Startup Weekend Stavanger

24/09/2022

The first mentorship session just ended at Startup Weekend Stavanger. 🚀

More are following right now.

24/09/2022

After pitching their ideas, voting, and forming teams, our participants have started to create business model canvases and validate their customers' needs with expert guidance from our facilitator, Simone Demelas.

Soon they will meet with mentors to get advice on how to make their ideas a reality:

Pia Warland, Nils-Henrik Stokke, Rudolf Hansen, Richard Reistad, Isabel Næss, Anne Cathrin Østebø, Kristina Renberg and Karl Fjelde Nevland.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible: UiS Lyspæren, Innovation Dock, Stavanger Business Region, Validé AS, Skape - Etablerersenteret for Rogaland, Nordic Edge, and Næringsforeningen i Stavanger-regionen!

24/09/2022

Good morning Startup Weekenders! Looking forward to getting started, kicking off with a talk by Tone Therese Paulsen on customer validation.

24/09/2022

Day 1: Building teams
Brainstorming, pitching ideas, networking

With the fantastic space that is Innovation Dock, who wouldn't be inspired?

23/09/2022

3, 2, 1... and we are ready to push play for Startup Weekend Stavanger to begin. 🚀

Welcome to our fantastic participants!✨

Updates are coming up soon.

21/09/2022

Two more days until we meet at Startup Weekend Stavanger!

Prepare yourself to craft your business by understanding you customers in depth first:

✅Build What Customers Want
✅Run Empathy Interviews
✅Empathy in Action
✅Prepare for Your Empathy Interviews
✅Ask Effective Questions
✅Find the Job to Be Done
✅Understand Your Customer With Experiments
✅Create Customer Demand
✅Customer Interview Q&A

Find out how: https://toolkit.techstars.com/understand-your-customers

You have to first figure out what the problem is, and not the solution. This means knowing and understanding your customers' problem. Learn how to understand that problem.

20/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger is starting in three days. 🚀

Get ready and learn how to craft your business canvas:

✅Create a Business That Works
✅Understand Your Customer
✅Understand Your Business
✅Complete the Lean Canvas

https://toolkit.techstars.com/build-your-lean-canvas

Get ready to take your initial idea to the next level with the Lean Canvas. In this guide you'll learn how to create a business that works and understand your customer.

19/09/2022

WE ARE SOLD OUT!!

Thank you for showing such awesome interest in creating impactful innovation.

We look forward to welcoming you this Friday 23 September at 6pm.

18/09/2022

Today is the last day!

The time to register for Startup Weekend Stavanger is running out. Don't wait! https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

The event is the perfect place for you to gain clarity about your business idea and take action, meet other entrepreneurs with experience and self-starters, learn what investors might expect from your business plan, and more.

Your "what," "how" and "why" need to be clear in a short, eye-grabbing pitch.

Understand the importance of your pitch. The key to a successful pitch lies in the ability to condense your concept into a succinct presentation.

Learn why from one of the Techstars' co-founders: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/15/techstars-brad-feld-how-to-create-a-killer-start-up-pitch.html

17/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger registrations are closing tomorrow. Use this opportunity to turn your idea into a real business and launch a startup. Don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime! https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Simone Demelas is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and facilitator. His career journey started when he pivoted from Marine Biology academic studies to what he actually felt the most passionate about the startup world and innovation. He is currently Director of Foundersboost Italy, which is an entrepreneurship development hub, as well as Rome Business School Incubator. Through his work with these organizations and other contributions to the startup community, Simone has facilitated more than 40 Startup Weekend events around the world.

Sign up! Tomorrow is the last day you can register. https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

16/09/2022

To quote the sublimely hilarious comedian and author, Trevor Noah, “I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ‘What if…’ ‘If only…’ ‘I wonder what would have…’ You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”

Make an easy decision before it's too late.

Registrations for Startup Weekend Stavanger are closing in two days: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger