By Paula Celestino
Join us for Startup Weekend Diversity Miami taking place May 29, 30 and 31 at Venture Hive.
Startup Weekend is a non-profit, community-building event that brings together entrepreneurs of different backgrounds, including software developers, marketers, designers, and startup enthusiasts. They gather to to pitch ideas, form teams and start companies in just 54 hours. The participants that attend have 60 seconds to make a pitch, the pitches are whittled down to the top ideas, and then teams form around the ideas to come out with several developed companies or projects. Finally, the weekend culminates with demonstrations in front of an audience of judges and potential investors.
Startup Weekend has held 1000+ events in 150+ countries around the world, and we are looking forward to making a big dent in Miami. With the help of local supporters, we are planning to leverage our global reach to impact our local community.
We have already secured some amazing sponsors and notorious startup community leaders as judges and mentors for Startup Weekend Diversity Miami such as Brian Brackeen, Kairos CEO; Nico Berardi, Managing Director AGP Miami; Adam Boalt, LiveAnswer CEO; Felecia Hatcher, Author, Chief Popsicle of Feverish Miami, Co-Founder of Code Fever Miami & Black Tech Week; and Linda Koritkoski, Director of Marketing for .CO, POP.co and Building.co among others.
This particular Startup Weekend is all about Diversity and breaking tech barriers for everyone in the community. So many people feel their gender, age, ethnicity, background or technical ability is a barrier to get into the startup world and at Startup Weekend Diversity Miami and we want to change that.
Startup Weekend is calling for Developers, Designers, and Business/Non-technical participants to come together share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups in a weekend! There will be prizes for the winners!
Register now for Startup Weekend Miami Diversity as space is limited. Here is the event link: http://www.up.co/communities/usa/miami/startup-weekend/5362
Want to learn more about it? Here is a cool video about SW: What Is Startup Weekend; this is a fun video that explains how SW works: https://vimeo.com/125780002; and I blogged about my journey into Startup Weekend Diversity Miami here: https://medium.com/@StartupWeekendDiversityMiami/startup-weekend-diversity-miami-754530e5d35b
For those who are unfamiliar with the Startup Weekend organization, it is a global non-profit that supports the development and expansion of entrepreneurship through events worldwide that educate aspiring entrepreneurs by immersing them in the process of moving an idea to market. Startup Weekend has built a network of more than 100,000 alumni, thousands of volunteer Organizers and more than 100 trained facilitators spanning more than 400 cities in more than 100 countries. Google for Entrepreneurs, Amazon Web Services, .CO, and Coca-Cola. For more information visit www.startupweekend.org.
Come join us May 29-31! Buy tickets here.
Paula Celestino is one of the organizers of Startup Weekend Diversity Miami.