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Complete Programme Info
March 2023
Techstars Startup Weekend

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What is startup weekend?
Techstars Startup Weekend is a creative and collaborative three-day
educational event where anyone can develop and pitch new startup ideas
● What you do in 54 hours
○ pitching,
○ business model creation,
○ prototyping,
○ designing, and
○ market validation,
● in a friendly and supportive team environment.

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What is a startup?

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What is a startup idea?
A formulated thought or opinion
to convince your stakeholders to
join you to build the startup you
want

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How do you put together a Startup Idea?
Join
Startup
Weekend!

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How do you put together a Startup Idea?
● Introduce yourself and your brand
● Establish credibility
● Illuminate the problem
You Have 30-60 Seconds

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How do you put together a Startup Idea?
● Demonstrate What You Sell
● This is a game of show, not tell.
● How might you show how you will make your
customers’ problem go away? In this part you
will see how to show your investor audience
○ the strengths of your business,
○ your vision, and most importantly
○ how they will make money.
● The Two Main Features
● The visual aids
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxapxdPXi6
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You have about 2-3 min

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How do you put together a Startup Idea?
● Market Size
● The Business Model & making money
● Differentiation
● Team
● Timeline
● Traction
You have about 1-1.5 min

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How do you put together a Startup Idea?
During this section, as you’re wrapping up your pitch,
● restate your top features and benefits and
● make a call-to-action.
You have about 30 seconds

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How to you put together a Startup Idea?
Join Startup
Weekend!
Form a team,
and learn
together to
pitch your biz
in 5 mins!
You Have 30-60 Seconds
You have about 2-3 min
You have about 1-1.5 min
You have about 30 seconds

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A startup weekend a “walk through”
Day 1 - Meet, pitch, and form teams.
Day 2 - Build a minimum viable product and receive mentorship from local industry
experts.
Day 3 - Complete work, give final pitch presentations, network, and celebrate!

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A startup weekend Core Values
01. Connected Communities: We create strong community bonds by facilitating connection
and sharing our networks
02. Giving First: We help others whenever possible, giving first to our community, with no
specific expectations of return.
03. Teamwork Matters: We believe collaboration drives innovation. As a team, we act with
integrity and treat others with respect.
04. Inclusive & Open: Techstars Startup Weekend is always open to all. We’re committed
to making people feel included and welcomed—before, during and after the weekend. We
invite all communities to participate.

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What will you and your team learn together
from a Startup Weekend?
1. How to cultivate deep understanding of Customers
2. How to think through 9 components when you build your startup around customers
a. problem,
b. solution,
c. key metrics,
d. unique value proposition,
e. unfair advantage, channels,
f. customer segments,
g. cost structure, and
h. revenue streams
3. How to put together the idea into a “pitch”and keep Communicating your ideas to all the stakeholders for
your business (the intro, the demo, the biz stuff, the landing)
a. Co-founders
b. Investors
c. Employees
d. Partners
e. Customers

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✅ 22 March (Wednesday): Pitch
Fire Session
🔽 Startup idea ရှိသူတိုင်းမှ idea
pitch လုပ်ြခင်း
🔽 Idea များကို Pitch Fire Session
လာတက်သူတိုင်းမှ vote ေပးြခင်း
🔽 Vote အများဆံုး Idea 20 မှ Day 1
သို တက်ေရာက်ခွင့်ရရှိြခင်း
Day 0 - A “bonus” Pitch Fire Virtual Session

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What is a “Pitch Fire”?
A simple 60-second pitch might look like:
:10 seconds – Introduce yourself.
:20 seconds – Describe the problem you’ll solve.
:20 seconds – Describe the solution.
:10 seconds – Tell us who/what you need to pull it off.
Objective: to communicate clearly, be memorable, and generate interest in your idea.

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What is a “Pitch Fire”?

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Day 1 - Pre-selection
✅24 March (Friday): SWYGN Day
1
⏬ ပိုင်ပွဲဝင် အဖွဲ ၂၀ မှ အဖွဲ ၁၃
ဖွဲအား Day 2 သိုဖိတ်ေခါ် ြခင်း

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Day 2 - Refining your 5 mins pitch
1. Understand your customers
2. Build your lean canvas
3. Master your pitch
4. https://toolkit.techstars.com/
5.

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Day 3 - Final Presentation
26 March (Sunday): SWYGN Day 3
🏆 ပိုင်ပွဲဝင် ၁၃ ဖွဲမှ အဖွဲ ၄ ဖွဲအား
ဆုချ ီးြမှင့်ြခင်း

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Pitching
Workshop
#SWHASHTAG

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Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Apple
People who know
what they’re talking
about don’t need
PowerPoint.
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What is the
best structure for a
talk?

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01
Start by making
your audience
care, using a
relatable example
or an intriguing
idea.

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02
Explain your idea
clearly and with
conviction.

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03
Describe your
evidence
and, how and why
your idea could be
implemented.

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04
End by addressing
how your idea
could affect your
audience if they
were to
accept it.

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The primary goal of
your talk is to
communicate an
idea effectively.

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Pitching 101
Workshop
#SWHASHTAG

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01
Feel
the
pain
02
Be
nice
03
Be
honest
04
Stand
out!
05
Take
Away
Their
Ammo
06
Back
To The
Future

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01
Feel the pain
(twist the knife)

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02
Be nice
People remember how you made them
feel! Likability!!!

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03
Be honest
Know where you are in your process!
Report on your progress!

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04
Stand out
Be excited, if you are not then the
judges won’t be!

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05
AMMO
TAKE AWAY THEIR AMMO.
Don’t give them any excuse, be your
own biggest critic.

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06
FUTURE
BACK TO THE FUTURE.
It’s all about the future! Demonstrate
the potential!

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What should you
include in your pitch
deck?

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Pitch deck (lite)
overview.
Intro
01
Problem + Solution
02
Market/ Potential
03
Competition or Current Solutions
04
Plan i.e. Business Model, Customer
acquisition, Product roadmap
05
Demo
06
Call-To-Action (ASK)
07

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Pitch deck (full)
overview.

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Strong opening
sentence...

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Strong opening
sentence...
Hi! i’m [name]
I’m from [company]
and we [unique value
proposition]
The problem
we’re solving is…
Our solution is…

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This is a big opportunity
because…
Our target market is…
We will acquire customers
by…
We make money by...
Our key competition is...

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We’re better because…
Our team is…
What we’ve done
so far is…
What we’ll do next is...
Currently we’re seeking...

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Call to action!

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Resources
for building beautiful decks!

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Demonstration

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Vector(s)

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Stock images

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Tips on how to
present to the judges
Pitching 101 workshop

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01 Practice
makes perfect
02 Don’t repeat
what’s on your slide
03 Don’t overload
your slides. no busy slides.
04 Make eye contact.
05 Keep it short & sweet.

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01 Practice
makes perfect
02 Don’t repeat
what’s on your slide
03 Don’t overload
your slides. no busy slides.
04 Make eye contact.
05 Keep it short & sweet.
06 Don’t leave it
to the last minute
07 Don’t start your pitch
by asking a question
08 Tell a story.
Not stats.
09 Create an impact.
you want people to remember you.
10 Keep track of time.
divide your time & roles well.

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Judging criteria

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Validation Did your team get out and talk to
customers?
01
Are you actually solving a problem?
02
Have you identified a specific target
market?
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Execution
and Design
Do you have an mvp or prototype?
01
How functional is your technical
demo?
02
Design matters! Is your product easy
to use?
03

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Business model How do you plan on making this a
successful business?
01
Are you solving a problem? (Value
proposition)
02
Is your idea unique?
03