Congratulations to all of the teams who pitched at Startup Weekend Melbourne! We heard fantastic pitches and saw awesome demos on Sunday night from 18 budding startups.
- Prize Funder
- Jeans That Fit
- WallBurner
- Wedgitr
- I Shoot News
- ThemePivot
- Door Bitch
- Gigspin
- Tailorubiks
- PrintMyLife
- Brocol-E-Games
- Farm Gate Network
- GiveBay
- Last Minute Logistics
- Club-O-Matic
- OnList.com.au
- Food-Fight
- Conffer
And the winners are:
Everyone: Haigh’s Chocolate Frogs for the whole crowd!
Every one who stayed through the weekend, built a Minimum Viable Product, and pitched their idea on Sunday night succeeded. We saw amazing products come out of this weekend with great potential for the future, we just had limited prizes to give out at the end of the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sNLkGdLqs
Mentor Picks: The mentors handed out E-books to selected teams, who were either their favorite team or needed the book hehe. Teams that got the books included Wallburner, Jeans That Fit, Connfer, ThemePivot…
Print My Life: Invited to join the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp in Singapore including $15,000 SGD in seed funding! They also received lots of Haigh’s Chocolate Frogs.
ThemePivot: Startup Weekend Melbourne 2011 winners! The team also went home with The Idea Book + $5,000 AUD in prize money from Optus
Wallburner: The crowd favorite, this site won Best Pitch and 2 Blackberry Playbooks
iShootNews and Brocoll-E-games: These two startups won the best Minimum Viable Product and HTC phones.
Conffer: This team, which stemmed from a team that pivoted by breaking up into 2 different teams Sunday morning, won for the Best Hustle and went home with copies of Do More Faster by Techstars and The Four Steps to the Epiphany
If you are passionate about your idea, remember that Startup Weekend doesn’t have to end at the 54 hour buzzer. Keep building and testing your product, exploring the market, talking to customers, and most of all – keep pitching to potential customers and keep in touch with mentors you’ve met over the weekend, continue networking by going to meet-ups and events with the local startup crowd.
And don’t forget – spots are still open to come to Singapore for the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp! Apply at http://bootcamp.jfdi.asia/apply/– anyone worldwide can apply and we especially invite the teams we met at Startup Weekend Melbourne to do so!
Thanks SWMelb organizers for such an awesome event and we will see you Print My Life – and maybe more teams – in Singapore! See you later, mates!
