[Wellington-pm] Startup Weekend discount offer to Perl Hackers

[Dave Moskovitz]

Hi Everyone

Wearing one of my many hats, I'm one of the organisers of Startup 
Weekend Wellington. I was talking to Lenz the other day, and we thought 
it would be great to get lots of Perl hackers along to Startup Weekend, 
so we decided to offer a special discount to wellington.pm members. We'd 
seriously love to see lots of new startups coming out of Wellington 
built on Perl.

We'd like to offer a $50 discount on tickets to Startup Weekend 
Wellington to up to five wellington.pm members. The event runs from 
Friday evening 27 July through Sunday evening 29 July. Tickets are 
normally $99, so discounted would be $49. Tickets include all food, 
wireless, etc for the weekend.

To get the discount, you just need to go to 
http://wellington.startupweekend.org/ click the "register" button, and 
purchase a developer ticket using the discount code "PERL".

We also really want to specially honour significant contributors to Open 
Source projects. So if you're the owner of an OSI-licensed Sourceforge 
or Github project, or the author of a CPAN module (OK, or a publicly 
available Ruby gem or Python package) contact me directly on 
davemosk at startupweekend.org, and I'll cut you a FREE ticket. We have 
allocated five free tickets to FOSS contributors.

If you or any of your members have any questions or would like any more 
info about Startup Weekend, just drop me a line on dave at hyperstart.co.nz 
or ring me on 027 220 2202.

Thanks!
Dave

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Background info (see http://wellington.startupweekend.org/ for more, and 
to follow our blog)

If you haven't been to one, Startup Weekend is the most amazing release 
of entrepreneurial energy ever, where entrepreneurs, developers, and 
designers get together to form new businesses in a 54-hour marathon of 
inspiration, perspiration, collaboration, and fun. We attract people 
with all skill levels in a friendly, welcoming, yet challenging environment.

The event starts on Friday evening with an icebreaker game and dinner, 
and then people pitch their businesses concepts to the crowd. 10-15 
concepts will attract viable teams around them. By late Friday night, 
teams have sketched out their concept in some detail and everyone will 
have roles assigned and an inkling of how they’re going to achieve their 
goals over the weekend.

Saturday morning is all about market validation – participants will be 
contacting potential customers and finding out if there’s really a 
market need for what they’re building. If not, they’ll need to pivot 
based on the information they’ve picked up by “getting out of the 
building” and talking to people. Meanwhile, developers and designers 
will be furiously building products (or mock-ups), and teams will be 
attracting partners, advisers, and customers. Teams will start preparing 
their final 5-minute presentation on Sunday morning, because they'll 
need to pitch it by dinner time. After that, prizes will be awarded to 
the best teams.

Prizes include books, cash, software, and a trip to Kiwi Landing Pad in 
San Francisco.

It's going to be amazing.

-- 
Dave Moskovitz
dave at thinktank.co.nz / Skype: dave_moskovitz
Tel NZ +64 27 220 2202 / Tel USA +1 310 496 7564
Twitter: @davemosk   Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davemoskovitz
Calendar: http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/calendar