Short presentation with tips on how to have a good experience at Startup Weekend. Created for a presentation at Asheville Startup Weekend.

1. 7 Ways To Have a Successful
Startup Weekend
Trevor Lohrbeer
Lab Escape Lean Decisions
CEO Lead Writer
trevor@FastFedora.com trevor@LeanDecisions.com
@FastFedora @LeanDecisions

2. Prepare Your Pitch
 Speak Clearly
 Your Name
 Title of Idea
 Target Market
 Team Members Needed

3. Schedule Your Weekend
Friday Saturday Sunday
Night Morning Morning
 Create  Quick Check In  Team Check In
Subteams  Get To Work  Plan Home
 Assign Roles Stretch
 Create Afternoon
Schedule  Grab a Coach Afternoon
 Setup  Customer Check  Do a Presentation
Communication Dry Run
 Solve Tech Evening  Present to Coach
Hurdles? Alpha Release
  Polish Product
 Start Creating
Presentation Evening
 Relax!

4. Understand the Judging Criteria
1. Business Model
 Customer
 Value Proposition
 Revenue Streams
 Cost Structure
 Distribution Channels
 Roll-Out Strategy
2. Customer Validation
 Define target market
 Validate pain point
 Validate solution fits pain point
 Acquire customers, followers
3. Execution
 Wireframe
 Working prototype
 Launched product or service
 Users using product or service

5. Create Sub-Teams
 Business Model
 Customer Validation
 Product Development

6. Leverage Existing Resources
 Use what you know
 Practice rapid marketing & development
 Use the Startup Weekend resources at
http://startupweekend.org/resources
 Use the Global Sponsor resources at
http://bit.ly/SWGlobalResources
 Okay to existing frameworks, but has to be a new
product

7. Use the Coaches
Saturday Sunday
 Sign up during lunch  Sign up before 2pm
 20 min blocks from  Same as Saturday…
1 – 3pm  …But you also need to
 Coaches can help you practice your
ask the right questions presentation with a
coach

8. Final Tips
 Take time to build relationships
 Try to learn something new
 It’s okay to pivot
 Practice your presentation
 Design counts
 Take breaks & have fun