What Is Startup Weekend?

What is Startup Weekend?

Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

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Berytech

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: 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 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 an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: 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 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.

 

For more info:

Facebook: http://www.facebook/SWBeirut

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SWBeirut

Phone: +96170807940

Email: info@oureclub.com

Schedule

Friday

Jul 6
  • Registration Starts
  • Dinner & Networking
  • Welcome & Speakers
  • Pitches Start
  • Attendees vote for the top ideas
  • Teams start forming and discussing ideas
  • 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

Jul 7
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Speakers
  • Lunch
  • Call for needs & skills
  • Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
  • Dinner
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Jul 8
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Speakers
  • Lunch
  • Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
  • Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards & Wrap-up
  • Focused Group with the Minister
  • Go home!
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Speakers

Chris Pedregal

Product Manager at Google

Mohammad Khawaja

Executive Director at N2V, CEO at StartAppz

Judges

H.E. Nicolas Sehnaoui

Minister of Telecom   |  

Minister of Telecommunication
http://www.nicolas-sehnaoui.org/

Habib Haddad

CEO of Wamda   |  LinkedIn

Habib is the founder Yamli.com the leading Arabic transliteration engine. It has grown to become a household brand in the Middle East and has been praised for empowering and re-energizing the Arabic language online. Yamli has allowed Arabic users to type more than 500 Million words so far with 3.5 Million daily. Yamli also developed Arabic smart search technologies for enterprises and search engines.

He is also the founder of YallaStartup an NGO that aims to foster early stage entrepreneurship and startup creation in the Middle East.

The World Economic Forum recently recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader for 2009. He also made it to the "Thirty under 30" list by the ArabianBusiness.

Habib also co-founded INLET (International Network of Lebanese Entrepreneurs and Technologists), an organization geared towards promoting entrepreneurship in Lebanon. During the July of 2006 war he founded Relief Lebanon aimed at supporting relief operations in Lebanon. The grass root effort was featured by the "101 Stories to Tell" initiative by the UNDP in February 2009. His past work experiences include AMD and Mok3 a Boston startup out of the MIT CSAIL Lab.

Habib advises several young entrepreneurs and startups from the MENA region and often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship. He holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Sami Beydoun

Managing Partner at Berytech Fund

Sami spent most of his career with major US investment banks in Beirut, New York, and London. After obtaining his diploma in Law & Economics from Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut, he worked eleven years with Merrill Lynch out of which five years were in Beirut, one in New York, and four in London where he was Vice-President, Manager of the international managed futures accounts department. The next three years he was the Managing Director of SB commodities, a British asset management firm which he created, and subsequently, still in London, moved to what became Lehman Brothers (E.F.Hutton, Shearson American Express), where he spent eleven years as Senior Vice-President and General Manager of London Retail.

Mark Dickinson

Founder of IdeazFactory

Mark is the Chief Ideaz Officer of ‘Ideaz Factory’,
a company that fulfills the role of CIO to businesses and organizations within the Middle East believing
in the power of Ideaz to
change, inspire and lead initiatives. He organizes workshops for business leaders to meet innovative international figures in small group settings
where they can interact personally. As CIO of Ideaz Factory, Mark has launched the Ideaz Prize, a multi-faceted campaign to encourage and guide entrepreneurial youth.

Ideaz Factory operates globally with offices in Beirut, Bangkok and Tokyo.

He is also now working in partnership with hospitalitybiz® as Vice President of its branch in
the Middle East/North Africa and is well positioned to assist in the selection of leaders and
managers for global organizations.

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