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Dan comes from a heavy background of DIY self taught talents including video production and animation, design, and marketing. His mainline activities take him into the world of design research at Lextant where for 11+ years he’s been Lextant’s Tool Czar and key Futurist. In 2008 he stumbled upon Startup Weekend Columbus, and won the TechGenesis 50k grant fund for the creation of JoeMetric, a mobile survey startup he led and started with 7 others. With a compulsive vision and insane work ethic he created BKL in 2009 to explore the horizon of “what if and why not” with fellow JoeMetric co-founder and friend Tushar Kulkarni. Dan’s role in BKL is vision, concepts, brand, user experience, research and tactical yummyness.
BringShare is not only sponsoring this upcoming Columbus, OH Startup Weekend, but they will also be providing their digital marketing analytics platform for free to all of the teams for the next six months. “We’re really excited to be partnering with a great event that really promotes entrepreneurial thinking in our community.” said CEO Justin Spring. Currently, when [...]
What to bring Laptop Business cards Something to take notes on Lots of energy Pitches Pitches on Friday night be in a “pitch-fire” format, which means you will have just 60 seconds to get the audience interested in your idea. You will have no slides or props – just a microphone and a smile. You [...]
The Startup Weekend judging criteria is broken up into three sections. Teams are judged according to the following 3 criteria (weighed equally): Business Model The heart of it all. If you haven’t got answers to these questions, you’ve spent too much time on frills & features and need to get back to the basics: Who [...]
Friday: 5:00pm – Doors open – Mingle @ TechColumbus Open House (delicious pizza served) 6:15pm – Kickoff 6:30pm – Dan Rockwell 7:15pm – Pitches Begin – (60 seconds per person) 9:15pm – Mingle and voting 10:00 – Team forming – then start working! 1:00am – Roll out Saturday: 9:30am – Doors open. Breakfast served 10:00am [...]
NEW ALBANY, Ohio ( Jan. 16, 2012) — Buckeye Interactive announced today the Buckeye Interactive Scholars Program started to send up to 10 developers, designers and aspiring entrepreneurs to Startup Weekend Columbus. The 54-hour event has helped educate more than 17,000 entrepreneurs at over 120 events worldwide, and has facilitated the launch of over 560 new [...]
Derek Rey is the Founder of Social Envy, a leading social engagement platform. Previously he co-founded Adly, the largest celebrity endorsement platform in social media representing over 1,400 celebrities worldwide. As a member of Adly’s founding team, Derek created more than 25,000 meaningful advertising experiences for 150+ Fortune 500 brands. He has been a featured [...]
1. Rewardster – Loyalty programs digitized. 30% conversion rate at first Jimmy John’s test. 2. Haley Meals – Make home cooking easier. Pre-package ingredients into meal kits. Distribution through meal parties a la Mary Kay. 3. Foodcue.me – Buying groceries sucks. E-commerce support for local grocery stores so they can beat Wal-Mart. It’s like Instapaper [...]
Before the StartupWeekend Columbus teams present their hard work from this weekend, we’ll be engaged by a panel discussion featuring: Pam Springer- Founder/CEO, Manta Michael Butler – Partner, NCT Ventures Victor Thorne- Head of Ohio Tech Angels Fund (OTAF) Alan Homewood- Founder, 2Checkout Brooke Paul- Founders Factory (5:20) Pam Springer: Be open to business models and [...]
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