 2011 advice from Kickstart’s president Minette Navarrete; picture taken by JFDI’s Meng Wong.      

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The Judging Criteria – some insights

The universal Startup Weekend judging criteria is broken up into three sections. Teams are judged according to the following 3 criteria (weighed equally): Business Model The heart of it all. If you haven’t got answers to these questions, you’ve spent … Continue reading

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Free for all registered attendees: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development

We got some good stuff for all StartupWeekend attendees! Thanks to Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits, all SW Manila participants will receive a copy (Ebook) of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development before the event so they can start validating their customers right … Continue reading

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What will happen from April 27 to 29?

Well, hopefully you will turn this awesome idea of yours into a fantastic protoype. Besides that, these are the other things that you can expect (work in progress):   Friday:   5:00pm – Registration starts & Mingle @ Mint College … Continue reading

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Updated the list of mentors and judges for SWM 2012

We got an awesome line-up of mentor and judges for this year’s StartupWeekend Manila. Their biographies, success stories and pictures are now online. Check it out!

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Registration now open!

We’ve just opened registration for Startup Weekend Manila which will be held on April 27, 28, and 29 at MINT College. Register now!

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