From Finnish to startup at weekend bootcamp
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| Startup Weekend Phoenix 2010 - Day 1 by curtm95, on Flickr |
The event has also captured the imagination of more established entrepreneurs within the Cambridge tech community with serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Artimi, Jack Lang, now confirmed on the judging panel together with Paul Smith, a former director of marketing at the UK’s first commercial ISP, Pipex, and Neil Davidson of Red Gate Software also mentoring at the event.
New additions to the mentoring line-up also include Eric Swain, a senior marketing and business development executive with a background in mobile and technology startups/early stage ventures and Emmanuel Carrauld, co-founder and CEO of award winning mobile app startup MagicSolver - a winner of the Qualcomm/Cambridge Wireless Discovering Startups 2010 competition.
Cabume will be attending and reporting from the event.
Startup Weekends help people with ideas create viable businesses by submerging them in a 54-hour entrepreneurial bootcamp.
“The response to the Cambridge Startup Weekend has been phenomenal,” said CamTechNet's Mauro Ciaccio, co-organiser of the event.
“This is testament to the vibrancy of the Cambridge technology cluster and the proven track record of these events in driving learning and innovation. The addition of further world-class judges and mentors will help us achieve our aim of uncovering the next generation of Cambridge success stories and assist them by bringing together the right skills and ideas over the course of a single weekend.”
The organisers have confirmed that the speaking panel is nearly complete. Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) will be talking on the subject of ‘Startup Creation’; Billy Boyle, co-founder of Owlstone on ‘Growing your startup and Breaking Free’; and former ARM COO, Jamie Urquhart, now of Pond Ventures on ‘Lessons learnt having made it to the other side’.
Oxford Entrepreneurs, the world’s largest student society promoting entrepreneurship has teamed up with the Startup Weekend. Oxford Entrepreneurs will be publicising the event to its 4,500 members with the aim of encouraging a large turnout of attendees from the University of Oxford.
Based on a formula pioneered on the US West Coast in 2007 and since rolled out to over 100 cities, the Cambridge Startup Weekend will take place between 11 and 13 of March at St John’s Innovation Centre and will be the first in the UK to be held outside London.
• Special Offer tickets are available for CaBuMe readers, with prices at £50 when you enter discount code PRCAM. To find out more information and to book tickets visit cambridge.startupweekend.org or follow the event on Twitter @swcambridge.
