Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

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Startup Weekend Hamilton [April 27-29, 2012] – A big success!

Thanks to everyone who made this event a success! Here is a list of the winning teams and their prizes:

1st Prize: StartupsN.com
• 6 month incubation at Mohawk College

Runner Up Prize: PassageU
• $1000 credit from enthuzr

Runner Up Prize: Nervu
• server package from Net@cccess

Runner Up Prize: Honey Badger Automation
• Private SEO Seminar with KKTI

Stay tuned for updates on the next SW HAMILTON!

Presentations from Friday, Saturday

 

Here are some of the presentations from Friday night and Saturday!

 

Welcome to Startup Weekend Hamilton – Tammy Hwang

Thoughts on ownership for Startup Weekend – Rideout & Maybe

User interface design crash course – Kevin Browne

Market validation – Robin Hopper

 

- Kevin Bronwe

 

Some prototyping & UI tools

Prototyping tools

40+ UI Design Tools and Resources
Cacoo
DENIM
Interface2
iPhoneMockup
Lumzy
MockFlow
MockupBuilder
Pencil Project
Prototyper

 

Landing page

A landing page will let you get the word out about your startup and begin collecting customer information right away.

LaunchRock
unbounce.com

 

CMS

A CMS will let you get a professional looking website up in one day.

drupal.org
joomla.org
wordpress.org

There are various e-Commerce plug-ins for the most popular CMS’ that let you get an e-commece website up just as fast.

 

Testing tools

10 tools to test website load time
22 tools for testing website usability
Browser shots – check browser compatibility
Demonstrating Responsive Design

 

 

- Kevin Browne

 

 

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