What Is Startup Weekend?

What is Startup Weekend?

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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Yellow Tower, No. 191, Tonle Sap (Rd.), Village 12, Sangkat Chroy Changva, 12110, Phnom Penh


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Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

This is Cambodia’s second Startup Weekend and it promises to be even BIGGER and BETTER than the last event! We will increase capacity, host at a much larger, more modern venue: Yellow Tower and we will even have several of the Startup Weekend Core Team flying for a visit! It’s also likely that we will have a number of observers visitng from the region, including organizers from Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and more…

What’s more we will be holding a number of pre events to help everyone get a foundation on what the event will be like. We’re even teaming up with the Phnom Penh GTUG (that’s Google Technology User Group) to hold a full day technology training event!

Startup Weekend is an intense 54-hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application that could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

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Judges

Hugh Mason

CEO JFDI Asia   |  LinkedIn

Hugh Mason is a successful entrepreneur, mentor and investor. Born in the UK and now living in Singapore, he connects people, communities and cash to make ideas real.

Hugh relocated to Singapore full time with his young family in January 2009. There, he co-founded JFDI.Asia, a seed accelerator that takes groups of new digital entrepreneurs from startup to seed investment in 100 days.

Hugh is visiting Cambodia especially for Startup Weekend!

Stefan Korn

Managing Director - WebFund   |  LinkedIn

Stefan has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and an MBA in international business. During his corporate career with companies like HP, Oracle and InterContinental Hotels Group Stefan managed large scale eCommerce platforms and Business Intelligence systems.

In 2007 Stefan founded private incubator WebFund to leverage his experience in building online transactional businesses and help take web-based Kiwi startups to the world. Over the last 5 years Webfund has established itself as one of the leading incubators in NZ.

Stefan is visiting Cambodia especially for Startup Weekend!

Dr Marcus Tan

CEO Future Health   |  

Based in Perth Western Australia, Marcus is the Managing Partner of Future Health Ventures, an angel fund investing in Health Technology Startups.

With both a medical and management background, Marcus works actively with Future Health's portfolio companies, currently acting as the CEO and Medical Director of HealthEngine, Australia's largest online medical directory and health appointment search engine.

Marcus supports the tech startup eco-system as an organiser of Startup Weekend Perth, Silicon Beach West, Aurelius Digital (an angel investor dinner series) and is the founder of Sync Labs, Western Australia's first tech startup community co-working space.

Marcus has experience as a management consultant, and sits on several private and not-for-profit boards which supports his interest in venture philanthropy and social enterprise.

Dr Tan is visiting Cambodia especially for Startup Weekend!

Steve Paterson

Coordinator of McKinsey Mekong Business Plan Challenge   |  Google+

Coordinator of McKinsey Mekong Business Plan Challenge - Lecturer - University of Puthisastra (UP) - Phnom Penh

Shirley Fong

Engagement Manager, Emerging Markets Entrepreneurs.

Shirley is actively involved in Emerging Markets Entrepreneurs (EME), a business incubator in Cambodia. In addition, she is promoting the growth of women-owned enterprises in Cambodia and Vietnam through the Mekong Women’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, a program funded by infoDev (World Bank). Shirley stems from a background in finance, starting her career in investment banking and subsequently working in private equity for a sovereign wealth fund. She maintains particular interest in the role that private sector plays in the sustainability of emerging and developing economies.

Sam Ng

Entrepreneur

Sam has started and managed 3 high growth businesses in the last 8 years.

As the co-founder of Optimal Usability, Optimal Workshop and Optimal Experience he understands the practical realities of running global businesses. With a passion for working with smart people on interesting projects, Sam went from sharing a desk with his co-founder to becoming the 27th fastest growing business in New Zealand.

Mentors

Lim Cheng Soon

Founder of Hacker Monthly   |  LinkedIn

Lim Cheng Soon is an entrepreneur, designer, and developer. He is the founder and curator of Hacker Monthly — the print magazine of Hacker News and one of the most prominent magazine among programmers. Before that, he had built and sold several online businesses. He is based in Malaysia, and travels all over the world with his wife.

David Truong

Co-Founder at Broccol-E-Games and TeacherTime   |  LinkedIn

David is interested in improving and disrupting the education system. David is involved in 2 active EDU startups: TeacherTime and Brocol-E-Games. He works full time on Broccol-E-Games as part of the AngelCube 2012 accelerator program. In the past he has worked at schools helping with their technology implementation.

David has a passion for business, especially startups and entrepreneurs. David is the co-organiser of Silicon Beach Drinks Adelaide and Startup Weekend Adelaide.

Pakk Yourng

CEO Perfexcom Group

Pakk has more than 10 yrs experiences in IT Engineer, Executive, and Management.

His carrier background has been working with Mobile Network Operators for both local and international Company

Mike Gaertner

CIDC

* Pionier of the internet in cambodia
* Open Forum first email service in Cambodia (1996)
* Bigpond first ISP in Cambodia (joined in 1998)
* Online first broadband provider (2001)
* Sabay first Online Game provider (2007)
* 20 years programing experience

Kunthy Kann

General Manager DDD

Kunthy is the General Manager at Digital Divide Data. Kunthy helped build the company from a small data entry team with a few thousand dollars revenue to $300k for FY11

Tony Lim

Information Management Specialist at the US Embassy of Cambodia.

Tony is an Information Management Specialist at the US Embassy. He holds a bachelors in Computer Engineering and a masters in International Studies. His experience includes software development, IT and project management.

Sopheap Seng

Department Head at ITC

Sopheap Seng is the Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia

Christopher Zobrist

Deputy Director at John von Neumann Institute   |  LinkedIn

I have had 10 years experience in IT consulting, and 5 years in teaching entrepreneurship.

Specialties
Entrepreneurship Education
Social Entrepreneurship
Technology

Orren Prunckun

Director of Marketing – Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance

Orren holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree. He has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor, in the Supreme Court of South Australia. He is currently the Director of Marketing for www.mega.org.au and Operations Manager at www.SolarQuotes.com.au. Prunckun has been an organizer of Startup Weekend Adelaide 2012. He is an associate member of Marketing Association of Australia and New Zealand and has been a guest speaker on market research at The Inventors Association of Australia (SA). He has been featured in Shoe String Startups, Startup Smart and In-Business and was a semi-finalist in the 2011 Adelaide University Entrepreneurial Challenge. In his spare time he is interested in international backpacking, snorkelling, power-lifting and ice hockey.

Darren Jensen

CTO Yoolk   |  LinkedIn

As well as organizing the event, Darren can also throw in some good advice. This comes from his experience as part-founder and CTO of Yoolk and being involved with MangoMap Online Gis mapping software!

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Darren Jensen
Justin Pearce-Neudorf
Chantra Be
Mr. Tharo
Schedule

Friday

Jun 22
  • Registration Starts
  • Dinner & Networking
  • Welcome & Speakers
  • 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 the venue will allow

Saturday

Jun 23
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Lunch
  • 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
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Jun 24
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Lunch
  • Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
  • Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
  • Dinner
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards
  • Wrapup
  • Go home!
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