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Triad Women Startup Weekend 2018 -- No Talk. All Action.
Friday, February 9 - 11, 2018
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Triad Women Startup Weekend 2018 -- No Talk. All Action.
Friday, February 9 - 11, 2018
Friday, February 9 - 11, 2018
Event starts at 6:30 pm
Flywheel Coworking
Center for Design Innovation
450 Design Ave
Winston-Salem,
NC
27101
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Finally a startup weekend designed to accelerate Winston-Salem's women entrepreneurs!
Are you a woman with an idea you'd like to pursue or a problem you'd like to solve but don't know where to start or who to start with?
Techstars Startup Weekend is the place to look for a team, create a prototype of your idea, validate your business idea, and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, all in one weekend.
The Global Startup Weekend Women is an international initiative led by Paris to make entrepreneurial projects more diverse and inclusive, and to highlight the impact of women in entrepreneurship. By strengthening and connecting Startup Weekend Women communities worldwide, we create a global wave that encourages women all around the world to embrace entrepreneurship and technology, and build a society that truly reflects all of us.
What do you need to bring?
Lots of energy! You'll pitch your own idea or listen to others, then vote on the most interesting ideas and form teams with diverse skill sets. You can come with friends, but you’ll get the full experience if you participate in separate teams. Remember, it’s all about the team.
Your idea should be something you have not previously worked on. The idea you pitch and the problem you set out to solve can span social, educational, financial, environmental, or other issues. Over the course of the weekend you'll be challenged to create a prototype of your MVP, or minimum viable product, that fits the needs of your target customer. You'll get feedback, iterate, and likely pivot your approach entirely! Important: You cannot have worked previously on your idea.
Techstars Startup Weekend is a full weekend long experience. Your ticket includes:
Watch the video below to see what you can expect, and if you’re feeling inspired click on the “Buy Ticket” button now!
Still have questions, feel free to reach us at “winstonsalem@startupweekend.org”.
Don’t wait any longer and join the Techstars Startup Weekend movement!
No talk, all action!
Techstars Startup Weekend is the place to look for a team, create a prototype of your idea, validate your business idea, and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, all in one weekend.
The Global Startup Weekend Women is an international initiative led by Paris to make entrepreneurial projects more diverse and inclusive, and to highlight the impact of women in entrepreneurship. By strengthening and connecting Startup Weekend Women communities worldwide, we create a global wave that encourages women all around the world to embrace entrepreneurship and technology, and build a society that truly reflects all of us.
What do you need to bring?
Lots of energy! You'll pitch your own idea or listen to others, then vote on the most interesting ideas and form teams with diverse skill sets. You can come with friends, but you’ll get the full experience if you participate in separate teams. Remember, it’s all about the team.
Your idea should be something you have not previously worked on. The idea you pitch and the problem you set out to solve can span social, educational, financial, environmental, or other issues. Over the course of the weekend you'll be challenged to create a prototype of your MVP, or minimum viable product, that fits the needs of your target customer. You'll get feedback, iterate, and likely pivot your approach entirely! Important: You cannot have worked previously on your idea.
Techstars Startup Weekend is a full weekend long experience. Your ticket includes:
- 7 full (and delicious) meals over the course of the weekend
- Benefits and discounts from our global partners
- One-on-one time with amazing mentors - successful women founders from across the region
- A new network of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs eager, like you, to change the world.
- All the internet and coffee you can consume.
Watch the video below to see what you can expect, and if you’re feeling inspired click on the “Buy Ticket” button now!
Still have questions, feel free to reach us at “winstonsalem@startupweekend.org”.
Don’t wait any longer and join the Techstars Startup Weekend movement!
No talk, all action!
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday February 9th
6:30 pm
Registration
Arrive at the venue and get checked in
7:00 pm
Dinner & Networking
Eat food, share ideas, practice pitches, get to know fellow participants
7:20 pm
Welcome & Speakers
Review agenda for the weekend and introduce speakers, coaches, and community leaders
7:30 pm
Pitches Start
Optionally line up to give your pitch
9:00 pm
Voting
Attendees vote for the top pitches
9:15 pm
Form Teams
Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00 pm
Begin Work
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 February 10th
9:00 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30 am
Begin Work
Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Check-In / Inspiration
After-lunch check-in, status reports, call for help, 5-minute inspirational speaker
2:00 pm
Coach Meetings & Mentor Visits
Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help! Mentors will drop in between 3pm - 4pm to give fresh perspective.
6:30 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
Check-In / Sharing
After-dinner check-in, status reports, call for help,
10:00 pm
Wrap-Up
Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
Sunday February 11th
9:00 am
Breakfast
Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00 am
Check-In / Inspiration
Coaches arrive. Final opportunity to ask questions. Final words of encouragement.
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:30 pm
Coach Meetings
Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00 pm
Presentation Prep & Tech Check
Final hours of worktime should be focused on perfecting your presentation, tech-check for final presentations also takes place
4:00 pm
Dinner
5:00 pm
Final Presentations
7:30 pm
Judging & Awards
8:30 pm
Wrap-Up
9:00 pm
Go Home!
Speakers
Jen Oleniczak-Brown
Founder
Jen Oleniczak Brown is Working to improve speaking, listening and conversation skills through improv-based education, empowering women, specifically women entrepreneurs and progressive women running for office, and spreading the good word of using improv for self-improvemen
Event Judges
Lou Anne Flanders-Stec
Vice President
Lou Anne Flanders-Stec is a VP of Entrepreneurship at the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Previously she served as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Executive Director at City University of New York (CUNY) Center for Student Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at High Point University.
Prior to academia, she worked as the Fund Executive for the Piedmont Angel Network and as CFO/Strategy officer for two privately funded companies. In addition, she has over 20 years of experience in the financial management arena working in finance and treasury roles for manufacturing companies.
Prior to academia, she worked as the Fund Executive for the Piedmont Angel Network and as CFO/Strategy officer for two privately funded companies. In addition, she has over 20 years of experience in the financial management arena working in finance and treasury roles for manufacturing companies.
Raina Haque
Raina Haque, JD is the founder of Erdős Intellectual Property Law. For her, creativity and critical analysis go hand-in-hand. Raina is the polymath intellectual property attorney. She has deep respect for entrepreneurial endeavors; that is why she excels as an advocate for art, design, and innovation across multiple industries. She is an intellectual property attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and trained by the agency in Patent Examiner Practice & Procedure. She counsels major healthcare and research institutions, startups, small businesses, and individual inventors.
Simone Rose
Associate Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Simone Rose is an award winning professor and active scholar who writes and publishes in the area of intellectual property (IP). Prior to joining the law faculty, Simone practiced law at Foley and Lardner LLP. As a registered patent attorney, she assisted clients in both the acquisition and enforcement of patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights. In her newly appointed position as the Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Simone looks forward to creating a strong law school presence in the Innovation Quarter’s Bioscience and Engineering programs.
Coaches and Mentors
Tiffany Dodson
Consultant
Tiffany holds deep roots in the franchise industry, ranging from senior roles at well-known international franchises, to receiving national recognition not only as a top performing franchisee but also as a master franchisee. In her marketing career, Tiffany has the pleasure of working on some of the world's best-known brands: Miller Lite, Krispy Kreme, and Liberty Tax Service. During her marketing experience with these brands, she worked on brand strategy, brand planning, television, radio, outdoor, digital, print, promotions, execution, grass roots marketing, agency searches, multi-cultural programs, budgeting, and new products.
Bruce Maxwell
Founder, Bruce Maxwell Consulting
As Founder of Bruce Maxwell Consulting, Bruce provides interim executive services as CEO, COO or CFO to help startups get organized and funded. I also provided troubleshooting and due diligence services to venture firms. Bruce has over 20 years of experience raising private equity from Angel and VC investors and has personally raised over $78 million. Bruce can condense 25 years of experience at starting companies into a single sentence: "The amateurs focus on maximizing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, while the professionals focus on minimizing risk on the road to cash flow breakeven."
Taryn Jerez
Founder
Founder of One Crafty Miss, LLC Taryn is a creative business coach, blogger, and speaker with a heart centered on teaching and serving creative women who have a vision for their business and their life. She has extensive experience in everything from market research and brand awareness to product development and vendor relations. She's a dedicated, motivated, and talented creative professional with experience working for Fortune 500 companies and diverse brands both big and small.
Mona King
Chief Creative Cultivator
Mona+Associates Design, LLC; Environmental Design Professional adept at critical thinking, problem-solving, leadership and creative development. Strategic thinker with an eye on critical analysis, cost controls, brand / identity design, and attaining your holistic space and vision. Biomimicry research and adaptive design and product development.
Alyson Francisco
Director of the Center for Women in Business
Alyson
Francisco is the Mary Ardrey Stough Kimbrough Chair in Business and Economics
at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a full time faculty member, she teaches
finance, entrepreneurship and business planning. She also serves as the
Director of the College’s Center for Women in Business where she focuses on
linking Salem to the external professional community through providing relevant
business programming, creating networking forums, and helping students secure
mentoring opportunities, internships and job placements. Prior to higher education, she spent more
than twenty-five years in the consumer packaged goods industry holding executive
level positions in finance and customer operations with Sara Lee Corporation
and Hanes Brands, Inc. She is a
graduate of NC State University and holds an MBA from Duke University. She is a 2012 graduate of Leadership
Winston-Salem where she now serves as an Action Learning Coach. She also is involved in the community through
her work with the Center for Women in Business, as a board member of the Center
for Creative Economy, a member of the Winston-Salem Small Business Advisory Board,
and member of the Entrepreneur Ecosystem of Forsyth County.
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Facilitators
Ann-Marie Nunziata
Ann-Marie is on the pursuit of becoming the Olivia Pope of Columbia startups. By day, she’s pursuing her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. By night, she helps plan Columbia startup events including Startup Weekend, Startup Grind, and The Exchange. Ann-Marie consults with the companies at the USC/Columbia Technology Incubator on social media, efficiency, and student engagement.
Event Staff
Ashley Blume
Program Assistant, HUSTLE Winston-Salem
Ashley Blume, originally from New York, is now a Triad-based marketing professional with expertise in social media management, web design and event coordination. She is passionate about taking new businesses to the next level by optimizing their marketing practices and brand recognition.
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