My first experience attending Startup Weekend turned out to be great.
After I gave an initial pitch to the audience, 8 people decided to join me amongst 60 or so attendees. We spent exactly 54 hours to develop our product from scratch while having so much fun doing so. Lots of laughs, excitements and even pivots.
On the last day I gave another pitch to the audience, including the judges in front of us this time. Though I was sure that the concept of our product will stand out from others, I was certainly surprised when one of the judges actually gave us $10K investment offer right after I finished my presentation.
Our team won the final prize, which included:
1) Eligibility to participate DEMO Asia 2012 in Singapore
2) Two air tickets
3) 3 months free rent of incubation space
4) $200 worth credit of Amazon cloud services
5) Lots more
Things just got started. Looking forward to the excitements we’ll see in the future.