What Is Startup Weekend?

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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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Startup Weekend Oslo VI will take place on May 24-26, and will feature the best business ideas in town. Here is a video showing the basic concept from our recent held Startup Weekend for Military Veterans:

Startup Weekend Military Veterans 2013 in Norway. Mission: further equip veterans to be entrepreneurs from Startup Weekend Norway on Vimeo.

You are perfect for Startup Weekend if:

  • You have a business idea and you want to find the time and the right people to work on it
  • You want to learn more about entrepreneurship and be surrounded by people with same mindset
  • You want to help develop other people’s business ideas (e.g.: develop a website, design a product, help with marketing/ sales etc.)

Startup Weekend is an intense weekend-long event, focusing on taking ideas to a business concept that could form the basis of a credible business. It brings together people with different skill sets – software developers, graphic designers, business people and other creative individuals – to build products and ideas, and develop a commercial case around them.

  • Friday: you pitch your business idea (if you have one), you meet your co-founders and create the teams.
  • Saturday: you WORK, together with specialised coaches.
  • Sunday: you present your work and demo to a specialised jury.

In some cases a brand new business idea turns into a full-time job for the team members, such as Pido. Soundrop, Swipe, Clicklift – from previous Startup Weekend events. The event will take place in English to ensure as many people as possible can attend.

Questions? Find us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter, see us on Instagram #swoslo, or email us oslo[at]startupweekend.org

Schedule

Friday

May 24
  • Registration starts, handfood, networking
  • Welcome & Speakers
  • Business model Canvas - Stina Nysæther
  • Norwegian born globals - Speaker Amund Frislie
  • 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 midnight.

Saturday

May 25
  • Day starts with coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Speaker Atle Myre - PR and media marketing strategy
  • Norwegian born globals - Speaker Amund Frislie
  • Lunch and business model canvas talk (Stina Nysæther)
  • Call for needs & skills
  • Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
  • Dinner
  • Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
  • Socialise at bar
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as midnight.

Sunday

May 26
  • Day starts with coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
  • Lunch
  • Gut&pitch-check. Start prepping for presentations
  • Dinner
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards
  • Wrapup
  • Gathering at bar
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Speakers

Atle Myre

PR and Media Marketing Strategies   |  LinkedIn

Atle Myre is a partner and senior advisor at FRISCH AS. He has previously worked in the Communications Department for the law firm Thommessen and for Geelmuyden.Kiese. Myre has officer training from the Armed Forces School and has served several years as an analyst in the Balkans and Afghanistan.

Amund Frislie

Norwegian born globals   |  LinkedIn

Amund Frislie has an engineering background, and spent the last 10 years working for the Norwegian video conferencing company TANDBERG in various positions around the world. (TANDBERG was acquired by Cisco in 2010 for $3.3 billion.) He has a keen interest for technology, global teams, and startups, and has just finished an executive study at MIT Sloan and NTNU on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship.

Stina Nysæther

Co-founder at Business model user group   |  LinkedIn

As co-Founder of BMUG Stina has helped marketing and organizing more than 10 workshops in business modelling.
Stina love to lead creative processes and help entrepreneurs transform ideas into business.
Attended 3 Startupweekends, part of organizing Bergen StartupWeekend, business modelling resource at StartupWeekends.
The norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Boston University School of Managment - Norwegian Entrepreneurship Program (Gründerskolen Alumni)

Judges

Sigvald Sveinbjørnsson

Editor in Digi.no   |  LinkedIn

Sigvald Sveinbjornsson is a norwegian editor and journalist. Before joining digi.no, Norway's leading tech-industry news service, he was advisor in JKL Group and news editor in NA24. He is a experienced tech-biz reporter with extensive network in a number of industries. On the private side Sigvald is father of two young boys, have an advanced interest in wine and fine dining…

Stian Aldrin

Akershus County Council   |  LinkedIn

Stian Aldrin is working for Akershus fylkeskommune (Akershus County Council). He is supporting political decision processes and managing projects that execute political decisions and which receive government funding to promote regional innovation. Stian has experience from all roles including CEO, board member, project management etc. related to starting up new patent intensive technology companies with global reach. He has worked with raising capital, public project funding, hiring and creating a great team, defining the strategy and business model and initiating the commercial phase (getting the first paying customers) to prepare the company for growth and operations.

Berit Elisabeth Øhn

Senior Principal, MCC at Accenture   |  LinkedIn

Berit is a Senior Principal, leadership expert and Master Certified Coach (ICF) working globally in Accenture. Former CEO at The Turning Point, developing a corporate coaching company specialized on transformational processes.

Coaches

Marte Sootholtet

Independent consultant   |  LinkedIn

Marte Sootholtet is a KaosPilot graduate from Oslo, Norway with a degree in creativity, innovation and business development. Her passion lies in creating collaborative spaces for creative, forward thinking communities and people. Facilitation of user centric design processes and across sectors makes her happy, so does projects with solid purpose. Marte has facilitated the Service Jams in Oslo as well as Bergen Health Challenge and MyOslo. Her competence lies particular in coaching teams to perform better together through communication and goal setting. She is a also strong within design thinking, concept development and user testing.

Tor Grønsund

Entrepreneur, educator and blogger   |  LinkedIn

Founder of Lingo and a lecturer of entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo. He is also a well known blogger, cited by Stanford University, UC Berkeley, INSEAD, and Wall Street Journal blog among others for developing and advocating lean management techniques in tech entrepreneurship, business model innovation, and commentary on the Internet startup scene. His specialities are marketing and market research/analysis in the Internet and emerging online media space.

Terje Christensen

Business Model User Group -BMUG - co-Funder   |  LinkedIn

As co-Founder of BMUG Terje has organized more than 30 workshops in business modelling. Teaching entrepreneurs how to make money on their idea.
Serial Entrepreneur (Odin Data, Odin Systemer, 1stRevenue, Eventhost.no, Odin Russland, AreZibo)
Attended 8 StartupWeekends. Some as organizer, some as participant and some as business modelling resource.
Terje enjoys starting things and has a personal motto “To make myself redundant. Only them I´m free to start something new”

Stina Nysaether

Business Model User Group - BMUG - co-Funder   |  LinkedIn

As co-Founder of BMUG Stina has helped marketing and organizing more than 10 workshops in business modelling.
Stina love to lead creative processes and help entrepreneurs transform ideas into business.
Attended 3 Startupweekends, part of organizing Bergen StartupWeekend, business modelling resource at StartupWeekends.
The norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Boston University School of Managment - Norwegian Entrepreneurship Program (Gründerskolen Alumni)

Vegard Olsen

Startup coach   |  LinkedIn

As a startup coach I will help you clarify your BIG WHYs and contribute to anchoring the motivations of your startup team. From this you will be able to choose the best possible strategy for your idea - and make it not only relevant, but essential for future customers!

Organizers
Amalie Victoria Kristoffersen
Erik Holthe Eriksen
Maja Adriaensen
Isabella Persson
David Nikel
Cristina Moldovan
Domenico Solazzo
Alin Claudiu Apostu
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