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Facilitator\nCustomer Validation\nGet out of the building, talk to real people, listen for quality feedback, learn from it and have it affect what you’re building.\n\nBusiness Model\nHave you identified any competition?\nWhat makes you different?\nHow do you plan to get it in front of people?\nHow will this build a business?\n\nExecution – the weekend is about experience and education. Learning and growing.\nHow much did you challenge yourself?\nWhat did you learn?\nHow solid was the demo/prototype, technologically, simple user experience, polished interface, brand thought through?\n\nAnd Beyond\nIs the team made up of people that are fit to continue forward?\n\n\n**Did this team come together this weekend and start from scratch?? Previous products/businesses/teams are welcome to build, but not eligible for winning**\n
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Facilitator\ntalk through each service and their offering or support.\n\nAside from local sponsors, as a non profit Startup Weekend relies on global sponsorships and grants to be sustainable and expand globally. A lot of these global sponsors offer resources to each of the attendees with products and service they will find valuable over the next 54 hours. If you have not already, please pick up a Global Sponsor one pager that list out all of these resources you can use over the weekend:\n\n.CO is proud to support Startup Weekend by providing all participants with the opportunity for a free 12-month registration. Don%27t settle for a lame name with dashes or missing vowels -- get a short, memorable, seo-friendly domain name to launch your startup this weekend! Use the promo code provided by your organizer to to get your .CO at www.go.costartupweekend\n\nMicrosoft BizSpark: Is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups, providing Software, Support and Visibility. Request your enrollment code at http://startupweekend.org/bizspark. \n\nKauffman Foundation: is the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship. In September 2010 Startup Weekend received a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which empowers us to continue to scale globally and to study the unpredictable science of successful entrepreneurship. To learn more about the Kauffman Foundation, check them out at Kauffman.org. Momentum: A mentorship driven startup accelerator and a great next step to consider after Startup Weekend. I encourage you all to learn more about them and other startup accelerators because they are the perfect next step to startup success after this weekend.\n\nSendGrid makes it easy for developers to integrate email functionality into web applications. Integration is simple and flexible via SMTP and/or a suite of APIs. Sign up for 200 emails/day for free (no coupon needed) from SendGrid.com, Heroku Add-ons sites, Cloudbees Ecosystem or the AppHarbor Add-ons sites. Hosting your app with Rackspace, Softlayer or Windows Azure? Get 40k, 25k or 25k emails/month respectively - free of charge (no coupon needed). After the weekend: Get the Bronze plan for free for 3 months by using coupon code \\"sendgridandswFTW\\" while signing up for a new account or upgrading from a free account.\n\nCloudMine provides a better backend for your mobile apps. Spend time building your app, not building the server-side platform required to run it. See your event Facilitator to obtain your $50 promotion code (that’s 100,000 API calls) to be used during signup or on your billing page at cloudmine.me.\nNeed help? Reach out to us at support@cloudmine.me.\n\nGoogle is teaming up with Startup Weekend to help developers and entrepreneurs launch new startups by working with Startup Weekend to launch a series of pre-event Bootcamps! For more info and to find a bootcamp near you visit http:// startupweekend.org/google\n\nDomain.com. To support Startup Weekend, Domain.com is giving all participants a free 1-year .CO domain registration and 3 months of free web hosting. That means you can register your website address and start building your website now absolutely free. Domain.com is one of the world’s largest domain name and web hosting companies, and they’ve got great 24 x 7 customer support. Plus, Domain.com has easy-to-use website building tools that make launching a powerful startup website simple. To get your free .CO domain name and start creating your free website, go to:www.domain.com/startupweekend/ Start building your Startup Weekend site at Domain.com right now!  If you have any questions, reach out to Domain.com on Twitter (@domaindotcom) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Domaindotcom).\n\n\n
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