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Program Benefits

Besides the potential for contest prizes, participating teams are likely to benefit in several ways from the program:

Hands-on Experience: 

Get hands-on help to build your business idea in 72 hours, plus a chance to win up to $7500 and other prizes!

Education

Startup Weekends are meant to help you through learning by doing the process, where you learn new skills or develop new ways of thinking and new insights about startups and their significance to the economy. 

Networking

As a participant when you meet other participants from different backgrounds or mentors and coaches you not only learn from them but potentially develop long-term relations if they like your idea, even if you do not have an actual prototype of the product.  

A Chance to Have Fun

In an event with no entry ticket and offering of food and hot beverages, we are sure these add-ons give you an opportunity to have fun while learning from peers and others. The Spirit of the weekend program is less based on competition and more based on team spirit. The weekend gives you an opportunity to get entertained while you learn as well and overall, a joyful experience. 

Develop sustainable solutions for local problems

As a potential entrepreneur, you don’t have to change the world! Developing ideas that can bring a difference to your town or create a positive impact on a group of people or community members is also value-adding. By participating in such an event, you get the power to bring such positive change to your community. 

Get a perspective on how business really works

Several times highly technologically advanced products fail as they do not meet customer needs. Start-up weekend provides you an opportunity to think from a consumer perspective and see the practical viability of your start-up and how much effort it takes to run a real business!!
Mentorship: Local tech and startup leaders guide you as coaches and mentors and give you feedback on your start-up idea. This is a golden opportunity to get a practitioner’s perspective on the feasibility of your business idea and how to improve it.

Food and Amenities

Last but not least, Startup Weekend participants will get several free meals, hot coffee, and great Wi-Fi throughout the challenge. 

Startup Weekend

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