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Ideas aplenty, and some may blossom after Startup Weekend
Ideas aplenty, and some may blossom after Startup Weekend
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 15 Nov. 2011 ) What a fantastic experience and hands-on intensive education Startup Weekend Wellington was.
The Nov. 4-6 event was well organised, tightly run (kept within its promised time-frames), and best of all a wonderful learning environment, as close to real world as you can be, without (at this stage) the casualty of losing actual money while exploring concepts.
The crucial
importance of customer validation to prove/ascertain that a
market exists for the suggested product or service was
perhaps the most important single lesson.
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