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Apr 4 2014 Event Ended

UpTech - 112 W. Pike St., Covington, KY 41011

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This Startup Weekend event will be hosted in collaboration with local the Code for America brigade, Open Data Cincy, a regional initiative to use public data to encourage transparency, innovation, and civic engagement. Our goal for the event is to foster social entrepreneurship by accessing public data to launch new ventures, analyze patterns and trends, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems in our community.

Requirements to participate are below:

Build a business, product, or service that benefits our community based on challenges identified through public data
Any prototypes, demos, outcomes, companies will be built using open data provided by national or regional organizations for the purpose of civic innovation
The data used is non-proprietary and license free
All code will be open source and maintained on Github

Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local civic and entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of a social entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Schedule

Friday

Apr 4

6:30pm Registration Starts
7:00pm Dinner & Networking
7:20pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Apr 5

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Apr 6

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

Judges

Elizabeth Naramore

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Eric Avner

Haile Foundation | Twitter

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We help entrepreneurs turn great ideas into great companies. We're not an agency or an accelerator. We're a partner.

We Build — First and foremost we build things. We put sweat and tears in. We code, we design, we market. We draw interfaces, we fix bugs. We bring raw ideas to life.

We Mentor — We take equity in our projects, so their success is important to us. We're able to bring decades of startup experience to critical project decisions.

We Connect — We maintain and share a network of entrepreneurs, marketers, developers, designers, mentors, investors, lawyers and advisors in the startup industry.

Gaslight

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Gaslight builds apps that build businesses. We're a design and development shop based around three driving principles:

Learn — Think of us as early, early adopters. We find and explore new tech first. Then put the best tools and practices to work for you.

Build — We wield our coding, design and UX chops to create custom software or super-charge existing software. See our latest work.

Share — We’re open source all the way. Sharing everything we learn through our blog, podcast and training classes.

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We partner with talented entrepreneurs and help them build successful companies.

Our mission is to prepare early-stage companies and to guide small-to-medium sized enterprises who want to become global market leaders. Our experienced advisors provide the support, inspiration and push needed to take companies from start-up to lift-off and beyond.

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