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New Delhi, April 11, 2012
Startup Weekend has announced Startup Weekend Education, an initiative to bring together entrepreneurs of all backgrounds including software developers, designers, marketers and educators to build teams and credible businesses over an intense 54 hours weekend. The event will focus on developing web and mobile education applications, as well as non-tech ideas that will be able to form the basis of a credible business for the education industry. The three day event kicks off on Friday, April 13, 2012, and will go on till Sunday, April 15, 2012. It will be held at TLabs- Times Internet Limited, Times Center at Sector 16A, Noida.
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Around 100 participants will be attending the event with a special focus on attracting educators. On Friday, each participant will get 60 seconds to pitch an idea to all the other participants. Later, the ideas are voted for by the participants and teams are formed around the ideas that get the maximum votes. After that, the teams start working on realizing their ideas with the help of mentors and subject matter experts from Saturday morning till Sunday afternoon. Over the weekend one can witness the real development work and the last day of weekend shows the final outcome in the form of presentations to a panel of judges that includes investors and seasoned entrepreneurs.
“Startup Weekend gives entrepreneurs an amazing opportunity to test their ideas, expand their network, and gain access to potential investors for their business. It's very helpful for countries like India, where there are plenty of ideas but most of the entrepreneurs don't take the plunge. And, also it does not involve any risk since you don't have to quit your job as everything happens over the weekend," says Pankaj Jain, who brought Startup Weekend to India in March 2011.
A few speakers from some of the leading multinationals, mentors and panel of judges are invited to work with the participants over the weekend.
Check out: http://delhiedu.startupweekend.org/.
The participants and the organisers will be following #swedudel on twitter for Startup Weekend Education.
For further information, please contact:
Startup Weekend
Nikhil Wason
Mobile: +91 9999146969
E-mail: nikhilwason@startupweekend.org
