Winners of Startup Weekend KL 2011!!
We had a great Startup Weekend last weekend in UniRazak CapSquare!!
66 participants attended the entire session and they were divided into 10 groups. On Friday night, more than 20 ideas were pitched and 9 ideas were voted as top ideas. And one new idea was brought up during the group forming session. The participants worked really hard and one group even didn’t sleep on Friday night. Really touched by their spirit!
We had 11 mentors and judges from different industries participating and it made a huge difference to the participants. Also in attendance was Trent Munday (who was the winner of Startup Weekend Bangalore 2010 and co-founder of Social Shout). Oh yes, we also had Karamjit Singh as an observer!
On Sunday night, after 10 presentations judges deliberated and choose winners and they were:
1st Place
Deal Hour – this is a mobile app which will give you hourly promotion information when you enter a shopping mall
2nd Place
Second-hand book portal – an online platform where students can trade their second-hand text books
3rd Place
Real Value – an online platform to provide property seller and buyer real information about the property price. It is a community driven website
1st Place winning team has won an interview with Malaysia SME, the experiential prize sponsored by Microsoft and co-working space sponsored by Warisan Global.
2nd Place winning team has won the one-month free online advertising sponsored by INTEGRIO and co-working space.
3rd Place winning team has won the co-working space.
With a sponsored iPad by Social Shout up for grabs! an exciting competition among the participants before the final pitching session was held – SW KL social media shout out via Social Shout (www.socialshout.me), and the person with the highest score wins. Congratulations to Ray Beh who walked away with a brand new iPad!!
Why You Want to Participate in Startup Weekend KL?
Our community partner, Entrepreneurs.my has run a competition on Facebook – Answer “Why you want to participate in Startup Weekend KL?” and the best answer will win the free ticket. Thank you for your support, Entrepreneurs.my
Here are a few answers we would like to share with you:
“I deserve a chance to be in Startup Weekend Malaysia. I am not a tech guy nor a smart person. But I know what is like being a person with low self esteem and less opportunities. I been through a hard life to maintain my studied because of my broken family. But because of that I am stronger and independent in handling problems. Because of how I am bring up, I am more determined than others and I have more willpower to make things done. The most important thing is the start. I hope i’ll get this opportunity to make mine.” (From Francis Lee Kian Han)
“I need to and deserve to win the tickets to startup weekend KL because of a couple of reasons. 1- i need to scale my business idea to greater height through a channel as reputable as startup weekend, where i can find potential people whom i need as partner in areas i can excel less in and also make use of the resources i can get from there. 2- I would also like to meet and network with the other aspiring business-minded youth because by gathering together and constantly exchanging thoughts and ideas can we constantly improve and innovate. 3-I would like to see to what extend a startup can be built within 54 hours” (From John Lai)
“I want to join Startup Weekend KL because I want to utilize this platform
to team up with more technical background participants, get valuable feedback and improvement and valuable feedback for my web-based business idea and even launch the business idea after Startup Weeken” (From Ray Beh)
“Opportunity is every where, it just the matters that you being able to grab it or not. To me,if there is a very good opportunity to brush up my self, embracing my self with more knowledge and experiences, i will go hard to get it. Money can buy lots of thing, but not every thing. But with knowledge, you can buy every thing, that include money it self. And here i have found that opportunity, therefor i don’t want to miss it. I wanted to join the Startup Weekend Malaysia and i deserve a chance in it.” (From Yap Ken Yew)
Really like that energy and attitude! So are you ready to rock? are you ready to take the challenge and win? We will find out it soon!!! See ya all!
MSC Malaysia is sponsoring 8 free tickets to Startup Weekend KL!
Good News! MSC Malaysia is sponsoring 8 free tickets to Startup Weekend KL! If you are a Malaysian student studying in local universities/colleges & have a business idea in mind, tell us in one simple sentence why we should give you a free ticket! First Come First Serve!
Send your answer to tini@gewmalaysia.com by Monday, May 2nd.
A big “THANK YOU” to MSC Malaysia for this initiative!
One Year Later: Startup Weekend – Interview with BFM Radio
Mohd Zharif Hafiz and Michael Leow , participants from last year’s StartUp Weekend, share their experiences and how far they’ve come a year on.
