Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours (24 page)

Brainstorming.
See also
Scrum boards

Branding

Business cards

Business ideas

braindump

brainstorming.
See also
Scrum boards

communicating

existence of versus execution

“failing fast” concept

feedback.
See also
Customer feedback; Feedback

idea validation.
See also
Minimum viable product (proof of concept)

passion.
See
Passion

pitching.
See
Sixty second pitch; Sunday presentations

project management.
See
Project management

sharing

and startup revolution.
See also
Startup revolution

Business models

agile development

customer development business model

and lean methods

startups

and success

traditional business school model

Business plans

competitions

and funding

traditional business plan versus business model

Business school

curriculum

disadvantages of

experiential education compared

as means of connecting with others

myths of entrepreneurship, perpetuating

traditional business model

Buy-in, obtaining

Capital.
See also
Funding

funded leap

revenue sources

risk capital

team, importance of in finding capital

Case studies

Coffee 2.0

Cofounders.
See also
Action-based networking

connecting with at Startup Weekend

diversity of backgrounds

relationship building.
See also
Relationship building

Coloft

Comfort zones

Communication

blogs.
See also
Blogs

face-to-face

of ideas and vision

importance of

Community

building

and diversity of backgrounds

and momentum

and Startup Foundation

Startup Weekend as

Confidence

Coworking spaces

Creativity

brainstorming.
See also
Brainstorming

experiential education

Half Baked exercise

and startup culture

Startup Weekend atmosphere

and team work

Crimmins, Bob

Culture, entrepreneurial

Customer development business model

Customer feedback.
See also
Customer development business model

early adopters

idea validation

importance of

interviews

in lean and agile methodologies

and product revisions

and risk mitigation

social media

and success

and team task allocation

Cynicism

Davos Forum

DeSantis, Donald

Diversity of backgrounds

Dot.com
bubble

Early adopters

Economic conditions, effect of

Education

background of Startup Weekend attendees

experiential.
See
Experiential education

formal training, lack of

mentoring incubation

and startup culture

Empowerment

attendees

employees

facilitators and employees of Startup Weekend

principles of Startup Weekend

and task allocation

Entrepreneurial culture

Entrepreneurial revolution

Entrepreneurs

attitudes toward

defining

economic conditions, effect of

and entrepreneurial culture

entrepreneurial path

formal training, lack of

and functions of Startup Weekend

getting out of your bubble

leap into entrepreneurship

networking.
See
Networking

role of

sharing ideas.
See also
Trust

success patterns

technology tools, availability of

Experiential education

braindump

components of

context

deadlines

described

feedback

flexibility and changes in plans

and goals of Startup Weekend

idea validation

learning by doing

minimum viable product.
See also
Minimum viable product (proof of concept)

Nuvention program

risk mitigation

Sunday presentations

task allocation

team work

time constraints and need for fast pace

value of

External growth leap

Facilitators

Fail Conferences

Failing fast concept

Failure as part of process

Failure rate of startups

FashionSpace

Feedback

customers.
See
Customer feedback

in experiential education

Startup Weekend participants

First Round Capital

Fishback, Bo

Flat world

Foodspotting

Formal presentations

Fortune 500 leap

Founder Dating

Four Steps to the Epiphany
(Blank)

Friday Pitchfire.
See also
Sixty second pitch

Funded leap

Funding.
See also
Capital

and business plans

funded leap

scaling leap

Gavronsky, Nicholas

Giant Thinkwell

Global Entrepreneurship Week

Global impact of Startup Weekend

Goals of Startup Weekend

Google Apps

Grand Ecoles d'Ingénieurs

Great Recession

Grote, Richard

Groupon

Half baked startup ideas, group exercise

Harvard University

Heavy Guerrilla

Hiring

History of Startup Weekend

Hoy Hoy

Hyde, Andrew

Idea validation

customer feedback.
See also
Customer feedback

experiential education

Ignite

Initial public offerings (IPOs)

Innovation

evolution of

large companies

and management techniques of large companies

and Startup Foundation

startups

and trust

International startups.
See also
Global Entrepreneurship Week

Internet bubble

Interviews of customers.
See also
Customer feedback

iPhone apps

Job descriptions

Kashani, Cameron

Kauffman Foundation

Kean, Sean

Keepstream

Kesterson, Kyle

Koblasa, Tyler

Koester, Eric

Labarre, Thibaut

Lagier, Eric

Large companies

acquisition of startups

employees of as Startup Weekend attendees

employees of versus entrepreneurs

startup environment, adoption of

LaunchRock

Leadership

Lean methods

Legatum Prosperity Index

Lightsmith, Jeremy

Loop concept for startup development

Lovell, Rebecca

Maddox, Jesse

Manshopper

Marasco, Michael

Market research.
See also
Customer feedback; Idea validation

Martin, Nick

MBA programs

McClure, Dave

Memolane

Mentoring incubation

Ming.ly

Minimum viable product (proof of concept)

customer feedback

and experiential education

as goal of Startup Weekend

judging

loop development

revisions of

Mobile apps

Momentum

Monosagashi.org

Morrill, Danielle

Motivation

Nager, Marc

Nelsen, Clint

Networking

action-based

business school

events

and goals of Startup Weekend

importance of

local business and social events

professional events

social skills

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