Startup Weekend 3 Is Launched
The 3rd leg of Startup Weekend Cebu has been unveiled by the organizing committee and important representatives last April 30 in Mandaue City at Acoustica Grill.
Startup Weekend 3 Goal
The goal of Startup Weekend 3 is to create prgressive ideas from various tech groups in the Visayas.
The event proper itself will be held on June 7-9 in University of San Carlos Main Campus (Buttenbruch Hall).
In response to the growing demand of startup aficionados in Visayas and Mindanao, the organizers of Startup Weekend 3 made a subsequent event in November 2013, which followed the successful leg done on May 2012.
Startup Weekend 3 is a platform where various tech persons and investors can merge to incubate an idea for a business venture. The competition’s duration will last within 54 hours.
“Startup Weekend is an event driven by the grassroots community – not corporations. Part of the SWC3 story is that I or we
have passed the baton over to the new organizers. By this, we have accomplished one of our goals: to
do skills transfer and share best practices with others,” enthuses Miss Tina Amper, Startup Weekend 3 organizer/adviser and founder of TechTalks.ph.
Startup Weekend 3 Partners
Startup Weekend 3 was organized in cooperation with DOST-ICT, JCI Mandaue, and TechTalks.ph.
Startup Weekend 3 committee is headed by Paul Villacorta. He is the founder and owner of Cebu Directories Co. and All Cebu.ph.
“We will try to duplicate, if not surpass, the achievement of our predecessors in successfully staging
Startup Weekend Cebu. We, the new Startup Weekend Cebu organizers, are inviting
technopreneurs and startups in the Visayas and Mindanao to join in this year’s gathering,” Villacorta shared.
Together with Villacorta are Ramil Montealto ad Keith Lumanog. Montealto is the Executive Vice President – Internal of Junior Chamber International Mandaue while Keith Lumanog is the founder of Web Ninja Mobile. Both of them gave their complete support with Startup Weekend 3.
Startup Weekends are made for investors who are searching for a great idea, in which they will cooperate with co-founders and learn new skills in internet, mobile applications and more!
The idea started out in USA and serves as an incubator of ideas, from which help from mentors, industry leaders, and investors are highly appreciated.
Startup Weekend 3 Activities
All the competitors will warm up and know each other on Friday night of June 7 then would start pitching in startup ideas that they have been working on and group together. Ideas are then polished to become great plans of enterprise from which prototypes will be made with the cooperation of mentors. On the last day of the Startup Weekend 3, they will be given 4 minutes to present their ideas to the judges.
Monchito B. Ibrahim, DOST-ICT commissioner will grace the first day of the Startup Weekend 3.
Aside from the triumvirate of Villacorta, Montealto and Lumanog, the organizing team also includes Frank Largo (Department of Economics Head of USC) and Lourdes O. Montenegro (Department of Economics Assistant Professor at USC).
Judges are Jean Patrick Bisson of ClickingLabs, Rhett Jones of Synacy, Bunny Pages of Moon Cafe & Thirsty, and Calen Legaspi of Orange and Bronze Software Labs.
Mentors are Wilson Ng of Ng Khai, Ruben Licera of RLComm International, Bert Padilla of TekWorx, Kahlil Corazo of SWNext, Fleire Castro of Third Team Media, Val Villar of UX, Elmar Valmores of Zoomstra Inc., Kenneth Ruelan of Caresharing and Jerome Locson of Luto.co.
Startup Weekend 3 Sponsors
Startup Weekend 3 was made possible with the help of the following private entities: Cebu Bloggers Society, Webgeek.ph, SGEntrepreneurs, e27, Sun.Star, Third Team Media, Mynimo, PRWorks, Web Ninja Mobile, All Cebu.ph, Sym.ph, University of San Carlos, Kickstart Ventures, and Globe Telecom.
Visit the official website, Facebook page, or follow Twitter account (@swcebu) for more information about Startup Weekend 3.
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