power2Cloud will be a partner in the Startup Weekend to be held at the ARCA Consortium, a business incubator of the University of Palermo, July 7-9, 2022 in Palermo (Viale delle Scienze building 16). We are happy to be involved as a mentor to talk about digital technologies and inbound marketing. If you too want to turn your idea into a successful startup, sign up now here.
Turn your idea into a successful startup!!
The format is based on teamwork and the sharing of skills and experiences, with the aim of developing innovative business ideas in just three days.
This is a 54-hour creative marathon, from Thursday to Saturday, aimed at promoting entrepreneurship, in which individuals with different backgrounds and qualifications (students, doctoral students, researchers and professors from a plurality of disciplinary departments/areas) will come together toshare ideas, form teams and develop business ideas.
Inspiration, talk and networking
Not just competition is what Startup Weekend is all about. There will be speeches by professionals who will give a lot of information in business, marketing, innovation and technology.
The partners of this event are virtuous and innovative companies in the Sicilian territory that will foster professional networking and have a role model.
The stimulation of creative processes
Successful business testimonials,discussion of innovative products, will accompany the participants' days, stimulating creativity (through images, sounds and the creation of unconventional spaces), in an attempt to spur participants to go beyond established solutions for the development of their business ideas.
The consumption of meals (provided by the organization) and coffee-breaks (which will take place during the work and are also provided by the organization) are also intended as opportunities for socialization and stimulation of creative processes.
This ARCA-promoted edition is organized within the framework of the ALLER cross-border project (funded under the ENIItalia-Tunisia Program 2014-2020).
The ALLER project aims to develop entrepreneurial action in Sicily and Tunisia and aims to help young people in the cross-border territories build their future work from their spirit of innovation, through the creation of new businesses supported by the high intensity of shared knowledge, technical, technological and business alliances.
The goals of the Startup Weekend
There are four goals of Startup Weekend.
- Connect
Making people connect to generate something new. Rich and diverse talent is a starting point for Startup Weekend. Participants will mingle and work with new people who could be their next co-founder, mentor, or investor.
- Discover
Participants will discover where they are in their own "entrepreneur's journey". They will gain access to new and necessary complementary resources and become aware of the steps they need to take to get on the road to success. - Learn
Participants will learn what it takes to start a business, including by leveraging established learning by doing processes. - Startup
Startup Weekend is designed to go fast. The organizers will create the ideal environment for participants to learn and develop their idea as much as possible in just 54 hours, setting the stage for it to translate into a start-up and entrepreneurial success.
Program
Participants' activities will be carried out according to a program divided into three days:
Day 1 - Meet, pitch and team up (idea presentation, project selection, team formation, dinner and networking)
Thursday 07/07/22, 2-10 pm, on this first day, after institutional greetings and a workshop related to the theme of entrepreneurshipĖ, all participants in the event will have the opportunity to present their idea. The ideas deemed best, will be selected for the formation of working groups. Those who do not have an entrepreneurial idea will be able to sign up and choose the team to work in by providing their skills!
Day 2 - Learn and work
Friday 08/07/22, 9am-2pm, on this day participants will work intensively on idea development with intervals dedicated to short training pills, corporate testimonials, speeches by successful professionals and startuppers. During the day's work they will be assisted by mentors, divided by areas of expertise (Marketing, Design, Legal, etc.).
The latter are asked to support the participants by providing advice but always in full respect of the proposed ideas. The goal is to induce reasoning.
Day 3 - Present and choose
Saturday 09/07/22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., on this day we will refine the work in order to create an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that will then be presented during the pitch in front of a panel of experts composed of entrepreneurs, managers, representatives of incubators, accelerators and innovation funding sources and other players in the Startup world.
16 - 18 Finale and award ceremony (The award ceremony is an event open to the public).
Mentors and entrepreneurial education
Participants' activities will be supported by some training pills on the idea
development process and constantly supported by a plurality of mentors, such as power2Cloud, subjects mostly an expression of the Italian startup ecosystem with managerial and/or entrepreneurial background and vast knowledge of innovation and startup development and financing processes.
Who can sign up?
There are no age limits or pre-requisites needed for enrollment, except:
- a lot of determination;
- a spasmodic desire to win;
- a lot of desire to have fun, make friends and network with new and super interesting people for the development of your idea.
So: aspiring startuppers, students, undergraduates, graduates, business experts, developers, graphic designers, techies, innovators, just curious and talented people who want to create/put their hands on a future startup...
Credits
For UNIPA students who successfully carry out all activities, they will
recognize 2/3 CFUs (depending on the degree program).
The awards
1st prize:
access for 6 months to ARCA coworking
access to pre-incubation track
free training activities for technical and business feasibility analysis
2nd prize:
access for 3 months to ARCA coworking
access to pre-incubation track
free training activities for technical and commercial feasibility analysis
3rd prize
free training activities for technical and commercial feasibility analysis
To promote StartupWeekend, we have organized a BarCamp on Thursday, June 30 at 3:30 pm at ARCA Consortium.
Here you can find information and can sign up.