Startup Weekend Manila http://manila.startupweekend.org No Talk, All Action! Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:49:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Innovating for a Healthier Philippines http://manila.startupweekend.org/2013/04/25/innovating-for-a-healthier-ph/ http://manila.startupweekend.org/2013/04/25/innovating-for-a-healthier-ph/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:16:22 +0000 Startup Weekend Manila http://manila.startupweekend.org/?p=382

This year’s Startup Weekend Manila – Fourth Edition promises to be a unique three-day no-talk, all-action weekend with the participation of ADP Pharma Corporation (ADP) and Pascual Pharma Corporation (PPC).

A special prize category is up for grabs for the team with a health-related idea and working prototype of an app that best collects data in real-time in aid of health-related services, research and development, and clinicals.

  • The idea should serve any one of these health issues:
  • women’s health and hygiene e.g. reproductive health
  • mental health e.g. depression, schizophrenia
  • tropical or parasitic diseases e.g. dengue, malaria, tuberculosis
  • cancer/oncology e.g. lung, breast

The team doesn’t need to find the cure for cancer: but tackling specific aspects of health services and R & D such as medical data collection, early detection and diagnosis, remote monitoring of clinical trials, compliance with treatments, or reporting and mapping disease incidence could be useful.

Joining the Startup Weekend Manila organisers are ADP/PPC Medical Director Dr. Ronald Subida and Pascual Laboratories Research & Development Director Dr. Isagani Padolina. They will select the winning team on Sunday, 28 April after the final pitch presentations.

The winning team will be awarded a cash prize of Php25,000 and, more importantly, have the opportunity to work closely with actual clients – ADP Pharma Corporation and Pascual Pharma Corporation – for real-life customer validation and usability. In addition, an office space at The Fort area will be provided for up to six months, giving the team direct access to medical professionals, research data, and facilities to further develop their prototype. Depending on progress, the team could potentially qualify for further startup funding of up to one million pesos to accelerate the build and launch of the idea.

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2. Each team shall be given maximum of 4 minutes to present their startup biz. Demonstrating prototypes should be included in the allotted presentation time, and no extension will be allowed.

3. A 1 minute  Q&A will follow after the team’s presentation.

4. Each team should submit their presentations (ppt slides, screen shots, etc.) to the SWM Team (look for Anne Olvido) in PDF format by 4pm. Only one designated laptop will be used for all presentations.

5. If a team chooses to use its own laptop for presenting their slides, no time extension will be given for setting up and other technical issues. The team is still required to submit the presentation in PDF format.

6. Fill up the Team Enlistment form at goo.gl/K6LAH

7. Lastly, enjoy and have fun!

 

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  • My PettyForex
  • GWay
  • Daang Matuwid
  • Shuffle eat
  • 3Munchketeers
  • SmartHUD
  • Where’s My Doctor?
  • Catchap
  • Campus Market
  • Inday Info
  • BeerSpots.PH
  • T.U.L.A.
  • Bahala Na
  • Blood Donors Network
  • Swag Tag
  • RealtyCheck.PH
  • Park-O
  • I Should Have Been Informed
  • Hungry Hipsters
  • KombatKotong
  • Rosterrific
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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!  Now get ready to put your prototype online! We will contact all the winners by email, so keep checking your inbox.

People’s Choice
MentorsDojo – USD200 AWS Credits

Judges choices
1st Place – Kiddle – USD 200 AWS Credits
2nd Place  – RideFind -  USD50 AWS Credits
3rd Place – TraqMe – USD50 AWS Credits
4th Place – Sphere-  USD50 AWS Credits

Build a Better World – 1Share1Life – USD100 AWS Credits

Best Windows Phone App – TraqMe – USD100 AWS Credits

Best e-Commerce Startup – SpinMeBuddy – USD100 AWS Credits

 

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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 to all the teams. You rock!

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  1. ManilaHouseHunt
  2. GiftHabit
  3. No-Child-Left-behind
  4. FittingRoom
  5. To DO List Kiddle
  6. SinugGusto
  7. CheckMate
  8. MyRemitHub
  9. PunchItIn
  10. AppNimbus
  11. QoSMe
  12. Gov.io
  13.  ShootMe
  14.  SpinMeBuddy
  15.  Insta-Interest
  16. 1share1life
  17. MentorsDojo
  18. Tourists.ph
  19. Pay8Bilis
  20. Cosmic
  21. iWebLocate
  22. Sphere
  23. GoRated
  24. (formerly) MrtTrackr
  25. PlanetOfThePips
  26. Work Brew
  27. Cabtrack.Me
  28. Boodle
  29. Ridefind.ph
  30. Punchit.in
  31. MOODSEE
  32. Baby Fair
  33. KomyuTips
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We will be live on-air starting by 7PM.

Check out http://bit.ly/swmanila2012

@startupmanila #swmanila @StartupWeekend

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Startup Wisdom from SWM 2011

 

 

 


]]> http://manila.startupweekend.org/2012/04/24/startup-wisdom/feed/ 0 The Judging Criteria – some insights http://manila.startupweekend.org/2012/04/24/the-judging-criteria/ http://manila.startupweekend.org/2012/04/24/the-judging-criteria/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:11:39 +0000 Startup Weekend Manila http://manila.startupweekend.org/?p=186 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 too much time on frills & features and need to get back to the basics:

  • Who is your customer?
  • What is your core value proposition?
  • What are your key activities?
  • What are your revenue streams?
  • What is your cost structure?
  • Who/what are your key partners/resources?
  • What are your distribution channels?
  • What is your roll-out strategy?

 

Customer Validation

Have you taken the proper steps to ensure that the people who matter (your future customers) support and reinforce your assumptions? Think of Customer Validation as ‘evidence’ to back up the core structure of your ‘theory’ (your Business Model). The more feedback you gather (quantity), the more this feedback comes from your specific target market (quality), and the more you’re able to actually integrate this feedback into the Business Model and product development (execution), the better.

Execution


The nitty gritty: what has your team been able to actually build over the weekend? Even the strongest of Business Plans are useless in the hands of those who can’t properly execute on them. Getting as far as possible in the development of your product/prototype not only helps give Judges a tangible vision of what the final product could be, but proves your strength and skills as a team. This is what truly matters: investors don’t invest as in ideas so much as teams.

Good Luck!

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Cover of their upcoming book The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley, Fall 2012)

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 away.

We will send out a  promo code (gets you a 100% discount) to all registered SW Manila attendees a couple of days before the event -make sure our Eventbrite emails don’t get lost in your SPAM folder. Following head to the above mentioned web site and hit Buy now. On the next page enter your given promo code and you can download the book.

If you won’t be attending, check out The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley, Fall 2012), their next book.

Brant is @BrantCooper and Patrick is @Pv on Twitter.

For more info’s check out this video http://bit.ly/LeanEntrepreneurVid

 

 

 

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