Startup Weekend St. Louis

10/21/2016

Three weeks until the event! Make sure to take advantage of our discounted tickets through the end of October. Buy your tickets here!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-stl-tickets-24444568362

For all event details, please visit our website. About Startup Weekend: Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan deve...

10/20/2016

We are really excited to hear about the new Cortex buildings!

"An Aloft boutique hotel, more than 200 apartments, retailers and additional labs are included in the next development phase at the Cortex technology district."

StartUp Weekend has a new home to explore. Read more about it here:

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/new-million-cortex-development-to-add-hotel-apartments-parking-garage/article_3ca0ad4a-ab02-5c5e-9c5b-f16d6a51a374.html

Technology district in the central corridor also adds 180,000 square-foot office and lab building on Duncan Avenue.

10/10/2016

Bravo to the "Hunt Club" team at Columbia Startup Weekend. They sold $3,000 worth of product before the weekend was over.

Now that we've paid our compliments, its time to challenge STL to show them up. Join us on Nov. 11th and prove that STL is the best city in the Show Me State.

10/07/2016

After you complete Startup Weekend in November, don't go dark for months building your platform. Figure out what you can start selling the next day. Sell an analog or concierge version. Get feedback, make sales, iterate, etc.
An app is only a vehicle to solve the problem. Don't get distracted by the solution. Sell, sell and then sell some more.

Raise your hand if “sales” is your least favorite part of having a startup. Do sales meetings stress you out? Do you hate putting together proposals? Are you avoiding making a sales call right now? You’re not alone. But unless you start engaging in the selling process every day, you’re also not a st...

09/22/2016

Check out this "Design Jam" coming up next week courtesy of St. Louis Makes and DesignHouse at the Maritz Innovation by Design Summit.

DesignHouse Jam and St. Louis Makes present the first ever Design Jam St. Louis as part of the Maritz Innovation by Design Summit. Embedded in this Innovation Summit, DesignHouse will be presenting on the importance of local manufacturing and educating on the Design for Local process. After showcas...

09/19/2016

According to FiveThirtyEight, STL is the new startup frontier. Startup Weekend is proud to be one of the great gateways to this frontier.

Join us Nov 11 - 13 for our annual event hosted at CIC St. Louis

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06/10/2016

Interested in helping make Startup Weekend 2016 (Nov. 11-13) the event's best year yet? Shoot us a message and we can let you know how to get involved on the planning committee or volunteering during the event.

04/14/2016

Invisible Girlfriend got a nice plug on Broadly.

In this episode of Professional People, we find out what it's like to fake a relationship with Invisible Boyfriend/Girlfriend, a company that supplies the lonely with lovers who do

11/19/2015

Excellent blog post from one of attendees and winners!

This weekend I participated in Startup Weekend St. Louis. I went with an idea and ended with a team and a third place win. Our winning entry was Wanders - a solution that combines planning, navigation and community into one application that addresses the unique needs of the RV traveler. Sounds great…

11/16/2015

Here are your winners! Thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors, judges and mentors who made this year's event happen.

Dinner Kits (1st Place + People’s Choice): Sold in your local grocery store, Dinner Kits is a fresh, vacuum-sealed, meal-in-a-box solution for people that don’t have time to cook.

Competer (2nd Place): Competer allows anyone in any industry or interest group to compete in online competitions that are relevant to them.

Wanders (3rd Place): Wanders allows RV enthusiasts to plan and prepare for great RV travel experiences.

11/15/2015

Final pitches underway!

11/13/2015

T-minus 45 minutes. Get hype.