Helen Baxter does a great overview on Startup Weekend Wellington in the following G33kshow clip: And 90Seconds.tv were in the thick of it in this entertaining high-protein low-fat segment:

These are the teams that presented at Startup Weekend Wellington in November 2011: Auti (honourable mention) The interactive toy for autistic children. Autism can be isolating and socially hard for kids. They struggle to understand other peoples social cues, and learning about these things can be hard and frustrating for them. Auti is an intelligent [...]

Local startup uSnap.us, which provides a mobile and web application for guest-sourcing wedding photos, has won Startup Weekend Wellington. Wedding parties are faced with two key issues on their big day: 1. Photographers can’t be everywhere at once 2. Some people can’t make the event uSnap.us solves these problems through a simple and innovation solution [...]

After 54 hours of hard work, intensive learning and overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges, we have an outcome. USnapUs secured the top prize in this weekend’s Wellington Startup Weekend event. USnapUs is an application that allows wedding guests to immediately post photos to a repository set up by the happy couple. Second place went to Conscious [...]

Alexei Dunayev has prepared the following Q&A for teams presenting at Startup Weekend Wellington. What are the judging criteria? Customer Validation (Interviewed target customers, feedback integrated into product, built a base of fans and would-be customers) Business Model (Differentiation from competition, customer acquisition/rollout strategy, clearly articulated revenue model) Execution (Have functional protoype, executed well as [...]

Startup Weekend Wellington just became even more fun! A whole bunch of organisations are seeing the value in this mission and have got on board by donating some attractive prizes. First up, there’s a $1000 cash award from Startup Weekend to the supreme winner announced on Sunday evening, plus runner up prizes of $500 and [...]

Here are the slides from the Friday Night intro deck. Sw friday deck

Startup Weekend is the fork in the road. If you’ve come this far and you’ve registered for this event you are now standing at the precipice and the only options you have are to move forward or to stand still. Going back is failure. Your first lesson will be courage. Courage to take the step [...]

We had a great social warmup tonight for Startup Weekend Wellington tonight.  People have asked for the deck to be published, so here they are!

There’s not long to go now until Wellington Startup Weekend, 4-6 November.  So we thought you’d like some some advance material to help you prepare and make the most of your Startup Weekend experience. Most importantly, please keep an eye on this website for updates from now on. It’s jam packed with everything you need [...]