So, finally we have the winners!! 1st Prize: PerfectMyEnglish – launch.perfectmyenglish.co 2nd Prize: EdVille/EdPulse – www.edpulse.in 3rd Prize: eduWidget – twitter.com/eduwidget12 Prizes for the winning teams: http://delhiedu.startupweekend.org/2012/04/13/prizes-for-winning-teams/ Special Mentions: Book Pool

We are minutes away from the final presentations at Startup Weekend Education Delhi and the teams are giving final touches to their startups. Some busy getting a video cut of their customer validation, some hard at coding, while others preparing the financials for their final presentation. So what would you see at 5PM today? Well [...]

The Day-1 of the inaugural session of Startupweekend Edu gets over with some awesome pitches and 14 team formations. Participants have been presenting some real innovative ideas and it will be exciting to see which all take an actual shape.   The ideas finally shortlisted include:   Book Pool: An online book donation and old [...]

So, here’s something to drool over for all participants and teams (and draw inspiration from) If your team stands 3rd as per the panelist’s decision, you get the following: 1. 33% off on company incorporation (Rs. 5,000 in value) OR Rs 5,000 OFF any business license registration from eLagaan. 2. Vouchers worth Rs. 250 from [...]

What to bring Laptop Mobile Business cards Something to take notes on Lots of energy 3G Datacard (just in case – murphy’s law!) 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 [...]

  There is no secret sauce! But may be there is..   Participants in any Startup Weekend come with varied individual goals, and work together fiercely for 54 hours to eventually pitch their ideas with a common goal of winning the competition. While there is no secret sauce to winning, but there are a few [...]

My Failure In my early days in college, I enjoyed the sudden lack of monitoring, extreme independence and the lack of someone constantly judging me. On the academic front also, if I did badly, only I found about it, i.e. if I did badly in a quiz or mid term exam, only I knew and [...]

For all of you coming to Startup Weekend, here are a few things you need to know and get ready for: Practice your 60 second idea pitches before you come. You will have 60 seconds to pitch an idea. If time permits, we will allow people to pitch additional ideas. Bring your laptops, pen, paper, [...]

Seattle, WA – April 3, 2012. Startup Weekend™ today announced a one-year Global Partnership with .CO Internet, the company behind the fast-growing .CO domain extension.  Through the partnership, .CO domain name scholarships will be granted to all Startup Weekend participants, reaching more than 45,000 entrepreneurs in over 100 countries across the globe. The domain name [...]

The first round of Startup Weekend events in India came to a close in March. Startup Weekend Delhi was held at the American Center from March 4th till March 6th 2011 and Startup Weekend Bangalore was held from March 11th till March 13th 2011 at Microsoft’s Signature building. September 2nd 2011 marked the beginning of the next [...]