Congrats to everyone at the 1st SWBKK!

Congratulations to all of the teams who pitched at Startup Weekend in Bangkok! We heard fantastic pitches and saw awesome demos on Sunday night from 16 budding startups.

1. Traxi
2. Hyperactive Games
3. Tickob
4. Carpool
5. Chatterbox
6. Got.It.
7. The Cloud Postman
8. Moodie
9. Like.Me
10. Parallel Street Production
11. Flowz
12. Shop Spot
13. 54 hours
14. Today
15. SSS: Simple Software for Senior
16. ACT (AntiCorrupTion)

And the winners are:

EVERYONE!

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.

1st Prize: Invite to JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp

Chatterbox!  Taking TV to a new level by adding levels of viewer interaction.

Chatterbox has been invited to the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp.  Thanks to AIS’s great support, each member of the team also received an iPad2, roundtrip plane tickets to and from Thailand to Singapore, and a trophy to remember the event!

Runners Up

Each Runner Up received 100,000 Baht!

ShopSpot
Flowz
Got.It
Like.Me

Congratulations again to everyone who joined us at the first ever SWBKK!

Pitch Order

We’re half an hour away from presentations! From first to last:

1. Traxi
2. Hyperactive Games
3. Tickob
4. Carpool
5. Chatterbox
6. Got.It.
7. The Cloud Postman
8. Moodie
9. Like.Me
10. Parallel Street Production
11. Flowz
12. Shop Spot
13. 54 hours
14. Today
15. SSS: Simple Software for Senior
16. ACT (AntiCorrupTion)

A detailed description of each project is available as a PDF.

And we are rolling! 96 pitches, 17 teams formed

What a crazy crowd @ #SWBKK!

We had 96 pitches last night, which we believe to be a record for for Startup Weekends in Southeast Asia. This is out of 120 participants – an 80% pitch rate. Fantastic!

Out of those 96 pitches, we chose the 17 teams with the most votes. As of Saturday morning the teams are as follows:

Location Based MMORPG
Facebook Classics
Tvteer (TV twitter)
Flowz
Cloud Post-it
Indie Music
Today mobile payment platform
Customer Loyalty Programme
Like.me
Shop Spot
Carpool
Taxi Caller App
Video for Homework
Bangkok Shout
Corruption Prevention System
Ticket-pro

For those who want to take a look at Darren’s slides, get the link here:
http://t.co/fNokW4Of

Good luck to everyone! Follow us on twitter at @jfdiasia @hughmason @mengwong @erinfrey with the hashtag #swbkk for updates, including some video and photo updates.

Again, thanks again to AIS for the fantastic support to make this event possible. We also want to thank all of the mentors who have stopped by to help out the teams.

It’s Showtime!

We are an hour away from showtime!

Reposting some quick details about the event and what to expect tonight!

Event Overview
We begin on Friday evening and end on Sunday evening. Participants who have an idea to pitch would get a minute to present their idea on Friday evening (no power points).  Participants will then vote on all ideas.  The ideas with the most votes will be selected and then participants will form teams around those ideas.  The goal of the weekend is to build a  prototype. Teams will present their business idea (including a demo of the prototype) to the judging panel on Sunday evening.

Over the weekend we will have a number of experienced mentors to help the teams.

Twitter
For the Twitterers: Our hashtag is #swbkk on twitter. This would help you in tracking updates and communicating with others attending the event.

Venue:
Lebua at State Tower
Pushkara Ballroom 
Muzu Level
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=Lebua+at+State+Tower+Bangkok+Thailand&hl=en&cid=10690968643150270564

Here is the schedule for the weekend:

Agenda for AIS Startup Weekend Bangkok 2011

Friday
6:00pm      Registration & Light Dinner
7:00pm      Opening event and Speech by MICT
7:30pm      Pitches Begin (60 seconds per person)
9:00pm      Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:30pm      Teams start forming and discussing ideas

Saturday
9:00am      Doors open. Breakfast & coffee
9:30am      Teams resume. Mentors arrive and work with teams.
12:00pm     Lunch
13:00pm    Call for needs & skills
6:30pm      Dinner
7:30pm      Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help

Sunday
9:00am      Doors open. Breakfast & coffee
9:30am      Teams resume. Mentors arrive and work with teams.
12:00am    Lunch
3:00pm      Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
5:00pm      FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:00pm      Judging & Awards
7:30pm      After party

Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight!

Participants joining SWBKK

Wow!  What a tremendous interest in joining SWBKK!

Thank you to everyone who applied for a place at SWBKK.  We had 250 people interested to join.  It was very difficult having to accept only 100 – in fact, we ended up choosing 120 people because there were too many good ideas and rockstar applicants.

If you weren’t chosen, rest assured that this does not reflect your abilities or the quality of your idea.  We just didn’t have enough spots for everyone to join.

If you applied especially because of the 1st prize – an invitation to the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp in Singapore – remember that you can still apply to the bootcamp in Singapore via the online application at http://bootcamp.jfdi.asia/apply.

Please check for your name below – these are the selected participants for SWBKK.

Selected Particpants for SWBKK 16-18 December 2011