Startup Weekend Stavanger

24/09/2022

The first mentorship session just ended at Startup Weekend Stavanger. 🚀

More are following right now.

24/09/2022

After pitching their ideas, voting, and forming teams, our participants have started to create business model canvases and validate their customers' needs with expert guidance from our facilitator, Simone Demelas.

Soon they will meet with mentors to get advice on how to make their ideas a reality:

Pia Warland, Nils-Henrik Stokke, Rudolf Hansen, Richard Reistad, Isabel Næss, Anne Cathrin Østebø, Kristina Renberg and Karl Fjelde Nevland.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible: UiS Lyspæren, Innovation Dock, Stavanger Business Region, Validé AS, Skape - Etablerersenteret for Rogaland, Nordic Edge, and Næringsforeningen i Stavanger-regionen!

24/09/2022

Good morning Startup Weekenders! Looking forward to getting started, kicking off with a talk by Tone Therese Paulsen on customer validation.

24/09/2022

Day 1: Building teams
Brainstorming, pitching ideas, networking

With the fantastic space that is Innovation Dock, who wouldn't be inspired?

23/09/2022

3, 2, 1... and we are ready to push play for Startup Weekend Stavanger to begin. 🚀

Welcome to our fantastic participants!✨

Updates are coming up soon.

21/09/2022

Two more days until we meet at Startup Weekend Stavanger!

Prepare yourself to craft your business by understanding you customers in depth first:

✅Build What Customers Want
✅Run Empathy Interviews
✅Empathy in Action
✅Prepare for Your Empathy Interviews
✅Ask Effective Questions
✅Find the Job to Be Done
✅Understand Your Customer With Experiments
✅Create Customer Demand
✅Customer Interview Q&A

Find out how: https://toolkit.techstars.com/understand-your-customers

You have to first figure out what the problem is, and not the solution. This means knowing and understanding your customers' problem. Learn how to understand that problem.

20/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger is starting in three days. 🚀

Get ready and learn how to craft your business canvas:

✅Create a Business That Works
✅Understand Your Customer
✅Understand Your Business
✅Complete the Lean Canvas

https://toolkit.techstars.com/build-your-lean-canvas

Get ready to take your initial idea to the next level with the Lean Canvas. In this guide you'll learn how to create a business that works and understand your customer.

19/09/2022

WE ARE SOLD OUT!!

Thank you for showing such awesome interest in creating impactful innovation.

We look forward to welcoming you this Friday 23 September at 6pm.

18/09/2022

Today is the last day!

The time to register for Startup Weekend Stavanger is running out. Don't wait! https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

The event is the perfect place for you to gain clarity about your business idea and take action, meet other entrepreneurs with experience and self-starters, learn what investors might expect from your business plan, and more.

Your "what," "how" and "why" need to be clear in a short, eye-grabbing pitch.

Understand the importance of your pitch. The key to a successful pitch lies in the ability to condense your concept into a succinct presentation.

Learn why from one of the Techstars' co-founders: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/15/techstars-brad-feld-how-to-create-a-killer-start-up-pitch.html

17/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger registrations are closing tomorrow. Use this opportunity to turn your idea into a real business and launch a startup. Don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime! https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Simone Demelas is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and facilitator. His career journey started when he pivoted from Marine Biology academic studies to what he actually felt the most passionate about the startup world and innovation. He is currently Director of Foundersboost Italy, which is an entrepreneurship development hub, as well as Rome Business School Incubator. Through his work with these organizations and other contributions to the startup community, Simone has facilitated more than 40 Startup Weekend events around the world.

Sign up! Tomorrow is the last day you can register. https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

16/09/2022

To quote the sublimely hilarious comedian and author, Trevor Noah, “I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. ‘What if…’ ‘If only…’ ‘I wonder what would have…’ You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”

Make an easy decision before it's too late.

Registrations for Startup Weekend Stavanger are closing in two days: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

16/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger will help you turn your business idea into a successful startup. Don't miss this opportunity—register by September 18th: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Judge Jan Tore will help you fine-tune your business plan.

Jan Tore Usken is the Business Innovator at Creator. Facilitating a better world through technology, Jan Tore has extensive experience in business development and prototyping. He aims to help businesses innovate and develop through collaboration. Creator is a non-profit makerspace and an innovation community. The makerspace is a prototype workshop where people with common interests meet to work on projects and share ideas, equipment, and knowledge. Members are makers, hobbyists, innovators, specialists, business technologists, inventors, and hard workers.

Don't delay! Registration ends in two days. https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

15/09/2022

Register for Startup Weekend Stavanger before the deadline, September 18th, and you could win a free consultation for structuring the ownership of your company with ideal equity incentive programs and protection structures. You'll also get a six-month free license to Unlisted software to implement and manage Employee Stock Ownership Plans. https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Unlisted are building a company ownership platform. They help companies with advice and software to successfully implement and manage all Employee Stock Ownership Plans, raise capital and manage ownership. They also help investors find good investments and give them full control of their portfolio companies.

Fredrik Harestad is the founder and CEO of Unlisted. He has hands-on experience in both entrepreneurial ventures and as an investor. Collectively this has given him a broad understanding of the dynamics and the existing pains in this space. Fredrik is now helping companies solve these related pains for both companies and investors. His aim is to help more companies succeed in this difficult and complex domain.

Secure your seat now: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

14/09/2022

Startup Weekend Stavanger is offering advice from experts on how to turn your business idea into a successful startup. Register by September 18th to take advantage of this opportunity: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Judge Inger Tone will help you refine your business idea.

Inger Tone Ødegård, Director of Strategy at Næringsforeningen i Stavanger-regionen/Stavanger Chamber of Commerce (SCC). She has worked with business development at SCC since 2006. Stavanger Chamber of Commerce and Industry is Norway's largest Chamber and Business organization and has worked for its member companies, ensuring that the region has the attributes needed to make it a preferred region to live and work in. SSC is the region's largest organizer of business meetings and seminars, publishes the business magazine Rosenkilden, and offers a variety of products to the business sector.

Hurry, registration ends in just a few days!

13/09/2022

Now is your chance to get advice from Startup Weekend Stavanger's experts on how to turn your business idea into a successful startup. Register before September 18th: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

Audun will be a judge who helps you to refine your business idea.

Audun Abelsnes is the Managing Director of the Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator. For several years, Audun Abelsnes has been a visiting lecturer at the Master's level at the Norwegian Business School within entrepreneurship. He is an active participant in panels at energy and innovation conferences around the world and he has founded and later sold one company and is an active seed / early-stage investor. Audun Abelsnes has spent several years in PWC management consulting and holds a Master of Science in International Marketing from the Norwegian Business School.

Hurry up, registrations are closing soon.

12/09/2022

Join Startup Weekend Stavanger and get advice from experts on how to make your business idea more successful.

Troels will be one of the judges who will help you to improve your business concept.

Troels Jacobsen is the Director of Innovation at the Universitetet i Stavanger. He brings a wealth of experience in developing research and innovation departments from the marine industry to innovation within several industries. His focus is to help develop innovation and entrepreneurship activities at the University, with an emphasis on collaboration with businesses, industry clusters, the public sector, and citizen ecosystems. The involvement of students in innovative activities and education takes a central part in his mission.

Register for the event by September 18th, the closing date: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger

09/09/2022

Want to find out what makes your business idea successful? Join Startup Weekend Stavanger and work with other entrepreneurs to test your vision and receive expert feedback.

Anne will be one of the judges helping you improve your business concept.

Anne Cathrin Østebø is the CEO of Validé AS. She has a Master of Arts in economics and marketing and has studied entrepreneurship and innovation. Anne Cathrin has a long career in innovation, commercialization, and early-stage companies. She has worked as a technology broker, consultant, and IPR manager. Anne Cathrin has also held several leadership positions and board positions in several start-up companies and various networks, organizations, and innovation committees.

Register for the event until the 18th of September: https://event.techstars.com/e/startupweekendstavanger