Nonetheless, a huge congrats to the winners of Startup Weekend Tampa

1st Place

TriviaWars

2nd Place

Splik.it

3rd Place

SchoolCal

Great job everyone! The pitches as well as businesses built are all winners, don’t give up!

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A text-based Web clipper that clips sites and organizes your content. It also allows you to search topics to find other clippings that will help speed up your research.

Quote Sheet

Mobile app that helps you keep track of quotes.

SchoolCal

A social calendar for schools that allows groups to share events.

Who’s Got What?

A website to help organize attendees and the stuff they are bringing to events.

JitJab

A cloud-based public chat that allows people to easily join the conversation on any web-based application.

The Dirty Sheets

A microblog for funny hookup stories.

Bitcoin Trust Authority

Consolidated complaint and feedback platform on Bitcoin businesses.

Holistic Healthiness

Assess data to provide users with a health score and ranks them against larger variables (demographics, location, age, etc.). Provides holistic health services recommendations based on results.

Trivia Wars

Mobile board games

1. If you were unable to purchase a ticket before we sold out, we currently only have the Sunday pitch event tickets available. We will not be selling any tickets during registration on Friday and only those on the list will be able to attend.
2. If you purchased a student discounted ticket, make sure you bring your student IDs for verification.
3. Bring laptops, ipads, tablets and everything you need to do what you do best. Do not forget your chargers!
4. Be familiar with the resources available through Startup Weekend.
5. Know the weekend schedule.
6. Make sure you’re following us on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag for the event is #StartupTampa) for any announcements.
7. Thank our sponsors, they help make our Startup Weekend the amazing success it is! You can find our sponsors here on Twitter and our contributing sponsors here.
8. Don’t be afraid to reach out to us Online and ask us questions. We’re here to help you!

We can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow. Please remember that you do not need to arrive any earlier that 5:50pm. Doors will not open until 6:00pm.

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• Laptop
• Business cards
• Something to take notes on
• Lots of energy

Pitches

Pitches on Friday night will 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 won’t have time to go over features, so just focus on the core of the idea and make your enthusiasm contagious. Here is the format for pitches that we recommend:

• Who are you and what is your background? (5-10 Seconds)
• What is the problem that you product is solving? Or, begin with a story (10-20 Seconds)
• Explain the product and how it solves the problem (10-20 seconds)
• Who do you need on your team (a developer, marketing, designer?) (5-10 seconds)
• Finally, make up a name for your startup so the facilitator can give it a title

Voting & Forming Teams

After pitches, you will have more time to mingle. If you pitched an idea, this is your time to start recruiting others that are interested in your idea. If you did not pitch, or if you are having trouble finding others to join your team, use this time to seek out those that pitched other ideas that you found interesting.

Next, the crowd votes on their favorite pitches. This is a simply a way to encourage quick team forming. This is by no means an exclusive process and if you pitch an idea and it is not voted as one of the top ideas, you are more than welcome to work on it if you find some other people who want to work on the idea with you. From there we will form teams and these are the startup ideas that will be worked on over the weekend.

1. 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:

1. Who is your customer?
2. What is your core value proposition?
3. What are your key activities?
4. What are your revenue streams?
5. What is your cost structure?
6. Who/what are your key partners/resources?
7. What are your distribution channels?
8. What is your roll-out strategy?

2. Customer Validation: 
Have you taken the proper steps to ensure that the people who matter (your future customers) support and reinforce your assumptions? Think of Customer Validation as ‘evidence’ to back up the core structure of your ‘theory’ (your Business Model). The more feedback you gather (quantity), the more this feedback comes from your specific target market (quality), and the more you’re able to actually integrate this feedback into the Business Model and product development (execution), the better.

3. Execution: 
The nitty gritty: what has your team been able to actually build over the weekend? Even the strongest of Business Plans are useless in the hands of those who can’t properly execute on them. Getting as far as possible in the development of your product/prototype not only helps give Judges a tangible vision of what the final product could be, but proves your strength and skills as a team. This is what truly matters: investors don’t invest as in ideas so much as teams.

We, as organizers, share many similar interests and passions, including our passion for this community and Startup Weekend. We are extremely thankful to everyone that has reached out to support the event whether it’s by volunteering, sponsoring, mentoring, speaking, or simply spreading the word via Twitter and Facebook. 

We thank you all for helping make Startup Weekend Tampa an event that is worth attending and hope you guys are as excited as we are to kick things off… IN 7 DAYS! 

- Susie, Ryan and Kim 

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