Davis Startup Weekend

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Back Event Nov 12, 2013 @ 6:30 pm

Form teams… Prototype… Launch your startup! Toss your business plan out the window and hack your cool idea this weekend alongside a bunch of fellow devs, designers, and entrepreneurs. You have a community of resources here to help you grow!

This event is part of the Global Startup Battle, which means there’ll be over 100 cities around the world all hacking away, with support and big prizes from companies like Google Entrepreneurs. Why Startup Weekend? There’s ton’s of great reasons to join in on the fun: – Meet friends, build product and compete for prizes – Check out the Web App Essentials workshop by Concordus Applications – There’ll be 100’s of developers and designers at the event for you to work with – Get the chance to enter Davis Entrepreneurship Academy – Show off your skills to a number of tech co’s that are hiring – Make connections to a bunch of sweet local tech and startup orgs – Meet technical and business mentors – Enjoy great food and drink – 54 hours of coding! Sweet Prizes! We’re working hard to put together a bunch of sweet prizes. Some big ones confirmed are… – Entry to UC Entrepreneurship Academy (Fall 2014). – Lunch with Jack Crawford, General Partner of Velocity Venture Capital, and Professor Dan Wadhwani of the UOP Eberhardt School of Business – Entry to The Champion’s Circle powered by Google for Entrepreneurs Learn more here. – Free builder pass to the 2014 LAUNCH Festival. More info: More info. – Eligibility to compete for the AWS Activate Circle prizes. More info. – Hacker Lab membership! Developer Workshops! There’ll be some sweet FREE dev workshops to help you hone your skills prior to the event. – Startup Weekend Talks: Bootstrap, LESS CSS, jQuery, AngularJS -

Tues Nov 12th, 6:30pm Info here. – Grunt: The Javascript Task Runner – Wed, Nov 13, 6:00 pm @DavisRoots – Ruby on Rails Basics Bootcamp – Thurs, Nov 14, 5:30 pm @HackerLab. For more information: http://davis.startupweekend.org/