Startup Weekend in Singapore Again! 29 Apr-1 May

No Talk, All Action. That’s the new tagline of the global 54-hour startup-building movement, Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend was founded in 2007 and brings together a diversity of people interested in meeting others to work on ideas, build actual prototypes and build startups.

The first Startup Weekend in Singapore was held last year during the Halloween weekend with about 45 attendees, 20 ideas pitched, with a final 6 teams that were formed. At the end of the 54 hours, all 6 teams pitched to the whole group plus the mentors and judges and a winner was decided by the mentors and judges. (That winning team happened to include two people from SGE – Isaac and myself!)

This end April, Startup Weekend is happening in Singapore again. Find out more about why you should consider joining here.

For a video introduction:

Speakers

Bernard Leong – Topic: Three things about Product Development

Bio: Co-founder and CTO of Chalkboard with experience of rapid prototyping within 21 days and building a platform and API within 6 months. Also an early stage investor, and helps companies to think about product development and social media with 1 company exited and another raising the next round of funding.

Alon Sobol – Topic: The Mobile Space

Bio: Alon recently joined Facebook Asia as Head of Mobile Partnerships. Prior to that he was VP Products at mig33. Alon will join us to share some comments about product iteration, revenue models, and customer acquisition.

Alex Marquez – Topic: Marketing is not Just Sales and Advertising

Bio: Alex believes that the true test of an idea is its ability to shine in the marketplace. Over a 10 year career in innovation and strategy, Alex has developed growth opportunities for some of the world’s most respected organizations including Pepsico, Shell, Moet Hennessy, Sony Music, Unilever, The Royal Sun Alliance, Astrazeneca, The Last Vegas Sands, and the Government of Singapore. His experience spans 25 international markets and senior positions at agencies like JWT, ?What If! Innovation, and Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners. Based in SIngapore, Alex founded Propellerfish in 2009 to help clients develop opportunities around new brands products and services globally.

Jeff Paine – Topic: They don’t teach Entrepreneurship in School

Bio: Jeff Paine is an angel investor and film producer. After having run Founder Institute for several semesters in Singapore he will share some insights about what they don’t teach aspiring entrepreneurs in school.

John Young – Topic: Your Idea is Not Original

Bio: John Young has practiced as an IP lawyer and worked for Intellectual Ventures. In his short talk he explains why ideas are only worth 1%, while perspiration is worth 99%. (If you think you’re the first person to have thought of it, you’re wrong.)

Kingsley Wood – Topic: Amazon Has Free Cycles For You

Bio: Kingsley Wood brings two Solutions Architects from Amazon to help teams achieve two major goals: 1. stop reinventing the infrastructure wheel, and 2. prepare their startups to scale for global load from day one. They will briefly describe enabling technologies such as AWS, Heroku, Django, and Rails.

Darius Cheung – Topic: Exit? You’re not done yet.

Bio: Darius contrasts two major periods in the life of his company: before its acquisition by a major security vendor in 2010, and afterwards. Contrary to popular belief, an acquisition or IPO does not always mean game over, high score.

Event Details

When: Friday-Sunday, April 29th – 1st May 2011
Time: 6pm Friday to 9pm Sunday
Where: Microsoft, 1 Marina Boulevard

Register here.